THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

When in my nineteenth year, April of 1961, my maternal grandmother died. She was waked at an East Boston
mortuary that I had never before entered. As I passed through its corridor to the ‘wake’ room, I noted with alarm that the physical layout was vividly familiar  . . . the blue/gold life-size statue of Mary, the sidewalk window at ceiling level, and the casket flowers in vague remembrance of a dream I recently had.

The word “déjà vu” is French for ‘already seen’, describing the feeling that you have experienced something before, even though it’s new to you. It is commonly reported by 60% as regularly happening. Psychologists have a field day with their academic suppositions ranging from psychotic delusion to repressed emotion. Only 20% of the people who have had Deja Vu happen, can trace it back to a precognitive dream. I’m one of them.

When Mark Twain came to say his last farewells to his brother Henry, he found the body lying in a metal coffin, just as it had been in his dream. As he stood beside it, a woman entered and placed a bouquet of white flowers with a single red rose on Henry’s chest. It was the last missing detail (Mysteries of the Unexplained, pg. 22).

“The sinking of the Titanic in April of 1912, after striking an iceberg, was closely predicted in a book written with startling synchronicity. In 1898, fourteen years before the Titanic disaster, Morgan Robertson wrote a book called The Wreck of the Titanic, Or, Futility. This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the Titan, deemed to be unsinkable.

“On an April voyage, the Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost 1500 people, while 710 survived. The ship Titan and its sinking are famous for startling similarities to the passenger ship RMS Titanic and its sinking 14 years later. Titan was roughly the same size as the Titanic with about the same number of passengers, the ship was not provided with enough lifeboats for all of its passages, and half of the passengers died when it sank after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.” The author died three years after the sinking but his reaction was not recorded.

Here’s an interesting staged episode of those actual passengers who had had premonitions of disaster.

Two more authors’ writings suggest precognitive dreams or visions were at work:

“At the time the Titanic sank, the 1 May 1912 issue of The Popular Magazine, an American pulp magazine, was on the news stands. It contained the short story “The White Ghost of Disaster”, which described the collision of an ocean liner with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, the sinking of the vessel, and the fate of the passengers. The story, by Thornton Jenkins Hains under the pseudonym Mayn Clew Garnett, created a minor sensation.”

“William Thomas Stead had, through precognitive insight, foreseen his own death on the Titanic. This is apparently suggested in two fictional sinking stories, which he had penned decades earlier. The first, “How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor” (1886), tells of a mail steamer’s collision with another ship, resulting in high loss of life due to lack of lifeboats.^[27] The second, “From the Old World to the New” (1892) features a White Star Line vessel, Majestic, that rescues survivors of another ship that had collided with an iceberg.”

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For those who insist on the blessings of Scriptural acknowledgment for precognitive dreams and visions:

“In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions in his head…”(cf. Daniel 7:1).

“Your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams (cf. Acts 2:17).

“Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him” (cf. Matt 2:13).’”

“While he (Pontius Pilate) was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, ‘Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream” (cf. Matt 27:19).’”

A provocative question to ponder: Since precognitive dreams have happened with an amazing accuracy, does this mean the future is indelibly scripted by our Divine Playwright? “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” As You Like It, Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene7

Don’t lose any sleep over that mind-boggling proposition. You might miss out on your next precognitive dream.