Premonition

Many people assure us that they have had impressions of this kind. Here, for example, is a man about to start on a long railway journey and who is deterred for a day by a premonition that there is to be an accident. Later he learns that the train on which he would have journeyed met with an accident in which a number of people in the rear sleeper which he would have taken were killed. The deterring impression came twenty-four hours before the accident.

Here is another man who, while travelling on an express train going at a high rate of speed, receives an impression to change his seat to another part of the car, and on the other side; and so his life is saved in an accident occurring a while later in which the side of the car on which he had been sitting was torn off. Returning home on the following day and before he tells any one of his escape, his sister tells him that two evenings before a guidance came to her, most unexpectedly, to pray for her brother, since he would be in danger the next day. This man is greatly impressed by this two-fold evidence of guidance. He is a Quaker, hence habitually a believer in guidance, and he has many interesting incidents to tell of more than half a century of experiences indicating that all guidances belong together in the divine purpose.

The Open Vision. A study of psychic phenomena.
The purpose of this book is to distinguish psychical phenomena from other kinds of experience, and to point out the way beyond mere phenomena to clear knowledge of the human spirit and the spiritual life.
BY
HORATIO W. DRESSER, Ph.D.
1920