Precognition is Powerful – Here’s How to Get Started

For most people, the idea of precognition – knowing the future – belongs to science fiction and mystical folklore. Yet throughout history, men and women have reported dreams, visions, and “gut feelings” that accurately reveal coming events. This ability is known as precognition — the direct knowledge of future possibilities before they occur. According to ESP Lab founder, pioneering metaphysical teacher Al G. Manning, precognition is not a rare gift possessed by a few chosen psychics. Instead, it is a natural faculty of the mind that anyone can develop with the right techniques.  That psychic power can grow to prophesy itself.

Dr. Al Manning spent decades teaching practical occultism, psychic development, and the power of ESP. His books — including Helping Yourself with ESP, The Miracle of Universal Psychic Power, and Helping Yourself with Psychometry — emphasize that psychic power is not mysterious, nor is it the property of secret initiates. It is part of our human nature, waiting to be recognized and trained.

In Dr. Manning’s established research, precognition occupies a special place. It is not merely prediction or guesswork. It is a sensitivity to probable futures, combined with the spiritual wisdom to take positive action in the present.

The best possible example of this is the precognition I unexpectedly acquired when I was a young metaphysics student that empowered me to save Amanda’s life.  I didn’t stay married to my first wife but that connection remains decades later and persists across the astral plane into the ethereal and the actual… everywhere reality reaches.

More about that two paragraphs down and in other experiences with my first true love I have yet to share.

(Impromptu test of your ESP abilities – what are your feelings right now of what you just read? Let me know. There’s a free scholarship in it for you.)

Time Is Not Fixed — It Is a Field

One of Grandmaster Manning’s most radical ideas is that time is not linear (a straight line). Instead, the past, present, and future exist within the same field of energy, and the psychic mind is capable of scanning across this field. When you experience precognition, you are not seeing one locked destiny. You are perceiving a probability — a likely outcome based on current momentum.

This view is profoundly empowering. If the future were fixed, there would be no point in seeing it. But if the future is shaped by choice, awareness of probable outcomes gives us a strategic advantage.  When I was a teenager dabbling with all of these forces I didn’t fully understand I coined the phrase “alternate realities” and I’d explore two and sometimes even three of them simultaneously.  That’ll be a future masterclass.

Precognition Is Part of the ESP Spectrum

Our founder Al Manning did not treat precognition as a separate, exotic skill. Instead, he saw all psychic faculties as different expressions of the same inner sense:

• Clairvoyance shows images.
• Telepathy transmits thoughts and feelings.
• Psychometry reads vibrations from objects.
• Precognition senses time ahead.

By developing psychic sensitivity in one area, the others improve. Becoming more aware of people’s emotions makes it easier to receive impressions from the future. All of these abilities work together.

My own abilities are proof of this; when I started out I was an implementer of change by imposing my will on any given situation. As time passed and I became more & more active, all of my “psychic muscles” grew and grew and grew.  I became astonishingly perceptive despite no interest at all at the time. My power of perception still grows continually. Older, wiser me has realized that enhanced abilities across the full spectrum of ESP is a game changer in and of itself.

Emotional Importance Creates a Signal

Why do some future events appear in dreams or intuition while others do not?

Al Manning explained it simply: emotion is the amplifier.

Events charged with strong emotion—danger, opportunity, love, money, or major decision points—send out a stronger psychic signal. They appear because they matter. Routine events carry no urgency and are rarely perceived.

This is why people often report vivid warnings, sudden inner knowing, or symbolic dreams about dramatic events. Astral Al encouraged students to pay attention to psychic impressions that carry strong emotion.

Dreams Are the Gateway to Future-Sight

Precognitive dreams are one of the easiest and most natural doorways. Manning recommended that students:

• Keep a notebook by the bed.
• Write dreams immediately upon waking.
• Look for patterns and results.
• Compare symbolic imagery with real events.

With practice, the chaos of dreaming becomes organized into messages and warnings. Symbols gradually turn into literal future events. Confidence builds, and the mind learns to trust impressions rather than ignore them.

Relaxation Opens the Door

One of Al Manning’s most important teachings was…

Psychic power flows through relaxation.

Precognition is not forced by effort or strain. Struggle blocks the channel. Manning recommended entering the alpha state between awake and asleep, where imagery, intuition, and subtle impressions are clearer. His foundational method involved:

• Deep relaxation
• Rhythmic breathing
• Counting down
• Asking for guidance
• Receiving images passively

A flash of imagery, a feeling, a symbol, or a short message may appear. This is enough. Write it down and trust the process.

Precognition Is Practical

Manning’s work is rooted in practical occultism — mystical knowledge used for everyday results. Precognition helps you:

• Make better financial decisions.
• Choose the right time for action.
• Avoid risks.
• Protect health and safety.
• Improve relationships.

The true value of future-sight is guidance, not entertainment.

Precognition and Free Will

Manning explained that psychic impressions do not take away choice. They reveal options and consequences — like seeing a curve in the road before you reach it. A psychic warning is an invitation to slow down or choose a different path.

You can foresee trouble and avoid it. You can sense an opportunity and seize it. You are an active participant in the unfolding of life.

Developing Your Own Future-Sight

Manning recommended a daily practice:

• Relax the body and mind.
• Visualize white light for protection.
• Ask for guidance for the next 24 hours.
• Record whatever comes.
• Compare notes with reality.

With repetition, impressions become clearer, more accurate, and more frequent.

Conclusion: Precognition is a Natural Human Power

Al G. Manning’s teachings on precognition reveal a remarkable truth: we are not blind to the future. Dreams, intuitions, and flashes of insight are communications from deeper levels of consciousness. With practice, they become reliable tools for wise living. Precognition does not imprison us in fate — it frees us to make better choices.

The power is already within you. All you need to do is relax, listen, and let the future whisper its secrets.