An Experiment in Alternative Methods of Earthquake Prediction

reply to post by MamaJ

No problem. Thank you for taking the time to read all that! (But you know me by now. I almost never use 10 words when 100 will do! )

Meanwhile we'll keep an eye on things and if anything big happens just make excuses at work and get yourself back here where the quake news arrives first!

Just like to observe that there's definitely been a distinct downtown in the number of quakes/hr in the region of the Brawley swarm, the largest only a single mag 3.0 about 7 hours ago. All others are down in the mag 1 and 2 range. So we can hope nothing much more will eventuate.

But by all means, folks, keep posting your observations and thoughts! It's good to have them on record here.

reply to post by UnknownEntity

The easy answer would be to say something like, "UnknownEntity, it was nothing, so don't worry and don't let it get to you."

The trouble is that I know from my own experience that sometimes these things impact us so profoundly that anyone with an ounce of empathy and compassion is going to be affected. I feel that's what has happened in your case and I know where you're coming from. Even dreams are not "nothing". They affect us and so they are something, ethereal as they may seem to be.

If I can offer a little advice, just allow this experience to find its place in a corner of your mind. Don't fight against it, as that will only mentally exhaust you more. Instead, if possible, busy yourself with other things as best you can. And remind yourself of the fact that if it is about reality then neither you, nor I, nor anyone can really do anything to change it. So, that being the case, it's not worth worrying over too much, really. If you could do something to change the outcome, then at least you could act, but in a case like this we just have to let it be.

That's not the same as "don't worry about it as it's nothing". That's allowing it to take a place and recognize it for what it is -- a potential glimpse of the future, not a guaranteed one.

Perhaps it was only a dream, perhaps it was more, but until time takes us to that moment in what we commonly call the "future", we will not know.

I have examples back through this thread where I have posted predictions that were based on what were fundamentally esoteric indications. They weren't simply the result of scientific analysis of data, though that was needed too. Very often, my most accurate predictions came from the esoteric first, with the scientific following as confirmation. In spite of the naysayers who abound and say such things are impossible, the evidence is here in this thread and inarguable.

How do I deal with this? I just let it be part of my life and don't let it get to me. Sometimes that's hard, but I learned a lot from a very wise old man -- my grandfather -- who in his nearly 96 years on this earth came to understand a great deal about what it means to change what we can change -- and accept what we cannot.

And believe me, you are not alone. Look back through the pages here and see how many others have experienced similar things to your own. My own feeling is that what we sometimes perceive is like a small loophole in time, if we can put it that way. And time is a true conundrum. No-one fully understands it. So why can it not be so that we see "parts" of time that are not yet "here"? Perhaps one day a scientific basis to this mystery will be found. I believe that's possible. Meanwhile, we make our notes and share and deal with it all as best we can, each in her or his own way.

Please feel free to contact me via u2u anytime if you want to discuss these matters further. I don't have my grandfather's wisdom but if I can help then I'll try.

Best regards,

Mike

reply to post by rbkruspe

The inconsistencies you talk about are apparently common and just another of the mysteries about the whole process.

I guess a key point is that quakes are all about energy -- enormous amounts of it -- being moved and transformed from place to place. Those "P" waves from a quake (that are the first to register on seismographs) travel through the earth at incredible speeds, like 4 miles per second if the quake is near the surface to more than double that at greater depths.

Four miles per second... More than 14,000 miles per hour...or even faster!

Such energy!

And that's just at the time the quake happens. What about before one lets go? We still don't know all the answers, but we do know that for some quakes, there can be changes in the atmosphere over a quake region, including atmospheric heating, along with changes in the strength of local magnetic fields.

Are we to believe that none of these changes have any effect on us? It makes more sense to me that some people, who just happen to be more sensitive to such things, may detect these changes and perhaps even through a primordial "instinct" (now, what is instinct, anyway?), sense that something is about to occur.

Or, as I've suggested some pages back in this thread, perhaps the energies released when a quake occurs, can actually cause some kind of distortion in the "space-time continuum" and allow us to get a glimpse of the future event.

It's a wild theory but not impossible. Meanwhile, it's well worth discussing any aspect, and this thread is a great place to do that.

Best regards,

Mike

reply to post by Saucerwench

Some sense these "pressure changes", even where the physical monitors of air pressure (ie barometers) don't indicate them occurring. This makes me wonder if the ear does more than just sense physical pressure changes and also acts as our central balance mechansim.

Mike

reply to post by lasertaglover

Hi LTL,

just saw your other post as well. Thanks for your comments.

It sounds like you might have experienced what Charlotte King called the "Uh-oh moment". By this she meant the time when your symptoms (of whatever form) suddenly lift and you feel fine -- and then it's "Uh-oh", because it can mean that the event is going to occur very shortly.

I've only experienced this a few times myself. The last major one was before the Great Asian Quake and Tsunami of Dec, 2004. Two whole days of utter misery and feeling rotten, then suddenly, it lifted. And then -- the big one happened.

Hard to say what the cause and effect might be here. We've surmised on it before. But fundamentally, I guess it's some kind of energy re-balance or adjustment going on. If we bear in mind that this is all about energy (and time is also a component of energy and vice versa) then that might bear the key.

Mike