The Jewish Prophet Daniel is best known for his interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in the biblical book that bears his name. The story is of a highly advanced display of extrasensory perception that changed history. The king had a disturbing dream and ordered it to be interpreted without disclosing any context or contents of the dream. This was done to ensure that the answer could only come from a divine power, forcing the seer to first accurately perceive all the contents of the dream itself, with no hints of any kind, and only then provide the interpretation.
Daniel then accurately described the king’s dream in precise detail as he had seen in a vision.… Continue reading
This statement by Aristotle sums up perfectly why theurgical operations fail. The pure part of our soul requires our imagination to communicate…and imagination is fickle.
The personal daimon that Socrates regularly conversed with is the most straightforward example of obtaining information through extrasensory means. He referred to this spirit as his “internal oracle”. In the Apology, Socrates said that he believed it to be of divine origin and its presence was something that had been with him since childhood.