What some famous psychics predicted and failed to predict

Jeane Dixon predicted in 1956 that the 1960 election would be won by a Democrat, who would die in office, but not necessarily in his first term. As the 1960 election drew nearer, she changed her prediction by saying that Richard Nixon would win the election. She also predicted the outbreak of germ warfare with China in 1958. During the 1980s, she predicted the US would elect a woman to be US president and that a monstrous comet would strike the earth. She also predicted the dissolution of the Catholic Church before 1990. Dixon died in the mid 1990s.

Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) was a prophet/psychic of great renown in the first half of the 20th century, but he is still revered today by his many believers. Cayce made a great many predictions: In 1934 he predicted that “Poseida” a portion of the lost continent of Atlantis would rise from the Atlantic, in 1968 or 1969. He further predicted that “the earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the Torrid areas, and there will be the shifting of the poles--- so that there will be the shifting then of the poles—so that where there have those of a frigid or semitropical [sic] will be come the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will in those periods in ’58 to ’98.” He also predicted that a death ray would be discovered in 1958 of the type used on Atlantis. Cayce also predicted that China would be mostly Christian by 1968 and that the Great Depression would be mostly over by 1933.

Cayce made numerous claims of having knowledge from past lives and he claimed to have lived as one the 12 disciples of Christ, a priest in ancient Egypt, a warrior of Troy, a Persian monarch and an angel-like being that had been on earth before Adam and Eve. Today, The Association for Research and Enlightenment (the ARE) in Virginia Beach, has over 30,000 transcripts of readings made by Cayce when in his trances. Visitors to the ARE can take tests of their own psychic ability and the results of these tests do not differ from expected frequencies in a normal distribution of scores. The staff of the ARE does not apparently apply knowledge of common statistical principles. The ARE is an advanced degree granting institution.

David Icke: In March 1991 the former U.K. soccer player and Green Party spokesman announced that he had received news of upcoming world events revealed to him personally by Socrates, the “GodHead”, Jesus Christ himself and various other spirits. Icke declared that disruptive though vibrations, originating with the Sicilian Mafia and the Tiananmen Square massacre in China had combined to set in motion a cataclysm that would first be evidenced when Mount Rainier in the United States would explode. No date was given. This would be followed by the complete disappearance of New Zealand, the collapse of the Channel Tunnel, the fall of the Naples Cathedral and an unexpected failure of the Texas oilfields. By Christmas 1991 Icke predicted that an earthquake of greater than 8.0 magnitude would hit that Cuba, Greece, the Isle of Arran, the cliffs of Kent and Teeside.

No psychic predicted the testing of the first atom bomb in New Mexico or the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No psychic predicted the first satellite launch, Sputnik. No psychic predicted the death of Lady Diana. No psychic predicted that comet Shoemaker-Levy would strike Jupiter. The prediction of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981 was faked and actually made after the fact. No psychic predicted the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980. No psychic predicted the July 1969 moon landing except Dixon predicted the Russians would beat the US to the moon. No psychic predicted the near disaster of Apollo 13. No psychic predicted 9-11-01. Predictions allegedly made by Nostradamus that were interpreted as predicting 9-11-01 were confirmed as a hoax.