HOW MODERN FUTUROLOGY AND ANCIENT ORACLES SEE (INTO) THE FUTURE - Kai Goerlich

KAI GOERLICH Futurist

Trend research and futurology appear to be closely connected to ancient oracles. Predicting the future is difficult and sometimes even risky, which is why precise and successful predictions always seem to have a magical quality. Developing a sense for the future, for instance to predict seasons and natural events, had an enormous evolutionary advantage. We know from neurobiology that our brain is able to recognize patterns and correlations very quickly, albeit not always in the necessary quality. When we think, we often choose abbreviations unconsciously and are quick to give evaluations such as culturally shaped assumptions. In Western cultures, for example, we view the past as behind and the future as ahead of us, while time does not exist in the dreamtime of the Aborigines, just like in the tradition of the Hopi and in Hinduism. The Maya people saw time as cyclical (...)

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