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As may, many of you figure out, it is the -let’s say- opposite of Prediction. In a few words is like gluing facts on a known prophecy prediction, after the event happened and thus producing a “truth” for the actual prediction. This, the article in Wikipedia, actually claims and categorizes the Postdiction as an actual and real thing. Yet, I wonder how real can this be as it stands and has validity in itself only.

So we read in Wikipedia:

According to critics of paranormal beliefs, postdiction (or post-shadowing, retroactive clairvoyance, or prediction after the fact) is an effect of hindsight bias that explains claimed predictions of significant events, such as plane crashes and natural disasters. In religious contexts it is frequently referred to by the Latin term vaticinium ex eventu, or foretelling after the event. Through this term, critics claim that many biblical prophecies (and similar prophecies in other religions) that may appear to have come true were in fact written after the events supposedly predicted, or that their text or interpretation were modified after the event to fit the facts as they occurred.

So, for example, a prophecy about a disaster or a good event was documented after the event where some authors or scholars said… “…hey, remember when we read in that book about this? So this what happened to our city today matches that…”.

And so skepticism and academic approach of things got stronger. I will stay on this for a while as it is a matter of serious question to ourselves to wonder how we can be objective and know if an X event was actually true and related to some prediction well made some years or centuries ago.

If you read the wikipedia article you will get a better idea. But, through the article I can see various points poping up, like:

• Do we really act in a postdiction way?
• When we read about predictions do we have any tools to find out about if they are true and on what they refer to?
• Why those people (i.e. like Nostradamus) wrote or said their predictions in a not so clear way? Is it possibly that they had to? Is it possible they got this information in this way, and as such they reproduce it?
• How can we really see through all the jargon and examine ourselves what is really true?

Possibly, we can find the truth here on earth on the way we perceive things. But what if we had the ability to travel there where knowledge is born? Many people say this is the Astral Plane or higher. Others mention about the Akashic Records. So, is the truth really out there? Or better is it inside us?

What do you say?

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