West Side Story, probably somewhere on the top of my most seen movies ever, starts with “Could be! Who knows? There’s something due any day; I will know right away, Soon as it shows.” Funny how when that feeling hit me, not that long ago, I did not think of the song. I just kept thinking “Something’s going to happen…” and to paraphrase the song again “Could it be? Yes, it could. Something’s coming, something good…” And it did.

A few weeks ago, some friends and I were discussing what I would call “uncontrolled brain powers”… Those things that happen, that might have a scientific explanation, but that we’d rather see as “paranormal activity”… maybe simply because it makes our boring human lives more exciting. What I call “Premonition” [a.k.a. Gut Feeling]  is one of them; one that I experienced in several instances. So I did a little research and found this interesting statement in Wikipedia: “…precognition would violate the principle that an effect cannot occur before its cause.” And somehow with emerging spiritual or self-help movements like The Secret and other “Law of attraction“-type theories, we’re encouraged to break the scientific principle… Which, I have to confess, is more than tempting.

Is a premonition an unconscious way of putting a desire out to the universe? Can we assume that wanting something so much that we start thinking of it as something that will actually happen is enough to make it happen? Or are we just intoxicated with our own desires to the point of finding a way, any way, to make them happen, and then call it premonition?