Many people made prophecies: saints, scientists, writers, mediums. Some of the predictions came true, others did not, but even more turned out to be fabricated.
Fall of the monarchy in Russia
The death of the Romanov dynasty was predicted repeatedly. When Alexandra Feodorovna (wife of Nicholas II) visited the Tithe Monastery in Novgorod in 1916, Elder Maria, holding out her hands to her, said: “Here comes the Martyr - Queen Alexandra.” Rasputin spoke about the tragic end of the last royal family, but even earlier such predictions were made by the Monk Seraphim of Sarov.
It is known that the wife of Alexander II, Maria Alexandrovna, on March 2, 1855, retold the prophecy of Seraphim of Sarov about the death of the last emperor and his family to her maid of honor Anna Tyutcheva. The Empress herself learned about the prediction from Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, to whom the elder told his revelations.
The most mysterious story about predicting the death of the last king is associated with the monk Abel (1757-1841). According to legend, in 1801 the monk told his prophecies to Emperor Paul I, who “sealed” the secret in a chest and ordered it to be opened only after 100 years. Nicholas II, apparently, knew the prophecy not only about his tragic fate, but also about its timing, since, according to the testimony of those close to him, he repeatedly said: “Until 1918, I am not afraid of anything.”
Megapolis
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was not a soothsayer, but in his novels he amazingly foresaw the scientific and technological development of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, his most striking prediction was not a submarine - when the author began writing the novel "20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" the first mechanical underwater vehicle had already been launched in France, and not a man's flight to the Moon - it was first described in English at the beginning of the 17th century priest Francis Godwin.
In his book Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863), Jules Verne prophetically foresaw the city of the future. The novel, which at one time publishers considered too implausible, describes a modern metropolis with skyscrapers and a wide network of banks, with electric trains and cars with internal combustion engines rushing at enormous speeds. This is a kind of novel-warning about the danger of worshiping cars and money, fraught with the threat of moral degradation.
Atomic weapons
A worthy successor to the amazing insights of Jules Verne was Herbert Wells (1866-1946). Thus, despite the ridicule of “custom physicists,” he predicted the appearance of a laser and a rocket engine. His description of aircraft capable of seating up to 2,000 people and flying non-stop around the world is likely to become a reality in the near future.
But H.G. Wells's most interesting revelation came in his novel A World Set Free (1914), in which he predicted the advent of the "atomic bomb." Moreover, the writer warns humanity against the use of these deadly weapons: “To this day, the battlefields of that crazy era contain radioactive substances and are centers of harmful radiation.”
The Second World War
The most global war that affected the world in the middle of the 20th century was predicted by many. Researchers find one of the first prophecies of a terrible war in the quatrains of Michel Nostradamus, which allegorically speaks of the rise and fall of Hitler, the opening of the Second Front and the liberation of Europe.
However, if Nostradamus is almost a mythical figure today, then Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) is quite real. It is known that Casey made his predictions in a dream, but when he woke up, he did not remember anything about them: everything was saved by a stenographer. Likewise, he predicted with amazing accuracy the dates of the beginning and end of the Second World War (as well as the First), the defeat of the Germans at the Kursk Bulge, and the final victory of the Soviet Union.
Collapse of the USSR
The disappearance from the political map of the Soviet Union was predicted by a variety of people - clairvoyants, holy elders, politicians and scientists. For example, academician A.D. Sakharov warned in 1989 that if the situation in the country is not corrected, this is fraught with separatism and the collapse of the Union.
A little earlier, in 1985, academician Viktor Gelovani, using computer modeling, predicted the situation of the country’s development in the coming years. The analysis data identified two main paths - a technological one, promising a powerful industrial and economic breakthrough, and a losing model, which could lead to the collapse of the USSR by 1991. It turned out as always.
The aforementioned Edgar Cayce predicted the fall of the USSR in 1944 in a somewhat veiled form. “Before the 20th century ends, the collapse of communism will come,” said the soothsayer. “The communists will lose their power there.” And he promised a severe crisis for Russia, freed from communism.
Robotization
The term “robot” came into use thanks to Karl Capek (1890-1938). His play "R. U.R." (1920) tells the story of the creation of intelligent machines based on protoplasm found by man. Of course, the creatures born in the imagination of the Czech writer are still from the realm of science fiction, but the problems that affect humanity in connection with the introduction of artificial intelligence are relevant now: “The creation of the human mind ultimately escaped from the control of man and began to live according to its own laws,” Chapek writes warningly.
Social media
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) wrote his famous work, the dystopia Fahrenheit 451, in 1953, but the problems voiced in it became relevant only with the advent of the 21st century. The American science fiction writer was alarmed that people were gradually moving away from each other, deprived of live human contact - they were becoming victims of consumption and technology. In the novel, he writes about “television walls”, where characters can communicate with each other at a distance using huge screens. In 2004, the creators of Facebook called the “wall” a communication hub for sending and receiving messages.
A person may believe or be skeptical about the predictions of such people, but every time an event that was mentioned earlier occurs, a slight chill creeps into the heart.
Among the famous soothsayers, whose visions surprised the world, there are many interesting characters. Let's try to choose the ten most famous prophets.
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Of course, one cannot help but recall the legendary Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam, who tried her best to warn the Trojans about the death of the legendary city, but it was easier for the latter to consider the girl crazy than to believe in what they did not want.
2 Bakid(Bakis)
Bakid is a resident of Ancient Greece, the first of the people to compile a collection of prophecies. Bakid was inspired by the nymphs who told him about the future campaign of the Persians against Hellas and other events significant for that time. The name of Bakid is often given to all people who have the gift of a seer.
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Vasily Nemchin is a Russian soothsayer who lived in the 14th century; he predicted the rise to power of Peter I (Titan), who would make Russia a strong power. In the picture is Prince Vladimir, who believed in the super abilities of Vasily Nemchin.
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Nostradamus is a French seer, astrologer and physician of the 16th century. Nostradamus composed 10 centuries containing 942 quatrains with predictions and prophecies. The persecution of the prophet forced him to encrypt notes about future events; all the secrets of Nostradamus have not yet been revealed.
Monk Abel (Vasily Vasiliev) is a Russian peasant who lived in 1757 - 1841. He told his contemporaries the date of death of Catherine II and Paul I, as well as the war between Russia and the French.
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Grigory Rasputin is a peasant, Russian doctor of the heir to the Russian throne Alexei Romanov (early 20th century). He predicted the overthrow of the tsarist regime, the death of the crowned Romanov family, and the rise to power of the “Reds”.
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Wolf Messing is a Jew of Polish origin who predicted the fall of the Third Reich.
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Edgar Cayce was an American soothsayer who lived from 1877 to 1945, who predicted the invention of the laser and the fall of the communist regime in the USSR in the early 90s.
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Vanga is a Bulgarian clairvoyant, an outstanding personality of the 20th century. She predicted the defeat of Hitler in World War II, the arrival of the “red” regime in Bulgaria, the death of Stalin, the assassination of Kennedy, the election victory of Richard Nixon, etc. Vanga stated that Yuri Gagarin did not die, but was taken by someone (researchers believe that we are talking about alien creatures).
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Sheikh Sharifu is a unique Muslim boy born at the end of the 20th century in Tanzania. He has the ability to predict the future and made the entire Muslim world talk about his gift.
Predictions of the future are always interesting - they tell us about what will happen in the future, and do not always turn out to be lies. Moreover: some of the most incredible predictions of the future, made decades, if not centuries ago, ended up being true!
Back in the 17th century, a certain Robert Boyle predicted that in the future diseases would be treated by transplantation - and indeed, hundreds of years later this prediction came true, and organ transplantation became a common surgical operation.
Dmitri Mendeleev predicted the properties and mass of more than 40 elements in his periodic table back in 1863 - elements that were not yet known to mankind at that time!
More than a hundred years before Apollo 11 landed on the lunar surface, famous writer Jules Verne wrote in his book From the Earth to the Moon that a rocket would be sent from Florida to the moon. He predicted the name of the spacecraft (Apollo), the number of astronauts on board, and even accurately described the feeling of weightlessness on the surface of a celestial body.
In 1898, a certain Morgan Robertson wrote a short story in which he described how the largest ship in the history of mankind collides with an iceberg and sinks. Just 14 years later, the Titanic set sail - and sank under exactly the same circumstances.
Back in 1909, Nikola Tesla, in an interview with The New York Times, predicted the emergence of certain “personal devices” with which people of the future would exchange messages. Today it is impossible to imagine a person without a mobile phone.
In his novel A World Unchained, legendary science fiction writer H.G. Wells predicted the advent of atomic bombs that would destroy entire cities. 18 years after Wells published his book, the first atomic bombs were tested as part of the Manhattan Project.
At one time, Nostradamus predicted that “fire will burn the blood of all things in London in the year 66.” The prophet's prediction came true on September 5, 1966, when a fire broke out in the British capital, killing thousands of people.
In addition, Nostradamus predicted that in France people would rebel and protest against princes and lords. And so it happened - in 1799, when the French Revolution began, changing the entire face of France.
One of the most incredible predictions made by Nostradamus concerned a certain “pastor” who would be “praised like a demigod.” Centuries after Nostradamus made his prediction, French microbiologist and chemist Louis Pastor made several revolutionary scientific discoveries that earned him fame as one of the greatest scientists of all time.
In the short story "Bad Solution," Robert Heinlein describes how the United States was the first to create nuclear weapons and became a "superpower" by preventing other nations from developing the same weapons. This is exactly what happened several decades later with the beginning of the Cold War and the arms race. And the famous science fiction writer wrote his story back in the forties - before the very idea of developing nuclear weapons appeared.
Heinlein is not only a wonderful writer, but also an excellent predictor of the future: for example, he predicted not only the Cold War, but also the appearance of water mattresses. In his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land, he described the waterbed in such detail that its inventor then had to work hard to obtain a patent.
Writer Edward Bellamy predicted the advent of credit cards back in 1887 - exactly 63 years before they were invented.
In Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, Jonathan Swift claimed that Mars had two moons - exactly 142 years before scientists discovered that this was indeed the case.
Also known as the “sleeping prophet,” Edgar Cayce made surprisingly accurate, frighteningly realistic predictions of the future - for example, he predicted the start and end dates of World War I and World War II, as well as the end of the Great Depression in the United States.
The writer Mark Twain was not a predictor, but he managed to accurately predict the date of his own death. In one of his books, Twain wrote that he was born in 1835, when Halley's Comet flew near the Earth - and predicted that he would die when this comet appeared again. And so it happened: Mark Twain died in 1910, when Halley's Comet reappeared in the night sky.
The art of divination is associated with the capabilities of the human mind, which are called clairvoyance in science, and people who can penetrate into the past and predict the future are clairvoyants, or, in the terminology used recently, psychics. They see through barriers, read thoughts at a distance, heal with words and glances. They bring divine revelations to us. These are the people J.M. Keynes said:
Each seer makes his own predictions differently. The Delphic Pythia inhaled the vapors of the intoxicating spring, after which they fell into a trance. The Great Merlin, according to legend, knew how to turn time in the direction he needed, predicting the past and future. Michel Nostradamus said that he sees pictures of the future if he looks at the fire for a long time or even simply into the darkness. The machine that showed these pictures is attributed to him. He showed this invention to the Queen of France, Catherine de Medici, and she saw the future death of her sons on the machine’s screen. After such an event, he destroyed his invention.
An angel appeared to Saint Odile, telling her about the future. Willim Bruce drew up horoscopes and read his famous secret Black Book. Elisha Bomelius looked at the sky and into his huge magic crystal. Alexander Pushkin’s sister Olga simply looked at the open palm and read the person’s fate from it. And the most famous doctor of the 19th century, Muscovite Alexander Over, saw his and his patients’ future in a dream. Some seers wrote down prophecies in a trance (this is how Nostradamus began), others used maps, runes, magic boards, balls, stones, etc. Well, the profession of an astrologer, who uses horoscopes compiled according to the movements of stars and other celestial bodies for predictions, In general, right up to modern times, history was one of the most widespread in the world.
Seers are strong in one way of predicting
As a rule, seers are strong in any one method of prediction. But the great one could do almost anything. She told fortunes using her famous cards, saw fate in a crystal ball, could predict by numbers (that is, she studied numerology), read fortunes by hand (mastered palmistry), she learned to make horoscopes - she became an astrologer. Her talents were innumerable - Lenormand predicted the future, even looking at the grass, tree leaves, flying clouds, or simply looking into the darkness. This multiplicity of abilities only emphasized the inexhaustibility of her gift.
However, most often, soothsayers turn out to be clairvoyants: that is, certain visions arise in their consciousness. This was the case with the great disgraced Russian prophet monk Abel, who accurately predicted the fates of not only the sovereigns during whose times he lived - Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I, but future sovereigns - Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II . This was the case with the cult Moscow prophet Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha, who was sent to a dungeon by the authorities, and then to an insane asylum at the Preobrazhenskaya outpost. But Muscovites of the mid-19th century went there too, unquestioningly believing the strange, but “prophetic old man.”
20th century predictors
The twentieth century gave new impetus to the development of the art of prediction. Firstly, the world was swept by a passion for spiritualism, and it became fashionable to find out fate through mediums who communicate with spirits. Even the most seemingly sober heads could not resist such a hobby: King Edward VI of Great Britain and the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. Even some of the most prudent merchants of Russia found themselves captive of mediumistic sessions. Secondly, wars and revolutions, rampant crimes and large-scale disasters, such as the sinking of the Titanic, aroused fear of life and hence the desire to know the future in order to gain at least some hope.
Almost all public people of the twentieth century at least once turned to the services of fortunetellers. American presidents - Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower - listened to prophecies. The Reagan couple used the horoscopes of Joan Quigley, and Hilary Clinton used the advice of her personal parapsychologist Jean Houston.
However, fortune tellers, clairvoyants and astrologers played a special role during the Second World War. And their contribution was recognized by materialist historians. The fact is that everyone knew how Adolf Hitler treated mysticism. The Fuhrer used the services of many predictors. However, after their prophecies ceased to satisfy him or simply did not please him, Hitler, with enviable methodicality, mercilessly sent the “failed” or “at fault” would-be prophets to concentration camps, or even simply ordered their elimination. However, for a long time, Hitler trusted his personal astrologer Karl Kraft. He compiled detailed horoscopes for Hitler, which the Fuhrer, proud of his special mission, gave to Himmler and Goering to read, so that they too could compare their lives with the fate of Hitler. In a word, any significant event at the Fuhrer’s headquarters and in the upper echelons of Nazi Germany was first “reviewed” by German predictors and astrologers, and then carried out according to the recommendations they gave.
Having learned about this, British intelligence assembled its own group of clairvoyants. By personal order of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, it was headed by astrologer Louis de Volle. He was personally acquainted with Karl Kraft. Before the war, he studied at one of the German institutes, where they practiced the study of astrology and other ancient magical sciences. So Woll was well acquainted with the rules and techniques that were used by the esotericists of the German school. The wise Woll decided to use them in his own calculations in order to be able to look at events from the German point of view. And the “duel of the prophets” began, as military historians later called this operation.
The cunning Englishmen, under the leadership of Woll, predicted events, drawing up horoscopes as their German colleague Karl Kraft would have made them. From such horoscopes, the British could well guess the essence of the recommendations that Kraft gave to Hitler. And then the British recommended their military command to do exactly the opposite. So when the German bombers rushed towards the city, where, judging by the prediction of the “Fuhrer’s astrologers,” there was no cover, the full power of the British anti-aircraft installations fell on them. The same thing happened with the maneuvers of fascist submarines, which, completely unexpectedly for them, encountered carefully placed mines.
By the way, it was precisely a group of English “prophets” who proposed opening a second front in Normandy, and not in the Balkans, as was initially assumed. The fact is that the British predicted: German clairvoyants would predict to the Fuhrer the opening of a second front precisely in the Balkans. This means we need to do things differently. So Normandy was chosen. Of course, the landing there turned out to be much more difficult and dangerous, but in this place the fascist troops did not expect the enemy to land. And Prime Minister Churchill approved the plan to open a second front in Normandy. So representatives of such a non-scientific field as prophecies and predictions also contributed to the victory over fascism.
The most famous predictors of the 20th century
But two became the most legendary predictors of the 20th century: in the first half of the century, an American fortuneteller, and in the second, a Bulgarian clairvoyant. Over their long lives, hundreds of thousands of predictions were made. Casey predicted in a dream, into which he introduced himself, he was asked questions, he answered, often after and did not remember what. No wonder Cayce was called the sleeping prophet. He himself believed that during sleep his mind could connect to the brain of any person who knew the answer, or to the universal mind. Blind Vanga took a piece of sugar in her hand, which the person who came to see her had to bring with him first. Sugar crystals conveyed to Vanga all the information about a person, his environment and the future. The capabilities of Casey and Vanga were enormous: they could heal, look for losses, talk about the secrets of the past, and the events of the future.
Prudent Americans created an entire scientific institute to work with Cayce’s legacy. The prophecies themselves are recorded in a huge number of volumes and numbered. With Vanga’s prophecies, the situation is much more mysterious. She told fortunes to ordinary people who came to her from all over the world. Although scientists also worked with Vanga, they did not write down private predictions, and Vanga did not like to give global prophecies. So the currently published prophecies about the third world war or global catastrophes are legends, the so-called apocrypha of Vanga.
Real clairvoyants always emphasize that they are no exception. The prediction gene exists in all people. Of course, it is more developed among clairvoyants. But an ordinary person can also predict, even if he does not recognize any extrasensory abilities. After all, the simple girl Merna was able to find her beloved, looking for him on the basis of her prophetic dream. And writers, poets, actors, who did not have any clairvoyant abilities, could also often predict future events.
People have always been interested in their future; they were ready to give any money to look into the events of the future at least for a few seconds. Those who possessed such abilities were called seers. They existed at all times and used completely different methods to obtain information. It is unknown how many such people there were in history, because the names of a few seers have survived to this day. Who are they - the most famous predictors in the world?
Divination technology: how does it happen?
Scientists since the nineteenth century have been trying to determine how some people manage to predict the future and describe it in such detail. Unfortunately, to this day the mechanism of prophecy has not been revealed. Although the clairvoyants themselves claim that every person, without exception, is capable of this. It’s just that the majority do not know how to use it, but the lucky few managed to awaken the gift in themselves and use it for the benefit of other people.
Surprisingly, each seer uses different techniques that allow him to penetrate into the future. Some fall into a trance for this purpose, while others hear voices. There is a category of clairvoyants who use aids such as cards, coffee grounds or various crystals. Such predictions are often confused with fortune-telling, therefore, in the terminology of studying the unknown, there is a definition of soothsayers. These mainly include people who are able to talk about future events without aids. Therefore, we will be guided by this definition in our search for who can be awarded the title “the most famous predictor of all time.”
Famous predictors: who are they?
Throughout the history of human civilization, more than once people have appeared who possessed a powerful gift of prophecy and were able to look centuries ahead. Therefore, it is quite difficult to find out which of them is the most famous predictor. After all, the prophecies of many seers have already come true, but the time of others is just coming. Moreover, almost any person, faced with a prediction that has come true, experiences sacred horror and begins to pay more attention to the words of the seers.
Recently, the topic of clairvoyants was touched upon in one well-known entertainment program “100 to 1”. The most famous predictor was named by Russians who were randomly interviewed on the streets of Moscow. The opinion of the townspeople was as unanimous as possible; they named six names. The predictors known to Russia are as follows:
- Vanga.
- Nostradamus.
- Globa.
- Messing.
- Juna.
- Longo.
These names are known to almost every Russian. After all, each of the named people appears to ordinary people as a predictor. But is this really so? And what exactly do we know about these clairvoyants?
Forecasters known to everyone: Vanga
This woman has long been considered one of the most legendary personalities of the twentieth century. Born in 1911, the girl turned out to be extremely far-sighted and was able to make a lot of predictions to ordinary people and heads of government of different countries. In the family of the future seer, no one expected that the girl would be so gifted. She grew up as an absolutely ordinary child until she was twelve years old, when she lost her sight during a hurricane. During World War II, in the village where Vanga lived, they started talking about her extraordinary abilities. Over time, the fame of the clairvoyant spread throughout the globe; she received ordinary people and the powerful with equal attention.
Vanga herself said that she sees the future as a window in which the entire history of a person’s life is squandered. A voice in the head comments on what is happening, focusing especially on what exactly needs to be revealed to the person who comes to Vanga for help.
The seer predicted the defeat of Hitler, the death of Stalin and the change of regimes in various countries. Much of what the clairvoyant spoke about has not yet come true. Before her death, she managed to make predictions up to the year five thousand. It is during this period, according to Vanga, that the end of the world will come and the death of all humanity will occur. Whether this will happen is unknown, but so far all her predictions have tended to come true.
Nostradamus: the secret of the Katrans
is a very mysterious figure from the past. He encrypted his predictions and wrote them down in the form of poems - katrans. Over the centuries that have passed since the death of the seer, his katrans have been deciphered more than once. Moreover, each author proposed a completely new version of the prediction. It is believed that Nostradamus was not only a clairvoyant, but also an astrologer, alchemist and poet. Many historians argue that in the sixteenth century, when the slightest hint of magic could bring you to the attention of the Inquisition, this was a very dangerous activity. It promised trials and a fire. That is why Nostradamus carefully encrypted his predictions and made them somewhat vague.Some researchers of the prophecies of the great astrologer believe that he wrote his katrans based on the texts of another predictor who lived in the fourteenth century. His name was Rainier Nero, and many of his contemporaries called him the Black Spider. Despite some similarities in the texts, it is difficult to say that Nostradamus copied them. In addition, he was able to make predictions until 2240, when humanity (in his opinion) will come close to its destruction. But the astrologer himself did not claim that the end of the world would definitely happen. He believed that humanity could well survive, and then a new era of prosperity and peace on the planet would begin.
modern astrologer
Almost every Russian knows the name of Pavel Globa. He was born in the middle of the last century and is currently a very controversial figure in the world of the unknown. The fact is that he is classified as one of the people who stood at the origins of modern Soviet astrology. He managed to organize his own center and even hosted several television programs.
Unfortunately, many of Globa's forecasts are unfulfilled. According to experts, their number is more than fifty percent.
Wolf Messing: a man of legend
The life and work of Wolf Messing is surrounded by an aura of secrets and mysteries. Some consider him a brilliant telepath and hypnotist, while others consider him just a talented artist and psychologist. Until now, there is no exact definition of his talent, because many of Messing’s words have not been confirmed during detailed and thorough testing.
Many of the hypnotist’s contemporaries claim that he conducted his performances in an atmosphere of high emotional intensity, which prevented the audience from really assessing the events taking place and the artist’s abilities.
Juna - healer and astrologer
Despite the fact that Russians consider Juna a fortuneteller, she considered herself a healer. This was her main gift, which glorified the woman throughout the Soviet Union. Juna's abilities were seriously studied and tested by Soviet specialists. The healer's clients were top officials of the state who believed in her gift and found it very powerful.
In addition to healing, Juna was engaged in creativity and said that she received energy from space and from higher powers. The mysterious woman died in 2015 at the age of sixty-five.
Yuri Longo: magician and illusionist
Yuri Longo can also hardly be called a person with paranormal abilities. He was born in the middle of the last century. Longo was very sensitive to new trends, expressed in interest in everything mystical. He hosted the first Soviet television shows in which he tried to raise the dead and heal the sick. Modern experts argue that Yuri Longo can be classified as a charlatan who made a fortune by deceiving ordinary people.
Surprisingly, if you analyze the activities of those who at one time claimed to be magicians and soothsayers, there are quite a lot of scammers and charlatans among them. But, besides them, there were real seers, whose predictions still plunge scientists into a state of bewilderment and shock.
Edgar Cayce - the "sleeping" seer
The famous predictor of the future, American Edgar Cayce, was an extraordinary person and clearly belonged to the real clairvoyants, to whom any distances and times are accessible. This man had a phenomenal gift of foresight, and most of his predictions have already come true.
Casey was born at the end of the nineteenth century into the family of a simple American farmer. At the age of nine, the boy showed paranormal abilities. He could not learn the lesson, and the angry father hit the boy on the ear. As Casey fell, he heard a voice telling him to sleep. Subsequently, the boy went to bed with his textbook and literally within a few minutes he knew everything that was necessary for the lesson.
It was for his ability to receive information in a state of trance, similar to sleep, that Cayce was nicknamed the “sleeping” prophet. Throughout his life, he made a lot of predictions about the fate of nations, talked about past civilizations and future catastrophes. In his predictions, Casey paid a lot of attention to Russia and its future. He argued that after a series of disasters that would practically destroy America, Europe and part of Japan, Russia would be the hope of the world. It is she who will revive human civilization and bring it to a new stage of development.
Seers of the Past
The most famous predictors of the world, who left their mark on history, appeared in all centuries. In Greek mythology, the soothsayer Cassandra occupies a special place, about whom historians and scientists are still arguing. Presumably she was the daughter of King Priam and was able to predict the death of Troy from a huge horse. Ancient Greek sources contain very contradictory information about Cassandra’s abilities.
For example, Homer, recognizing her as an amazingly beautiful girl, does not focus on her special gift. Aeschylus in the tragedy "Agamemnon" mentioned the girl's ability to foresight, which she received from Apollo. Having deceived God, she was punished by people's disbelief in her gift. Ultimately, this led to the fall of Troy.
She later became the wife of Agamemnon and bore him two sons. Historians claim that she often testified to the fates of other people and even foresaw her own death.
Famous world predictors: Maria Lenormand
There have always been legends about this French woman. She was born extremely deformed and was also lame. Even the girl’s parents were amazed at her ugliness and by the age of five they gladly sent her to be raised in a monastery. It was during this period of time that the child began to exhibit strange abilities that frightened his parents.
By the age of sixteen, Maria returned to her father's house. She received a fairly good education, and studying books on esotericism and numerology gave her a lot of new information, which she easily applied. In Paris, where the girl went in search of a better life, she began to tell fortunes to everyone and quickly gained unprecedented fame, since all her words always came true. Any famous modern forecaster could envy Lenormand's gift. She could do almost everything - cards, clairvoyance, palmistry and many other methods of prediction were available to her.
One of Marie Lenormand's most famous predictions is the death of Queen Marie Antoinette, who rose to the scaffold during the French Revolution. The clients of the lame seer were the leaders of the revolution, noble nobles and even Napoleon himself. The woman told him about the future rise and inglorious decline of his life. This is what led to the fact that, having become emperor, Napoleon tried to kill the fortuneteller.
There is historical evidence confirming that Maria Lenormand was visited by the Russian Emperor Alexander I and the future Decembrists, who ended their life on the gallows. One day a woman laid out the cards on herself and saw her death coming to her fourteen years later, exactly as she had predicted.
It is difficult to determine which famous predictor is the best, because every era gives birth to its heroes and prophets. This means that pretty soon people will hear about a new seer who will become the most famous in the twenty-first century.
