The UFO Digest report on ABC’s upcoming series Flash Forward as they ask ‘how much of the concept is possible in reality?’. Some mild plot spoilers are covered:
Is it just a far-fetched sci-fi plot or is there a basis in current knowledge about a scenario like this?
Extrasensory perception (ESP), anomalous cognition, remote viewing and other phenomena associated with human perception and awareness have been investigated by credible scientists and found to be something other than science fiction.
The physics of time also seems to be a topic that is much more mysterious and uncertain than we generally believe.
When we combine some of the current investigations into unusual human consciousness and research about the nature of time, it becomes evident that “Flash Forward” is not so far-fetched after all.
Elements of U.S. intelligence community and military conducted decades of research and operational activities in Project STARGATE using unusual human consciousness approaches.
“Everybody talks about their flash and they realize they were all dreaming of the same day – which is a day in the future. You can identify with the different people and have that sense of global import – we’re all in it together …”
In these activities, certain personnel were able to use a specific technique called remote viewing to perceive people, places and things at a distance using only their consciousness.
These kinds of perceptions reportedly were not limited to the here and now, but could reach out into the past and future.
Another aspect of “Flash Forward” that has a basis in theories from psychology and physics is the idea that a common field or common consciousness, at some level, connects us all.
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There seems to be very rich material for this new series, based on real developments in scientific discovery.
In addition, there appears to be widespread recognition among the public, both nationally and internationally, that things like premonitions, the human sixth sense, anomalous cognition and ESP are actually real phenomena, although we don’t quite understand them completely
. This would seem to help provide a solid audience for “Flash Forward,” if the writers and actors can convey these concepts in ways that take viewers into a real investigation, like the one FBI agent Fiennes and his fellow actors portray.
When the first episode airs this fall, viewers will have a chance to explore and ponder these kinds of unusual aspects of human consciousness, time and the nature of reality.
In published reports, ABC’s Suzanne Patmore-Gibbs, executive vice-president of drama development, described the pilot episode this way: “Our FBI agent, played by Joseph Fiennes, appears to be in an FBI chase. You think he has a car crash. He has a flash of all sorts of things and he wakes up on the freeway and subsequently discovers that everybody else in the world has had a blackout that lasted the same amount of time. This resulted in a lot of devastation across the world.”
