Psychic Sensitivity, Future Perception and Our Capacity to Change What Comes Next
Assessment Statement
Psychic prediction is usually judged by whether a prediction comes true. Yet from a peace perspective, there may be another question worth asking: if we perceive something before it happens, can that knowledge help us prevent conflict, interrupt destructive cycles, resolve what is already forming, or repair the conditions producing it?
This shifts the purpose of prediction. Instead of future perception being valuable primarily because it demonstrates an unusual human ability, its value may also lie in what becomes possible because something has been perceived early.
Psychic sensitivity is particularly interesting in this context because it does not always appear as a dramatic vision of the future. It can include heightened awareness of patterns, sensitivity to changes within relationships or environments, intuitive knowing, dreams, visions and, in some cases, information that appears to relate directly to an event that has not yet occurred.[1]
These experiences should not all be treated as the same. A counsellor recognising the early signs of relapse is not necessarily having a psychic experience. Someone sensing unspoken tension in a relationship is not necessarily predicting the future. A person dreaming about an event before it occurs is describing something different again.
Yet each raises an intriguing peace question. What happens when we become aware of something before it has fully unfolded?
This assessment explores whether different forms of heightened perception can become active peacebuilding capacities when they allow emerging fragmentation to be recognised early enough for choice, prevention, resolution or repair to change what happens next.
Assessment Overview
Psychic sensitivity is often discussed in terms of what a person can perceive: whether they can sense energy, receive intuitive information, see visions, communicate mediumistically or know something they could not ordinarily be expected to know. This assessment approaches the subject from a different direction. Rather than focusing only on the existence or accuracy of these capacities, it asks what function they might serve.
There is already a familiar model for this in pattern recognition. Experienced counsellors, clinicians, mediators and other practitioners learn to notice patterns that less experienced observers may miss. In addiction treatment, for example, research has shown that identifiable warning signs can predict subsequent alcohol relapse.[2] Recognising those signs matters because it creates an opportunity to intervene before the cycle completes itself.
Conflict prevention operates on a similar principle. The United Nations places early warning and early action within its preventive approach to violent conflict: gather information, recognise emerging risks and act before escalation becomes harder to contain.[3]
Psychic sensitivity potentially expands this question beyond information that is already overt. What if a person senses a shift before they can explain what they are noticing? What if information arrives through a dream, vision, intuitive knowing or direct perception of a future possibility? Research into anomalous anticipatory experience remains developing and contested, but experimental work has investigated whether physiological responses can sometimes precede apparently unpredictable stimuli, while research into mediumship is increasingly examining how unusual forms of perception are experienced and used in real-world settings.[4][5]
The Peace Lab question is not whether all these forms of perception should be treated as equivalent. They should not. It is whether becoming aware earlier can create more room for peace.
Psychic Sensitivity: What Are We Actually Talking About?
Before examining prediction, it is useful to clarify psychic sensitivity itself.
Within UPT, psychic sensitivity refers broadly to an expansion in what a person is able to perceive. Some of that perception may involve information that is already present and observable but noticed at greater depth or earlier than usual. Other experiences may involve subtler information within a relational or wider field. Still others may appear to involve information about something that has not yet occurred.[1]
Three areas are particularly relevant to this assessment.
Pattern Recognition
Pattern recognition is the easiest to observe because we use it constantly. A person notices relationships between events and begins to understand where they are leading.
A counsellor may recognise that someone recovering from addiction is withdrawing, returning to particular relationships, changing their language or repeating behaviours that have preceded relapse before. An experienced mediator may recognise a familiar escalation pattern in which communication decreases while blame, certainty and hostility increase.
The future has not necessarily been psychically perceived. The pattern itself contains information about where the situation is heading.
Yet there is something important here for the wider discussion of psychic sensitivity. People vary considerably in what they notice. Experience can increase this sensitivity, but sometimes recognition arrives before conscious analysis. Someone may say, “Something has changed,” and only afterwards identify the collection of signals that produced the recognition.
Pattern recognition therefore gives us a grounded starting point for understanding how increased perceptual sensitivity can reveal a trajectory earlier.
Field Sensitivity
Field sensitivity becomes subtler.
People sometimes sense emotional or relational information before it has been openly expressed. Someone enters a room and immediately recognises tension. A counsellor senses that something important is being withheld. A person notices a change in a relationship before either party has named it.
Some of this information may later be traceable to body language, tone, timing, previous experience or other signals. At other times, the person may not be able to identify exactly what they perceived.
Within UPT, field sensitivity allows us to take seriously the possibility that people register information not only through deliberate conscious analysis but through their wider interaction with other people and environments.[1]
For peacebuilding, this matters because conflict has an atmosphere before it has an outcome. Relationships can begin fragmenting before anyone declares them broken. Hostility can grow before violence occurs. Fear, distrust and withdrawal can become perceptible before they become explicit.
Field sensitivity may therefore increase the opportunity to recognise conflict while it is still forming.
Direct Future Perception
Direct future perception takes us into the clearest territory of psychic prediction.
Here, a person experiences information that appears to relate to something that has not yet happened and cannot readily be accounted for by the information ordinarily available to them. It may arrive through a dream, vision, bodily sensation, sudden knowing or another form of psychic experience.
UPT allows for the possibility that human awareness can sometimes perceive information beyond ordinary sequential experience.[1] There is also a small scientific literature examining anomalous anticipation. A meta-analysis of 26 reports, for example, found an unexplained anticipatory physiological effect before randomly selected stimuli, although this research does not establish the mechanism or validate psychic predictions generally.[4]
This distinction is important. We do not need to call pattern recognition psychic prediction, nor do we need to explain psychic prediction away as pattern recognition.
They can remain different experiences while still raising the same peace question: if something about the future becomes visible earlier, what can we do with that information?
How Time Fits In
This is where UPT’s treatment of time becomes useful.
At the everyday level, time appears straightforward. The past has happened, we are living in the present, and the future has not happened yet. Pattern recognition fits comfortably within this view: we use what happened before and what is happening now to anticipate what is likely to happen next.
But the past does not simply disappear because an event has ended. An unresolved injury can remain active in a relationship. Trauma can shape responses years later. Families can repeat patterns across generations. Nations can continue organising around historical grievances. What happened before can therefore remain active in what happens next.
UPT describes a timeline simply as the direction in which a person, relationship or system is moving based on its current patterns.[6] A couple repeatedly entering the same unresolved argument is creating one kind of trajectory. A community repeatedly responding to difference with hostility is creating another. The more consistently a pattern repeats, the easier its likely future becomes to anticipate.
But a timeline is not the same as fate.
Current patterns make some futures more likely than others, but new choices, relationships, information and actions can alter the direction of travel. UPT therefore treats the future as containing possibilities rather than one unavoidable destination.[6]
Psychic future perception adds another dimension to this understanding. If awareness can sometimes register information relating to an emerging future, then the person may be perceiving something about where the system is currently heading. Sometimes the event may occur as perceived. At other times, something changes.
This matters enormously for peace.
If a future can be perceived but can also change, then prediction is no longer simply observation.
It can become an opportunity for participation.
Where Does Mediumship Fit?
Mediumship is useful to clarify here because mediumship and psychic sensitivity are often spoken about as though they mean the same thing.
Within UPT, they are related but not identical. Psychic sensitivity concerns an expanded capacity to perceive information. Mediumship more specifically concerns perceived impressions, information or communication associated with consciousness that is no longer physically embodied.[7]
Mediumship therefore does not necessarily involve prediction. Information may concern the past, a relationship, grief, something unresolved in a family, or the present situation. Conversely, a mediumistic communication may sometimes include information about something that has not yet happened.
In that circumstance, the two capacities overlap. The mediumistic element concerns how or from where the information is perceived to arise; the predictive element concerns the fact that the information relates to the future.
The distinction is more than semantic because it helps preserve discernment. Not every psychic impression is mediumship, not every mediumistic experience is predictive, and not every recognition of an emerging pattern requires an expanded explanation.
UPT places particular emphasis on learning to distinguish between empathy, memory, projection, intuition and perceived communication rather than treating every impression as equally authoritative.[7] That principle becomes important later in the assessment because greater sensitivity without corresponding discernment can create confusion rather than peace.
Interestingly, mediumship also provides an emerging example of how unusual forms of perception might interact with established systems. Current doctoral research at Griffith University is examining the use of mediums in relation to homicide investigations, including the processes mediums report using and the experiences of police and homicide survivors. The work is process-focused rather than evidence that mediumistic information can independently solve crimes, but it demonstrates that the boundary between expanded perception and practical investigation is itself becoming a legitimate subject of academic inquiry.[5]
The important principle for peace is that unusual information does not have to replace conventional evidence in order to be explored. It can remain information to be considered, tested and integrated responsibly.
From Perception to Peacebuilding
The clearest way to understand the peace potential is to return to the counsellor.
Suppose a counsellor recognises the early signs of relapse. The purpose of recognising them is not to wait for the person to relapse and then celebrate the accuracy of the prediction. The recognition matters because it creates an opportunity to interrupt the cycle.
Research into alcohol relapse illustrates this practically. Warning-sign scores have been shown to predict later relapse, while a randomised trial of early-warning relapse-prevention training found reductions in heavy drinking and drinking days among relapse-prone participants, although not a statistically significant improvement in continuous abstinence.[2][8]
The sequence is straightforward. Something is perceived. Its significance is recognised. That recognition creates an opportunity for action. Action changes the conditions under which the predicted outcome was forming.
The same principle can operate in conflict.
Someone notices the early pattern of coercion in a relationship. A mediator senses that a conversation is approaching rupture. A community recognises increasing hostility between groups. A peacebuilding organisation detects conditions that frequently precede violence.
In each case, earlier perception expands the space available for prevention.
Psychic sensitivity raises the possibility that some people may sometimes perceive relevant information before the pattern becomes obvious enough for conventional recognition. If so, the peace value would not lie simply in having an extraordinary experience. It would lie in whether that information helps a person or system respond more coherently.
This produces one of the central findings of the assessment:
The peace function of future perception may be cycle interruption.
And this creates an unusual problem for how prediction is judged. If a destructive future is perceived, people respond, and the event is successfully prevented, the prediction does not occur.
Was the prediction wrong?
Possibly. But non-occurrence alone may not always answer the question if receiving the information changed the system being predicted.
For peacebuilding, this suggests that predictive accuracy and predictive usefulness may sometimes need to be considered separately. A prediction can be tested for accuracy where conditions allow, while also asking whether the information contributed constructively to prevention, resolution or repair.
Prevention, Resolution and Repair
Future perception can potentially operate at different points in the peace process.
Its clearest role is prevention. The earlier a destructive trajectory becomes visible, the more opportunities may exist to alter it before serious harm occurs.
But not all conflicts can be prevented. Sometimes the pattern has already produced rupture. In those circumstances, heightened perception may assist resolution by helping reveal dynamics that have not yet been clearly understood: an unspoken fear, an unresolved grievance, a repeating relational pattern or a deeper source of tension.
Then comes repair.
This is particularly important because future conflicts are often being generated by unresolved past ones. If historical pain remains active in present relationships, perceiving where the system is heading without addressing what is driving it may simply postpone the same conflict.
Peacebuilding therefore cannot become an endless exercise in avoiding predicted disasters. Sometimes the most effective way to change the future is to repair what the past is still producing.
This is where psychic sensitivity, pattern recognition and peace begin to interact most meaningfully. The purpose is not simply to see further ahead. It is to see enough of the whole pattern to understand where peace can enter it.
UPT Peace Scan
3D — Physical Security
At 3D, the value of earlier perception is concrete: it may increase the time available to prevent physical harm.
Violence, relapse, self-destructive behaviour, social disorder and armed conflict generally become more difficult and costly to address once they have fully materialised. Established conflict-prevention systems already recognise this through early-warning approaches.[3]
Psychic perception would only become materially useful in this context if it improved decisions, preparedness or prevention. An unusual experience is not itself a peace outcome. The relevant question is whether the information helps protect life, reduce harm or create a safer response.
This is also where verification becomes particularly important. The greater the physical consequences of acting on information, the stronger the need to distinguish perception from interpretation and to integrate psychic or intuitive information with other available evidence.
4D — Historical Trajectory
At 4D, the relationship between prediction and repetition becomes clearer.
Many futures become predictable because the past remains unresolved. Addiction cycles repeat. Families reproduce relational patterns. Communities carry inherited grievances. Political systems can return repeatedly to the same forms of escalation.
Pattern recognition can reveal these cycles because history leaves traces.
Field sensitivity may sometimes register the emotional or relational residue of those histories before they are explicitly discussed. Mediumistic experience, within UPT, may also involve perceived information associated with relational or ancestral continuity.[7]
The peace opportunity at 4D is therefore not simply to predict repetition but to interrupt it. If the past is helping produce the future, repair becomes a form of future intervention.
5D — Sovereignty & Relationships
At 5D, future perception introduces significant responsibility.
Telling another person what will happen to them can influence their choices, fears and identity. A prediction can increase awareness, but it can also create dependency on the person providing it. It can widen agency or narrow it.
This is particularly important in psychic and mediumistic work because information may be received in situations of grief, vulnerability, uncertainty or emotional distress.
A peaceful approach therefore preserves sovereignty. The person receiving information remains the participant in their own life rather than becoming subject to another person’s certainty about their future.
This does not require psychic information to be weakened or dismissed. It requires it to be held responsibly. “This is what I am perceiving” leaves room for discernment. “This must happen” removes it.
6D — Competing Interpretations
At 6D, the same experience may be interpreted very differently.
One person may call an experience psychic knowing. Another may describe intuition. Another may attribute it to unconscious pattern recognition. A medium may understand the information as communication. A researcher may investigate whether an anomalous anticipatory effect can be measured without making a claim about its source.
The Peace Lab does not need to resolve all of these interpretations in order to examine their effects.
What matters is whether interpretation increases or decreases coherence. Does it invite curiosity and testing, or demand unquestioning belief? Does it preserve agency or create fatalism? Does it help people understand what is happening, or make the situation more frightening and confused?
The most stable position is neither automatic dismissal nor automatic certainty. It is disciplined openness: taking information seriously enough to examine it without assuming that every interpretation attached to it must therefore be correct.
7D — System Coherence
At 7D, the question expands from individual perception to the behaviour of the wider system.
Human groups are constantly sensing futures together. Communities recognise emerging social patterns. Researchers identify risks. Artists and writers express changes that may not yet have entered institutional language. Social movements organise around futures they believe are possible. Populations can collectively sense instability, opportunity, danger or transition.
Some of this is ordinary information exchange and collective pattern recognition. Some may involve shared emotional or relational sensitivity. UPT also allows us to ask whether collective consciousness can become sensitive to emerging possibilities within the wider field.
This is where future perception begins to interact with future creation.
A future enters collective awareness. People respond to it. Their response changes behaviour. Behaviour changes relationships and institutions. Those changes alter the conditions from which the future is emerging.
The system is no longer merely observing its future.
It is participating in it.
Collective Future Perception
The move from individual to collective perception significantly expands the peace implications.
A counsellor can recognise an emerging pattern in one person’s life. A community can recognise a pattern occurring across hundreds or thousands of lives. Peacebuilders can recognise conditions that repeatedly precede violence. Societies can become aware that particular economic, political, environmental or relational conditions are pushing them towards instability.
Collective pattern recognition already plays an important role in early warning. But collective field sensitivity raises another question: can groups become increasingly sensitive not only to measurable indicators but to shifts in trust, belonging, fear, hope and social connection before those changes become obvious through conventional measures?
And beyond that lies the more expansive question of collective psychic perception. History contains many accounts of shared visions, prophetic traditions and communities orienting themselves around perceived futures. The evidential basis varies widely, so these phenomena should not be treated as automatically equivalent. Nevertheless, from within UPT they raise a legitimate question about whether expanded perception can sometimes operate collectively as well as individually.
What matters for peace is how collective perceptions are held.
Collective fear can organise behaviour around threat. If enough people become convinced that violence is inevitable, they may begin preparing relationally, politically and materially for violence. Distrust increases, defensive actions provoke defensive responses elsewhere, and the feared trajectory can become easier to produce.
But collective perception can also mobilise prevention. A society can recognise where it is heading and decide that it does not want to continue.
This is where psychic prediction becomes part of a much larger peace question. Humanity does not merely experience futures. It continually anticipates, imagines, fears, plans and acts towards them.
Our relationship with the future is already collective.
Peace as a Force of Future Creation
This leads to the deeper proposition emerging from the assessment.
Peace is usually imagined as something in the future: the condition we hope to reach once conflict has ended, relationships have healed or society has become more coherent.
UPT suggests that the relationship may also run in the other direction.
Peace changes what happens next.
A regulated person has more choices than someone acting entirely from fear. A relationship capable of forgiveness has more possible futures than one locked into retaliation. A community with strong trust can respond to crisis differently from one already fragmented. A society that can hold difference without immediately creating enemies retains pathways that disappear once polarisation hardens.
Peace therefore does not simply sit at the end of the future we are trying to create. Peace changes the range of futures available along the way.[6]
This gives psychic prediction a very different potential purpose.
The highest value of seeing a difficult future may not be proving that we saw it.
It may be helping ensure that we do not have to live it.
And the highest value of perceiving a positive future may not be waiting passively for it to arrive. It may be recognising a possibility worth strengthening through present choices, relationships and action.
Peace becomes an active force of future creation because it changes the conditions from which the future emerges.
Future Possibility and Hope
There is also a deeply human dimension to this finding.
Our relationship with the future affects our relationship with the present. When people cannot imagine meaningful positive futures, agency can contract. Contemporary psychological research has found reduced positive future thinking across several clinical groups and associations between hopelessness and reduced generation of positive future possibilities.[9]
UPT approaches this through the idea of futuricity: whether the future remains available enough for a person or system to invest in it.[10]
This does not mean psychic prediction is a treatment for depression, nor that imagining a positive future removes painful circumstances. The peace insight is simpler and more structural.
When the future feels completely closed, there is nowhere to move.
When another possibility becomes visible, movement becomes possible again.
Psychic future perception could theoretically contribute to that opening, but it could also do the opposite. A deterministic prediction of catastrophe may further narrow someone’s future. Responsible future perception therefore needs to preserve possibility rather than replacing one closed future with another.
Peace does not promise that everything will turn out as hoped.
It keeps enough of the future open for choice to remain meaningful.
Assessment of the 12 Peace Stabilisers
The 12 Peace Stabilisers show a mixed but potentially powerful picture. Psychic sensitivity itself is neither a guarantee of coherence nor a sign of fragmentation. Its peace value depends heavily on how the capacity is integrated and used.
Honesty and Open-mindedness are relatively strong when psychic practice distinguishes clearly between what was perceived, what was interpreted and what was later verified. They weaken when uncertainty is hidden or when a single interpretation becomes unquestionable. This matters because the scientific evidence around direct future perception remains incomplete even while anomalous anticipatory findings and lived reports justify continued investigation.[4]
Discipline and Responsibility are among the most important stabilisers in the entire assessment. Expanded sensitivity increases the need to decide when information should be shared, how strongly it should be stated, whether consent is present and what consequences may follow. The UPT material on mediumship is particularly clear that mature expanded perception requires discernment rather than spectacle.[7]
Love and Unity shape the purpose for which information is used. Perception used to establish superiority, dependency or fear fragments relationships. The same capacity oriented towards protection, understanding, connection and the greater good has a different systemic effect.
Forgiveness becomes especially important where a predicted future is being generated by unresolved past conflict. Repairing the old pattern can change what the old pattern continues producing. In this assessment, Forgiveness is therefore not simply an emotional virtue; it is one of the mechanisms through which a destructive trajectory can lose momentum.
Faith and Joy protect the positive future. Faith prevents the currently visible trajectory from becoming the only imaginable trajectory. Joy gives the system something worth moving towards rather than reducing future work to avoidance of catastrophe.
Willingness determines whether perception becomes action. A warning that nobody is willing to examine has little preventive value. Wholeness prevents one prediction from becoming the entire reality by keeping the wider person, relationship, history and range of possibilities in view.
Peace integrates these capacities. It allows information about the future to be held without panic, denial or compulsion. The overall diagnostic finding is therefore high potential but dependent upon stabilisation. Psychic sensitivity becomes increasingly peace-capable as increased perception is matched by increased discernment, responsibility, sovereignty and coherence.
Future Outlook
If psychic prediction continues to be understood primarily through spectacle, certainty or proof of individual ability, its contribution to peace is likely to remain limited. Predictions may fascinate, frighten or occasionally guide, but the deeper social function of future perception will remain largely unexplored.
A more coherent trajectory would shift attention from “Can you prove you saw the future?” towards “What can responsible future perception contribute?”
Pattern recognition is already used in prevention. Field sensitivity is already familiar in counselling, mediation, leadership and relationships even when different language is used to describe it. Research into anomalous anticipation continues, and mediumship is beginning to enter formal academic investigation in applied settings such as homicide research.[4][5]
If these areas continue developing, the strongest opportunity may lie not in collapsing them into one explanation but in improving our ability to distinguish, test and integrate different forms of information.
At the individual level, that could strengthen cycle interruption and repair. At the relational level, it could improve sensitivity to conflict before rupture. At the collective level, it could expand humanity’s ability to recognise destructive trajectories before they become entrenched.
The alternative trajectory is equally important. Increased sensitivity without stabilisation can increase fear, certainty, dependency and confusion. Collective prediction can amplify panic just as easily as collective foresight can strengthen prevention.
The future of psychic prediction as a peacebuilding capacity therefore depends less on whether humanity becomes better at seeing the future than on whether it becomes wiser about what to do when something about the future becomes visible.
UPT Summary
This assessment finds that psychic prediction has significant potential as an active peacebuilding capacity when it is placed within the wider context of psychic sensitivity, pattern recognition, field sensitivity and responsible future perception. These experiences should not be treated as identical. Pattern recognition draws on patterns that can be observed or learned; field sensitivity involves subtler information that may become perceptible before it is openly expressed; direct future perception concerns information experienced as relating to an event that has not yet occurred. Mediumship is related but distinct, involving perceived communication or information associated with consciousness beyond physical embodiment, although it can overlap with future perception when predictive information is received.
The central coherence opportunity is early recognition and cycle interruption. If emerging fragmentation becomes perceptible before it reaches full expression, individuals and systems gain more time for prevention, resolution and repair. The primary fragmentation risks are certainty, fatalism, fear, dependency, loss of sovereignty and acting upon perceptions without sufficient discernment or verification.
The overall peace assessment is therefore high potential, conditional on stabilisation and responsible use. Responsibility, Discipline, Honesty, Open-mindedness, Faith, Wholeness and Peace are particularly important because expanded perception increases both the opportunities and consequences associated with information.
If psychic prediction remains primarily concerned with proving extraordinary ability, its peace contribution is likely to remain marginal. If it develops towards discernment, service, early warning and responsible intervention, it could contribute to a broader architecture of anticipatory peacebuilding.
Most significantly, the assessment finds that peace has an active relationship with the future. By interrupting destructive patterns, repairing unresolved histories, strengthening relationships and preserving meaningful choice, peace changes the conditions from which future possibilities emerge.
The purpose of seeing what may be coming may not simply be to know the future. It may be to help us meet it differently—and, where possible, create a more peaceful one.
About the UPT Peace Assessment
The UPT Peace Lab applies the framework developed in Peace As A Science: Towards a Unified Peace Theory to contemporary issues, systems, conflicts and emerging phenomena. Peace Assessments investigate physical conditions, historical trajectories, relationships, interpretations and whole-system coherence before assessing the 12 Peace Stabilisers and the likely future trajectory of the system.
The UPT Peace Lab is currently in beta testing. Assessments are free to explore and test, and new assessments can be run on issues, projects and areas of interest as the methodology continues to develop.
Endnotes
1. Lightworker, M. (2026). Peace As A Science: Towards a Unified Peace Theory. See the Human Expansion Architecture discussion of psychic sensitivity, heightened pattern recognition, field sensitivity and information perceived before an event unfolds. The text also emphasises that perception of an emerging future does not necessarily mean that future is fixed.
2. Miller, W. R., & Harris, R. J. (2000). “A Simple Scale of Gorski’s Warning Signs for Relapse.” Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61(5), 759–765. The prospective study found that warning-sign scores significantly predicted subsequent slips and relapses. PubMed
3. United Nations. Priorities: Prevention. The UN’s approach to preventing violent conflict explicitly includes early warning, integrating information, dialogue, mediation and rapidly deployable peacebuilding capacity. United Nations
4. Mossbridge, J., Tressoldi, P., & Utts, J. (2012). “Predictive Physiological Anticipation Preceding Seemingly Unpredictable Stimuli: A Meta-Analysis.” Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 390. The analysis examined 26 reports and reported an unexplained anticipatory physiological effect preceding randomly selected stimuli. The findings concern anticipatory physiology and should not be read as establishing psychic prediction generally. Frontiers
5. O’Neill, L., Reynald, D., & colleagues. Research at Griffith University examining the use of mediums to support homicide investigations includes a 2024 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference presentation, a 2025 process-focused study presented to the Society for Scientific Exploration, and a 2026 article in the Australian Journal of Parapsychology. The research examines mediums’ processes and experiences and the use of mediumistic input in homicide investigations; it should not be interpreted as establishing mediumistic information as forensic evidence. Griffith University
6. Lightworker, M. (2026). Peace As A Science: Towards a Unified Peace Theory. See the discussion of timelines, coherence, optionality and forgiveness. UPT describes a timeline as the direction a system is moving based on its current patterns rather than as fate, with multiple future branches remaining possible as conditions and coherence change.
7. Lightworker, M. (2026). Peace As A Science: Towards a Unified Peace Theory. Chapter 30, “Mediumship – Beyond Body & Time Communication.” Mediumship is described as the capacity to perceive impressions, information or communication from consciousness no longer physically embodied. The chapter emphasises differentiation, discernment, consent, responsibility and the need to distinguish empathy, memory, projection, intuition and perceived communication.
8. Bennett, G. A., et al. (2005). “A Randomised Trial of Early Warning Signs Relapse Prevention Training in the Treatment of Alcohol Dependence.” The trial found significantly lower probability of heavy drinking and fewer drinking and heavy-drinking days among participants receiving early-warning relapse-prevention training, although continuous abstinence did not differ significantly. PubMed
9. Pillny, M., Edwards, C. J., MacLeod, A., & Hallford, D. (2026). “Positive and Negative Future Thinking Fluency: A Transdiagnostic Meta-Analysis of Associations with Psychopathology and Hopelessness.” Journal of Affective Disorders. The preregistered meta-analysis found reduced positive future-thinking fluency across clinical groups and an association between hopelessness and lower positive future-thinking fluency. PubMed
10. Lightworker, M. (2026). Peace As A Science: Towards a Unified Peace Theory. See the discussion of depression, futuricity and the reopening of future possibility through Peace, Wholeness, Faith and Willingness.