FAQ OF PRACTICING THE TAO

21. Is it true that we can predict the future?

Sure we can. Even animals such as dogs, cats, birds and insects are able to feel the upcoming of the earthquake, it’s much more easier for human being. Human have more powerful capabilities and spirituality than animals, but why such kind of capability is weaker than that of the animals? It is not because human’s functionality has degenerated, but because we are covered by desires for materials.

Although animals can’t create the material civilization, they are not obsessed by material. The animals only eat and sleep which is harmonious with nature. Human nevertheless have the ability to invent and create, but at the same time are obsessed by materials. With material civilization been continuously enriched, human desires are getting more and more inflated. Human nature was covered by obstinacy and desires. This is called “to grasp the shadow let go the substance”.

From the discussion above, we can understand why dignitaries and grandees are courteous to ask for advices from woodsman, and why autochthons have stronger ability of presentiment than "civilized" people who received special training.

For further proof, when one’s relative is in dangerous afar off, even normal person will have unusual reactions, such as dreaming, depression, pain, anxiety and so on, this telepathy is neither a specific function, nor a magic, but the instinct of human’s mind. This kind of spiritual power is not achievable by any external methods.

By Orient Dawn
Date: Year 2001.2