Retrocognition,
also called postcognition, is the supposed ability to know
something about a situation after its occurrence through psychic
means. Retrocongition often involves ability to know the past
(sometimes including distant past) of oneself and others,
without direct observation of events. Psychometry and past
life regression can both be considered kinds of retrocognition.
The word means past sense perception, and is usually a relatively
minor set of circumstances. These are specific usually to
unknown individuals, or those whose names are not given by
the visions involved in psychic transfer. The understanding,
as it is, comes spontaneously and usually through the stress
or emotions involved in a set of circumstances that is specific
to you, which may or may not include other individuals. They
usually are unaware of such ideas: they are seen only in the
eyes of the beholder. However, as with all purported psychic
phenomena, the details of the experience are highly subjective
to each individual.
Retrocognition is the art of seeing or sensing the past. Retrocognition
occurs at spontaneous times, but very uncommonly during the
course of daily life, dreams, and parapsychology experiments.
Retrocognition has been claimed to be accomplished deliberately
by psychics who seek access to the past events that have occurred
to obtain information or gain an insight to a certain situation.
It is difficult to test because of the possibility of clairvoyance
existing in historical records. Spontaneous psychic Retrocognition
usually takes on the form of a vision or hallucination, and
the surrounding scenes are replaced by surroundings of the
past, but only for a short. They sometimes feature sounds
and smells from the past. Retrocognition is a psychic phenomenon
of haunting and apparitions that are replays that seem to
be continual events such as murders or suicides.
Psychologist Gardner Murphy came up with the theory that most
ghosts are cases of retrocognition in which an individual
becomes momentarily displaced in time and can actually perceive
scenes from the past.
