Prospection
The wondrous ability to simulate your future pathways
Prospection, only a thing in psychology since 2010, involves the mental representation, simulation, and evaluation of possible future events and states, encompassing activities such as planning, prediction, intention formation, and hypothetical scenario construction.
I.e. it's imagining a future pathway and simulating it in time and space. I am not sure how the shamanic community feels about this but it might be the same thing as journeying.
I recently came across this concept of prospection whilst voice chatting with one of the popular AI bots, and it struck me this wasn't a thing yet, as I seem to do it rather frequently. The process can be divided into multiple vectors addressing: social, intellectual, navigational and the mnemonical. But that's all theory.
To give an example, I'm at a turning point in my life in which I'm deciding what to do, whether I'm going to move to a new place, figuring out what kind of job I'd like to do and I explore these areas through imagination.
What I do is I just travel to my prospective places and just see what happens. What I've noticed is that in some places I get no interactions and it's a stale experience. In others I'm being actively blocked by people/entities and they converse with me in ways that either feel negative or I lack the language to parry/counter them. And yet in other prospective pathways the doors are opening, people are warm and welcoming, pulling me further in.
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In one way it's a great technique to pre-emptively explore scenarios, but I feel I'm also accessing a greater intelligence that is actively foreshadowing a negative or auspicious outcome if I would physically travel to those directions. As if I can pre-cognitively sense conflict arising on a particular pathway with its guardians blocking me, throwing up obstacles and locking all the doors.
Science doesn't really like these teleological experiments because they can't be tested and verified. Ah well. Science hasn't really been a great tool anyway to be used for the grand life decisions or with any subjective situation to begin with. For your personal life, usually n = 1, and that's not much to draw on.
But for the intuitive folks out there, 1 is all that counts.
Grand simulations to you!
Bye
P.S.: As all is bell curve out there, some people are likely able to use this technique more extensively than others. Hence, I want to furthermore again acknowledge that, even though science hasn't figured this one out yet, one should feel highly encouraged to actively use simulating future pathways for one's own benefit. I frankly haven't heard anyone speaking about it. So if you heard it here first, bless you, and don't hold back.
And apparently behavioral science reduced you to be fully determined by the past up until 2010… So, be trendy, and travel the timelines in these boring 20s.
