The Arlington Institute, a non-profit think tank specialising in predictive modelling of future events, hopes to utilise paranormal powers to provide an early warning of impending disasters or other critical events, such as acts of terrorism. British psychic Chris Robinson (right), who claims to see the future in dreams, is working with the Institute on the project. The Arlington Institute (TAI), which was founded nearly 20 years ago by futurist John L. Petersen, has identified why previous attempts to harness psychic powers through premonition bureaux were unsuccessful. They were not equipped with a system of processing reports of dreams and predictions automatically, which meant “the ability to effectively analyse the input was severely limited”. Present technology, it adds, overcomes these shortcomings. It can also give feedback to those submitting narratives, maintaining their interest in the process. So, for the first time, it has evolved a scheme – called the WHETHEReport – which it describes as an unprecedented early-warning system. The Internet will play a key role. A web portal will be used to collect anonymous “narratives of significant intuitions of all forms, including dreams, visions [and] overwhelming feelings”. An announcement of this “revolutionary new global strategic early warning capability” explains: “TAI has constructed a plan for a new, unconventional anticipatory analysis tool which offers humanity an unprecedented potential to anticipate surprise events. WHETHEReport will function as a global sensing and analysis network – using aggregate human intuition as its intelligence source.”This plan, it adds, is based on the following assumption:“The ability to image fragments of the future (particularly in dreams) seems to appear both generally in broad populations of people and specifically and more accurately in specialindividuals.” Those individuals, it points out, have been used by law enforcement and intelligence communities.
. It adds: “The most notable perhaps is Christopher Robinson of the UK, who for 15 years worked very successfully for Scotland Yard and other British intelligence and security services.
anticipating IRA bombings, drug movements, etc.” Chris Robinson has confirmed to www.ParanormalReview.com that he is currently in the US and assisting the TAI, but is not at liberty to discuss who he is working with or what they are doing. TAI quotes Prof Gary Schwartz’s research with Chris Robinson at the University of Arizona’s Human Energy Systems Laboratory, which is reported in Schwartz’s book The G.O.D. Experiments, among its references to earlier positive research into precognition and dreams.
The institute will attempt to isolate three basic characteristics of impending events: type, location and timing. It will then indicate the status of various events on a world map and hopefully draw conclusions from the clustering and intensity of dreams around given themes and locations. It won’t be all doom and gloom, however, because TAI promises the web portal will be bright and appealing, relating to popular events like sports and awards that lend themselves to “prediction”. It expects the two-year development and operation of WHETHEReport will cost about US$3.5 million (£1.8 million) and is actively looking for partners to make it “a near-term reality”. TAI’s justification for such expense is that “catastrophic surprise events occur on a regular basis and are likely to increase in number, costing tens of thousands of lives a year and untold billions of dollars”.
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The Arlington Institute, a non-profit think tank specialising in predictive modelling of future events, hopes to utilise paranormal powers to provide an early warning of impending disasters or other critical events, such as acts of terrorism. British psychic Chris Robinson (right), who claims to see the future in dreams, is working with the Institute on the project. The Arlington Institute (TAI), which was founded nearly 20 years ago by futurist John L. Petersen, has identified why previous attempts to harness psychic powers through premonition bureaux were unsuccessful. They were not equipped with a system of processing reports of dreams and predictions automatically, which meant “the ability to effectively analyse the input was severely limited”. Present technology, it adds, overcomes these shortcomings. It can also give feedback to those submitting narratives, maintaining their interest in the process. So, for the first time, it has evolved a scheme – called the WHETHEReport – which it describes as an unprecedented early-warning system. The Internet will play a key role. A web portal will be used to collect anonymous “narratives of significant intuitions of all forms, including dreams, visions [and] overwhelming feelings”. An announcement of this “revolutionary new global strategic early warning capability” explains: “TAI has constructed a plan for a new, unconventional anticipatory analysis tool which offers humanity an unprecedented potential to anticipate surprise events. WHETHEReport will function as a global sensing and analysis network – using aggregate human intuition as its intelligence source.”This plan, it adds, is based on the following assumption:“The ability to image fragments of the future (particularly in dreams) seems to appear both generally in broad populations of people and specifically and more accurately in specialindividuals.” Those individuals, it points out, have been used by law enforcement and intelligence communities. 
