Psychic test ? Nostradamus had psychic ability
I am convinced that Nostradamus had psychic test ability but I am unconvinced that he was accurate with most of his predictions. Nostradamus was able to name Pasteur by name as well as predict a fire in London in 1666. His most impressive prediction I believe was referring to Franco and Rivera in “Castille” by name – two opposing leaders in the Spanish Revolutionary wars in the 1930s.
If anyone, anywhere was ever able to correctly predict the future then that is a fact of enormous philosophical importance. If anything in the future has been foreseen with true psychic ability, then it seems clear that everything has to be destined from the very beginning. In turn, this means that all our notions of free will, self-determination and the like are largely illusory.
Consider Nostradamus: how many people do you know who are ever going to try to sit down and predict the future hundreds of years from the present? It’s not something a normal person is likely to attempt unless they genuinely feel premonitions of the future. I do not see how a person making predictions accurately including specific names can be considered mere luck. But forget Nostradamus and just look at any purported psychic through history, such as Edgar Cayce. If any of them had true psychic ability then that is enormously significant, no matter how often their predictions might have misfired.
Of course, one important question in this whole matter is where the prediction comes from. I think to really analyze psychic powers; we need to also consider what the source of the prediction may