---
id: sfoc-states-precognition
title: "Precognition"
primary_class: states
primary_domain: mind-consciousness
secondary_domains: [time-causality, body-evolution]
material_modes: [experiential-report, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Precognition

> **the precognition inner witness.** Precognition offers an instrument for reading the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes.

## Origin

Precognition has no single timeless beginning in this record. It is approached through phenomenology, context, care, and multiple possible explanations, then followed into later reinterpretation. Because the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation, provenance work must describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes.

## What It Is

Precognition offers an instrument for reading the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes. In the Oracle it is classified as States & Experiences, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Precognition did not keep one meaning while its setting changed. Its reception shows how an intense experience can deepen agency or become captive to one total explanation. At collective scale, the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality; this matters because an intense experience can deepen agency or become captive to one total explanation.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** experiential-report
- **Evidence state:** experiential-only
- **Summary:** Precognition has an experiential-only literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** experiential-report, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** Precognition has a class-level contextual source but still lacks a concept-specific external source in this release. Its cultural history is an editorial research lead, not a completed provenance claim.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Precognition as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Precognition offers an instrument for reading the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes.
- **Archetype:** the precognition inner witness
- **Gift:** connect individual perception with the wider conditions expressed by the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness.
- **Shadow:** using technical or sacred language to conceal ordinary power and dependency.
- **Guidance:** Bring in the missing witness to Precognition through attention, perception, interior experience, and the models used to explain awareness. Record whose knowledge, labor, risk, or refusal the current map omits while the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation. Use this guidance where the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation; keep visible that an intense experience can deepen agency or become captive to one total explanation.
- **Healing / integration:** Draft a consent protocol for engaging Precognition: scope, information, refusal, review, revocation, and care after participation. Review the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness through attention, perception, interior experience, and the models used to explain awareness, remembering that the card changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Question:** Which part of Precognition is observation, inherited story, active claim, or chosen symbol? Answer by testing how the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation against attention, perception, interior experience, and the models used to explain awareness.

## Meanings

### Psychological

The card may surface when a person needs language for the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness. Useful language increases agency; harmful language makes every experience confirm itself. A grounded check for the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness is to describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes, especially where the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.

### Social

Socially, Precognition affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality. The key question is whose account becomes legible and who can contest the arrangement. In shared life, the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality. Test that specific the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness pattern by asking people to describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes.

### Spiritual

A spiritual reading of Precognition measures fruit rather than spectacle. Does it deepen compassion, courage, discernment, reciprocity, and grounded agency? In symbolic practice, the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness can be interpreted as opening, ordeal, initiation, illusion, or integration; keep in view that an intense experience can deepen agency or become captive to one total explanation.

### Technological

Precognition invites a full-stack reading from source material to interface and decommissioning. Hidden labor is part of the mechanism. When the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness becomes a capability, it may be measured, induced, mediated, recorded, or misclassified by tools. Verify the implementation of the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness by asking participants to describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes.

### Political

The political stakes of Precognition appear where an intense experience can deepen agency or become captive to one total explanation. Legitimacy requires more than effective control. When the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness becomes governance, it raises questions about credibility, autonomy, accommodation, and coercive interpretation. Make authority over the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness answerable by requiring decision-makers to describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** In its generative position, Precognition offers connect individual perception with the wider conditions expressed by the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness. Let that capacity widen the map before selecting an action. The capacity within the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness is strongest when the experience is honored while causal certainty remains proportionate to evidence, even as the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Shadow state:** Precognition may be concentrating hidden costs in people who did not choose the promise. Follow burden before celebrating capability. To keep the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness from escalating, describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes, because the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Threshold state:** This is a signal to examine the keeper, witness, outsider, beneficiary, and cost hidden inside Precognition, especially around attention, perception, interior experience, and the models used to explain awareness. Operationally, the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation; the reader should describe the experience before choosing among neurological, psychological, social, or metaphysical causes.
- **Practical move:** Draft a consent protocol for engaging Precognition: scope, information, refusal, review, revocation, and care after participation. Review the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness through attention, perception, interior experience, and the models used to explain awareness, remembering that the card changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.

## Game and Story Function

- condition
- perception-filter
- consequence

**Story seed:** Introduce Precognition when the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness offers a real advantage but transfers an unseen cost. The protagonist must decide which witness can revise the plan. The world of the story must show how the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation and why an intense experience can deepen agency or become captive to one total explanation.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-states-existential-dread--sfoc-states-precognition
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-programs-project-stargate--sfoc-states-precognition
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-precognition--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-states-posthuman-condition--sfoc-states-precognition
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-states-precognition--sfoc-states-prophetic-dream
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-post-biological-universe--sfoc-states-precognition
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-events-missing-time--sfoc-states-precognition
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-hypotheses-future-human-hypothesis--sfoc-states-precognition

## Visual Direction

Precognition visualized as the precognition motif placed within mind & consciousness: a layered interior halo expressing a condition without diagnosing or literalizing a person. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

Flags: lived-experience-without-causal-certification. Invite reflection and source comparison; do not diagnose, recruit, threaten, harass, or certify extraordinary claims.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: iep-jung, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Precognition? Which communities use Precognition differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Precognition?
