SONG LYRICS AND ALBUM COVERS
It is inevitable when some great tragedy strikes that by coincidence a previously created work of art, fiction or music will be seen as a foretelling. One of the most famous examples of this was a short story called "Futility" by Morgan Robertson that eerily foretold the sinking of the Titanic. In the story, written 12 years before the Titanic disaster, Robertson wrote of a ship called the Titan that met its fate by striking an iceberg on its starboard side and sinking. In size and capacity, along with many other parallels, the Titan's resemblance to Titanic is uncanny.
Similarly, song lyrics and an album cover have been cited as being predictive of the WTC attack. A song called "Mesias" (Messiah), written and performed by Guatemalan pop artist Ricardo Arjona, contains lyrics that have some interesting similarities to the WTC case:
The Messiah was born in New York
He drives an armored car out of precaution
The Pope fears some massive loss. ...
[The Messiah] is preparing a blow, and no one knows the date. ...
He has an associate in Japan, another in Afghanistan
He speaks with God daily through the Internet
He promotes change and he's made enemies.The Church accuses him of heresy
And the Pentagon [accuses him] of [being a] terrorist. ...
It's on the front page of the New York Times
And a cloud of doubt casts a shadow on the sun.
An album cover that was planned for an upcoming release by the hip hop group The Coup is far more disturbingly accurate. The cover art for the album "Party Music," created a few months before the attack, depicts two members of the group posed in front of the World Trade Center's twin towers, which are exploding. The fire and smoke billowing from the buildings in the artwork are startlingly similar to the photos and video taken shortly after the second terrorist-controlled plane struck the towers. The coincidence - or foreshadowing - is astonishing. The label, 75 Ark, has decided not to use the artwork on the album cover.
FIFTH GRADER'S VISION
Another disturbing prediction came from the mouth of a fifth grade student in a Dallas suburb. On September 10, the before the attack, the boy, whose name was kept confidential because of his age, made an incredible, unexpected statement to his teacher. The boy said that World War III would begin the next day. "It will begin in the United States," he said, "and the United States will lose." On the day of the attack and the following day, the boy was absent from school. After the attack took place, school officials notified the FBI of the boy's statements, although the boy and his family are not suspected of having any special advance knowledge of the events.
What prompted the boy to make such a declaration to his teacher? Was it just a coincidental child's fantasy? Or did he have a special vision of the terrorist act? Thankfully, the attack was not an advent to a third world war.
VALERIE CLARKE'S AMAZING PREDICTION
Where were the psychics with regard to the WTC tragedy? Perhaps she was in the UK. Valerie Clarke, a psychic from Lancashire, UK appeared on the BBC's Kilroy Show in June, 2000. On that program, which was recorded, Clarke told host Robert Kilroy Silk that she had received a vision of a massive explosion caused by an aircraft crashing into the second tower of the World Trade Center. She told the BBC TV audience:
I had this dream awhile ago and I thought it was a bombing at the World Trade Center. In my dream I was at the World Trade Center wandering the streets - I was in some sort of barricade when the building blew up. At the same time this plane went down behind it. In my dream I was not sure if the plane had gone into the building.
Clarke's nightmare will undoubtedly be regarded as the most accurate psychic premonition of the devastating WTC attack.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER PSYCHICS
Why did all of the other well-known psychics - those we know from their frequent television appearances and websites - fail to foresee the events of that awful day? Does their failure mean they do not truly have psychic powers? Perhaps not. Whether they are really psychic or not may be open to argument, but failure to predict doesn't necessarily mean they are fakes. A psychic cannot be expected to be able to predict any given future event, no matter how significant it might be. The nature of such gifts, which we do not fully understand, itself seems to be unpredictable.
