People have always loved mysticism. Moreover, some inexplicable phenomena amaze even avid rationalists. Think of a wonderful pair of federal agents - Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. After all, they personified faith and unbelief, irrational and rational. And the latter sometimes gave in to the facts. The word “prophetic” is considered in the article. This is the case when many people agree and acknowledge the phenomena behind this definition.
Origin
Since the word is outdated, or rather, makes a similar impression, it will be interesting to look at its roots. Let's open the etymological dictionary.
The word comes from the same basis as the message. The latter is formed from the basis of vd- (vdti - to know). He also has relatives in the form of “veche” and “broadcast”. By the way, note that broadcasting is speaking, now many people use these two words as synonyms. And broadcasting involves a certain knowledge. It seems that a lesson can be learned from this: if a person does not know, then it is better for him to be silent.
By the way, a witch also goes somewhere near this meaning (quotes are removed so that the sentence can be interpreted in two ways). Because the word "witch" is formed from the verb "know." Initially, as M.N. Zadornov said quite rightly at the time, the witch was a good characteristic, the healers were called so. Then the meaning is distorted.
Value
Not all obsolete words belong to high style, but in this case we were lucky. And this is not our speculation, but information from the explanatory dictionary. Let us turn to him for complete reference: the prophetic is “foreseeing the future, prophetic”.
And combining the data of two dictionaries, we can say the following: “prophetic” refers to predictions and messages containing certain knowledge. Moreover, this knowledge, as a rule, cannot be calculated. Predicts, let’s say, the medium fate of man and everything will come true. But there are no rational reasons for this and cannot be. Of course, we could explain why sometimes forecasts work flawlessly, but now another topic. True, in short, everything rests on the belief of man himself in prediction, that’s all.
Prophetic dreams. Where does such knowledge come from?
You can not consider the meaning of the word "prophetic" and at the same time not talk about prophetic dreams. The topic is inexhaustible. However, only two points are important:
- firstly, the deja vu phenomenon,
- secondly, the phenomenon of predicting the death of another person in a dream.
Both phenomena, by the way, explain how these are prophetic dreams. For many, it happened that a person is in a certain situation and then he is visited by an insight or understanding that he has already been here, he already said that. This is called deja vu. There is a version that the tired brain is to blame for everything, which is belatedly aware of the surrounding reality. But this happens even when a person is alert and full of energy. Sometimes in a dream we see what happens to us a year or two after, which is why deja vu happens. However, this is also a hypothesis.
But the word "prophetic" is sometimes something that scares. Because a person often sees bad dreams that come true. Examples can pick up a lot, but more often it’s someone’s death. A logical question arises: how can we know this? A huge reservoir of meanings is built into us - the subconscious. Everything that does not fix the consciousness flocks into this mystical space, and then in a dream, when the power of consciousness weakens, the subconscious mind shares with us its observations, sometimes they hit precisely on purpose.
Prophetic - it is almost always interesting. The article only opens the door to the mysterious world of the human psyche, and whoever wants to can continue the search on their own.