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There is ”a” truth in everything potentially. I don't want to conjecture about the paranormal ”mechanisms" of your topic - they are infinitely variable, unprovable & undisprovable - so they are moot.
The seemingly anticipatory events & experiences one has before a new chapter appears in one's life can be looked at and understood in many different ways. It’s like the cliche’d phrase people use ”there’s a reason this is happening/ that happened” i.e. reasons are what we come up with and we give to them.
The implication of this phrase is that an event or an experience is ”neutral” but it’s up to us whether it becomes enhanced, meaningful, meaningless or depreciated by what we invest into it or strip from it. Any little thing can be a catalyst for insight, which means every thing can be, but nothing actually is, until we project some insight.
In Buddhist terms, there’s the seen, the seer and the seeing - a tripartite relationship where all parts are involved in the phenomenon. Did the seen event ”give" insight? Why does one person gain insight from it and not the other?
This phrase is really saying that an event is-what-it-is, it can ”mean” anything according to what we bring to it, so it can be "a truth" or a ”predictor" or a ”symptom" of readiness to a new way of being, an ”opening" to the next phase, or even ”inviting" the next phase, a ”ripening" , a ”quickening”, a synchronous occurrence ...
You may say, ”but people have visions of BB or Shiva Baba, these specific visions are indicating there’s some truth
'' - well, let’s look at it in two ways.
- 1.There are many recorded cases of people ”seeing” or dreaming of a plane crash or a car accident in great detail, and then it happens as seen. The predictive mechanism is fascinating, not understood and hard to explain. the event turned out as seen. Does that make it ”a" truth, or ”the" truth? Someone says they see BB or Shiva Baba in a vision, then go to a BK centre and see the image. So, they got a glimpse into a next scene, so what?... is it different to the envisioning of the car accident? It’s wondrous enough but to invest more than that is subjective, a kind of wish-fulfillment.
2. The images in visions, or concepts, tend to be iconic, archetypical. One attractive aspect of BB’s visage is his almost archetypal father-figure (he could be many people’s grandfather, indeed my first reaction when I saw his photo was how much he looked like my paternal grandfather).
“In view of the fact that all mandalas shown here {painted by patients] were new and uninfluenced products, we are driven to the conclusion that there must be a transconscious disposition in every individual which is able to produce the same or very similar symbols at all times and in all places. Since this disposition is usually not a conscious possession of the individual I have called it the collective unconscious.” - Mandala Symbolism, C G Jung Page 100
Dad Lekhraj’s early infatuation with drawing circles and The Cycle of time is almost pathologically normal, if you get what I mean, the circle is used in many traditions as a symbol,from natural cycles right up to the simple image for zero " 0 ” and it’s inevitable symbiotic relationship with 1 and the ” . ” or iota (which actually refers to the dot above the i in the greek letter of that name) e.g. how many zeroes does it take to not change a light bulb? Just one.
You may be interested to research the field of semiotics & symbols generally, archetypal psychology specifically, or even evolutionary psychology?