MORE EERIE PRESCIENCE: From USA Today:

Streisand is no psychic, but she long sensed a coming catastrophe, and that apprehension may have cultivated the album's spiritual tone and quest for harmony ... ''I can't explain it, but I had a feeling something was coming,'' Streisand, 59, says by phone from her home in Malibu, Calif. "And then, oh, my God, it's here, this nightmare, this horror. I was overwhelmed..."

Yes, Barbra. What do you expect? You're 59! You sense death approaching! Just like everyone else. Get over yourself.