Well would you look at this, a thought on the films instead of the TV show?!
I just watched Episode I to get the sour taste of The Holiday Special out of me. Not quite there yet though *pops Episode II into his DVD Player*
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Ok, the topic of Qui-Gon meditating shortly before his death has been overanalyzed to death. The debate is usually between "He foresaw his death, and "He was just meditating"

It usually ends there. (With both sides simply saying either "He totally saw it coming" or "No way" along with a few wild Expanded Universe theories, Battle Meditation etc.) ...And then ends up on the most popular blogs front page, but that's a different issue...

I'd like to discuss it a level past that though. I used to be of the opinion he was simply centering himself. That brings up the issue though:

Why didn't he run back to get help from Obi-Wan? Instead of just pressing the assault alone.

He surely was smart enough to realize that was the more appropriate course of action (and lets ignore the question of why Obi-Wan didn't use Force Run to reach Qui-Gon). So let's assume he did foresee something. How much did he actually see? If he saw his death alone why wouldn't he do the very same thing? Try to avoid it by running to Obi-Wan.

One possibility is he foresaw Obi-Wan's death at the hands of Maul and pressed his own attack with Obi-Wan's help in order to try to avoid that outcome.

Another answer purposed by some is that he foresaw everything, reaching oneness with the force before death. This is simultaneously the most likely and unlikely. Ignoring the fact that we have no evidence of a Jedi achieving oneness prior to actually dying, why wouldn't he try to kill Maul with Obi-Wan, then reveal Palpatine's true intentions (or at least keep an eye on him), saving the Jedi Order? This makes it seem highly unlikely, but if he foresaw even past the moment and the eventual reestablishment of the Jedi through Luke he may have wished events to play out this way.
This is not highly improbable! Qui-Gon was openly defiant of the Jedi Council and perhaps even the code. It's not unlikely he foresaw the Jedi Order collapsing regardless of what Palpatine did, under its own designs.

A final possibility is that he foresaw himself failing to train Anakin properly and simply "rolled the dice" passing Anakin's fate to someone else that he couldn't foresee in life. It was simply beyond his control that it turn out so well after that anyway

Regardless it is my conclusion that Qui-Gon DID foresee something, even if it wasn't specifically his death. Otherwise why wouldn't he have run back to join up with Obi-Wan? He couldn't have been so overconfident as to ignore his greatest ally? Could he have?

I suppose he could have just thought Obi-Wan was smart enough to Force Run and catch up
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