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Extra Sensory Perception -ESP

 

 

 

Introduction

 

 

Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the alleged ability to obtain information by paranormal means, independent of any known physical senses or deduction from previous experiences.

Many of Us have come across situations such As when and Where we get the intuition, A gut instinct as some like to call it about what will happen in the immediate future.

Technically what we obtain as a “vision of the future”

Is called, The Phenomenal Ability of extra-sensory perception (Hereby Referred to as ESP.)

 

We Use our five senses namely, Sense of Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight (Vision), Hearing (Auditory) Senses.

However in ESP We do not use any of our five senses mentioned above

 

ESP is also known as the “sixth sense”, Literally meaning Awareness Experienced outside the five physical senses.

 

ESP gives us information that are normally not conveyed by our five physical senses.

 

Experiments Conducted In This Field

 

 

Usually Zener Cards are used to conduct these experiments. These Cards are similar in physical structure and have different symbols on them like a star, a cross, Curvy lines, A circle, a square, etc.

 

Experiments are carried out in this subject exhaustively, Though they are confined to these four areas, namely

 

1) Telepathy

 

2) Clairvoyance

 

3) Precognition

 

4) Psychokinesis

 

 

 

 

Telepathy Experiments

 

 

In such experiments, A person tries to read the mind of the one conducting the experiment, By guessing the nature of the Zener cards the person is holding

 

It involves the sending of thoughts, Knowledge or other similar characteristics, without any apparent medium

It is often called transference

 

Clairvoyance Experiments

 

 

In such situations, a person is mentally aware of an object that is visually unreachable.

Eg. an event or a person

 

In the exp. A person tries to identify the Zener cards, through various methods without visual help(or without seeing them)

When the number of correct guesses is higher than the average person achieves, that person has ESP.

 

Precognition Experiments

 

 

The Experiments conducted with help of the Telepathy or Clairvoyance abilities to correctly predict the sequence of events before they actually occur.

 

Eg. Guessing the values obtained in the sequence when a die is thrown

 

Psychokineisis Experiments.

 

In such experiments a person tries to control an external physical object by concentrating on it,

Eg. A person may toss a coin and concentrate to cause “heads” to appear

 

 

 

 

The Current Status of ESP and Parapsychological Research

 

 

Among scientists in the National Academy of Sciences, 96% described themselves as "skeptical" of ESP, although 2% believed in ESP and 10% felt that parapsychological research should be encouraged.

 

There are immense Possibilities in this Field, If it can be harnessed successfully.

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Are you looking for anecdotal evidense? When I worked shift work I would often call my wife from work, when I went to the phone (it was located in a place open to everyone) it would often ring just as I reached to pick it up and it would be my wife calling me. This happened quite often and I never called at a predetermined time. Since almost a hundred people used this phone as or more often than I did it seemed to be more than a coincedence.

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