Extra-Sensory Perception
Just what is parapsychology? This question is often asked and the reply given is very obscure. Parapsychology is often defined as the science of the unexplainable. Extra sensory perception falls into this science and is branched off into different, but specific groups. These groups define extra sensory perception as the ability to pick up information or manipulate things that normally can't happen in everyday life. Many people have claimed an ability of extra sensory perception, and many of their arguments are very effective, but there are many skeptics that claim that it is utterly bogus and cannot be reproduced under controlled situations. It has many believers and non-believers, but it is a often explored subject that interests people of all ages. Parapsychology is one of the most interesting of all sciences. "Most sciences try to explain observable phenomena, parapsychology tries to observe unexplainable phenomena." (http://wheel.ucdavis.edu) This science is widespread throughout the world and pops up in many different cultures. "Scientific methodology in this field dates from the foundation in London of the Society for Psychical Research (1882) which sought to distinguish psychic phenomena from spiritism and to investigat
Thomas, John A. "Extra-Sensory Perception Fact Sheet", Internet. Clairvoyance is the power to perceive things that are out of the natural range of human senses. Precognition, psychic knowing of future events, is usually associated with clairvoyance. It is a very sketchy subject and people often get confused when they think about what clairvoyance really is. "..You'd be using telepathy if you correctly called a Zener card your sender was concentrating on, but if you could correctly name the next card... that would be clairvoyance." This separation alone helps people understand the difference between telepathy and clairvoyance, since they are so closely related. "At the beginning of every new year, clairvoyants make predictions based upon their alleged supernatural power of perception which allows them to see the future." (http://wheel.ucdavis.edu) These predictions made all of the time and there are many occurrences in which their prophecies come true, but there is a majority of attempts to foresee the future that have failed. "A subset of ESP covering apparent information transmission as though it were the result of visual perception."(Koestler) The perception can appear externally either replacing the normal visual scene, as in visions, or being incorporated into it, or internally, in the form of mental imagery and intuition. "One of the more common appeals as proof of clairvoyance is the dream come true." (http://wheel.ucdavis.edu) Many people have experienced this phenomena and seem to feel that is a direct result of their clairvoyant abilities. "Some predictions come true not because of psychic powers which allow a person to look into the future but because of natural powers which help a person anticipate and predict the future based upon past experience and current knowledge." (http://wheel.ucdavis.edu) People sometime make claim to their clairvoyance, but some of their claims can be easily argued. A person that has a dog may bring a friend over and know that the dog is going to bark when it sees the friend, even though the dog hasn't yet barked, but due to past experience, they can accurately guess towards a future event and see the dog bark. Koestler Parapsychology Unit; Internet, available : http://129.215.50.44/index.html.
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