Extra Sensory Perception
Have you ever had the feeling that you’ve been in an establishment before you’ve actually gone inside? Did you ever feel like you’ve known that something was about to happen before there were any signs that it was about to occur? If you’re not a skeptic about the powers of the mind, then there might just be an explanation for your seemingly coincidental premonitions. It’s a phenomenon called extra sensory perception, better known as ESP. The textbook definition of this classification of parapsychology is "sensing" anything beyond the normal.(www.paranormalatoz.com) Most scientists do not believe that this phenomenon exists. Nevertheless, controversial evidence can be used to sway the incredulous. By viewing and researching evidence of ESP and/or having a personal experience, the truth lies within the eye of the beholder. The man who said it best was C.G. Jung during a lecture given to the Society for Psychical Research in 1919. He quotes, "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." (http://moebius.psy) ESP includes telepathy, precognition or premonition, and clairvoyance or "remote viewing".(www.paranorm
The actual term extra sensory perception wasn’t used until the early 1930’s. During this time an American scientist, Joseph Banks Rhine first began his ground breaking experiments testing ESP’s validity.(Encarta) His research was conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina’s, Duke University.(Encarta) Rhine’s most well-known experiment involved a deck of twenty-five cards. On the cards, written in heavy black ink, each card had a different design on them. The designs included a star, a cross, a square, or wavy lines.(Encarta) The concealed deck of twenty-five cards was shuffled. One random card was drawn from the deck at a time and the test subject was asked to identify the hidden marking on the flip-side of the card. If the test subject correctly identified five out of twenty five cards correctly, it was considered pure chance.(Encarta) Rhine and his conventional scientists disregard the findings made in the field of parapsychology. The discoveries are labeled unscientific or at best inconclusive. However, even if the most solid evidence is found to conclude that ESP does in fact exist, there will always be the skeptical scientist who will feel that the entire basis on which parapsychology is grounded is nothing but a fraud. Though most conventional scientists continue to discredit extrasensory perception, there is some evidence that almost everyone has at least some faint ESP ability. How else could something as seemingly coincidental as "mother’s intuition" be explained? History tells us stories of ESP as well. For example, what about the enlightenment of a 12 year old girl, Jean D’Arc, who saved the nation of Since the early, ground breaking experiments of Joseph Banks Rhine, the parapsychology world has come a long way. Announcing his retirement in 1965, Joseph Banks Rhine transferred all of research to an organization called the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man. (Encarta) Since that, parapsychology has become better established in universities across the nation. Educational institutes are beginning to offer more credit courses based upon the field of parapsychology. (Encarta)
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