Extrasensory perception

To the uninitiated student, the task of postulating a suitable mechanism for a complex chemical reaction often seems to be an exercise in extrasensory perception. Even students who have had some exposure to kinetics often cannot understand how the kineticist can write down a series of elementary reactions and avow that the mechanism is reasonable. Nonetheless, there is a set of guidelines within which the kineticist works in postulating a mechanism. Since these... 

If your answer to any of these questions is yes, you already understand our natural tendency to dissociate—to be in one conscious state but to experience in it properties of another. I will show that when amplified this normal process can lead to such exceptional states as sleep walking and hypnopompic hallucinations, and that these exceptional states can become models for understanding out of body experiences, extrasensory perceptions, or alien abductions All of these exotic experiences can— and usually do—occur in the privacy and safety of our bedrooms. 

Clairvoyance (from the French clair and voyance, clear seeing) is defined as the extrasensory perception of objects or events without the presence or knowledge of such objects or events in another person s mind as an intervening factor. Clairvoyance is a direct perception of external reality without any known physical energy or sensory receptor conveying the information. 

In May 1976, I was asked to teach a two-day workshop on consciousness and extrasensory perception for the professional staff of the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute. By that time, I was quite excited about the possibilities of adapting the remoteviewing paradigm to group settings, both because of our own initial results and because of a study that Arthur Hastings and David Hurt [SB] had done. 

Rhine, J. B. Extrasensory Perception. Boston Bruce Humphries,... 

Our experiences led to further questions Is consciousness confined to this physical body and its very limited senses Are there other, "extra" senses We know that a dog can hear sounds pitched too high for the human ear, and I know that many people can hear sounds that are inaudible to me. May it not be that there are some who are sensitive to entirely different types of frequencies that are unrecognized by most of us, and who may have "extrasensory perception" (ESP) ... 

Studies of Extrasensory Perception. New York Dutton, in press. 

Scientism s attitude toward prayer is not based on what I would describe as extensive and high-quality scientific research on its effects. Indeed, there has been almost no research at all on prayer (if we don t count research on extrasensory perception or psychokinesis). A genuinely scientific attitude toward prayer would be to admit that factually we know almost nothing about it, and that dogmatic and a priori rejection of the possibility that prayer has effects beyond the psychological is not good science. 

In the upper part of the centre section is a native Cocama who exercises his powers of traditional medicine. Below him is a guru, a master of sublime extrasensory perception in the temples of Krishna, purifying his soul with transcendental meditation of the sixth sense. Next to the Cocama is a nymph of knowledge with her horn trumpets who teaches how t( sing the icaros with exactitude. 

Whether you call it extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, a sixth sense, or plain old intuition, psychic ability isn t as rare as you might think. Here s how to find it ... 

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