Extra Sensory Perception

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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.paranormalatoz.com) Telepathy is the direct response to another individual's thoughts.(Schmeidler,805) Premonition is a direct response to a future event.(Schmeidler,805) Clairvoyance is the direct response to a future event.(Schmeidler,805) These types of ESP and other forms of parapsychology were not even studied until 1882.(Schmeidler,806) In 1882, the Society for Psychical Research was established in London , England by a extraordinary group of Cambridge scholars. Its purpose was to examine allegedly paranormal phenomena in a scientific and unbiased wa...

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...battle. Despite this, soon enough, through continuous research and testing of parapsychology, the evidence that currently exists will be proven valid and these inquiries and many others concerning the unknown will be answered. The real question is, can anyone predict when?

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Microsoft Encarta 1997 Encyclopedia. "Physical Research". Ó1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. Rubnstein, Joseph and Slife, Brent D. "Has Science Discredited ESP?". Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Psychological Issues. 3rd edition. The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc. Sluice Dock, Guilford, CT. 1984. pp.46-59 Schmeidler, Gertrude. "Extrasensory Perception". The Encyclopedia Americana. International Edition. Grolier Incorporated. Danbury, CT. 1997. Vol.10. pp.805 & 806 http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~spr/ www.paranormalatoz.com/esp.html

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