As the intellect of the human race continues to increase, different ideas are brought about while others become disregarded due to lack of belief or interest in the subject. The latter applies in the case of psychic phenomenon. What was at one point in time a large fad that many people took part and faith in has slowly been forgotten and set aside. The most well-known area of psychic phenomenon is telekinesis, or the ability to affect objects, random events, and environments using only one’s mind with no physical interaction ( Radford). While it is currently widely believed to be an impossible feat, there have still been many tests and theories set to it attempting to prove it’s potential with promising outcomes. In an ever changing world with endless new discoveries, there is no reason to neglect the possibility of the human mind reaching new potentials. As the field of study has expanded, so has its legitimacy. While some say that there is no connection between a person and the environment around them, it is possible to affect objects and a person’s surrounding environment through telekinetic interaction, proven through numerous tests, examinations and studies by scientists with positive results. Many highly regarded intellectuals and physicists have taken interest in the probability of telekinesis over the years. One of the most renowned names in the research and study of psychic phenomenon is J.B. Rhine, also referred to as “The Father of Modern Psychology”. He was the first to build a research center that focused on finding evidence that people may have abilities unexplainable by science. The Rhine Research Center used Zener card tests which allowed people to demonstrate their ability to acquire information with, none... ... middle of paper ... ...volution RSS. Collective Evolution, 5 Sept. 2013. Web. 08 Nov. 2013. *Oschman, Jim. "Reiki News Articles." Science Measures the Human Energy Field. The International Center for Reiki Training, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. *The Parapsychological Association. "J.B. Rhine (deceased)." J.B. Rhine (deceased). AAAS, 2009. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. *PEAR. "Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research." Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research. Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, 2010. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. * Radford, Benjamin. "Telekinesis: Facts About Mind Over Matter." LiveScience.com. LiveScience, 22 Mar. 2013. Web. 08 Nov. 2013. Wilson, Robert Anton. "Timothy Leary's Eight Circuits of ConsciousnessFrom Robert Anton Wilson'sCosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati." The Eight Circuits of Consciousness. The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension, n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2013.
Losses, Excesses, Transports, and The World of the Simple are all four topics in the book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales,” by Oliver Sacks. You might not understand what those mean or discuss until you realize who Oliver Sacks is. Oliver Sacks is a Neurologist who has had the chance to take upon these twenty-four case studies and share them in a book. The book is more focused on neurological functions, different forms of the mind, and hallucinations/visions. All of these are related to the first few chapters in our Psychology textbook (Chapters 2,3,6,8,10). Oliver Sacks gives us clear insight into the mind of those that perceive things much differently than most. It is a clear insight to what most of us are curious about but may not fully understand.
5)Groff, S. Realms of the Human Unconcious: Observations from LSD Research. Jeremy Tarcher Inc., LA. 1980, pp 87-99.
Much work has been done to find the exact cause of hallucinations and what is going on in the brain when they occur. Some progress has been made. Charles Bonnet syndrome is the onset of hallucinations in psychologically healthy individuals who have recently become blind or seeing impaired. These are called release hallucinations because it is thought that they are 'released' or instigated by the, "removal of normal visual afferent impute to association cortex"(5). Experiments involving direct stimulation of the temporal lobe, and fMRI's taken during hallucinations have indicated that - at least for complex hallucinations - the cause may be that corresponding visual areas in the brain are activated in the absence of inhibition due to visual input. In other words, this is an example of the chicken with its head cut off - apparently normal visual input to areas of the brain responsible for interpreting different things may be the only thing that keeps us from experiencing hallucinations of this kind (5). A...
It had been reported that, “Numerous people have told of hearing their doctors or other spectators in effect pronounce them dead” (Moody Jr, MD, 2015, p. 17). This is an out of body experience. Each reported feelings of peace and quiet, which transitioned into a bad buzzing noise. After proceeding through a tunnel, they have an “encounter with a very bright light” (Moody Jr, MD, 2015, p. 51). Questions resound around a reflection of their life, what they had learned during it, and if it was worth it. Invariably, each of the subjects’ encounter a border at which they are told they need to go back. “Considering the skepticism and lack of understanding that greet the attempt of a person to discuss his near-death experience, it is not surprising that almost everyone in this situation comes to feel that he is unique, that no one else has ever undergone what he has” (Moody Jr, MD, 2015, p. 83). Naturally, the outcome of this experience has an effect on the lives of those experiencing it.
When it first appeared on the scene in the philosophy of mind, the concept of supervenience was warmly embraced. Supervenience was thought to capture the idea of dependence without reduction and thus promised to provide a useful framework for discussions of mental causation, phenomenal experience, and, more generally, the relation between the mental and the physical. Since then a great deal has changed. Much careful work has been done to show that philosophical applications of supervenience do not, in fact, achieve what they were thought to. For example, Jaegwon Kim, whose name is closely associated with the concept, has shown convincingly that the standard formulations of supervenience in the philosophy of mind (weak, strong, and global) do not capture the idea of psychophysical dependence. (1) Many philosophers believed that supervenience could express a form of physicalism, but since the concept of dependence is a minimal req...
between living organisms and their external environment that seem that seemed to transcend the known physical laws of nature (The Rhine, 2013). According to (Nichols, 2011) parapsychology was studied over 100 years and in that time amassed thousands of cases studies and formal experiments in order to better understand these non-ordinary realms. In the study of paranormal activity, they have been studying them in lavatories. When studying parapsychology, people try to get an understanding and hope to get their questions answered about the phenomena aspects of these subjects. Scientist who study paranormal activities are trying to discover why these events occur. Parapsychology came about in the 1930s. When in a paranormal situation it is weird and scary and sometimes unbelievable.
Paranormal activity better known as parapsychology is a non-fictional idea. Parapsychology is the scientific study of interactions between living organisms and their external environment that seem to transcend the known physical laws of nature. (Teresi, 2000) The Society of Psychical Research was established in London in 1882 (Teresi, 2000). Major parapsychological studies had not begun appearing in mainstream scientific journals until the sixties and early seventies (Teresi, 2000).“Furthermore, groups such as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) which publishes the Skeptical Inquirer and the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) have been formed to disseminate credible information on the paranormal. Credibility should be less of a problem in the future” (Teresi, 2000).
5) Donald E. Watson, MD taught and did research in nueropsychology, teaches at UC Irvine Medical School.
A review of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, in which McGinn elaborates on his theory of the mind.
Renner, T., Feldman, R., Majors, M., Morrissey, J., & Mae, L. (2011). States of Consciousness. Psychsmart (pp. 99-107). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Ramachandran, V. S., and Sandra Blakeslee. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: Quill, 1999. Print.
Physicalism, or the idea that everything, including the mind, is physical is one of the major groups of theories about how the nature of the mind, alongside dualism and monism. This viewpoint strongly influences many ways in which we interact with our surrounding world, but it is not universally supported. Many objections have been raised to various aspects of the physicalist viewpoint with regards to the mind, due to apparent gaps in its explanatory power. One of these objections is Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument. This argument claims to show that even if one has all of the physical information about a situation, they can still lack knowledge about what it’s like to be in that situation. This is a problem for physicalism because physicalism claims that if a person knows everything physical about a situation they should know everything about a situation. There are, however, responses to the Knowledge Argument that patch up physicalism to where the Knowledge Argument no longer holds.
Explaining Consciousness Provides Physicalism With Challenges That Place Limits On Scientific Knowledge, And What It Can Uncover About Consciousness
Parnia also said “the man portrayed everything that had happened in the room, yet significantly, he heard two bleeps from a machine that makes a commotion at three moment interims so we could time to what extent the accomplished went on for. He appeared to be exceptionally believable and everything that he said had transpired had really happened.” Dr. Parnias study included twenty thousand and sixty patients from fifteen healing centers in the UK, US and Austria, and had been distributed in the diary Resuscitation. Of the individuals who survived, forty six for each penny had encounters perfect with customary meanings of a close passing background and two for every penny showed full mindfulness with express review of “seeing” and “hearing” occasions or out-of-body encounters.
In his experimentation with the unconscious mind, Freud discovered three levels of consciousness. The first is consciousness. This i...