Monday 12 May 2014

ESP ('extrasensory perception')

We are taught in schools about the five physical sense (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching). The term ‘Extra Sensory Perception’ lumps all non-physical sensing into one label, a ‘sixth sense’ being ‘non-physical perception’.
This was probably useful at a certain stage of development (that stage of development which was concerned with proving that reality is more than what we can see, hear, taste. smell and touch), but any serious psychic development requires addressing the known divisions of the ‘additional’, non-physical senses – for instance, such sense include clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, intuition, etc. 
 
This post is probably a useful one to start collating some links on evidence: 
  • Dean I Radin's “The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena” (Harper One (2010), first pub. Harper Collins (2009), ISBN 978 0062029096, Amazon)   this is an excellent critique of the sloppy thinking on both the anti and for camps around ESP, and includes meta-analyses of the results of experiments into ESP that show the scientific mainstream consensus has a clear bias and is wrong regarding psychism;
  •    <more to be added over time>  
 


 

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