Sunday, December 2, 2012

ESP: :EXTRA SENSORY PERCEPTION

¤Extra-Sensory Perception¤ -these are paraphysichology-Involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with mind ¤PARAPYSICHOLOGY-Is the scientific study of paranormalpyschic phenomena including ESP. {4TYPES OF ESP} 01.PRECOGNITION -Is the psychic knowledge of something in advance of it's occurance. The faculty of seeing into the future is called second sight if it is notby scrying drugs, trace or other artificial means. 02.CLAIRVOYANCE >(from French)clair=clear & voyance=vision -Is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses a form of extra-sensory perception >a person who has such ability is referred to as a claivoyant[sees clear]. 03.TELEPATHY >(Greek)tele=distant & pathe=affliction,experience -Is the supposed transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. 04.PYSCHOKINESIS{P.K} >{in Greek=Telekinesis}means distant movement -Is the ability to move objects with your mind >{in Greek 'psyche'=mind, soul, heart or breath & 'kinesis'=motion, movement >>>relax+focus {use ur mind} ....¤ZENER CARDS-A simple set of cards that beat the symbols circle, square, wavylines, cross and star -there are five cards of eachin a peak of 25 -in a telepathy experiment the 'sender' looks at a seriesof cards while the 'receiver' guesses the symbol -in a clairvoyance the pack of cards is hidden from everyone while the receiver gusses. -in precognition, the order ofthe cards is determined aftergusses are made. ==in all such experiments order of the cards must be random so that hits are not obtained through systematic biased or prior knowledge *advantages of ESP cards orzener cards -understanding personality -statistics can easily be applied to determine whether the number of hits obtained is higher than would be expected by chance