Parapsychology/Parapsychology/ESP

Extrasensory Perception

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Extrasensory perception, or ESP, is the ostensible ability to acquire information without observing it with one of the five basic senses. The scientific community does not accept this due to the disputed evidence base, the lack of a theory which would explain ESP, and the lack of experimental techniques which can provide reliably positive results.

Parapsychologists believe there are multiple ways in which ESP manifests:

• Clairvoyance or Remote Viewing: The subject experiences a vision an event that they are not a part of, possibly from a far location.
• Precognition or Retrocognition: The subject not only sees an event that they are not a part of, but one that takes place in a different time. In the event of retrocognition, they experience something from that past that they did not experience when it occurred (which could be before the subject's birth). In precognition, the subject sees into the future, later realizing that they had foreseen the event.
• Psychometry: The subject obtains information about an individual from an object belonging to that individual.
• Telepathy: The sending of decipherable messages without the use of the five senses.
• Out of Body (OOB) Experience or Astral Projection: The subject mentally leaves their body and experiences event occurring at the current time. This often occurs during sleep or lucid dreaming.
• Mediumship: The ability to communicate with dead spirits.
• Psychokenisis: The ability to move objects without touch.

References

• wikipedia:Extrasensory perception