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ESP (extra sensory perception) is the ability to glean information without using any of the senses that we have. It can be divided into two sub-categories : --
Perceiving another person's thoughts through intercommunication between two brains, supernaturally, without any regard for distance or time.
There are many cases where people report that they get vivid impressions of events happening in places far off, which later happened in real life.
Hence, the mechanism of telepathy is generally supposed to be in the form of the vibrations of brain waves.
Clairvoyance is the sensing of an object or an event that is out of range of the senses.
It usually involves seeing persons or events that are distant in both time and place. No knowledge can also reach to anyone through the normal sense channel.
ESP has already been a part of everyone’s vocabulary. But aside from the movies and some books that define it, how much does everyone really knows about ESP or Extra Sensory Perception. Extra Sensory Perception from the term itself means extra sense. Everyone is familiar with the sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. These are the five basic senses thus making anything else like ESP the extra sense. ESP is widely known as the sixth sense for it does not pertain to any of the five aforementioned senses.
Extra Sensory Perception is the ability of some chosen few to obtain information other than the five basic senses. Having ESP means having the capability to see what is unseen, to hear what is unheard, to feel, taste, and smell what is not there. Sir Richard Burton was the first to use ESP in 1870 and after that a French researcher named Dr. Paul de Joire used the term Extra Sensory Perception in 1892 to define people who were able to obtain information while under hypnotism. Even though the term ESP was first called as such in the 18th century, it is said that the events relating to the ability of the sixth sense started to happen way before.
Study of the Extra Sensory Perception did not stop by just naming it. During the early years of the 19th century, an experiment was materialized. This experiment was called the Rhine. This experiment is done with the use of cards, which are called the ESP cards. Participants were asked to guess the order of the cards. The probability as Rhine suggestedis one in a million. He believed that participants who were able to guess most correctly were gifted with Extra Sensory Perception.
This of course was bombarded with skeptism. Many do not believe the probability that some are able to obtain information other than the five basic senses. They think that the Rhine Experiment was not credible because of some factors other than having ESP can tell the participants the order of the cards. They also added that the experiment put out in their report only the participants who gained a high score thus making it null and void. Skeptics also said that not because someone had guessed something about to happen meant that it is ESP. It might be just a coincidence, a wild guess.
Up until now, arguments about Extra Sensory Perception whether it is real or just a product of a wild imagination still arises. But people today are more open to possibilities. Some even consult psychics to help them see a glimpse of their future and many of them have already proven the power of the sixth sense. Negative notions about ESP cannot already change the fact that it has become a household name that many believe exist. It may be out of the ordinary, it may be impossible, it may be unacceptable. But no one can deny the fact that there are really those who are gifted with an extra sense.
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