Sadly there are still many professionals and other people who are sceptical of
extrasensory perception. They misunderstand others who use ESP openly when mind reading or
even expressing clairvoyant abilities. And clearly there is still a lack of knowledge and
understanding in this field.
All humans have had an ESP experience some or other time and are really not an unfamiliar
practice. We have all used the term such as I have a strong gut feeling, or my sixth sense
tell me not to do this etc. The sixth sense is a natural warning "survival"
mechanism. And believe it or not every living creature on the planet shares has this
ability in one way or another.
Scientists have been trying to pinpoint the source of extrasensory perception even
parapsychologists have been doing the ganzfeld experiment trying to provide hard evidence
that ESP exists. Again scientists do not accept due to lack of a theory which would
explain extrasensory perception as well as the lack of experimental techniques supplying
reliable evidence.
Since antiquity extrasensory perception has been noted in ancient cultures up to modern
day, and those that had such "powers" where termed as having second sight, hence
thousands were persecuted and burned on the stake and termed as witches. In many tribal
cultures the medicine people communicated with ancestors and spirits alike.
Scientists and professionals in later years started to design Zener Cards to experiment in
order to have some kind of evidence ESP exists. A simple set of twenty five cards were
made all containing five defined symbols like circles, wave like patterns, squares, stars
and crosses whereby they would then see if the recipient could tell what symbol was on
which card.
A methodology was devised in that the scientist or parapsychologist would shuffle the
cards just to make sure there was no specified sequence and would then choose say five
cards and look at them while the person in question would then have to tell the
professional which cards they were holding in their hands. Professionals were still not
convinced and later began using a dice as well and it turned out that both these methods
proved better than chance. After many years of testing extrasensory perception became
accepted still with some scepticism though then leading the professionals to start
investigating as well as trying to understand the humans unconscious mental processes and
personalities.
It was later found that people who were aware of extrasensory perception on taking the
card or dice test scored highly as opposed to those who were sceptical. And this was
defined as follows - believers (sheep) and sceptics (goats) hence this is now known by
professionals as the sheep-goat effect. Professionals then went even further and started
including meditation, and the REM sleep procedures which later proved even more effective.
Parapsychologists have accepted extrasensory perceptions as normal and have also divided
ESP phenomena into sub categories like clairvoyant, telekinesis, telepathy and many more.
It was also well documented during their studies as well accepted that extrasensory
perception cannot be controlled nor can an episode be replicated proving that ESP is a
totally natural and spontaneous occurrence.
