You have a dream about your child getting hurt, the next day it happens. You have a sudden thought or image of a relative then find out they died at the moment you thought of them. You're lying in bed on the verge of sleep when you suddenly see the room from a vantage point near the ceiling and recognize the prone figure in bed is you.
Have you ever had an experience like any of these you can't explain? You're not alone and don't worry, you're not crazy, having a psychotic episode or dying. You've had a taste of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). They have happened countless times to people from every culture for millennium and orthodox science still has no explanation for them.
It's natural when someone has an unusual and sometimes frightening experience to seek counsel from a doctor or clergy. Unfortunately, like the average scientist, they have no clue or knowledge of the phenomenon. People who claimed to hear voices, have visions or premonition dreams are often viewed as deranged, evil or mentally ill and given psychotropic drugs to alleviate their fears-usually with disastrous results. Nothing healthy or helpful here.
Despite the huge amount of anecdotal evidence, science has ignored ESP as vague and imprecise. Intuitive reasoning is viewed with suspicion and acting on a premonition in clinical decisions is unheard of.
ESP has failed rigorous study because of inconsistent results due to personal bias, i.e. the bias of the examiner influences the outcome. (much like the split screen experiment where the bias of the examiner determines the outcome)..
Psychiatrist and psychic Judith Orloff encountered hostility from the medical field when she began to write about her experiences in psychic phenomena.
"The only mention of premonitions or other psychic abilities I ever found during my medical education was in text books labeling such claims as a sign of profound psychological dysfunction. " she stated in her book Second Sight. There is no mention of ESP in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) used by the American Psychiatric Association.
Despite the denial by mainstream science, ESP has been studied for a long time and the phenomena given definitions.
Precognition- knowledge of events before they happen. No one really understands the mechanism behind it may be a example of non linear time (like deja vu). The viewer did not cause the events to occur, they merely observed them before the happened.
Mediumism- the deceased is able to project enough energy for one to perceive them. It's away for the departed to say good bye to love ones or reassure them thru a medium. This occurs so often as to be almost commonplace. However most advertised mediums are either fake or have a poor track record due to the difficulty of this ability.
Out of Body Experience (OBE) has been extensively written about, studied in laboratories and is well documented. We are composed of body, mind and spirit and apparently under the right conditions we are able to separate consciousness from the physical body. Often when someone has an OBE their thought is they've died. The shock of the idea is enough to reconnect to the physical. It has occurred during surgery, undergoing trauma or stress, or in the harmless form of lucid dreams -awareness of dreaming while dreaming Crazy huh? Not at all, expensive weekend seminars are devoted to developing psychic skills.
Hundreds of books written on the subject, cause for continual study, and the accounts keep coming in. Don't despair if you sense the future, have a gut feeling about someone or know what your partner is thinking. It's natural, there is much to discover in human consciousness and spirituality -however you define it- than we know now.
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