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ESP (Extrasensory perception) involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind.

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Can humans influence the outcome of random event generators with their mind?

Roger D. Nelson, PhD (Experimental Psychology), claims to have proven using scientific methods that humans can influence the outcome of random number/event generators (RNG or REG) with their mind. The influence is claimed to be rather small but…
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Does telepathy exist?

I remember reading not too long ago about a study in which experimenters performed a number of standard psychological tests with a twist; it was something about they ran a number of tests from standard psychiatric batteries but they ran them…
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Do dogs know when their owner is coming home through some form of telepathic link?

My friend cited a study by Rupert Sheldrake which ran an experiment over several years that video taped dogs, showing that dogs knew when their owner was coming home due to some psychic link. He published a paper called: A Dog That Seems to Know…
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Do psychic abilities work?

I was reading today's newspaper (3/18/2012), and this question appeared in Dear Abby's column: DEAR ABBY: I will graduate from college in June and be a social worker. I am psychic, although I dislike that word because it conjures up visions of…
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Does this meta-analysis support premonition?

A meta-analysis came out recently: Julia Mossbridge, Patrizio Tressoldi and Jessica Utts, Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis, Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 3, 2012, DOI…
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Can a twin perceive that the other is in trouble?

There are many stories about twins being able to "feel" each other even when they are apart. Typically a twin would say that they felt that an accident or some other calamity happened to the other one even though they were in different cities etc.…
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Is shared dreaming possible?

Mutual dreaming or shared dreaming is the claim that two or more people can share the same dream environment. I have experienced a numerous lucid dreams but I've never met a known person in such dreams. So, is this phenomenon possible and if it is…
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Can Uri Geller perform remote viewing?

Uri Geller has often performed in front of audiences where he claims he can sense the contents of an envelope without seeing inside (i.e. remote viewing). A number of witness reports are published here "Before I left home, I had drawn a valentine…
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Does Stanford University conduct research into psychic spies?

Ron White of Brain Athlete reports: Stanford Research Institute (SRI) has been carrying out secret psychic investigations using remote viewing for 20 years, checking into our ability to experience and describe distant events blocked from ordinary…
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Has Dean Radin's Love study been independently confirmed by three dozen groups?

This NPR article from 2009 states that Dean Radin conducted a Love study that claimed to show a scientifically meaningful correlation between a husband thinking about a wife and her sensing it within two seconds: After running 36 couples through…
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Did a psychic, Pat Price, correctly predict one of Patty Hearst's kidnappers?

Patty Hearst was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army. One of the founding members was Donald DeFreeze. According to the Amazon Store description of Russell Targ's book "The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic…
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Did Alan Turing have "overwhelming statistical evidence [for ESP], at least for Telepathy"?

In Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) Alan Turing claims that "the statistical evidence [for Extrasensory Perception], at least for telepathy, is overwhleming". My Google searches have largely turned up pseudo-scientific nonsense and I…
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Have remote viewing tests shown a positive effect, 5-15% above chance?

Wikipedia's article on Remote viewing says, In the early 1990s the Military Intelligence Board, chaired by DIA chief Soyster appointed Army Colonel William Johnson to manage the remote viewing unit and evaluate its objective usefulness. Funding…
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Could Shanti Devi remember a past life?

I read this blog post which presented the story of Shanti Devi as evidence of reincarnation: According to these accounts, when she was about four years old, she told her parents that her real home was in Mathura where her husband lived, about 145…
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Is it possible to do astral travel?

Psychic-Medium Kimbery Bunch claims in a video meditation can help you to astral travel, remote view or to have bilocation abilities. This Video claims that she can "astral travel" spiritually come out of the body see her own body from outside,…
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