ESP (Extrasensory perception) involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind.
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What significance levels are usually required to accept a phenomenon as real?
As you probably know, the James Randi educational foundation offers 1 000 000$ for "any psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability under satisfactory observation".
But sometimes such claimed ability is said to be "not working all the time". Like…
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Did Neem Karoli Baba read the thoughts of Ram Dass?
Here is a claim made by former Harvard professor and later spiritual teacher and author Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) in a YouTube video and in an article on his web-site
Ram Dass visited a Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba in India. Dass's mother had…
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Did Rachel Scott draw This Picture? and was the Picture dreamt about?
Today Cody Hodges came to our school and presented Rachel's Challenge, named after Rachel Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.
Hodges claims that, after Rachel's burial on TV, a man called the Scott family…
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Can we find water with wood sticks?
Many people and websites claim that one can find water with wood sticks (typically Hazel stick shaped in 'Y'). those who seek for water with wood sticks are called "sourcier" in french. As I fail to translate this term I will just use the french…
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Does "midbrain activation" cause clairvoyance?
There was this kid in my town who claimed that his instructor had trained him using Mid-Brain Activation, see Midbrain Activation) techniques, and as a result he could "see" things while being blindfolded. He performed this in front of me wherein he…
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Are there scientific studies of remote-viewing with negative results?
The Wikipedia page on Remote Viewing says:
A variety of scientific studies of remote viewing have been conducted. Some earlier, less sophisticated experiments produced positive results but they had invalidating flaws.[24] None of the more recent…
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Can the human brain move objects without touching them?
This 2016 YouTube video, Best Explanation Of How The Brain Performs TELEKINESIS...On The WEB! attempts to informally describe how things can be moved with the brain.
I have never seen anyone with this kind of ability.
An internet search shows many…
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