Questions tagged [esp]
ESP (Extrasensory perception) involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind.
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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 ...
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Can we find water with wood sticks? [duplicate]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Did Rachel Scott draw This Picture? and was the Picture dreamt about? [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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Did Alan Turing have “overwhelming statistical evidence [for ESP], at least for Telepathy”? [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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What significance levels are usually required to accept a phenomenon as real? [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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Is it possible to do astral travel? [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
