Extrasensory perception {parapsychology}| {psi, parapsychology} {noetics} {transpersonal psychology} is perception without sense qualities. Paranormal communication has no physical links.
However, no one has evidence that parapsychological phenomena are extrasensory. All cases have explanation.
dream and future
Knowing the future through dreams seems to be common. However, it comes from person's previous knowledge and story-making abilities.
evolution and ESP
Because an evolution goal is to know the future, evolution should select for ESP strongly but does not.
magic and ESP
From Stanford Research Institute, Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff published results of experiments using Uri Geller in the journal Nature [1974]. However, magicians can do same tricks. Magicians laugh at psychokinesis or other tricks, because duplication is easy.
newspaper reports
Charles Fort wrote a book containing newspaper accounts of unbelievable phenomena, which he presented as fact but which were merely exaggerations or similes.
past people and ESP
People can claim to know about events about people who lived long ago, as revealed by hypnosis. However, many examples of multiple personalities exist, and people have easy access to historical knowledge.
psychics
Famous so-called psychics {psychics} are Edgar Cayce, Jeanne Dixon, Gerard Croiset, and Ted Serios. However, their accuracy is near zero.
Perhaps, space, time, or material things do not govern perception {extrasensory perception}| (ESP) {psi process} {psychical phenomena}. ESP is teleological, rather than mechanistic. ESP involves same mental powers that control ordinary perception and voluntary movement. ESP includes telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, survival phenomena, communicating with spirits, and astral projection. Psychical phenomena are subconscious.
K. E. Tsiolkovsky, Jacques Bergier, and Louis Pauwels believed people have been visited by other beings {aliens from space}. However, reports of what happened are always ridiculous and so in error.
Hauntings, poltergeists, and apparitions {apparition} can look and act like people. However, they are real or dream people.
ESP includes being in spirit body {astral body} {astral projection}|.
ESP includes knowledge of the future {clairvoyance}|. Soon-to-occur disasters should cause clairvoyance. However, big disasters never have previous reports.
People can find water with dowsing rod {dowsing}| {radiesthesia}, which pulls down or revolves. However, people actually smell, feel, or perceive water presence.
Pictures of objects in high-frequency electric fields show glow, sparks, or coronas around living things {Kirlian photography}|. However, tissue electric charges cause this.
Cleve Backster tried to measure communication in plants {plant communication}. However, what plants can communicate people cannot know.
Ghosts {poltergeist}| can move things around. Such phenomena usually involve disturbed children or adolescents, who are not aware that they are moving things.
ESP includes knowledge of future by knowing something will happen {precognition}|.
ESP includes mentally moving or controlling matter without physical means {psychokinesis}|.
People can claim that pyramids have regenerative powers {pyramid power}|. However, science has found no regeneration.
People can claim to be able to see using other senses {seeing with other senses}. However, this is like what blind people do normally or else is trick.
ESP includes experiencing things after death {survival phenomena}|.
ESP includes communication between minds directly {telepathy}|.
J. Allen Hynek studied strange aerial phenomena {unexplained flying object}| (UFO). Explanations are easy, and no aliens detected.
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