Parapsychology

What is Parapsychology? It is a field of study concerned with the investigation of paranormal and psychic phenomena. Parapsychologists study telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-deathexperiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other supernatural and paranormal claims. (Wikipedia) Telepathy is defined as the ability to communicate thoughts or ideas through ways unknown to the world. Precognition allows you to know something is going to happen. Psychosis allows you to move objects using your mind. Clairvoyance lets you find out information about people places and things using some other sense unknown to man. Parapsychology has been criticized by scientists because it cannot be proven. People sometimes…

Parapsychology Parapsychology is that branch of psychology which is related to investigating actions that cannot be explained by natural law and information that cannot have been gathered through the normal sensory skills. It deals with the cognitive phenomena frequently called extra sensory perception, in which an individual gains information of other individuals’ thoughts or of future actions through ways that are actually ahead of the five senses. Extra Sensory Perception Extra Sensory…

Have the supernatural occurrences that occur on a regular basis haunt oneself? The supernatural has been a discussion of many, but to those who discuss such wishful thinking has it ever occurred to oneself of how it could affect human behavior, good or bad. The idea of supernatural dates back to the Paleolithic period. According to those who study parapsychology has come to the conclusion that all of these supernatural beings or individuals have no naturalist world of view. Chris French is a…

living organisms and their external environment that seem to transcend the known physical laws of nature. Parapsychology [the study of the paranormal phenomena] is a component of the broader study of consciousness and the mind" (Rhine 1). This explanation describes it as the study of supernatural and paranormal beings we are unable to see, hear, or use any other sense to locate these spirits. Another element experts in this field can investigate is psi, a neutral word for all psychic…

I have talked about how, because of the fortune teller’s spotless record, the people receiving her fortunes would live their lives exactly the way they were always meant to. By this, I mean that in world with a fixed construct of existence everything a person does is exactly what they were meant to, including going and seeing the mythical fortune teller. But how then would that affect the individual? Would they be able to continue living their lives authentically and in what Sartre would call…

Research and share at least one “psychobabble” from the internet. Indigo Children; aka Crystal Children or Star Children For this assignment I chose a pseudoscientific New Age concept where some children; Indigo Children, are believed to have “special abilities”. The concept was based and developed by Nancy Ann Tappe in the 70s and furthered by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, a husband-wife team, who wrote a book title: The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived, in 1998 . These abilities vary…

Let the Paranormal Be the New Color in Our Life The paranormal have become a hot topic among people, among the young and heated debates are right on their way. Those paranormal things such subjects as alternative medicine; conspiracy theories; ghosts, the undead, and the paranormal, UFO’s and alien abductions; urban legends; and psychic abilities. However, those paranormal are no any scientific merit to prove it is true, but it is the key to open human’s new sense, and let human to image it and…

Christina DeFiori The chapter Psychics and Scientists begins with a very thoughtful example to explain precognition. We have all had an instance when we thought about a person and then the phone buzzes and it magically appears to be that person. Of course this coincidence seems like a big deal and might even make people say the line, “I must be psychic.” What this chapter points out is a very important argument: You might have been right that one time, but what about the hundreds of times you…

The widespread popularity of psychic surgeons makes the Philippines a metaphorical goldmine for research on the validity of the practice as well as its’ psychological and social aspects within the general public. In another investigative journal of Filipino psychic surgery, titled “‘Psychic Surgery’: Close Observation of a Popular Healing Practice”, written by Philip Singer, many of the trickery that these “surgeons” use is revealed. They noted how the operator would use clever angles and…

Telepathy and precognition: two “superpowers” often desired by millions across the world. To be able to read minds and tell the future? It seems awesome yet impossible to possess such abilities. However, some people believe that they possess these powers. Some even believe that all humans are capable of tapping into an area of our brains which could enable us to transfer thoughts without speaking, and tell the future not just by a prediction that can be explained on the basis of what we know.…