Parapsychology

Imagine that you are in a world where you can control everything. Flying, apparition, transforming into any form, deciding what happen next, massacre or resurrecting, all these things can be done simply by idiodynamics . Is it a world far from reality? In fact, some people could spend nearly one third of a day in such a world which is called lucid dreams. In a lucid dream, dreamers are aware that they are dreaming and then, if they are skilled enough, control the dream. Lucid dream is a vital…

In May 1989, the claims of the conspirators began to fall apart as soon as the people around Bush began talking. The Secret Service spoke first and an agent proclaimed Bush had not left the country. News accounts also proved Rupp and Brenneke’s claims improbable. Using the Secret Service accounts and news reals, Bush is publicly accounted for “down to the hour.” On October seventeenth, he campaigned for Reagan in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On the Nineteenth, he had a campaign speech at…

He studied human psychology and caused himself to think like a scientist and physician. Because of that, he distrusted anything that couldn’t be proven by science, even though parapsychology studies were being conducted at other major universities ("[R#3] Book Review - Many Lives, Many Masters”). In 1980, Brian Weiss met Catherine, his patient. She was a very attractive twenty-seven year old woman. She had medium-length blond…

eighty-two pieces of literature in his lifetime. A family man, Huxley had five siblings, married twice, and had one child. Huxley identified himself as a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, later becoming interested in more spiritual topics such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism; Universalism in particular. Living sixty-nine years, Huxley passed away on November 22, 1963; the same day as both C.S Lewis and President John F. Kennedy. On his deathbed he had one dying wish written out to…

Mythbusting: ESP is a Well-Established Scientific Phenomenon Let’s say you’re at home, just relaxing on the couch. The day’s been great, but something feels off, you just can’t put your finger on it. Before you got home someone came into your house and moved all of your furniture over exactly one inch. It’s such a subtle difference you would never think you could notice it, but nonetheless, something feels wrong. This is a basis of the notion of ESP, Extra Sensory Perception or in short, sight…

Sabrina Wu 7/9/15 Biology Ability to Perceive Through Time Biology Summer Assignment Precognition is the gain of knowledge obtained through extrasensory means. The majority of precognitive experiences come from extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as the sixth sense. ESP uses methods such as card reading and dreams. It can also be experienced through trance, channeling, and mediumship. Trace and mediumship are forms of spirit communication. A person in trance condition is when a spirit…

Daryl Bem is a well-known social psychologist and originator of the self-perception theory of attitude formation and change. He is very influential in the field of psychology, yet his work on ESP has brought a lot of controversy. Specifically, in his article “Feeling the Future” in which he offered statistical evidence for ESP. In this article he conducted his own research and challenged modern scientific conceptions about the unidirectional nature of time. Bem used countless, used and…

Murderers and villains are often seen as monsters because they commit tangible crimes, but an even more dangerous threat lurks from within, whose crimes aren 't nearly palpable. Often before a crime occurs, the perpetrator considers committing the crime, and in the criminal justice system the word “premeditated” can indicate this and if proven, results in additional jail time. Joseph Glanvill was a 17th century English philosopher and one of the lead propagandists of his time. From an early age,…

Religious sentiment had long been thought to be inferior to the concept of natural religion. The truths of natural religion were widely accepted as self-evident from the middle ages throughout the enlightenment. Only after the truths of natural religion were question and its self-evidence evaporated, did the pious find recourse with religious sentiment. This is best exemplified with the psychologist William James; he transformed religious discourse by denouncing Natural and Institutionalized…

Hans Eysenck was a German psychologist who specialized in the fields of personality and intelligence. However, Eysenck also did work in the fields of behavioral therapy, astrology and parapsychology, sexual behavior and smoking and health. Although, Eysenck’s most influential work is in that of personality psychology, where he developed the basic concept of personality which many major personality psychologists would base their work off of, likewise expanding upon many of Eysenck’s concepts.…