Extrasensory Perception

Out-of-body experiences, psychic healing, the ability to move objects with the mind,  clairvoyance, and telepathy are all considered psychic phenomena.  For the purposes of this article, we will focus on extrasensory perception, sometimes called the sixth sense.  Explorer Sir Richard Burton first used the term in 1870.  In 1892, a French researcher defined extrasensory perception as the ability to sense things beyond the normal senses of touch, taste, sight, hearing and smell.  Extrasensory perception includes seeing the past, present and future.

The United States government has long studied people with psychic ability, especially those called remote viewers.  For example, a viewer drew a picture of the National Laboratory from a distance of one hundred miles.  The sketch included a six-story administration building in a T-shape next to a row of trees.  Another subject drew a gantry crane at a secret Soviet research and development site,   which agreed with a Central Intelligence Agency drawing based on a satellite photograph.  Finally, a remote viewer sketched the Valley Foothills Windmill Farm, again from a distance of a hundred miles.

One of the most famous psychics was Edgar Cayce.  He was able to give readings in the sleep state which showed that he received information that he had never studied.  Without using his physical sight, he could see events, places and people.  He was able to answer questions on any topic or describe a person and their surroundings.

I believe that what we call instinct in animals is actually extrasensory perception.  Humans may have had this ability at one time.  Over the millenia, it may have declined but some people still have it, and in spades.  In fact, everyone probably has it to a degree.