ESP
Submitted by 5555 on November 20, 2008
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ESP, or extrasensory perception, is a claim of perception that takes place without use the ordinary sensory channels like sight, hearing, smell, touch, or taste. Someone who contends that they have these abilities is known as a psychic. Parapsychology, the scientific study of ESP, ghosts, and other things that do not fall into the realm of ordinary psychology, was developed by J.B. Rhine. He was a professor from Duke University who generated the term ESP in 1927. There are different types of ESP, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
Telepathy, which means distant feeling, is the process of reading another person’s mind. Dr. Rhine developed a telepathy test known as the Zener Cards.
These were cards containing pictures of shapes. The person claiming to be telepathic has the responsibility of identifying which shape another person has just...