ESP

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Clairvoyance is the extra sensory perception of events that are taking place at the exact time of the perception, but the sensor cannot know of these events through any of the five senses. Precognition is the extra sensory perception of events in the future. And finally, telepathy is the extra sensory perception of someone elses mental state.

For centuries, stories about ESP sounded suspicious to those who had scientifically trained minds. After all, they were usually tales told after the fact. The event had already happened when the subject might have foretold it in a dream, for example. So, it was impossible to test weather or not there is a such thing as ESP.

But, one basic principle of science is that an idea should not be rejected just because it is hard to believe. We make mistakes sometimes, but a strange notion should be tested before it can be rejected.

The problem was, who was to study ESP? The geologists, biologists, astronomers, chemists, and ...

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also must go to work on the problem. There may be some form of mental energy in ESP which we have not yet discovered.

Russian scientists seem to be more concerned with ESP experimentation than scientists of any other country.

In 1972, Stanley Krippner and Richard Davidson of the Maimonides Institute went to Russia where they met Edward Naumov who directs the Institute of Technical Parapsychology at the City of Moscow Engineering Institute. He is also a memberof the physics department there and was the host for thr visiting Americans.

Krippner and Davidson compared some of the work in Russia to the Americans. They said that in the united states and in other western ...

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