Extrasensory Perception, the Reality of
an Unseen World
Ever answer a phone call, only to hear the person you were just thinking of on the other end? Ever had a dream about something that later actually happened? Ever felt like somebody read your mind? Some people may interpret these sorts of experiences as extrasensory perception, or ESP.
But what is it? Is it pseudoscience? Are mediums truly receiving messages from the deceased? Is the hereafter trying to get in touch with the living? Could it be that we are experiencing an odd form of neuroplasticity after experiencing a traumatic event? Or, are these psychic abilities nothing more than primordial information that is stored in the human cells and released after encountering the right triggers.
Welcome or welcome back to The Next Truth podcasts…“Let’s ask questions”.
ESP, also known as “the sixth sense”, a term adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine in the 1930-ties to denote psychic abilities, is still an unproven paranormal phenomenon in which people allegedly receive information about, or exert control over, their environment in ways that don’t use the recognized physical senses.
Skills that refers to a wide range of purported abilities, including telepathy (mind reading), psychokinesis (moving objects without physical contact) and precognition (predicting the future) and are violating our understanding of basic scientific principles.
Still, according to a 2019 study published in Europe’s Journal of Psychology, estimates suggest that around two-thirds of people in the United States alone believe in its existence — but how real is it?
I am your host Maria Anna van Driel and today I am speaking with the head of the University of London’s anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, British psychologist Chris French who specializes in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion… and discusses with him the reality of an unseen world aka, extrasensory perception.
