Mystic Info - Mediums/Psychics - ESP

Extra-sensory Perception

Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the supposed ability to acquire information by some means other than the normal human senses, such as the traditional five senses of taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing, or any of the other senses well known to science (balance, proprioception, etc).

Because the definition of sense is vague, the precise definition of extra-sensory is as well, but the term is generally meant to imply sources of information unknown to modern science. Despite the vagueness of the definition, no one has ever been documented by science as publicly or in a controlled experiment demonstrating ESP in a generally accepted way. The James Randi Educational Foundation offers $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate ESP or any psychic phenomenon. No one has ever collected.

Possible ESP phenomena include: telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, retrocognition, medium-hood and séancing, psychometry, clairaudience, clairsentience, astral projection, the reading of auras and psychokinesis. Study of these phenomena is known as parapsychology.

The word "psychic" is used as both a noun and adjective to denote a person capable of using ESP in any of its forms. Although most people who believe in ESP maintain that it is a power innate to only a relatively small percentage of the population, there are some who believe that everyone is psychic. These people claim that most of us have simply not learned yet to tap their innate extrasensory potential.