Metaphysical Monday: ESPers

[american_arcane]

Originally published at The Searcher Journal. You can comment here or there.

Spurred by some recent conversations, I thought I’d toss this idea out there. It’s a topic that often comes up in conversation when the situation allows (or when I deftly insert it) and sometimes leads to fantastic discussions.

I’ve had an interest in parapsychology for a

Comments

[have_inner_lady]

I'm not seeing how that article relates to ESP. It sounds a lot more like empathy or compassion.

[american_arcane]

That basic human empathy that it talks about can be taken to a much deeper level when the person sensing (or in some cases projecting) it is an ESPer.

The psychic form of empathy is a sub-set of telepathy. It allows for communication and/or sensing of feelings above and beyond the clues we pick up using our normal senses.

If well-practiced you could pick out an individual upset or happy person from a crowd without having a lot of other clues to go on. Or you could tell how someone's feeling now just from an old picture of them... or over an Instant Messaging system or through e-mail (places where there are no cues to go by).

Another sub-set that can relate to the psychic form of empathy is psychometry--the ability to gain information about a person by being in contact with an object they used.

It's really kind of neat... and very frustrating at times.

[have_inner_lady]

I'm not doubting that people have abilities (some people in particular). I just didn't match the article you cited as scientific evidence of ESP.

Hrm. Maybe that's not exactly what you wrote, though. Oops.

[american_arcane]

I see it as an example of how there is still much we do not understand about how our brains work--let alone our minds or anything in between.

The article is not scientific evidence of ESP (even though that's the hook they use to draw the curious in). It is neuroscience and biology. But it brings us one step closer, perhaps, to figuring out that there are parts inside of us that are in tune with parts outside of us... parts that somehow communicate in some way.

It's exciting--for both the ESPer in my and the scientist. :)

[fllnangel17]

I could so use a post like that!

[american_arcane]

Can't we all? ;)

It's coming up... it was going to be this week, but then I figured I may as well segue more smoothly from the ghost topic to centering, grounding, balancing and shielding.

[ambientshell]

I started writing out a response and ended up ranting significantly off subject, so I just posted in my own journal. Its not really a critique of what you wrote... just some mashing out of my thoughts in general.

[american_arcane]

's'all good. :)

I've had that happen more than a few times over the years. Comments sometimes just grow and grow... and grow...