| In New Frontiers of the Mind (1937) Rhine said that | | | | Some theories involve the discussion of two |
| ESP experiments were changing the way people | | | | subconsciousnesses, the second one sometimes |
| thought the mind sensed information. Historically learned | | | | called the superconsciousness, soul, subliminal self, |
| people held the human mind received information | | | | transcendent ego, dream self and several other terms. |
| through the ordinary five senses, and that therefore, | | | | The argument rest on the hypothesis that two realities |
| the mind is subject to the laws of the mechanical | | | | exist, the physical one and a second one. ESP can |
| world. Laboratory tests have attempted to determine | | | | occur when there is a integration between both |
| the existence of ESP, and discover the physical | | | | realities. This occurs infrequently only when the barriers |
| mechanism by which it operates. "The mind has been | | | | between the realities are broken which does not |
| equated with the brain, and scientists search to | | | | happen often because if it did all unconscious thought |
| discover how ESP registers in the brain/mind." | | | | would flood and overflow the conscious mind. A |
| However, increasing evidence is demonstrating that | | | | condition which the mind could not withstand. |
| ESP does exist, but it cannot be explained or quantified | | | | When considering types or forms that ESP might take |
| by physical laws; and furthermore, that the mind | | | | dreams become an important factor, especially in |
| (consciousness) and the brain are two separate | | | | relationship to the theory of two realities. Upon this |
| entities. Simultaneously, research in quantum physics | | | | basis dreams were separated into two categories: |
| points to the existence of a second, nonmaterial | | | | realistic, vivid having detailed imagery of the information |
| universe. So, the time is fast approaching when | | | | conveyed, and intuition which includes "gut feelings." |
| Western scientists must come to terms with the | | | | forebodings, and premonitions; and unrealistic dreams |
| Eastern mystical concept: "that an extrasensory force | | | | containing fantastical imagery and symbols. |
| exists in another realty, and intersects and integrates | | | | Hallucinations that relayed visual and auditory |
| with the physical world." | | | | information also were included. Rhine suggested the |
| In function, ESP is dissimilar to the ordinary senses. | | | | reason for dreams being efficient carriers of ESP |
| There is no location like governs the other senses | | | | messages is because the barriers surrounding the |
| which receive information through various parts of the | | | | conscious mind appear to be thinnest. |
| body; and it is not dependent on any of the other five | | | | It has been discovered that the natural tendency for |
| senses. ESP is independent of such factors as | | | | ESP in individuals can be distorted by previous |
| geography, time, intelligence, age, or education. | | | | prejudices, thoughts, and conditioning. Likewise, |
| ESP has been given various names. In the 19th century | | | | inaccurate ESP messages may be the result of |
| is was called "cryptesthesia," later it was labeled | | | | distortions and blockages of the conscious mind. |
| "relesthesia" which since became clairvoyance, or | | | | However, in times of crisis such as accidents and |
| "seeing in the distance." It was Rhine who coined the | | | | death of loved ones, ESP messages seem to occur |
| term "general extrasensory perception" (GESP) to | | | | spontaneously. It is theorized that perhaps trauma and |
| include both telepathy and clairvoyance. Later the term | | | | shock enable negative information to penetrate the |
| psi was designated to cover ESP and PK. | | | | subliminal barriers more easily than happy information. |
| It was researcher Lousia E. Rhine who proposed the | | | | There are theories concerning individuals who possess |
| theory that ESP starts in the unconscious, a | | | | ESP and how they acquired this ability. One theory |
| storehouse of memories, hopes and fears. At this point | | | | holds that some people such as seers, prophets and |
| a contact is made between the objective world and | | | | diviners were bore with the gift which was inherited by |
| the center of the mind. The person remains unaware | | | | their relatives. Another theory hold that it is` a primordial |
| of this contact until or unless the information is brought | | | | sense which has decreased in populations as their |
| to the conscious level. Also, the psychiatrist Carl G. | | | | cultures advanced. Still another theory claims ESP is a |
| Jung proposed a similar theory that the conscious mind | | | | supersense which evolves in the nervous system. |
| has subliminal psychic access to the collective | | | | Psychical research does support the theory that |
| unconscious, a vast repository of accumulative | | | | everyone is born with ESP capability, though some |
| wisdom and experience of the human race. | | | | may possess more than others. Most people have |
| Others theories attempting to explain ESP have been | | | | experienced at least one ESP experience in their lives. |
| produced. One such theory involved macrophages, | | | | It was found in a survey published in 1987 by the |
| cells present in connective tissue, lymph nodes, and | | | | University of Chicago's National Opinion Research |
| bone marrow and tied to nerve endings. The person | | | | Council, that 67 percent of all adult Americans believed |
| thought these might be the body's ESP organs, | | | | they have experienced ESP. Eleven years earlier the |
| sending and receiving impressions below the normal | | | | figure was 58 percent. It was thought the increase |
| perceptive level. Such cells are more sensitive and | | | | indicates an increased acceptance of the possibility of |
| active during childhood, but deteriorate without proper | | | | ESP among the general public. |
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