| If you have ever wondered "are psychics | | | | investigation advanced as technology did. In |
| real?" you are not alone. Many people ask | | | | modern times advanced electronic equipment is |
| them selves this very same question every | | | | often used to test for psychic phenomena. |
| day. The answer is often not an easy one but | | | | This is because paranormal events reportedly |
| for thousands of years, people have turned to | | | | cause energy disturbances across the entire |
| psychics, and clairvoyants for love, romance, | | | | electromagnetic spectrum. Some speculate that |
| and life advice. Some say psychics even have | | | | energy is drawn from the surrounding |
| the ability to communicate with the spirits | | | | environment to power psychic events. Modern |
| of the departed. | | | | day paranormal investigators monitor these |
| | | | environmental energy changes with a variety |
| However, over the years claims of | | | | of modern instruments including EMF |
| spiritualism and psychic powers have been so | | | | detectors, temperature sensors, static |
| widespread and the reports of its effects so | | | | electricity detectors, ionization detectors, |
| numerous and impressive that it was | | | | motion detectors, EVP recording devices, RF |
| inevitable that scientists would be attracted | | | | detectors, and radiation monitors. |
| to the alleged phenomena. Parapsychology the | | | | |
| science that studies these phenomena focused | | | | So, whether you believe in psychics, |
| on many areas including telepathy, | | | | paranormal activity, or spiritualism the fact |
| clairvoyance, hypnotism, spirits, | | | | of the matter is there is currently hard |
| spiritualism, and the history of spiritual | | | | scientific data documenting the anomalous |
| manifestations. | | | | psychic events which occur in the everyday |
| | | | world around us. In addition for thousands |
| Although Parapsychology is still considered a | | | | of years unexplained phenomena have been |
| fringe science by many scientists it still | | | | documented throughout history. Are millions |
| merits the attention of renowned educational | | | | of people crazy? I think not. I assure you |
| institutions such as Princeton University and | | | | that the spiritual realm does exist and I am |
| Berkley. Princeton offers the Princeton | | | | not alone in that belief. Many scientists, |
| Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) degree | | | | layman, and spiritualists share the same |
| and the University of Berkley in California | | | | views about our universe. Even some world |
| awarded the only American accredited degree | | | | renowned physicists speculate the need for |
| in Parapsychology to Jeffery Mishlove in | | | | more than one dimension to explain life as we |
| 1980. But in saying this I am putting the | | | | know it. |
| cart before the horse. | | | | |
| | | | My best advice is to try to keep an open mind |
| The pioneers of modern Parapsychology began | | | | and an objective outlook about things that we |
| using the experimental approach to psychic | | | | do not fully understand. that is unless you |
| phenomena at Duke University in the 1930s | | | | believe the sole criterion of reality is our |
| under the direction of Joseph Rhine. | | | | limited human ability to quantify, tag, and |
| Subsequently Karl Zener one of J.Rhines | | | | label it. After all we can not see the wind |
| associates developed the world renowned Zener | | | | but we do see the affect it has on the leaves |
| card test for testing ESP abilities using the | | | | as they blow about. Does this mean wind does |
| scientific method. These ESP tests were | | | | not exist just because we cannot see it? |
| conducted at Duke University in one of the | | | | |
| first Pavlovian conditioning laboratories. | | | | In closing I leave it up to you the reader to |
| | | | decide for your self the answer to the |
| Parapsychology progressed throughout the 20th | | | | question at hand. But, know this my answer |
| century and adopted current technology as it | | | | to the question "are psychics real?" is yes. |
| became available. The use of more | | | | Psychics, psychic abilities, spirits, and ESP |
| sophisticated methods of paranormal | | | | are real whether you believe in them or not. |