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