Extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as a sixth sense, or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind. ^[1]

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Ability

Abilities are powers an agent has to perform various actions.

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C. E. M. Hansel

Charles Edward Mark Hansel (12 October 1917 – 28 March 2011) was a British psychologist most notable for his criticism of parapsychological studies.

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Charles Richet

Charles Robert Richet (25 August 1850 – 4 December 1935) was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer.

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Clairaudience

In the field of parapsychology, Clairaudience (from late 17th century French clair (clear) & audience) is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires information by paranormal auditory means. Extrasensory perception and Clairaudience are parapsychology.

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Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense". Extrasensory perception and Clairvoyance are paranormal terminology, parapsychology, pseudoscience and psychic powers.

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Dice

Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions.

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Donald O. Hebb

Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning.

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Dream telepathy

Dream telepathy is the purported ability to communicate telepathically with another person while one is dreaming. Extrasensory perception and dream telepathy are paranormal terminology, parapsychology and psychic powers.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Empathy

Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience.

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Extrasensory Perception (book)

Extrasensory Perception is a 1934 book written by parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine, which discusses his research work at Duke University. Extrasensory perception and Extrasensory Perception (book) are parapsychology.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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Ganzfeld experiment

A ganzfeld experiment (from the German words for "entire" and "field") is an assessment used by parapsychologists that they contend can test for extrasensory perception (ESP) or telepathy. Extrasensory perception and ganzfeld experiment are parapsychology and pseudoscience.

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Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak (born Jerzy Charpak, (1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Gustav Geley

Gustav Geley (13 April 1868 – 15 July 1924) was a French physician, psychical researcher and director of the Institute Metapsychique International from 1919 to 1924.

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Harold Gulliksen

Harold Oliver Gulliksen (July 18, 1903 – October 27, 1996) was an American psychologist.

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Harry Houdini

Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known as Harry Houdini, was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts.

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Henry Gordon (magician)

Henry Gordon (March 19, 1919 – January 24, 2009) was a Canadian author, journalist, magician and skeptic.

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Intuition

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation.

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Joaquín Argamasilla

Joaquín María Argamasilla de la Cerda y Elío (4 April 1905 – 27 May 1987) was a Spanish noble who was the 11th Marquess de Santacara, but he is better known for claiming in the early 1920s a supposed ability to see through opaque objects.

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Joe Nickell

Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal.

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Joseph Banks Rhine

Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980), usually known as J. B. Rhine, was an American botanist who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association.

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Joseph Jastrow

Joseph Jastrow (January 30, 1863 – January 8, 1944) was a Polish-born American psychologist notorious for inventions in experimental psychology, design of experiments, and psychophysics.

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List of psychic abilities

This is a list of psychic abilities attributed to real-world people. Extrasensory perception and list of psychic abilities are psychic powers.

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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

This is a list of topics that have, either currently or in the past, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers. Extrasensory perception and list of topics characterized as pseudoscience are pseudoscience.

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Louisa E. Rhine

Louisa Ella Rhine (née Weckesser November 9, 1891 – March 17, 1983) was an American doctor of botany and is known for her work in parapsychology.

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Magic (supernatural)

Magic is an ancient practice rooted in rituals, spiritual divinations, and/or cultural lineage—with an intention to invoke, manipulate, or otherwise manifest supernatural forces, beings, or entities in the natural world.

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Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literatureespecially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

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Michael Shermer

Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.

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Milbourne Christopher

Milbourne Christopher (23 March 1914 – 17 June 1984) was a prominent American illusionist, magic historian, and author.

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Milton A. Rothman

Milton A. Rothman (November 30, 1919 – October 6, 2001) was a United States nuclear physicist and college professor.

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Nina Kulagina

Nina Kulagina, Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina (Нине́ль Серге́евна Кула́гина, born Ninel Mikhaylova) (30 July 1926 – 11 April 1990) was a Russian woman who claimed to have psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis.

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Outline of parapsychology

Parapsychology is a field of research that studies a number of ostensible paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, and apparitional experiences. Extrasensory perception and Outline of parapsychology are parapsychology.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Extrasensory perception and Paranormal are parapsychology and pseudoscience.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. Extrasensory perception and Parapsychology are pseudoscience.

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Paul Kurtz

Paul Kurtz (December 21, 1925 – October 20, 2012) was an American scientific skeptic and secular humanist.

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Phenomenon

A phenomenon (phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable event.

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Precognition

Precognition (from the Latin prae- 'before', and cognitio 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future. Extrasensory perception and Precognition are paranormal terminology, parapsychology, pseudoscience and psychic powers.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Psychic

A psychic is a person who claims to use powers rooted in parapsychology such as extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, such as psychokinesis or teleportation. Extrasensory perception and psychic are paranormal terminology.

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Psychometry (paranormal)

In parapsychology, psychometry (from Greek: ψυχή, psukhē, "spirit, soul" and μέτρον, metron, "measure"), also known as token-object reading, – Key Words Frequently Used in Parapsychology, Parapsychological Association (2006-12-17) or psychoscopy, is a form of extrasensory perception characterized by the claimed ability to glean accurate knowledge of an object's history by making physical contact with that object. Extrasensory perception and psychometry (paranormal) are paranormal terminology, parapsychology, pseudoscience and psychic powers.

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Remote viewing

Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind. Extrasensory perception and Remote viewing are parapsychology, pseudoscience and psychic powers.

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Retrocognition

Retrocognition (also known as postcognition or hindsight), from the Latin retro meaning "backward, behind" and cognition meaning "knowing," describes "knowledge of a past event which could not have been learned or inferred by normal means." The term was coined by Frederic W. Extrasensory perception and Retrocognition are paranormal terminology, parapsychology and psychic powers.

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Richard Wiseman

Richard J. Wiseman (born 17 September 1966) is a professor of the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Russell Targ

Russell Targ (born April 11, 1934) is an American physicist, parapsychologist, and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing.

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Scientific community

The scientific community is a diverse network of interacting scientists.

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Scientific consensus

Scientific consensus is the generally held judgment, position, and opinion of the majority or the supermajority of scientists in a particular field of study at any particular time.

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Scientific skepticism

Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism (also spelled scepticism), sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.

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Sense

A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli.

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Sensory leakage

Sensory leakage is a term used to refer to information that transferred to a person by conventional means (other than psi) during an experiment into extrasensorial perception (ESP). Extrasensory perception and Sensory leakage are paranormal terminology and parapsychology.

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Telekinesis

Telekinesis is a hypothetical psychic ability allowing an individual to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Extrasensory perception and Telekinesis are paranormal terminology, parapsychology, pseudoscience and psychic powers.

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Telepathy

Telepathy is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. Extrasensory perception and Telepathy are paranormal terminology, parapsychology, pseudoscience and psychic powers.

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Terence Hines

Terence Michael Hines (born 22 March 1951) is an American academic and researcher.

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Third eye

The third eye (also called the mind's eye or inner eye) is an invisible eye, usually depicted as located on the forehead, supposed to provide perception beyond ordinary sight.

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Vision (spirituality)

A vision is something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy, especially a supernatural appearance that usually conveys a revelation.

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Zener cards

Zener cards are cards used to conduct experiments for extrasensory perception (ESP). Extrasensory perception and Zener cards are paranormal terminology and parapsychology.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasensory_perception

Also known as Cryptaesthesia, Cryptesthesia, ESPer, Extra Sensory Perception, Extra-Sensory Perception, Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP), Extra-sensory, Extrasensory, Psi ability, Second sight.

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