Do Psychic Phenomena exist?
Has the idea of psychic abilities or phenomena ever crossed your mind? Well there is a large amount of people who disbelieve in psychic abilities and find it hard to even consider it being real at all. Regardless of the skeptics and their beliefs, there has been research and studies done for the past 145 years on the subject and the evidence to all of it is quite intriguing. Researchers believe there are 57 senses we do not consciously use that are related to psychic abilities and mental capabilities (57). Reading on with an open-mind may help with accepting or comprehending the subjects talked about, and for the skeptics, your beliefs will be challenged with hard evidence and years of research throughout this report.
Senses are like your mental to physical interactions with life that create the over all experience. When there is a flower you can see its beauty because you have sight, you can taste a slice of pizza because your ability to taste, you can pick up and throw something because you have the sense of touch and strength, you can hear someone call your name from across the court yard, or even smell something nice because your nose and ability to sense scent (sense). These are 5 senses we use everyday but researchers are looking into 57 other senses they now think we may use unconsciously (57). We have the ability to achieve any goal but we limit ourselves by the 5 senses that we think are the only ones to exist, when in fact the rest are slowly being proven to be a part of out psyche and realities.
The earliest “modern era” research began in the 1870’s (‘70). At the time, people questioned if their experiences in life had to do with their mental stability and thought process. They hardly k...
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What is sense perception? Everything we perceive in our senses can be misleading and an illusion. In the article “Perception and Reality” by Keith Wilson (see Article 1), the author goes over some of the aspects of how our perception deceives us to believe in things that aren’t there to begin with. For example are colors real? Well that is relevantly dependent on what is considered real, because real again is a perception of a single individual collecting information and making “sense” out of it. A color being real or not is dependent on how we see it through our eyes, we can 't say that my blue is the same as your blue. We can 't know for sure if what we are seeing for ourselves, is the same as what the person that views that same thing sees
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involves all of the five senses, the way we perceive them. Perception is not restricted to
The study of psychology began as a theoretical subject a branch of ancient philosophy, and later as a part of biological sciences and physiology. However, over the years, it has grown into a rigorous science and a separate discipline, with its own sets of guidance and experimental techniques. This paper aims to study the various stages that the science of psychology passed through to reach its contemporary status, and their effects on its development. It begins with an overview of the historical and philosophical basis of psychology, discusses the development of the various schools of thought, and highlights their effects on contemporary personal and professional decision-making.
Psychic chat readings are one of the fastest and easiest ways of carrying out psychic services. Thanks to the evolution in the area of science and technology which has improved mans ability to manipulate his environment for his overall benefit. Think of what would have happened some fifty years ago or thereabouts, psychic readings would be restricted to the homes of the few psychic readers who would be opportune to be known. Psychic readings would have been restricted for the rich and the affluent because only they could afford the expenses of meeting the travelling expenses especially for international clients. With the arrival of the Internet, problems like that are now consigned to the past. Psychic readings can now be conducted for the client right at his or her home via long distance.
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We are taught, at a young age, how important our five senses are. These senses are essential to survival and are the necessary feedback for our existence. The question becomes though, what are really our senses? Touch, smell, sight, hearing, taste are the ones engrained into us, but there’s more to it, we can sense temperature, acceleration, movement, and even intangible things such as hostility, fear, or even someone or something’s gaze. While questioning why these are important and vital senses it raises a question of what is not included in the taught set of senses. Are senses real or are they a figment of our imagination created to give us a virtual reality? When people have senses that are better than others does that make our senses reliable? Rene Descartes ran into these questions himself in his Meditations on First. He distorted the perspective of senses by relabeling the concept of dreams, the beliefs of a powerful entity, and the mind itself. Descartes decides to call all individual opinions into doubt,
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Sensation refers to the process of sensing what is around us in our environment by using our five senses, which are touching, smell, taste, sound and sight. Sensation occurs when one or more of the various sense organs received a stimulus. By receiving the stimulus, it will cause a mental or physical response. It starts in the sensory receptor, which are specialized cells that convert the stimulus to an electric impulse which makes it ready for the brain to use this information and this is the passive process. After this process, the perception comes into play of the active process. Perception is the process that selects the information, organize it and interpret that information.
First, one must have the five senses; taste, smell, hear, see, and feel. Yes, these are physical aspects, however, these senses are what any human needs to be, human. For example, the human body needs to be able to taste. It must ingest food, and the food must appeal to a decent taste. A human must also be able to smell, so one may smell a poisonous gas, delicious food, or any other stench that may linger in the air. To be able to hear, enables the human to hear danger or a noise that appeals to them. When seeing, danger is also noted as well as the care of others. When one feels, the object that is being felt may make the person feel comfortable. Not only the sense of touching, but feelings.
The five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are all sensations throughout the human body. Sensation is the involvement of sensory receptors as well as the central nervous system in order to allow us to experience outside stimuli. The system that allows us to experience sensation is the sensory system.
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