ESP

We have all learned about the five senses we possess: taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell. Still, we wonder, “Do we possess another sense, a supernatural power? Does ESP actually exist or is it just coincidence?� For over a century, scientists have run thousands of experiments to learn if we have supernatural powers. American parapsychologist, J.B. Rhine, coined the term "extrasensory perception" to describe the apparent ability of some people to acquire information without the use of the known five senses (www.parapsych.org 1). Extrasensory perception, or ESP, has been tested using three categories: telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. Skeptics question the validity of these tests and suggest that ESP is attributed to lucky guesses or coincidence (Netzley 10). Despite the lack of belief in extrasensory perception, there is significant evidence and proof that most people possess this power, they just may not know how to use it, and that it clearly exists. (Netzley Parapsych.org)
“Extrasensory perception is the ability to experience reality independently of the known channels of sensory perception. It expands the limits of human experience to permit access to realities otherwise unavailable (Slate 7).� Althou

Another interesting aspect of telepathy involves the use of hypnosis, defined by Webster’s II New College Dictionary as “an artificially induced sleeplike condition in which an individual is receptive to suggestions made by the hypnotist (Houghton 544).” Several similar tests that placed the telepathic sender in a normal waking state while the receiver was placed under hypnosis yielded a number of correct answers greater than chance would show (Netzley 20). Several theories surround why subjects do better in a hypnotic or dreaming state. To test the theory that the subconscious mind is more receptive to telepathic images because it is not distracted by the senses, researchers developed the ESP-ganzfield experiment. The results of this stimulation deprivation experiment show a thirty-four percent success rate, whereas chance would predict twenty-five percent (Netzley 22). (Houghton Netzley)

In 1937, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics’ president, Dr. Burton Camp, released the following statement: