From The Vaults: ESP, It's Dyno-mite.... (originally posted November 2011)

Apparently, we all have ESP, short for Extra Sensory Perception. It is also known as the Sixth Sense. By definition it is any knowledge gained without the aid of the normal physical 5 senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and seeing. Any time you learn about a specific thing, sometimes you need to 'brush up' or maintain the knowledge by re-learning it. Because we don't practically use ESP in our day to day living, or perhaps we do but we are unaware it is happening, we are rusty or tuned out of it. All we have to do is become aware of it and practice it to become better. Examples of types of ESP are as follows:


~Precognition- Realizing something that will occur in the future
~Retrocognition- Realizing something that has already occurred in the past, BUT not through regular means (normal sensing)
~Clairvoyance/ Clairaudience- Seeing or hearing IN THE MIND something that is occurring presently, and usually, elsewhere. 
~Telepathy-Being able to speak to someone with mind alone or receive their thoughts with mind alone...

In the 1930s, psychologist Karl Zener devised a set of cards called Zener Cards:

These were and still are used to conduct experiments with ESP. There are 5 cards of each symbol in a deck: Square, Wave, Circle, Cross, Star...for a total of 25 cards. Any subject can attempt to guess the symbol of a card turned down. With time, ability gets better. Whether it is the ability to educationally guess probabilities or pure psychic power is debatable, though results are the same.

Similarly, Israeli psychic Uri Geller says one can develop their ESP simply by guessing the color of the next car to drive by, that is, in an urban environment usually. Uri was known especially for bending spoons and other silverware with his mind alone, and his one Cadillac is covered with them!

Uri Geller's awesome car.

Whatever you do, the first step is believing.  In the simplest form, ESP is just what we call a hunch or gut-feeling. Surely that can be believed.  As time progresses when we train our minds, we learn to find more details and accuracy. We are all born with the ability, some just need to hone it more....