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Skills, talents, and dimensions.
The human infant is born with a natural tendency, and instinctive behavior, to swim. He or she is also born with a natural instinct to role play, to imitate him play the behaviors he or she sees her in older children and adults around him. We have, in the last 10 years or so, seen a dramatic increase in what we can teach children, and what they can let. This is due more to the fact that the attitude of the children's teachers have changed, not that there has been any evolution in the human brain. One side effect of this learning, however, may be that by teaching children more, earlier, we diminish the instinctive behaviors that would normally develop during that time.
In the years before preschool, daycare, kindergarten, etc. human children may have in fact, use that time to develop skills which today's society has caused to atrophy. In our haste to develop brighter, smarter children, have we stunted some formerly instinctive behaviors that used to develop in that time? Does taking time to fill the brain with knowledge of our choosing diminish the ability of the brain, distracted if you will, from developing skills that we don't recognize that we need any more?
Extra sensory perception: ESP
There are a variety of talents which those interested, in what is commonly called, the paranormal or extra sensory perception (ESP), claime to possess, or have observed. There are potentially thousands of skills and claims. Undoubtedly, summer parlor tricks. Others, often use mysterious (to the uninitiated) technology, and as we all know, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. But out of the hundreds, and maybe thousands, of skills claimed -- those which we are to be concerned with; those which have some science behind them, amount to no more than a handful. There are six, in particular, that we shall discuss:
1. Claraudience / Clairvoyance. These abilities are the ability to hear, see, and/or no something that is happening in a distant place, with no temporal tools or technologies for gathering the information.
2. Telepathy. The ability to know what someone else is thinking, without any physical clues.
3. "Out of body experience" (OBE). The ability to use what appears to be the senses, site, hearing, touch, taste, smell, in a location which is remote from the physical body, without electronic or mechanical assistance.
4. "Past Life Regression" (PLR). The ability, usually but not always under hypnosis, to experience memories accumulated by another, now deceased, person.
In addition to these four relatively well-documented capabilities, there are also the following which may be less well scientifically explored, but merit consideration:
1. Déjà vu. There are many forms of déjà vu, including the commonly felt "I'd been here before" or "I've done this before" feeling that people occasionally get or experience. Closely related to this is the experience many military personnel feel in a combat situation -- the feeling or knowing from which direction the threat is coming, and how far away it is.
2. Precognition. Knowing or experiencing an event before it happens. It manifests itself similarly to Claraudience and Clairvoyance, however, those para-sciences are at the same time he has, or shortly after the event, whereas precognition happens before the event occurs.
We shall examine each of these capabilities in the following mini lessons.
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