Though the evidence for this is purely anecdotal, it has been reported that psychic abilities can be enhanced through the use of hypnosis. Obviously this requires that you accept the fact of psychic abilities before trying to establish if hypnosis does anything to enhance it. It is not possible to hypnotize someone against their will. This means that for hypnosis to work, there must be cooperation between the practitioner and the subject. Any inhibition or unwillingness to trust the practitioner will result in failure. In truth, the practitioner is merely an assistant who helps the subjects hypnotize themselves. The subject is always in charge and will not accept any suggestions that are not in sync with their own. Whatever stories you may have heard about people doing weird things under the influence of hypnosis are completely untrue.
Historically, hypnotism has been around since the old days when sorcery was accepted as a fact. More practical is the fact of Sigmund Freud using hypnosis in his efforts to understand the unconscious mind. Nowadays, hypnosis is used for many different ends like modifying behavior, therapy, healing bad memories, and so on. Despite this long history, it is surprising that there is no commonly accepted definition of what exactly happens during hypnosis and how the mind is affected. There are many differing theories that attempt to clarify the situation.
The unconscious mind is more responsible for our habits so it is believed that hypnosis helps with curing these habits because during a trance the conscious and unconscious parts of our mind communicate freely and the unconscious is more receptive to suggestions.
There have been many experiments trying to establish and explain the link between hypnosis and ESP but the results are not as clear as one might desire. What was truly surprising in these tests was the discovery of something that has been labeled as "Negative ESP". Most of the ESP tests require the test subjects to ascertain something without making use of any of the five common senses of human beings. Describing a picture they cannot see or the order of cards in a shuffled deck, and so on. When these tests are designed, it is already known that there is always the chance of a random instance when someone will give all the right answers, even without ESP. This is accounted for and the final results are those that go beyond the random factor.
Research conducted by Indians has formed the basis of the traits that are used in classifying people with positive and negative ESP, at least in experiments. Positive ESP subjects are typically known to be extroverts that are outgoing, adventurous, enthusiastic, and always at ease. Negative ESP subjects are known for being more withdraw, always a bit tense, readily frustrated, and quite suspicious without reason. It was finally concluded that negative ESP was basically an outcome of these individual traits rather than the reverse.
In the final result, hypnosis has been shown to increase the ESP of a given subject by relaxing the mind and permitting more subconscious control and refining the mental processes involved in perception.
The human interest in the paranormal can be witnessed through the widespread success of such themes in the media including books, television, and movies. People just cannot resist watching even a completely fictional take on the paranormal. There are countless movies featuring direct references of theme variations on tarot cards and ouija boards that only make the argument stronger. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the social acceptance of items that were once consider taboo and now sold as children's toys. However, due to this over exposure in the media the true essence and origin of extra sensory perception (ESP) has been forgotten by most people. The technical definition of ESP says that it is, "the ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc)".
ESP has a long presence in history and was known long before it became a pop-culture phenomenon like it is today. A study of different cultures, especially Egyptian and Chinese, reveals that these people did not consider ESP to something special. It was almost a given that everyone ought to be able to speak to god, or dead people, or simply other spirits. Of course, these beliefs had to be abandoned over time as the science movement gained popularity and all over the world every belief was viewed as a potentially superstitious bit of nonsense.
Modern science is more open to the thought of such abilities of the human mind and there is an increasing number of paranormal scientists who, through experiment they conducted, found themselves amazed that something very much like ESP seems to be happening with certain individuals. Paranormal studies and tests conducted are now showing strong evidence that so-called psychics are able to describe the contents of sealed envelopes and some of them successfully replicated the drawings of other individuals in other remote locations while the other person was still drawing the image. Parapsychology was earlier restricted to a few members but has increased in both credibility as well as the number of people are beginning to accept its legitimacy.
There is a great deal in common between the various psychic readings and the ESP effects of clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition. Telepathy is well known as the means by which people can communicate with more than one person at a time without speaking or using any of the normal senses. It is direct transmission and reception of thoughts across the minds of the people involved, a kind of psychic telephone.
Clairvoyance is what is also known as the sixth sense or the second sight. Either term implies that things are seen that are not visible to the eyes and felt that cannot be perceived by any of the regular five senses. The person with this ability can perceive events that might be in the past, present, or future, taking place in a completely unknown location, and with absolutely no type of foreknowledge that would lead to such a perception.
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