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    Dreams and Déjá Vu Essay

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    You walk into the house of a new friend. As you scope it out, you realize something a bit strange… You’ve been there before. But not exactly in person. You think about it a little bit, and you then realize that it was in a dream, a dream that perfectly portrayed with every small detail the exact room you’re now standing in. Sound familiar? This is an experience that is not as rare as most people think. For many, these arbitrary feelings of extreme familiarity, known as déjà vu, come through dreams

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    Designing on ESP Study Zener cards The purpose of this essay is to create an experiment that test whether or not psychics have clairvoyant power. 1a. Dr. Venkman believes that psychics are the only one who has this special clairvoyant power that no regular person has. 1b. In his article How ESP Works, Tom Harris reveals that no one are ability to prove that extra- sensory perception (ESP), exist. For example, Harris uses the scenario of a man who wrote a book about a sunken ship, which had the same

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    ASSIGNMENT 2 What are some of the core concepts and theory when considering the transpersonal approach? The work of the transpersonal draws largely from mainstream psychological concepts and theory in order to ground its practice in science. However, unlike mainstream psychological paradigms, the transpersonal acknowledges that “our essential nature is spiritual” (Phoenix Institute of Australia, 2012) and that as human beings we have “valid urges towards the spiritual” (Phoenix Institute

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    It is no big shocker that over the years the subject of clairvoyant powers has been a target of theory, mystery, fear, and even superstition. Those who cannot understand a thing tend to fear a thing, and it is no surprise because clairvoyants have an uncanny gift to see beyond, into places that most other people cannot. This is why it is a source of such controversy and even jealousy at times. Clairvoyance refers to the ability to see events, people or objects which are otherwise not visible through

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    Designing an ESP study using Zener Cards The purpose of this study is to outline an experiment that will correctly display if a person does or does not have extra-sensory perception. Our hypothesis is that people with a strong sense of ESP will accurately identify the Zener cards more than 20% of the time. The probability of guessing any card correctly is 20% so a person with ESP would have a higher probability of guessing correctly. Evidence for the existence of ESP has been found but

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    "You are a mystery." Mr. Lyle, the current head of the telekinetics division, said to me. He was called in after the teachers in charge of the incoming students assignments failed to recognize what I am. I thought that I would get into telekinetics easily with my aura. "This isn't tactile telekinesis. Telekinetics create an aura around their body by manipulating the air molecules around themselves. However, this is like an invisible membrane is surrounding you. Same effect but different process

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    Visions, Powers, and The Other side What is psychic archaeology? Well, psychic archaeology is considered to be a type of science. In the scientific world, some consider it to be a strict science, while others consider it a pseudoscience. The definition of psychic archaeology us a loose collection of practices involving the application of paranormal phenomena to problems in archaeology. Even though how to be a psychic archaeologist is not taught in schools, it is made aware of to the students. In

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    The response, “I knew it!” is a response often used today out of context. Although many people say these words without a second thought, the aspect of knowing something before it happened has been an art practiced and faked for many centuries. In Donald R. Morse’s The Sixth Sense and Beyond, Mr. Morse describes the multiple possibilities of a sixth sense. He describes the “sixth senses” animals have including echolocation, and reptiles sensing pheromones from other species around them. Morse

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    Something I’ve noticed, is some people really want to pretend they have super powers. People go like “I never get sick” and that’s not true, you just have been lucky and haven’t gotten sick you mean. Or other weirdos who think they can see events in their dreams? Kinda want to do something drastic just to go like “did you foresee that? No? Because you’re narcissistic, immature and showing like you don’t have a grip. pectus excavatum Sounds like a spell doesn’t it? I was told I looked like Snape

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    According to Wikipedia paranormal events are, “events that can not readily be explained by the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.” Paranormal events are very fascinating and can appear as though there is nothing that can explain such rare phenomena. As a kid I sometimes would watch shows that would discuss all sorts of paranormal events from ghost sightings, big foot, the Loch Ness monster, UFO sightings, and even alien abductions in some instances. These stories really intrigued

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