Extrasensory perception {parapsychology}| {psi, parapsychology} {noetics} {transpersonal psychology} is perception without sense qualities. Paranormal communication has no physical links.
However, no one has evidence that parapsychological phenomena are extrasensory. All cases have explanation.
dream and future
Knowing the future through dreams seems to be common. However, it comes from person's previous knowledge and story-making abilities.
evolution and ESP
Because an evolution goal is to know the future, evolution should select for ESP strongly but does not.
magic and ESP
From Stanford Research Institute, Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff published results of experiments using Uri Geller in the journal Nature [1974]. However, magicians can do same tricks. Magicians laugh at psychokinesis or other tricks, because duplication is easy.
newspaper reports
Charles Fort wrote a book containing newspaper accounts of unbelievable phenomena, which he presented as fact but which were merely exaggerations or similes.
past people and ESP
People can claim to know about events about people who lived long ago, as revealed by hypnosis. However, many examples of multiple personalities exist, and people have easy access to historical knowledge.
psychics
Famous so-called psychics {psychics} are Edgar Cayce, Jeanne Dixon, Gerard Croiset, and Ted Serios. However, their accuracy is near zero.
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