Do We Possess Psychic Power?
In a recent blog, Steve Pavlina compares the sixth sense to our five other senses and emphasizes the sixth sense has the same limit as our normal senses, and we should not deny our psychic power just because we can't sense stuff out of its limit. More specificly, you can't see beyond the corner, so can''t you sense anything beyond the limit of your psychic power.
Sounds paradoxical again. So why do we feel Steve's comparison is flawed?
I think the difference is that our normal senses are developed through feedbacks. Isn't the psychic power developed through feedbacks as well? Yes, but it is only a partial feedbacks (my way of saying "incorrect feedbacks"). Proper feedbacks should include all signals we receive through that certain sense. For example, vision, we see a tree in a distance, then we walk closer, the tree gets bigger in the vision; if we walk away, the tree get smaller in the vision. Taste, if we put candy in mouth, sweet; spit the candy out, still some sweet left, but weaker; if we add salt in the mouth, yep, sweet is gone, it is salty now. Same can be tested with all five normal senses. Can we do this with our psychic sense? What are you capable of sensing? Does the sense gets stronger or weaker when the "distance" to the sources changes? Steve uses an opening question: "Can you guess my name?" Can you? OK, psychic senses has limits just as our other senses do. Then tell me how I can move my name closer to your sense, how can I move it into your limit. Do you know your limit? OK, name is totally out of the limit. Do you know which is in your psychic power limit, and can you test it the way we test our vision and hearing?
Chances are, the sixth sense is totally different than our other physical senses. As Steve calls it, the psychic sense contains huge amount of noise. So sometime we sense it, and sometime we don't, and yet sometime we sense the wrong signal (noise).
Noise is not a problem. In scientific study, we deal with noises all the time. To test signals with noise, we use statistics. The correct term here is correlation. If we really want to test our psychic power, find a subject that we think ourselves are most strong at, for example, telepathy. Then fix the variables as much as we can. In this example, fix the target person, say your wife. Fix the subjects, say numbers from 1-100. Then fix the time and weather and distance etc. Now fix the term, say ask the target write down the number, think hard on it for 1 minute, and you write down whatever you senses; then go on to another. Some sort of lights or bells synching you and the target will be very helpful here. You need test it as many times as possilble, for example, take two guesses every day around the same time and same settings. And of course, log down the results truthfully. By truthfully I mean you need log down whatever you senses even if you sense nothing (log "nothing") or rose (log "rose"). Then sum the results up after say 100 or 1000 guesses. If your senses doesn't have much noise, maybe 10 guesses is sufficient. But if your senses have quite some noise, you probably need take much more tests. To read the results, the simplest way is count how many you guessed correctly against how many that you didn't. If most of the time you guessed correctly, then you have psychic power. In many situations, you may not know what kind of your signals is. For example, you may sense rose whenever your target thinks number 12. Correlation will help. You count how many times you sense rose when your target thinks 12 and normalize the answer. If you know what to looking for, it is easy, just count the number of times of rose-12 pair against allother-12 pair. If you don't know what to look for, you need to full correlation calculation, which is a statistics of every possible answer pairs. You probably need a computer program to do that. Send me your log to me if you need help. The answer of full correlation may suprise you. Say if you consistently sense 1 when your target thinks 2, you have a strong psychic sense.
It is not so easy when the noise is big. To tell a signal among strong noises you have to measure it many many times, thus often this kind of psychic power came to no use at all.
We should take caution of our natural habit of throwing away "bad" signals when we are looking for certain answers, conciously or unconsciously. If you sometime feel you are on a lucky streak (or bad luck streak) in front of a slot machine, then you are having that habit.
Sounds paradoxical again. So why do we feel Steve's comparison is flawed?
I think the difference is that our normal senses are developed through feedbacks. Isn't the psychic power developed through feedbacks as well? Yes, but it is only a partial feedbacks (my way of saying "incorrect feedbacks"). Proper feedbacks should include all signals we receive through that certain sense. For example, vision, we see a tree in a distance, then we walk closer, the tree gets bigger in the vision; if we walk away, the tree get smaller in the vision. Taste, if we put candy in mouth, sweet; spit the candy out, still some sweet left, but weaker; if we add salt in the mouth, yep, sweet is gone, it is salty now. Same can be tested with all five normal senses. Can we do this with our psychic sense? What are you capable of sensing? Does the sense gets stronger or weaker when the "distance" to the sources changes? Steve uses an opening question: "Can you guess my name?" Can you? OK, psychic senses has limits just as our other senses do. Then tell me how I can move my name closer to your sense, how can I move it into your limit. Do you know your limit? OK, name is totally out of the limit. Do you know which is in your psychic power limit, and can you test it the way we test our vision and hearing?
Chances are, the sixth sense is totally different than our other physical senses. As Steve calls it, the psychic sense contains huge amount of noise. So sometime we sense it, and sometime we don't, and yet sometime we sense the wrong signal (noise).
Noise is not a problem. In scientific study, we deal with noises all the time. To test signals with noise, we use statistics. The correct term here is correlation. If we really want to test our psychic power, find a subject that we think ourselves are most strong at, for example, telepathy. Then fix the variables as much as we can. In this example, fix the target person, say your wife. Fix the subjects, say numbers from 1-100. Then fix the time and weather and distance etc. Now fix the term, say ask the target write down the number, think hard on it for 1 minute, and you write down whatever you senses; then go on to another. Some sort of lights or bells synching you and the target will be very helpful here. You need test it as many times as possilble, for example, take two guesses every day around the same time and same settings. And of course, log down the results truthfully. By truthfully I mean you need log down whatever you senses even if you sense nothing (log "nothing") or rose (log "rose"). Then sum the results up after say 100 or 1000 guesses. If your senses doesn't have much noise, maybe 10 guesses is sufficient. But if your senses have quite some noise, you probably need take much more tests. To read the results, the simplest way is count how many you guessed correctly against how many that you didn't. If most of the time you guessed correctly, then you have psychic power. In many situations, you may not know what kind of your signals is. For example, you may sense rose whenever your target thinks number 12. Correlation will help. You count how many times you sense rose when your target thinks 12 and normalize the answer. If you know what to looking for, it is easy, just count the number of times of rose-12 pair against allother-12 pair. If you don't know what to look for, you need to full correlation calculation, which is a statistics of every possible answer pairs. You probably need a computer program to do that. Send me your log to me if you need help. The answer of full correlation may suprise you. Say if you consistently sense 1 when your target thinks 2, you have a strong psychic sense.
It is not so easy when the noise is big. To tell a signal among strong noises you have to measure it many many times, thus often this kind of psychic power came to no use at all.
We should take caution of our natural habit of throwing away "bad" signals when we are looking for certain answers, conciously or unconsciously. If you sometime feel you are on a lucky streak (or bad luck streak) in front of a slot machine, then you are having that habit.
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