Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical? | Episode 111 | Closer To Truth

Some claim that their scientific study of extrasensory perception, or parapsychology, overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements seriously? Featuring interviews with Marilyn Schlitz, Charles Tart, Susan Blackmore, Rupert Sheldrake, Dean Radin, and Michael Shermer.
Season 1, Episode 11 - #CloserToTruth
Archive episode. First aired in 2008.
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  • @mariusj8542
    @mariusj85422 жыл бұрын

    I have a really strange experience that has “haunted” me most of my life. When I was about 7 years old, my family was traveling via an airport in Spain. I had never been there, but when my father asked my mother if she had seen a place where we could buy something to drink. I told him that that’s a bar just around the corner “ 50 meters away and impossible to see”. Remember pulling my fathers hand and pulling him in the direction, he just went along laughing, but when we turned around the corner, my father looked at me and said, how did you know that. We have spoken about this episode through out the years, but neither of us understands it. The strange thing was that I just knew. I’m turning 50 this year and have spent my life in mathematics, having a background in cybernetics. During my last years I have had some more time on my hands, after the kids moved out, and I went back to the University studying quantum physics( just taking a few classes as a hobby) During this time I have been studying quantum entanglement and quantum field theory and since two particles have been proven scientifically to have a way of influencing each other. ( Einstein’s spooky action over a distance). I must raise the question, and even though I’m perhaps making dots that are not there. Is not quantum entanglement a “proof” of a natural occurring example of ESP ? I admit that I have become a bit more open minded, or perhaps just experienced the Dunning/Kruger effect, which has only made me a bit more humble in the way that the more I know, the more I come to understand how little I know. So perhaps noetic sciences should have its legitimacy. Thank you for sharing your journey.

  • @KalebPeters99

    @KalebPeters99

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think that if there is such a thing as ESP, quantum entanglement must surely be the key to it! I'm still skeptical however. I believe that many people have experiences like the one you had. But it's so hard to properly understand with such a dearth of scientific reproducibility... Thanks for sharing 😊

  • @Samsara_is_dukkha

    @Samsara_is_dukkha

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KalebPeters99 The problem with scientific reproducibility is that the universe is not reproducible. Neither is the life of any human being or of any sentient being that has ever been alive.

  • @tac6044

    @tac6044

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's really not that strange. Kids say odd stuff and sometimes its right.

  • @Kritiker313

    @Kritiker313

    Жыл бұрын

    Interesting story and your point about quantum entanglement too.

  • @jimmyjasi-anti-descartes7088

    @jimmyjasi-anti-descartes7088

    Жыл бұрын

    "Does ESP reveal non-physical" is an a priori prejudiced tittle. It's as though already assuming Dualism before examining evidence

  • @Pdotta1
    @Pdotta12 жыл бұрын

    Lawrence can listen seriously to people go on and on about gods and angels, but find this subject totally unbelievable. His expressions and non verbal language are hilarious in this.

  • @simesaid

    @simesaid

    2 жыл бұрын

    One of my favourite moments of CTT was when Rob said "...but building a reality based on quantum mechanics? (Chuckle) Well I'm not so sure!" One can debate how to _interpret_ quantum mechanics, but to not believe quanta underlies the atomic is something else entirely! Hilarious!

  • @thelastgreatpoet5219

    @thelastgreatpoet5219

    2 жыл бұрын

    Im curious I'm here to understand why is cern doing the things it's doing

  • @petermartell568

    @petermartell568

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thelastgreatpoet5219 discovering the building blocks of the universe would seem to be a worthy endeavor.

  • @thelastgreatpoet5219

    @thelastgreatpoet5219

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@petermartell568 to.?

  • @petermartell568

    @petermartell568

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thelastgreatpoet5219 to what?

  • @trojanhorse860
    @trojanhorse8602 жыл бұрын

    The physical reality is just a level or a dimension of reality, not reality itself...

  • @jareknowak8712
    @jareknowak87122 жыл бұрын

    A day with full episode upload = A good day.

  • @stancatalina8163
    @stancatalina81632 жыл бұрын

    We are more connected than most of the people realize. There is no I.

  • @adebleswordfish

    @adebleswordfish

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are me and I am you, theoretically the only objective “I” is the idea of awareness, information inputs of something - the first had “chemical over here” senses only.

  • @robertsaget9697

    @robertsaget9697

    2 жыл бұрын

    if there is no "i" then you shouldn't have any issue sending me all of your money in your bank account. Somehow i doubt you'll send me any money though, contradicting yourself

  • @PaulHoward108

    @PaulHoward108

    2 жыл бұрын

    We are each a portion of the whole. The "I" thought is a reflection of your distinct reality.

  • @stancatalina8163

    @stancatalina8163

    2 жыл бұрын

    Save your bullets

  • @christoferprestipino7433

    @christoferprestipino7433

    2 жыл бұрын

    No, there is an “I” cut your hand tonight, not only will it not cause me, or anyone else pain, myself and the rest of the world won’t be aware it happened

  • @MrJPI
    @MrJPI2 жыл бұрын

    If ESP was true it wouldn't be unphysical, otherwise it would have no physical effect on anything.

  • @S3RAVA3LM

    @S3RAVA3LM

    2 жыл бұрын

    Right. Similar to physics laws.

  • @PaulHoward108

    @PaulHoward108

    2 жыл бұрын

    The physical is essentially unphysical. Consciousness can interact with matter because matter is an expression of consciousness. Physical objects are concepts with enough detail to touch.

  • @user-zq1zc7xq1m

    @user-zq1zc7xq1m

    Ай бұрын

    We’re energy. Everything is energy.

  • @thomasridley8675
    @thomasridley86752 жыл бұрын

    The search for something beyond this reality isn't new (See religion ). But it always comes up short on credibility.

  • @chriscantor6852

    @chriscantor6852

    2 жыл бұрын

    Words can mislead. "Is there something beyond reality?" Definitely not, because if it's unreal it's unreal, it's not there. "Is there some form of unusual sensory phenomenon as yet unexplained by our current, and limited knowledge of consciousness, but otherwise based in reality?" Quite a different question.

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chriscantor6852 At this point, I don't think there will ever be new insights that will add any credibility to the paranormal. It's always been more fraud than science. So let's say we do unleash paranormal abilities. That would really be messed up. Apes with super powers. 🙄 That's not a world I would want too live in. Can't we just be happy with the short time we have here ? But, no ! We want it too be more than it is. Like this reality isn't impressive enough as it is. That for some reason we deserve more than our blink. Even putting us above the natural laws that we are bound to. 🙄

  • @LiteShaper1

    @LiteShaper1

    2 жыл бұрын

    It comes up short on credibility to those who haven’t examined the data. To those who have examined the first class, peer reviewed laboratory data the reality of psi is overwhelming. Please look at Dean Radin’s research if you are truly interested. What is interesting to me are those who make blanket statements like yours never look at the data…& those who look at the data never make blanket statements like your…or hold their breath like Michael Sherman and proclaim it isn’t true because it can’t be. There is more evidence for psi than there is for the Higgs Boson particle.

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LiteShaper1 There is more evidence for fairies than there is for the paranormal. There is probably a good reason why he is considered fringe even in the paranormal community. His connecting of neuroscience and quantum interactions is a pretty shaky foundation to build on. And of course the answer is always in the next layer down. 🤔 Since you can't seem too repeat, what seems to be very random events, in a controlled environment. I don't see how credible evidence will ever get complied.

  • @LiteShaper1

    @LiteShaper1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasridley8675 So - you haven’t looked. You just feel compelled to make unfounded dogmatic generalities regurgitating opinions of other myopic materialists who haven’t looked. Good job on the Googling. Your statement reflects you have little respect for science.

  • @eryksylvan801
    @eryksylvan8012 жыл бұрын

    After having a family church outing last Sunday with breakfast and reminiscing about St Patrick day partying afterwards including at my brothers restaurant who died couple years ago. Later same afternoon at home Alexa in a quiet house with all of us sitting there said and in capital letters ”Did you mean Off The Hook” and repeated it. His restaurant! This stuff happens when you don’t look for it and to many of us who have lost a bunch it happens often and is not shocking just heartwarming and funny. We want to delve into mystery but do need need the proof of more out there - we know it to be so.

  • @pikiwiki
    @pikiwiki2 жыл бұрын

    Woo hoo! The graphics! The questions! This channel is, evolving

  • @roostfezza7563

    @roostfezza7563

    2 жыл бұрын

    Still amazed that thinkers are always in darkened rooms. Must be a thing

  • @pikiwiki

    @pikiwiki

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@roostfezza7563 limiting the amount of information that reach your senses through light might decrease distraction

  • @p0indexter624
    @p0indexter6242 жыл бұрын

    another outstanding episode thank you !

  • @Dion_Mustard
    @Dion_Mustard2 жыл бұрын

    I used to be rather closed-minded on concepts such as ESP (as well as out of body experiences / NDEs/ Lucid Dreams) UNTIL I had such an experience myself. I have since had many Lucid Dreams, an out of body experience and often sense things are going to happen which then do. So now I know how important it is to keep an open mind.

  • @tac6044

    @tac6044

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lucid dreams have nothing to do with the other things you've mentioned. Lucid dreams are a known and very studied phenomenon. There are no scientists claiming that lucid dreams are not real.

  • @Dion_Mustard

    @Dion_Mustard

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tac6044 my point is , many would say lucid dreams are not real or indeed not possible..I thought that myself a number of years ago until I had many such experiences , so that's my fundamental point, that people need to keep an open mind regarding such phenomena.

  • @kuroryudairyu4567

    @kuroryudairyu4567

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm open minded, but until I don't get any objective proof, i can't say it's true

  • @eriksaari4430

    @eriksaari4430

    Жыл бұрын

    brains hallucinate. that's what they do. to an extent some start believing in phenomena like esp without evidence. there's plenty of science done on lucid dreaming these days.

  • @Dion_Mustard

    @Dion_Mustard

    Жыл бұрын

    @@eriksaari4430 my experiences were definitely not hallucinations.

  • @fortynine3225
    @fortynine32252 жыл бұрын

    There is enormous power in the unconscious. One can see and understand things unconsiously which is impossible on a conscious level. It is kind a like using much higher percentage of brain capacity. Folks who have been in a situation where they where overpowered by the unconscious know what i am talking about. Lots out of the ordinairy stuff is unconscious related. I need to point out here that certain stuff happens in the real world in the heat of the moment and cannot be replicated in a lab.

  • @1SpudderR

    @1SpudderR

    2 жыл бұрын

    H’mmm!? Re-think “Unconscious” Probably more realistic is “Attention To Attention Of the Subconscious”.......Ask a House Brick if it is “Unconscious”? Regards

  • @tomasz3122
    @tomasz31222 жыл бұрын

    I've had precognitive dreams when I was younger. And I mean precognitive dreams, not deja vu. I would literally dream a couple of seconds, frame by frame, of what would happen in the future. Now, I don't mean it was something extraordinary nor do I think that it is a proof for anything. But I like to personally think of it that way.

  • @scooby3133

    @scooby3133

    2 жыл бұрын

    I had a similar experience. When I was a teenager I was the backseat passenger of a bad car accident. About three months prior to that I had a vivid dream of about 5 seconds of time before impact. In real- time I saw that 5 seconds play out but it wasn't enough time to realize the outcome. I could have prevented the accident. As much as I wish to know the future, I just can't accept it's possible in reality. That dream still baffles me though.

  • @Learn2DriveNYC

    @Learn2DriveNYC

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ever wonder why it's always only a few seconds?

  • @romanholder5621

    @romanholder5621

    2 жыл бұрын

    This has happened to me over a dozen times and it make me think it has something to do with multiple dimensions of time of something

  • @tomasz3122

    @tomasz3122

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Learn2DriveNYC I have no idea. But at the same time, these few seconds are always very distinct. So for example somebody say says a sentence while you look at a particular item; neither the person, the topic or the thing you're looking at are ever combined in this configuration. And while that happens, you are totally amazed as you know what will happen but you also don't believe in what is happening so you don't interfere. If it would happen to me on regular basis, I would try to interfere. I wish we could find a way to trigger that kind of a dream, so that it could perhaps be tested in some way.

  • @scooby3133

    @scooby3133

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@romanholder5621 to see something that occurs in the future, that would mean your present is actually the past because the event would have already occured. . 🥴

  • @bryanaleigh8503
    @bryanaleigh8503 Жыл бұрын

    “…take your nines as far as you want.” 😹 Robert is the best. I’m stealing this.

  • @jayjames7055
    @jayjames70552 жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @lodusmusic4010
    @lodusmusic40102 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for asking this question. I am curious as to what inspired you to ask this specific one.

  • @con.troller4183

    @con.troller4183

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's easy. Unanswerable questions that attract woo-woo peddlers means more seasons of CCT.

  • @lodusmusic4010

    @lodusmusic4010

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@con.troller4183 maybe, or maybe not. In the end what really mattered anyway except the way in which we lived. And maybe that's because we gave it reason. to ponder this question would be just as good as any.

  • @creatorgenerator1998

    @creatorgenerator1998

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@con.troller4183 Good point.

  • @TheTroofSayer
    @TheTroofSayer2 жыл бұрын

    Interesting slant at 24:27. How do we broach this subject without the woo? Perhaps, the entangled self? I've often wondered how my dreams seem so real, as if I was experiencing from the perspective of another mind-body. Perhaps we are more entangled than we realize? Like Shermer, I'm a skeptic of woo. But maybe there exists something beyond our immediate experience of space and time, which needs to be factored in. Maybe ESP is more subtle, yet more pervasive, than traditionally understood. Maybe our dreams are more representative of the workings of ESP. If so, then ESP is something to listen to, not something to control. Some kind of synthesis of Sheldrake, culture, entanglement, Jung, the collective unconscious and all that.

  • @longcastle4863
    @longcastle48632 жыл бұрын

    Trouble is all the dreams about loved ones where you contact them and, _nope, they're fine_ never gets talked about. Testimonials are not evidence.

  • @v.sandrone4268
    @v.sandrone42682 жыл бұрын

    I have a novel sixth sense...a BS detector and in the absence of serious and convincing evidence it tingles when I here these anecdotes and wild claims.

  • @alittax

    @alittax

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are probably lots of people who fool themselves or others, but just because something is anecdotal evidence, doesn't mean that you can just dismiss it.

  • @LiteShaper1

    @LiteShaper1

    2 жыл бұрын

    With regard to the contention that there is an “absence of serious and convincing evidence” - this is simply not true - & unfortunately this segment did not make an authentic effort to actually look at the data. Both Dean Radin and Charles Tart have first class laboratory, peer reviewed evidence (not anecdotes and wild claims) for the reality of these phenomenon. There is more evidence for the existence of psi phenomenon than there is for the Higgs Boson particle. It really is unfortunate the dogmatic, knee jerk, emotionally anchored response from those who refuse to honestly look at the data because they just “believe” it can’t be true.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    Are there any significant changes to energy or time during ESP experience? Is there any other relevant information from ESP experience(s)?

  • @silvercloud1641
    @silvercloud16412 жыл бұрын

    21:02 I have been wondering this. Is there anywhere else where information can be stored besides a human or animal brain? Like how magnetic hard drives use magnetization? Or how we can now store information in crystal using light which lasts even longer. This could explain why we can't really remember our past lives, if such a thing, with the exception of some remnants of that past existence since most of that went with the brain? If not, how could any information be converted or carried over though multiple existences *if* this is how things supposedly work?

  • @kentdavidge6573

    @kentdavidge6573

    2 жыл бұрын

    As far as science is concerned, the brain is not special in the sense that it is made of the same atoms that make up everything. The atoms just happen to be arranged in a very special configuration that allows the brain to work as it works. Given enough time for our tech to advance, we should be able to reproduce an exact copy of a active human brain. At that point, there is no reason to believe such a brain will not generate consciousness and memories.

  • @cbhoy5527

    @cbhoy5527

    2 жыл бұрын

    DNA is data, its a record. Atoms are data types, variables & as mentioned here, arrangement of atoms, like arrangement of letters create something.

  • @unpopular_opinion8615

    @unpopular_opinion8615

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kentdavidge6573 dr. wilder penfield one of the pioneer in canadian neurosurgery who mapped brain to treat epilepsy and studied human brain for 30 years was convinced that there is nothing more to consciousness than just brain at the beginning of his career became dualist at the end of his significant career he published "the white paper" on why he argues that there is more to consciousness than brain, its an interesting read. and on a completely unrelated note i have some experiences that absolutely convinced me that there is something more to consciousness than just physical reality and conventional science can never duplicate consciousness

  • @longcastle4863

    @longcastle4863

    2 жыл бұрын

    Paper

  • @silvercloud1641

    @silvercloud1641

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@longcastle4863 😂 That might work with clones.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    Are there neural correlates or other brain activity for ESP?

  • @martinrhoads7691
    @martinrhoads76912 жыл бұрын

    My esp experience; as a young man (about 18 yrs, now 72 yrs) I developed a friendship with a guard dog , on the top of a fence that separated us. This unlikely bond went on for weeks, until I felt an intense feeling of unexplained anger or fear within me. The moment I felt this way, the dog growled at me and I lost his trust. I was to afraid later to try and reconnect. Did the dog pick up some chemical clues, or was it something else. I just don't know, but something happened that the dog picked up on. Was it fear/anger emanating from me? I have heard dogs can sence these things, but how?

  • @stoictraveler1

    @stoictraveler1

    2 жыл бұрын

    They are more open to it than we are

  • @wordzfailmebro

    @wordzfailmebro

    2 жыл бұрын

    The dog could smell you. 🤢

  • @wordzfailmebro

    @wordzfailmebro

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Gil the dog just knew..that some little kid was going to annoy him again..woof...predictable. 😁

  • @martinrhoads7691

    @martinrhoads7691

    2 жыл бұрын

    Martin. Its esp Gil, because I knew you were going to send me that message!

  • @martinrhoads7691

    @martinrhoads7691

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wordzfailmebro . My wife says I should shower more to.

  • @tanjohnny6511
    @tanjohnny65112 жыл бұрын

    During my army days,a fellow soldier who passed away in an accident told his sister that he had a feeling that something is going to happened to him and he feels uneasy on the last weekend he went home.His sister relate this to my mother and she told me about it.

  • @roge69charger
    @roge69charger2 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Baby boomer I never did any drugs Tried weed dont like it don't like being in big rock concerts but I'm comfortable at a concert at the Phil Harmonic Hall Was A music major etc & a nd eployed in stores like hobby shops etc I'm a divorced dad I've had experiences ,of precognition many times from when I was very young. Telepathy etc Even hauntings But the phenomenon is not described as I've seen here in the media Do we survive death? I don't really know at all But the poltergeist experience I've had including with a family member to them was real, At the time of the event I said nothing and let them tell me the experience they had. Then had at the time the New York Psychical center come over I had cassette tapes of the sound Was no pest critters. My cat and dog was alerted before mr. I don't meditate or pick cards anything like that to improve any ability if I do have I don't know what is And I'm not religious at all This famous Long Island psychi ,and John Edwards all of them to me are full of it. I myself am kind of a skeptic myself about a lot of subjects That's why I'm subscribed to this channel I really dont know how the brain works But we are creatures to me the same as animals I'm sure the brain warns us of danger ahead of time But Maybe some people dont acknowledge the warning? Still a mystery to me I do believe where I came from is where I'll return to after my demise

  • @hombrealagua
    @hombrealagua2 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on the Channel. Have you ever interviewed Alan Lightman? I don't see him around the videos... I think he could be of much value to your series. Cheers from Mexico City!

  • @moosestubbings1853
    @moosestubbings18532 жыл бұрын

    The closest I came to esp was the prediction that my house would burn down at 4.a.m.on christmas night in the year 1990 I told my immediate family of a vision I had about what I saw when I looked outside the window at the fresh snow. I was 100% correct in my prediction we lost everything except our lives that night as our house burned. Our tenant in the basement dropped a lit cigarette in the couch which smoldered and ignited

  • @tac6044

    @tac6044

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's because you burnt down your house

  • @tac6044

    @tac6044

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...... And if you didn't I can guarantee you that's what your family thinks in the back of their mind

  • @michaelshortland8863
    @michaelshortland88632 жыл бұрын

    My two experiences were not done by me, they happen to me like a lightning strike, they were shocking. I do not believe that you do telepathy or that you are a precoge, it is something that happens to you, that is out side your control. I do not know why, or how it happened to me.

  • @rizwanrafeek3811

    @rizwanrafeek3811

    2 жыл бұрын

    @michael shortland Jewish American asked God to guide him to the correct religion that is accepted by God, please watch this it was a miracle in the broad daylight how God guide him to Islam, kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZY1sttRxXcW5qJc.html

  • @rizwanrafeek3811

    @rizwanrafeek3811

    2 жыл бұрын

    @michael shortland Identical miracle reported by U.S corporal in marine went to Afghanistan, kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y6Obz5SCfNPfadY.html It was indeed miracle in the broad daylight, which turned him to Islam, watch and learn.

  • @houdini178
    @houdini1782 жыл бұрын

    WoWoW!!

  • @peterpanino2436
    @peterpanino24362 жыл бұрын

    Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields are an interesting approach to how reality (time, space, etc.) is structured.

  • @peterpanino2436

    @peterpanino2436

    8 ай бұрын

    @@thesystem6246 Everything is connected to everything.

  • @peterpanino2436

    @peterpanino2436

    8 ай бұрын

    @@thesystem6246 Your one-step theory sounds interesting. How do you define "steps" in this context?

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    Could ESP be done through quantum fields? Phenomenon like clairvoyance and the others sound like might be quantum in nature?

  • @stoictraveler1

    @stoictraveler1

    2 жыл бұрын

    I am leaning that way. I am going to look more into the Field Theory mentioned here.

  • @creatorgenerator1998

    @creatorgenerator1998

    2 жыл бұрын

    Keep digging. Everything is vibration & potential. Tesla said it was light, but what did he know... ;-)

  • @stoictraveler1
    @stoictraveler12 жыл бұрын

    I like the field theory. There may be something there. A field created through familiarity and psychological attachment is evolutionarily rational.

  • @creatorgenerator1998

    @creatorgenerator1998

    2 жыл бұрын

    A good line of thinking to pursue.

  • @dongshengdi773
    @dongshengdi7732 жыл бұрын

    collapsing the wave function in quantum mechanics is One good example . another is placebo effect .

  • @soubhikmukherjee6871
    @soubhikmukherjee68712 жыл бұрын

    Please do new interviews.

  • @MegaW3rd
    @MegaW3rd Жыл бұрын

    9:22 for mind and brain matter to interact via clairvoyance or psychokinesis the process would fall outside traditional causation. What would the process be made up of? A statement about a process that is unintelligible e is hard to demonstrate.

  • @cbhoy5527
    @cbhoy55272 жыл бұрын

    Entanglement is normal in science & its beyond time or it's instant time travel of information/data, just as person to person connections & transfer of some type of information/data through mind to mind is normal & scientific, however creating the identical parameters to recreate such experiences are difficult, as no 2 life situations are identical. However in the book "Beyond Telepathy" there's explanations of what chemicals are present in the brain when certain ESP occurs & that IMHO in conjunction with meditation would be a solid foundation for research.

  • @artsmart
    @artsmart2 жыл бұрын

    Good video Robert. As for ESP I can only say I've had maybe 10-15 events over my 74 years that I can't explain. A few prophetic dreams, and a few incidents where I've received information that just pops into my head and then is confirmed within a few seconds or minutes through some other method. Like I said, very difficult to explain and certainly not a thing that I can control at will. I can understand your search for answers to such questions as I too ponder such things. Please keep the great programs coming!

  • @philrobson7976

    @philrobson7976

    2 жыл бұрын

    10-15 events in 74 years is not so often that it could be just be a case of coincidence. Several times (before cell phones) the person I was calling was already on the line. Just finely tuned coincidence.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    What happens when use methods of psychology on ESP phenomena?

  • @JungleJargon
    @JungleJargon2 жыл бұрын

    That’s silly… I have seen two kids who were inseparable talking to each other in their sleep and neither remembered it when they were told.

  • @dblair1258
    @dblair12582 жыл бұрын

    Had two out-of-body experiences back as a teen. In my 60s now. First while under emotional duress, the other not so much so. Both happened during sleep without conscious provocation. Never able to replicate them later on in life with conscious provocation. Still, they happened (as far as I'm concerned). Not scientifically verifiable at all. Not useful in day-to-day life, either. Just very interesting happenings. ps: During my attempts, it was still fun taking over my dreams and doing whatever I wanted within the dream world. But was never able to break out into the "real" world...whatever that is. ;) Expanded dimensionality may be something to ponder.

  • @petermartell568

    @petermartell568

    2 жыл бұрын

    we are deluged with stimuli from many sources from radio waves to neutrinos. As well, each of us has a singular array that is mediated by 450 quadrillion neural connections. Most of the stimuli is filtered out in the reticular activation system and do not reach the level of consciousness, perhaps with the exception of the dream state. A very interesting area of study. As you have learned elements of dream control, you have the gift of entering your own dreamscape. I found it to be largely symbolic (read emotionally laden.) Enjoy it

  • @Dion_Mustard

    @Dion_Mustard

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can relate to this experience. I used to be very closed minded on the notion of Out of Body Experiences UNTIL I had one myself. And now my viewpoint has utterly changed and I laugh at those who call me crazy. I do not need their input. I know what happened to me was real. More real than my waking consciousness.

  • @petermartell568

    @petermartell568

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dion_Mustard "More real than my waking consciousness." that just about says it all

  • @Dion_Mustard

    @Dion_Mustard

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@petermartell568 by this I mean my current state of consciousness, the one I am experiencing now, is less-lucid than my out of body and lucid dream states. These other experiences are on a whole different level of awareness. So I know consciousness is more than brain. I used to be like you (a cynic and closed minded) until I had these experiences, and now I laugh at those whom mock me.

  • @dblair1258

    @dblair1258

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@petermartell568 Haven't done dream control in over 10 years now. It was fun and interesting (and frustrating) for the years I did it, though. I definitely think that out-of-body "events" most-often require more than the usual and mundane "ego-conscious" instigation. Being young and flexible probably helps, too, perhaps.

  • @benjamin3290
    @benjamin32902 жыл бұрын

    I’m followed by a very specific set of numbers that always tend to reveal itself when I’m “in tune” (as I call it). Things seem to work out, it’s like I’m in my correct energy lane.

  • @eriksaari4430

    @eriksaari4430

    Жыл бұрын

    groovy

  • @cristianm7097
    @cristianm70972 жыл бұрын

    Please discuss EVP too (Electronic Voice Phenomena)

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    Maybe personal experience of ESP can be better investigated through language and logic?

  • @MegaW3rd

    @MegaW3rd

    Жыл бұрын

    The issue with that is the subjective experience though subjectively valid cannot by any objective measures of science be validated. Thats' the issue with the mind body problem. Also just because a person can "experience" something does not mean it holds and weight on the reality of the situation.

  • @tonyf2956
    @tonyf29562 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting. Know thy soul. I recently finished this book by Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Asher, Soul Revolution. It reveals science vs. religion, lost and hidden knowledge of the soul and your existence. How you are being controlled. I could not put it down. I found it on Amazon.

  • @tracemiller9628
    @tracemiller96282 жыл бұрын

    It's mag fields and the concentration of magnetic strings of force. I sat in a huge substation circuit breaker control room with a monster step down transformer, standing next to it I was doing relay calibration. After about 20 mins I had odd thoughts of my brother and then an old friend from younger years. Then I thought I was hearing a voice, I walked outside, no one no where absolutely,, calm and quit.e I had an odd strange feeling over my skin after an hour. Once I was done left the compound , all the strange thoughts out of nowhere stopped and the distant slurred voice's stopped and was all right again. Magnetic field string lines of force passing thru the circuits of the brain and inducing current flow. This odd stuff changed as I rotated my brain changing the angle o and induction of current in my brain, and thus the different extra perceptions or false perseptions. Same as when the planets line up and mag field of our star condenses thru the matter and makes people feel different.

  • @NeverTalkToCops1
    @NeverTalkToCops12 жыл бұрын

    ESP works, because casinos have to constantly change their games to thwart psychics from winning too much. Hee hee hee, ha ha.

  • @scooby3133
    @scooby31332 жыл бұрын

    Food for thought:. What if there was a Big jump in our evolution. Humans develope the means to sent and received radio waves. We could literally transfer thoughts. What do you think? Plausible?

  • @jackarmstrong5645
    @jackarmstrong56452 жыл бұрын

    "Physical" is a catch-all term. If it exists it is "physical". The opposite of physical is imaginary.

  • @PaulHoward108

    @PaulHoward108

    2 жыл бұрын

    Physical just means concepts with full detail. If everything was physical, knowledge would be impossible.

  • @jackarmstrong5645

    @jackarmstrong5645

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PaulHoward108 We don't have the full details about anything. We have no idea what an electron is. We only know how it behaves.

  • @PaulHoward108

    @PaulHoward108

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jackarmstrong5645 Everything is explained in the Vedas. There is even a quantum theory in the Vedas, called Vaiśeṣika. It treats objects as symbols of meanings. That would include electrons.

  • @jackarmstrong5645

    @jackarmstrong5645

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PaulHoward108 Very funny.

  • @PaulHoward108

    @PaulHoward108

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jackarmstrong5645 So continue not knowing.

  • @HouseofRecordsTacoma
    @HouseofRecordsTacoma2 жыл бұрын

    Evolution of the hyoid resulted in great changes. Consider phenomenological truth as a gift. Enlightenment? Don't know what it is - Van Morrison

  • @hotrodsonulondon7111
    @hotrodsonulondon71112 жыл бұрын

    Everything within is the truth, everything outside of you is a lie, ,,to me ESP is higher self awareness. Purity in cognitive thinking. Transparency in the truth.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    Can quantum mechanics be used to test ESP phenomenon?

  • @Zerpentsa6598

    @Zerpentsa6598

    2 жыл бұрын

    A double slit experiment has been done, published. But the conclusions are rubbished by other scientists.

  • @creatorgenerator1998

    @creatorgenerator1998

    2 жыл бұрын

    There's lots on YT regarding your question. Observation of the double split experiment is at the core of it. I'd suggest starting there.

  • @SandipChitale
    @SandipChitale2 жыл бұрын

    Science or scientific method is not based on experience or anecdotes. It is based on repeatable, controlled experiments. Of course subjects experiencing some phenomena can be part of experiments that try to study the experience. Coincidences do happen. We do not notice non-coinscidences.

  • @gregschurr28
    @gregschurr282 жыл бұрын

    Why is it that when we remember a have precognition dream it's always a terrible nightmare about a bad situation that always comes true.

  • @LisaCulton

    @LisaCulton

    2 жыл бұрын

    Most of my precognitive dreams are about good things or just everyday banal things.

  • @vincentzevecke4578
    @vincentzevecke457823 күн бұрын

    She. Is on spot. dreams are not empirical, however it is intuition 😊

  • @vijayaraghava773
    @vijayaraghava773 Жыл бұрын

    All the Episodes indicate to a single point...." We don't know anything yet!!!" God -- We don't know anything yet Multiverse -- We don't know anything yet Other dimensions -- We don't know anything yet Souls --We don't know anything yet Divine or Design ---We don't know anything yet Aliens -- We don't know anything yet What is the purpose of us and universe? -- We don't know anything yet We don't know nothing yet about anything !!! 🙂🙂 but the quest goes on as we humans are curious to know and define everything!!!

  • @Zerpentsa6598
    @Zerpentsa65982 жыл бұрын

    Even physics is hinting that there are more "realities" multiverses in addition to this physical world. Religious people have always believed in spiritual realities that can be accessed via our spiritual being. Furthermore they believe in a supernatural world they call heaven/paradise/nirvana/etc. If such world's exist, there is no reason why spiritual beings like souls which inhabit them cannot communicate with us from time to time.

  • @oskarngo9138

    @oskarngo9138

    2 жыл бұрын

    Even if true; the existence other universes; ... ...does Not mean you have a soul....!

  • @sarablair9170
    @sarablair91702 жыл бұрын

    The subconscious is where we’re all connected. The subconscious is shared oneness with all who are conscious. It evolved over time and may or may not be eternal.

  • @mmedeuxchevaux
    @mmedeuxchevauxАй бұрын

    Susan Blackmore didn't know how to perform PSI tests as well as others, such as Tart, Targ, Sheldrake, Stevenson, Radin, etc. Also, she doesn't take into account the NDEs experienced by blind people. How does she explain their veridical visual experiences?

  • @judithlowery8171
    @judithlowery81712 жыл бұрын

    All of this is true for me and others too, yes

  • @Purusha2
    @Purusha2 Жыл бұрын

    Saying that scientists disagree with Sheldake is silly. Sheldrake is a scientist! Many other scientists do disagree with a sheldrake, in fact they even disagree with the results of his experiments??? Hence the dogma.

  • @amirguri1335
    @amirguri13352 жыл бұрын

    It sounds like Sue could have used Rupert's help in designing her experiments

  • @PaulHoward108
    @PaulHoward1082 жыл бұрын

    If you can't find the non-physical using ordinary perception, you're making a mistake. Which of your five senses enable you to perceive thoughts, knowledge, intentions, and morals?

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes65372 жыл бұрын

    by the way: the last irrational one became skeptic about his skepticism lately ! they wanted this existence to be easy peasy to fit their little irrational minds! but it is not so.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    Does ESP require something more than science to investigate?

  • @peterkrokos6092

    @peterkrokos6092

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably.

  • @Zerpentsa6598

    @Zerpentsa6598

    2 жыл бұрын

    Science investigates repeatable events most of the time, or at least, data that has been captured such as a supernova explosion, etc. Many ESP events are not repeatable or created to order. Consequently, they do not tend to produce conclusive statistical results.

  • @LisaCulton

    @LisaCulton

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes.

  • @joseespinoza6283
    @joseespinoza6283 Жыл бұрын

    I believe the ordinary world is amazing. I don´t understand the search for things beyond the rich reality we perceive

  • @User-xyxklyntrw
    @User-xyxklyntrw2 жыл бұрын

    Tell us about what will happen if esp exist

  • @peterpanino2436
    @peterpanino24368 ай бұрын

    Consider swarm phenomena: These are best explainable by morphic fields.

  • @venkataponnaganti
    @venkataponnaganti2 жыл бұрын

    I am involved with the field for over an two decades and conducted about thirty investigations and found no evidence for the parapsychological phenomena..

  • @Zerpentsa6598

    @Zerpentsa6598

    2 жыл бұрын

    You were probably looking for the wrong things.

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes65372 жыл бұрын

    the irrational said: they interact through a kind of clairvoyance and psychokinesis ! and what is clairvoyance and psychokinesis ! the irrationals have metal defection no doubt ! "still too early to study such a phenomena scientifically, right now just keep science clean."

  • @wthomas7955
    @wthomas79552 жыл бұрын

    What is non physical? I can't imagine what that would be.

  • @creatorgenerator1998

    @creatorgenerator1998

    2 жыл бұрын

    physical means it has substance; can be felt. Radio waves would likely be considered non physical I imagine. So do we as humans have abilities to perceive outside of the audio & visual spectrum? That would be non physical. And what else could we perceive outside of what we've already found through science? Is the universe a storehouse of information, which is embedded in it's structure. I could imagine it being a consciousness unto itself.

  • @wthomas7955

    @wthomas7955

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@creatorgenerator1998 So you're saying that unless it falls within the limitations of human sensory perception it's non physical? That seems like a pretty non relevant criteria. Especially since everything is energy at its most fundamental level.

  • @biomirrorinfinity9618
    @biomirrorinfinity96188 ай бұрын

    These things will not happen when you try consciously .. it will happen when YOU are not there

  • @ZoiusGM
    @ZoiusGM2 жыл бұрын

    ESP/'paranormal' = woo-woo

  • @KAT-dg6el

    @KAT-dg6el

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because if it hasn’t happened to you, it doesn’t exist.

  • @alittax

    @alittax

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KAT-dg6el That's a good response.

  • @anderslarsen4412

    @anderslarsen4412

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KAT-dg6el no, but if there is no evidence of it anywhere, then it is likely woo-woo. No "psychic" has ever been able to show that they had any powers ever.

  • @toonheaded1
    @toonheaded12 жыл бұрын

    Hey Mr skeptic explain the multiple multiple times i had deja Vu

  • @LisaCulton
    @LisaCulton2 жыл бұрын

    Sue, it's a gift from God and I think you're mad that you don't have it or don't recognize it for some reason.

  • @1SpudderR
    @1SpudderR2 жыл бұрын

    H’mmmmm!? “The water droplet in the ocean is all in the Holistic volume”.... “The Ocean droplet is in the trillions of Electromagnetic waves” “Conscious Perception is Unlimited the droplet is Infinite”! ? The Mind (Conscious) is the Ocean. “Human Consciousness is realising that Perception is The droplet and Unlimited in Content”!?

  • @lbo-private2748
    @lbo-private27482 жыл бұрын

    This gets to the heart of the matter which really isn't esp. It's the afterlife. Is there evidence? One unexplained event might be enough to prove it. Even if esp is real it doesn't answer the question. Take the humans out of it and it might. Robert needs to talk to Ghost hunters and see if he can witness a poltergeist first hand. But even that might not do it. Evidence would need to include intelligence, or as they put it, information along with a metaphysical act. If I see my name magically being written on a pad by a pencil with nobody holding it, that would make me a believer.

  • @MVR4444
    @MVR44442 жыл бұрын

    I have to totally disagree with the skeptic magazine guy, the guy is so ignorant so that his just assumed there's no paranormal. Because fundamentally we are all connected in intangible field of universe of cosmos consciousness (the source that manifest our physical reality that we believed it's the only reality our world). Where is our physical reality is only a temporary world manifest from the only real world (the cosmo consciousness) that we refer as non physical world.

  • @chargersina
    @chargersina2 жыл бұрын

    Sue is mixed up. She had a paranormal experience to get her into the field but her own experience did not count as anything. Wow what a scientist, she had an objective experience and decided no proof existed for her. What a joke:) I have had about 50,000 students over the last 42 years of teaching adult students. I always asked how many of you know your Mom is going to call at least 5 minutes before she called. There were always 2 or 3 people in an average class of 50 people that expressed their answer to the class as "it always happens to me". It always happened to me when my mom was alive. These were random calls at random days and random times.

  • @mikeofborg2
    @mikeofborg22 жыл бұрын

    Sound like the one professor smoke something a bit more than just cannabis that night. 😂

  • @Michael-tq6xm
    @Michael-tq6xm2 жыл бұрын

    People who are emotionally entangled work best

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    @ciceroferreira68312 жыл бұрын

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  • @AlchemicalAudio
    @AlchemicalAudio2 жыл бұрын

    It sounds more like she did hallucinogens in the 70’s and was just saying “she smoked some marijuana…” for the cameras

  • @theoneinhidingart6164
    @theoneinhidingart61642 жыл бұрын

    8:40 this extends to the level of human beings connecting to the earth. Emotions are telec recursion of nature (reality). 🤞 "The attitude of biologists to teleology is like that of the pious towards a source of temptation which they are unsure of their ability to resist." -SPM

  • @creatorgenerator1998
    @creatorgenerator19982 жыл бұрын

    Sigh. This comes across more of a well orchestrated hit job than a genuine search for the truth. For example, Dean Radin has over 4 decades of LEGIT TEST DATA which was conveniently absent from this video & therefore not explored. It also lumped him in with people who slant this field toward being fake. (Materialists). Effectively pushing him & his work to the fringe, along with Sheldrake, for whom I also have great respect. These are the two people who ARE increasing our understanding of this field. Some people cannot handle having their beliefs challenged. It terrifies them. So they seek to discredit those who present science based facts that do so. This video is subtle, but that's what I gather after watching it. Such people have to debunk them so they can keep THEIR beliefs intact rather than change. Is that not called denial or cognitive dissonance? For those reading this comment, do your own research. I did. I got the opposite result. (So it's down to follow the money I guess.) Do NOT be influenced by people like this who are good at manipulating others, creating their reality in your mind. Clever, but I see through it. Do you? Is there a hidden agenda trying to keep the woo-woo factor alive, the giggles factor alive, so people stay away from this field, afraid they'll be ridiculed too if associated with it or for believing in it's truth? That's been the mantra with the UFO phenomenon for decades. (That field has been so buried under disinformation, ridicule, threats & intimidation that even I can't fathom THAT truth.)

  • @creatorgenerator1998

    @creatorgenerator1998

    2 жыл бұрын

    P.S. Watch the documentary 'Third Eye Spies' and understand that WE ALL HAVE THIS ABILITY! However, with all of us living constantly under stress, oppressed, living in fear, conflict, divided, distracted and in economic debt etc., it serves to suppress the ability. Has that been by design? I dunno. Perhaps ask the Indian Gurus who live with this ability daily. (Sigh! I guess suppression is better than being persecution, ostracized or murdered as we all learned went on throughout history regarding the gifted soothsayers, witches, prophets etc.). Ironically, an outcome of verification, acceptance & implementation is that we'd know when people are behaving badly. No more secrets. Peace. Think on that a while.

  • @christoferprestipino7433
    @christoferprestipino74332 жыл бұрын

    Don’t dreams break the laws of physics?

  • @tedgrant2
    @tedgrant22 жыл бұрын

    No !

  • @gregalexander8189
    @gregalexander81892 жыл бұрын

    How could something exist and be nonphysucal? Intrauniversal extracausal intercontinuous.

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes65372 жыл бұрын

    yeah that is really unexpected! how could human do what the gods of the irrationals couldn't do ?! shouldn't the irrationals say thanks to human, instead of stealing from him to market for their faked weak malicious gods ?! there are a lot of irrationality, greediness, ingratitude, irrational meanness,.... isn't that true?!

  • @SandipChitale
    @SandipChitale2 жыл бұрын

    Mischievous post.

  • @Learn2DriveNYC
    @Learn2DriveNYC2 жыл бұрын

    I just amazes when I hear obviously smart people discount any possibility that there may be alternate states of reality that science can't yet explain. It's literally the same exact mistake that every scientist ever has made.

  • @LisaCulton

    @LisaCulton

    2 жыл бұрын

    yep.

  • @garyboulton2302
    @garyboulton23022 жыл бұрын

    Although I like this show. The questions and the people, especially in Philosophy. My main problem is: When someone gives an argument or reason for their views which contradict the common view. The host just says the census of philosophers or scientists or whatever reject this view. And then goes on. But he never asks why they reject the view. Scientists have biases. They have dogmas. From which they reject things that go against these dogmas for no good reason. Maybe ask them why do you reject this view and see if they can come up with a good answer. My intuition says most of the times they probably can't. Especially scientists, since they are so extremely dogmatic for the most part.

  • @spaceinyourface
    @spaceinyourface2 жыл бұрын

    You've took a wrong turn of the road to truth with this one buddy.

  • @tac6044

    @tac6044

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did you mean you've taken?

  • @spaceinyourface

    @spaceinyourface

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tac6044 fhukorf

  • @mindaza0
    @mindaza02 жыл бұрын

    111

  • @johncarter1150

    @johncarter1150

    2 жыл бұрын

    One up

  • @danjones3009
    @danjones30092 жыл бұрын

    Coming soon.. 5G-ESP! 👍

  • @mark23a
    @mark23a2 жыл бұрын

    Susan Blackmore has been a hard skeptic for decades not the last few years, not the last six. She was often on uk shows debunking anything and often talking about her bad drug trip as proof that there is no near death experience. Her approach to science and parapsychology as always annoyed me. Rupert Sheldrake gives me hope that science is not as blinked and narrowminded as it has been for many years. The basic fact is, is that we don't know how the universe and physics 100% work and function. You can have particals that can communicate over vast areas through entanglement and we don't know how still. How can we say something that is paranormal just be wrong. How do animals with no talking ability work together? maybe the development of speech has ment we lost some sort of ability where we can communicate at a differenet level which animals still use to some degree. quantum fields could also be involved in how things we deem paranormal actual exist, or maybe dimensions of things we can not even understand could explain a lot. hell even the matrix idea of the universe being a simulation would explain a lot too. There is nothing wrong with being a bit skeptical about things, but to just dismiss something as wrong without trying to examine why and all the possibilites first, is to me is bad science.

  • @trojanhorse860

    @trojanhorse860

    2 жыл бұрын

    "...... Evidently destructive and prone to serious error and endemic uncertainty, modern rationality can hardly be deemed the quiddity of humanity, as the moderns have come to believe. The essence of humanity and that which separates humans from animals are rather the attribute of ethics (al-akhlāqiyya), a quality from which all characteristics of the humans qua humans, including rationality, derive . It is ethics, not rationality, that distinguishes the human from the animal, for the latter does enjoy a rational faculty, however inferior it is to man’s. It follows then, Taha tells us, that there are two major types of rationality, one devoid of ethical content, and thus shared by man and animal, and another that is guided (musaddad) by ethics and is uniquely characteristic of humans, making them what they are. Yet the modernists reject such a division, insisting on denuded reason as the form that drives modern thinking about the world. A survey of modernity’s schools of ethics (Intuitionism, Naturalism, Absolutism, Relativism, and so on) reveals what Taha calls “intellectual chaos” (fawḍā fikriyya) that has plagued Western moral philosophy. Each school claims to have arrived at its ethical doctrine exclusively through rational methods, but this very multiplicity of claims to rationality is the most evincive demonstration of their incoherence. The incoherence stems from the fact that, as products of the same modern place and time, these schools with their diverse doctrines not only cannot all be true individually; they must stand in their totality as a mass of contradictions. Yet, contradiction and incoherence are, by virtue of these modernists’ own acknowledgment and insistence, the very stuff of irrationality. In order to escape this dilemma, they must each, in turn, admit that their form of rationality is merely one of many, and that these rationalities are by no means exhaustive, leaving the distinct possibility that there are other ways of rationalizing the world that they have not considered....." Source: Excerpt from *Reforming* *Modernity.....* by *Wael Hallaq*

  • @petermartell568
    @petermartell5682 жыл бұрын

    parapsychology has been largely debunked. Still though, not totally debunked. The lack of energy field is a main bug

  • @timflelter5566

    @timflelter5566

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's never been debunked. Mostly misrepresented or distorted by skeptics. It's actually the other way around. Most of the skeptic arguments have been debunked. Psi research now appears in mainstream journals.

  • @petermartell568

    @petermartell568

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@timflelter5566 one may do long-term research on a phenomenon that presents barely above statistical static. Yet the research may raise other questions. Parapsychology is the study of anomalous events (behaviors) that often don't conform to lab schedules. It shakes things up a bit when the excuses for failure are as outlandish as the original hypothesis

  • @timflelter5566

    @timflelter5566

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@petermartell568 well yeah but to date there's been no evidence suggesting that methodological flaws are responsible for the effect size. The aggregate long term data also is not barely above chance (its WAY above chance). I dont think any of the excuses for failure are outlandish. Theres experimenter effects in social psychology too. Plus we know that mental concentration and whether a psychological effect is manifested varies wildly for all sorts of reasons. That's why we gather large amounts of data over many years to give us greater confidence in the reality of an effect.

  • @petermartell568

    @petermartell568

    2 жыл бұрын

    ​@@timflelter5566 I am not aware of ANY well-controlled study that has been replicated sufficiently to credit as being a previously unproven extension of perception. Though relegated to the fringe, there have been some interesting experiments done by fully accredited experts in the field using such equipment as Faraday shielding, FMRI scanning and other measuring devices with few producing any statistically significant results. Nobody has claimed Randi's million and many have tried

  • @unpopular_opinion8615

    @unpopular_opinion8615

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@petermartell568 its because when studying non physical anomalies, conventional physics, its apparatus that is used to measure, the kind of data thats needed to study it makes it all impossible, i have had empherical evidences that can convince anyone if they had the similar kind of experiences that there's a very high chance for non physical things about human consciousness but under conventional study i know for a fact it would be DEBUNKED thats how it is and there are disproportionate number of con artists that do all kind of circus that add fuel to the fire

  • @andreasplosky8516
    @andreasplosky85162 жыл бұрын

    "Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical?" Does ESP exist, would be a more appropriate question. I do believe that ESP reveals the Nonsensical. Sheldrake is a good example of that. None have been a bigger failure than dear old Rupert.

  • @jacovawernett3077

    @jacovawernett3077

    2 жыл бұрын

    My prescience is not nonsensical. It is macro.

  • @blacklisted4885

    @blacklisted4885

    2 жыл бұрын

    what failures? I recognize he speculates but has specific research of his been disproved?

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes65372 жыл бұрын

    20:00 mind is distributed ! they do not understand what is going on, it is just a nonsensical interpretations, basically they do not know what is awareness,.... consciousness type tow is part of self concept and the repository of permanent memory is part of self concept too, 21:00 that is incorrect too because so-called personality is not permanent, there is a life cycle but not the way they think. better to forget about that and focus on science because it is useless right now. by the way even the faked malicious gods of the irrationals couldn't give that to the irrationals ! couldn't the faked imaginary gods do that through their religions?! or maybe they worked hard to keep mankind irrationals for their advantages !

  • @megamillionfreak
    @megamillionfreak2 жыл бұрын

    I once (in 1995 or 1996) had a pair of scissors dematerialize from and rematerialize on my desk. I was 23 or 24, still attending university and living with my parents, and was behind closed door in my room (10th floor apartment) and was using scissors to cut tape and then hop on the chair to isolate some areas above my window with the said tape. I would cut the tape, leave scissors on my desk (only a clock radio and the scissors were on the desk), hop on the chair, apply tape and hop down for more tape. Then I noticed the scissors were missing from the surface of the desk after jumping down from the chair one time. I stared at the scene for a few seconds, trying to figure it out. The scissors were there just 30 seconds ago when I put them on the desk and now they’re not. I looked around the floor, then back at the desk. Nothing. I took the clock radio and moved it to the floor then used the entire length of my bare arm to sweep the entire surface of the desk right to left, thinking that if my eyes are lying to me at least something may bump into my arm or drop to the floor. Nothing. The scissors were not with me in that room any more. I was pretty perplexed. Then I went and called my mother who was away in the kitchen to ask her if she may have snuck in while I was working near the ceiling and taken the scissors. She had no idea what I was talking about.we both looked around my room for 5 minutes, growing more perplexed. Then when we were just standing in the center of the room talking about how very weird his was, she turned around and looked toward the desk and said: “Oh look!”, pointing at the desk: the scissors were there in the center of the desk, in the same position I remember leaving them in. Where were they for about 5-10 minutes? Or when were they? This to me, along with one or two other, smaller oddities over the years, revealed the glitchy nature of our otherwise very complex world/simulation. Some years back I read a story by someone online, or maybe it was a youtube video, where they related a very similar case: a youth was working with scissors up in their room and put the scissors away for a second then couldn’t find it when they look for it. Then the guy goes downstairs into The living room to ask parents if they took it and after some talking and looking around they actually found it downstairs - at a spot directly below where it would have been if it stayed upstairs. Glitchy world.

  • @JungleJargon
    @JungleJargon2 жыл бұрын

    Don’t tell schizophrenics about ESP. 🙂