Parapsychology for beginners. Parapsychologist - who is it? What are psychic powers

10Feb

What is Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of events, patterns of behavior or perception of phenomena that are beyond the traditional understanding of man or known physics.

What is PARAPSYCHOLOGY - meaning, definition in simple words.

In simple words, we can say that parapsychology studies various paranormal phenomena, such as:

telekinesis;
telepathy;
the gift of clairvoyance;
poltergeist and other inexplicable things.

What does parapsychology study?

By and large, parapsychology cannot be called a science in the classical sense of the word. The fact is that the studied phenomena are at least unpredictable, and they cannot be repeated or recreated in the laboratory to obtain accurate data. It is for this reason that parapsychologists have to work with various pieces of information, collect them into a big picture, and based on this build various theories and assumptions.

It should be understood that parapsychology, as a general concept, does not set itself the goal of proving or disproving anything. At its core, this "science" simply tries to describe or fix facts that have no scientific explanation, and, if possible, to find the most probable causes of these phenomena.

How did the "science" - parapsychology - originate?

History knows many individual characters who tried to do research in the field of paranormal phenomena in ancient times. But the real boom and interest in these phenomena arose at the end of the 19th century. This is due to the craze for various forms of spiritualism, which in turn gave rise to a lot of different psychic studies and researchers. Naturally, almost all sessions of communication with the dead were quackery and an attempt to cash in on naive clients, yet interest in these practices was high. Nevertheless, it was thanks to this hype that people appeared who tried to understand true reasons certain phenomena. So, by and large, parapsychology as a “science” arose.

Suddenly, everyone was talking about parapsychology: TV shows, books, magazine articles are devoted to it. People have appeared who claim that they are in contact with unknown forces that can change a person's life. There are queues of people who want to know their future.

Can a person possess such a gift, or is it all just a hoax that allows you to earn extra money on gullible people? And what is parapsychology - science or myth? Is Wikipedia justified in calling it a "complex of pseudoscientific disciplines"?

Apparently, the time has come to open the veil of secrecy that covers a person, his true abilities, invisible forces and laws governing the Universe, phenomena occurring in this world and in its reflection, which is beyond the reality perceived by man.

What it is

Parapsychology is the science of what cannot be explained scientifically.. About those phenomena that exist in our life, regardless of whether we believe in them or not, we have the opportunity to explain them or shrug our shoulders and only guess about their "otherworldly" nature.

This is the science of those teachings that came from antiquity and describe the incomprehensible and unexplored abilities of man and the foundations of the existence of all things. And, finally, parapsychology is the science of the superpowers of the person himself, of the reserves and dormant knowledge hidden in him. In turn, practical parapsychology applies the described teachings, abilities, knowledge in real life.

Parapsychology is very similar to psychology - they both study a person, his inner world. The difference between these two sciences lies in the prefix "para-", which means "about" in translation. That is, parapsychology is not interested in the inner world of a person, but what is around, what cannot be described, what has no name, what does not have a stable form. Something subtle, each time manifesting differently. That which cannot be taught.

How, for example, to teach a person clairvoyance? Of course, there are parapsychological books that describe techniques for achieving a certain result: open the "third eye", learn how to connect to channels, and so on. And, perhaps, after decades of daily practice, the practitioner will turn into an oracle, foreshadowing the future and looking into the secrets of the world. And perhaps not.

Classifications

It is very difficult to generalize and describe all the methods of parapsychology. Some of them, although indicated by researchers, are little studied, and their manifestations are unknown to the modern world. These include:

Aerokinesis is the control of air currents with the help of thoughts.
Teleportation is movement in time and space.
Pyrokinesis is the ability to light a fire with the power of the mind.
Telepathy is the suggestion of thoughts at a distance.
Telekinesis is the ability to move objects with your eyes.

But there are also more understandable and widely used methods by which parapsychology penetrates our lives:

Bioenergetic healing - the ability to diagnose and cure a disease using energy information, work with the biofield, etc.
Clairvoyance is the ability to see pictures of the past or future.
- "switching off" the volitional and conscious mechanism of a person.
Meditation is an immersion in a state of peace.
Self-hypnosis is the replacement of some thoughts in the subconscious with others.

Of course, now some of the methods can only be conditionally attributed to parapsychology - for example, hypnosis, which has become widely used in psychology and psychiatry. But even some 100-200 years ago, the possession of a hypnotic gaze was considered magic. And this means that over time we will be able not only to read each other's thoughts or look into the future and be treated without drugs, but also to move to any point in the Universe in an instant.

However, you need to understand that not a single ability is given to a person just like that, and he pays for each one throughout his life. And, perhaps, the biggest payment will be required from the one who has been given superpowers.

Another area of parapsychology that studies ancient works describing supernatural phenomena is also interesting:

Levitation, i.e. the ability to overcome the gravity of the Earth and hang in the air.
Reincarnation is the transfer of the soul from one body to another.

By the way, reincarnation is one of the foundations of the Buddhist religion. Buddhists believe that at the moment of death the soul leaves the body and moves into it at the moment of birth. And that all the great spiritual teachers have reached such a level of spiritual enlightenment that they can save and transmit the knowledge received by their soul in a past life during a new bodily incarnation.

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Parapsychic abilities

Spending your free time in pagan or metaphysical communities, you will definitely meet people with certain pronounced psychic abilities.

However, many believe that everyone has a hidden psyche. In some people these abilities manifest in a more obvious way, while in others they just sit deep inside, waiting for some kind of push to break out.

Types of psychic abilities

Exist different kinds psychic abilities. Some people are able to predict the future. Others receive messages from the spirit world.

Foresight is the ability to know. For some people, this is accompanied by very detailed messages, such as: "You will get on the bus and meet a dark-haired man." For others, the visions may be more vague, such as "Someone close to you is going to have a big family change."

Intuition, or intuitiveness, is the ability to simply know and see things that are not supported by certain facts. Many parapsychologists perform excellent layouts on Tarot cards, others prefer to learn information from the world of the dead, and third visions can come in dreams.

is the ability to see things that are hidden. Sometimes used for remote viewing, clairvoyance is often used to locate missing people and find lost items.

Empathy is the ability to feel the feelings and emotions of another person. Someone who is an empath often has to learn how to protect themselves from the energy of others or they may feel drained.

A medium is someone who receives messages from the spirit world. His visions can take many forms: some mediums see and hear real spirits, others receive messages through dreams or visions. Some may even "channel" the spirit, which can then write or speak information of interest.

7 Ways to Develop Paranormal Powers

Everyone has a hidden talent, then development should necessarily include exercises with working through many different levels of self-awareness.

One of the best ways to develop your own psychic abilities is meditation because it allows a person to connect to their own subconscious and everything that is hidden in it.

Get clarity. It sounds complicated, but it's not. To achieve conscious clarity, you need to learn to be aware of everything around.

Sensitive changes in sunlight and shadows, pay attention to the movements of the wind, try to feel who entered the room and who left.

Memorize everything - this will help later decipher which messages are "real" and, and which are only a source of imagination or wishful thinking.

Listen and hear. Often people say one thing and mean something completely different. And the ability to distinguish truth from lies and determine the psycho-emotional state of a person on an intuitive level will obviously not be superfluous.

Meditate regularly.

One of the best ways to your own intuition is to meditate. By allowing your mind to wander into the depths of the subconscious, a "door" is created for receiving important messages that must reach the subconscious.

Learn to trust your intuition.

Remember if there was ever a spontaneous feeling of anxiety or unconscious fear? Pay attention to such things, because often they are signs through which you can get important messages.

Keep records. Have you just felt that something important is about to happen? Keep a journal to keep track of these sensory messages. After a certain time, look through old records in order to check whether it came true or whether it was all a figment of the imagination.

Check yourself.

If in fact a person is endowed with a strong intuition, then for its development it is necessary to conduct a self-examination. For example, if you have a meeting with your best friend, try to guess what kind of music he listened to in the car or what he did before the planned event.

Then, when he comes, ask and thus believe the validity of your sixth sense? When calling, before picking it up and looking at the name of the caller, try to imagine who might be calling. Then answer the phone and make sure you're right. Simple exercises like this will help develop innate abilities.

Regular practice is the way to perfection.

Of course, there is no limit to perfection, but regular training in the development of intuition will certainly increase the level of psychic abilities several steps higher. Try to learn about different forms of divination to find the one that suits you best.

“Pair” is translated from ancient Greek as “about”, therefore, parapsychology literally means “about psychology”. The attitude in society towards parapsychology is very different, from complete rejection to enthusiastic blind worship. Scientists also have an ambiguous attitude towards it, but they do not advertise their opinion as much as the townsfolk. On the one hand, official science considers parapsychology a pseudoscience, on the other hand, from time to time what lay yesterday in the field of parapsychology receives a scientific explanation and enters the bosom of academic science. Let's try to be unbiased, what is parapsychology, we present arguments both in its defense and against it.

Definition of parapsychology

Parapsychology is a set of pseudoscientific teachings, the task of which is to identify and explain the incredible mental abilities of living organisms, various supernatural phenomena using scientific methods.

Often parapsychologists claim that they have conducted tests and experiments that have led to success, but confirmed and completed properly the results of these studies are very few. And also only a small part of the results of these studies was published in academic scientific journals.

First of all, parapsychology includes various extrasensory perceptions, phenomenal abilities of a person, studies of life after death. And also here include transpersonal and abnormal psychology.

If you read a few articles describing the difference between science and pseudoscience, which is parapsychology, it will be easy to isolate the following - serious researchers of the phenomenon are in no hurry to either reject pseudoscience outright or sing its praises. Along with charlatans, mentally ill people and conscientiously mistaken sometimes among parapsychologists come across either scientists who have discovered something really new, or people who accidentally made a discovery that is not yet known to official science and not appreciated by it.

Among the words that are involved in the definition of pseudoscience, there are such as "uncritical use", "erroneous data", which, of course, speaks of its unreliability as a science. But in the same place you can read: “unverified methods” (note, not erroneous, but those that have not yet been tested) and “doubtful” (doubt is not a denial).

FROM light hand Americans began to write everything related to parapsychology with the prefix psi-.

What does parapsychology study

The main field of study of parapsychologists is the following supposedly paranormal phenomena, therefore, parapsychology is:

This is not a complete list.

Parapsychology today includes many traditional schools and methods that sometimes came from the depths of centuries:

yoga,
tse-gun,
suggestion
dowsing,
reiki,
and many others.

Science does not completely reject the possibility of their impact on humans, but today it cannot explain.

This also includes such types of parapsychology as retroscopy, anomalistic and transcendental psychology. Maybe, the time will come, and they will take a place among the branches of psychology, perhaps they will finally be declared charlatanism. Already today, not particularly conscientious parapsychologists claim that these are branches of science.

And, of course, hypnosis. Today, if we talk about hypnosis in general, and not about the "X-Men", it is no longer the field of parapsychology, but common and accepted method psychology and psychiatry has not yet become. To date, hypnosis has both ardent supporters in the scientific community and opponents, while the bulk of scientists are waiting ...

A bit of history

The formation of parapsychology began a long time ago, even when humanity began to make attempts to rethink its occult-mystical heritage and inexplicable or supernatural abilities of living organisms (human, animal, plant), bring them under a scientific basis, explain rationally.

Modern parapsychology traces its history back to the founding of the Society for Psychical Research in England (1882) and the USA (1885). We owe the very term "parapsychology" to Marc Dessoir. He is not the founder of this parascience, but only named and systematized what was before him.

In Russia, the development of parapsychology as a parascience began in 1875, when a Mediumistic Commission appeared at St. Petersburg University. D.I. became its head. Mendeleev, which is not surprising, because periodic system he dreamed that from a scientific point of view, without using the words "unverified", "doubtful" and possible "it is impossible to explain this. This does not prevent the world-famous periodic table from being the basis for such a science as chemistry and no one doubts it. So we can rightly call Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev the first Russian parapsychologist.

Arguments for

Much of what today is not in doubt, with difficulty made its way into the consciousness of not only the layman, but also into the minds of pundits. A little digging into history, there are many examples of this. The names of Nicolaus Copernicus and Nicolaus Lobachevsky will forever go down in history as an example of people who overtook their time with the power of their thought. Columbus and Schliemann went down in history as adventurers who accidentally made discoveries that turned our understanding of the world around us.

It is easy to remember that until recently genetics was a pseudoscience, and ball lightning and continental drift were considered nonsense. The rainbow now has a completely scientific explanation, but it became fully possible only with the development of optics.

Just because we can't explain something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And the human psyche is fraught with many secrets. This is acknowledged and traditional psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists. With the development of science, much of what is today related to parapsychology will find its scientific explanation or will be completely rejected.

Arguments against

Many parapsychologists forget to add "maybe" to their peremptory statements. What we do not understand today will not become more understandable if we bring a “far-fetched” scientific base under it.

And of course, a great many charlatans and mentally ill people do not contribute to trust in the methods and phenomena promoted by parapsychologists. They only make it worse and postpone the moment when this or that unknown phenomenon will be comprehensively studied and either accepted into the bosom of science, or rejected with all the grounds.

Often we go to healers and psychics when official science cannot help us - whether it is an incurable somatic disease, mental disorder, chemical addiction, or persistent longing for a deceased loved one. People who seek to help us are rarely mistaken in good faith, more often they try to cash in on someone else's pain and suffering.

Instead of bringing relief, they often exacerbate the painful condition and cause irreparable harm. Maybe, that's why official psychology not only does not support parapsychology, but actively fights against it. A conscientious parapsychologist is, first of all, a doubting person, striving to know the truth, and not to prove his case at any cost.