What Could ESP Mean? | Episode 1507 | Closer To Truth

Extrasensory perception (ESP) probes reality. If ESP does not exist, then today’s physical world may be all there is. If ESP does exist, then reality may go beyond the physical world. But can ESP be tested by science? Featuring interviews with Charles T. Tart, Dean Radin, Bruce Hood, John Hick, and Susan Blackmore.
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[@marva12]

When I was 12 and it was about 5am, I was just starting to wake, when suddenly a highly detailed photo appeared in my mind, totally unrelated to anything I was thinking. It was a photo of our "milkhouse" where we store/chill the daily milk before it gets picked up. In this photo, I could clearly see the roof was all new and I noticed particular wavy-ness pattern in the roof, where it attaches to the barn. This photo in my head startled me because it was so clear, but I didn't tell anyone. When I got home from school late in the afternoon, the milkhouse had a new roof exactly as I saw it. Therre was no previous talk of a new roof, but my brother had spontaneously put the new roof on that day, fo no apparent reason. I cannot explain it, nor did I ever have another premonition like that. I am now 61. I have nothing to prove, take it or leave it, it was as I say, and remains unexplained.

[@helensmith7596]

Telepathy

[@TheWayofFairness]

I see and those type of images often and they are precognitive like yours. Your the first person that describes it as a picture. This is how mine are. Have you ever wondered who it is that knows the future and shows us the dream? I think advanced aliens.

[@xspotbox4400]

You were 12, so you can't remember much how you were back than. Somebody was talking about that roof, maybe you've seen that patern in some catalogue or drawing. Ask yourself one thing, why did you think about that roof pattern, obviously you were impressed by it at some point in life. One more option, when you were sleeping somebody was talking laud enough about that new roof, but you didn't remember waking up and go to sleep again. Point is, if there is any way you could know about that roof, there's probably rational explanation, you just forget about it because people want to believe.

[@helensmith7596]

@@TheWayofFairness I don't. I just think time isn't that linear

[@helensmith7596]

@@xspotbox4400 nope, I had a dream at twelve. I was in a school play. The headteacher called us in. He said the people who wrote the play were coming to watch us, so we had to hide our scripts, because of copyright rules. Next day or day after, this happened. We were all sitting in the exact spots we were in my dream.

[@andrewlange5785]

"Closer to Truth" is one of the best series I have come across. I have not owned a television in 25 years because of the mindless garbage produced. I discovered this program on KZbin a few months ago Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks the same questions I have thought about my whole life. Thank you for this high quality material , I pass it along to my friends.

[@anitalinke6659]

My sentiments exactly.

[@bc1248]

I think ESP means a gift that we won’t get until our narcissism is completely gone.

[@helensmith7596]

Yes you can. Just practice it. Yr imagination isn't wat you think it is. Its a TV set start paying attention to it

[@John-uh8kl]

But he has a good point about narcissism, up until the point where we can say most people care for others, can forgive and be forgiven, this could be dangerous knowledge. However I think that time is now. There that have been using to harm mankind, for some 1,400 years will no longer find that is possible, and will find the consequences of their activities, mm, difficult to bear.

[@Casey35516]

I agree. Some of us may see more than others. However I believe what has to go to see even more is the Ego.

[@kurteichmiller7135]

I would say ESP resides in a dimension outside of our 4, and that is why it can not be studied in our world of science.

[@carbunkle5643]

@Kurt Eichmiller Indeed. How can one measure phenomena within a 5th dimension when we have no 5th dimensional instruments to do this?

[@lorenh763]

ESP could mean "extra sensory perception"

[@donjunior8351]

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[@jotcw81]

@@donjunior8351 I and my family got really bad results from that product. Not recommended.

[@Skynet_the_AI]

Thought it does already?

[@siftubes]

That is what ESP means.

[@leekenyon8705]

That should not include Telekinesis sending something out with enough force or strength to effect a object or the space around a object.

[@nelsonianb1289]

Ita like a tv documentary but intelligent, open minded,and no goddamn commercials every 7 minutes. Well done!

[@SolaceEasy]

I am a person who made a living for a while relying on intuitive skills. I also relied on telekinesis. I made a living as a Healer. I also did distance healing work over the phone. One of my critiques of the scientific look at ESP is they claim you must have a working theory just to do introductory study. Would they have said the same to Darwin? He spent years doing basic observational work before he started to formulate and craft his theory after numerous scientific conversations with his peers who were thinking along similar lines. The point we are at studying ESP is like the point in studying Darwin's finches when he first landed on the Galapagos. We are still making simple descriptions and comparing and contrasting. It might take a while before we understand this aspect of reality more deeply. I was a practitioner who used the skills and I have no idea what the hell it is.

[@SolaceEasy]

In response to the final statement saying that if ESP it is real then reality is not, I would say that reality is only a subset of the greater world that ESP is showing glimpses of.

[@TheWayofFairness]

This is the most delightful conversation I have been in on for a long time. Thank You

[@brydonjesse]

As a bhuddist I wish to see, feel, and interact with this world. I try to add to it what I can, physically and mentally. I have come to understand I am the universe, I am everything. I have no desire to be the me I am now after I am done here. I am everything that was and will be.

[@sciencex7896]

God! I love watching closer to the truth! Your genius Dr. Robert Kuhn.

[@kaledon6]

The placebo effect PROVES mind over matter under SCIENTIFIC STATISTICAL STANDARDS....So how can this guy ignore the placebo effect as a scientifically proved fact ?

[@thorham1346]

All it proves is that the brain, a physical organ, can affect the rest of the body. It doesn't tell you anything else.

[@kaledon6]

@@thorham1346 wrong....a brain without "faith" in the placebo will NOT affect the rest of the body

[@thorham1346]

@@kaledon6 And where exactly does the mind come from then? It comes from the brain.

[@kaledon6]

@@thorham1346 your claim that the mind comes from the brain ignores my original point on the placebo, which is to say that a mind without "faith" will NOT affect the body

[@thorham1346]

@@kaledon6 It's still the brain that causes the effect, not the mind.

[@andrebrown8969]

If you are religious and you criticize esp, yeah, you need to take a long hard look at yourself.

[@wildhumans8116]

I heard a voice in my head in 2018, and believe it was a sasquatch. His name was Kamooh, he introduced himself as an elder sasquatch. He said, "We need your help" "Sasquatch might not survive the anthropocene extinction" "We want you to be an ambassador and share what you know about us, with your people" "To be a great man, you must be a good boy first" "Keep your thoughts pure and true" "Pray, meditate, eat good food, drink good water, wake up early, work your body, wash your clothes by hand" "Star people watch you" "Stay humble, calm and focused" "Stay kind" "Female sasquatch move territory, males stay in the same area" "We use lithography" "We dont eat humans" "We are not nephilim" "Patty is still alive" "No guns" "Dont burn the forest" "Stop smoking" "We love you" And a few other things. Kamooh introduced me to another sasquatch named Rashanti. I was able to ask a few questions; - Why did you choose me? Kamooh answered, "People will find your story touching" - How many sasquatch are there? Kamooh answered, "There are about 40,000 sasquatch in north america". - How do sasquatch differ from humans? Rashanti answered, "Penis is longer" - Were your people created or did you evolve? I was shown a vision of the earth from space and a rainbow shining down to earth. It was in color and quite vivid. Space rainbow? Does that mean they were created by ET's? - How are you speaking to me right now? Kamooh answered, "Rashanti will teach you how to breathe, when you are ready". Then Kamooh said, "focus here" and I was immediately tapped on the center of my forehead. Wish I could have asked more questions, but that's it. Another point Kamooh mentioned was, "We have some things for your people" Then proceeded to tell me this: Before the burning of the library of Alexandria, select ancient scrolls were taken in an attempt to save them. Egyptians took those ancient scrolls to the americas. Eventually a colony of egyptians made it to the grand canyon. At one point there was a meeting between the egyptians and the sasquatch. Those ancient scrolls were given to the sasquatch to keep them safe. Sasquatch took the scrolls to caves in nova Scotia, then later to caves in Ontario. I heard this all very clearly in my head, what can I say. Good luck on your search for truth.

[@msaliciafromsa7672]

This is very interesting. I think you should get in contact with the HeartMath institute in California. I suspect that ESP could relate to their research of the magnetic heart field. It could point to a direction of how ESP "travels"/connects.

[@HeliumXenonKrypton]

I sincerely admire your courage to even talk about it.

[@stinkertoy4310]

It could change everything. It could provide a basis for the group consciousness/herd mentality phenom. It could be how “god” or whatever interacts with humans and why aliens wouldn’t bother with radio waves. A surprise ending to fermi’s paradox? No secrets!? Another great episode!!

[@managereli1639]

"When One has pre-existing bias, it is frighteningly easy to self select data and skew evidence." -Robert Lawrence Kuhn

[@carlwilson8859]

The "pre-exisiting bias" of materialistic science is over-whelming. Those with that bias will select and skew without end.

[@managereli1639]

@@carlwilson8859 Yep! that mindset exists on both sides.🤭

[@stinkertoy4310]

zempath And of scientists who also are theistic? I think you did more to reinforce his statement that counter it. Brilliant.

[@stinkertoy4310]

zempath “ESP peddlers....” check your confirmative bias.

[@Solidude4]

@zempath The scientific method can only test and measure physical phenomena, so no it can't measure anything and everything unless you're assuming everything that exists is physical. And that's just an assumption that's not based on science, because science can't be used to prove or disprove non-physical phenomena.

[@gizmogremlin1872]

17:40 Personally I have issues with anyone who would just dismiss any point of data as anecdotal. "The plural of anecdote is not data" only if you can prove that the anecdote is a legitimate mistake or truly false data. If you have say 10,000 points of data with 9,999 data points, pointing toward conclusion A and 1 at conclusion B, sure it's probably safe to say that A is likely correct but for me I would not be comfortable calling it fact until that single point of data for conclusion B can be thoroughly ruled out. I'm not trying to make a case for or against esp here just expressing my belief that it should be essentially considered blasphemy to ignore any anecdotal information in a scientific setting.

[@marcv2648]

I think you make a good point about his trite quip. I hear a lot of scientists use that old expression with very little critical thought. It's an expression designed to be a conversation ender. And it is, if you don't question it.

[@carbunkle5643]

@@marcv2648 Riddle me this...If Bob says, "This is right." And John says, "This is wrong." Then they are both right. And they are both wrong.

[@vadaann1279]

It makes perfect sense if you understand simulation hypothesis.

[@danzigvssartre]

Vada Ann why?

[@vadaann1279]

danzigvssartre Lets assume for a second that this is, in fact, a simulation we are experiencing. We are made of the same exact thing as the construct itself. We are connected to each other the same way way we are connected to the underlying components of this reality. Our consciousness might be the way we experience that connectedness. ESP and other phenomena like it may be our own individual ability to make ourselves aware of that connection and use it possibly . Ways we can connect with that sort of transcendence might include meditation, prayer, ecstasy, Schizophrenia, DMT, suffering, love, intuition, instinct, dreaming, hallucinations, déjà vu, and even inspiration. As if our consciousness itself is both the antenna and the signal. Every probability is available to us, as if we can just reach up and pluck it off of the tree of knowledge. If we are indeed experiencing a simulation, ESP might be as easy as making a call or sending an email that our underlying conscious transcendence is helping us to experience indirectly or directly.

[@danzigvssartre]

Vada Ann I think a similar suggestion was made by this theorist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqDZlmVma7V-r6M&feature=share

[@vadaann1279]

MorbidManMusic why even bother discussing anything then? 🙄 #WetRag

[@vadaann1279]

MorbidManMusic and besides, the only assumption I asked us to make...for the sake of speculation itself...is that this is a simulation. Sometimes it fun to consider ideas we do not necessarily subscribe to.

[@ninomeloni9671]

If it were possible to include the experiences of Carl Jung and Wolgang Pauli in this excellent episode, we could be a little closer to the truth.

[@othmane9377]

Can you please share the name of those experiences or a link where can i see them

[@Casey35516]

What experiences are you talking about?

[@extrastarplaya2363]

ESP is like fight club. You don't talk about ESP. You just study it and learn from it. It's different for everybody.

[@0ptimal]

Throughout my life I've had these certain intuitions about the fundamentals of reality, the brain, the universe, and as I've learned over my adult years I've discovered many of them were pretty damn accurate. But how could someone have any idea of something they know nothing about(I'm not the only one..). I strongly suspect that there is another energetic aspect to reality, but one that can only be seen/measured from the right vantage point, which we may or may not be near attaining. One thing though, I find it funny how easily people write a metaphysical idea about the universe off when everyone clearly knows it is complex beyond our understanding. Those who say "ah it's rubbish", are as bad as the ones certain they know the supernatural is true.

[@big3ye378]

I was on LSD one time lying on a bed with my ex girlfriend. We were talking and when I got close to her, I felt an overwhelming sense of raw energy in my head. So, the feeling became more intense in relation to our proximity. For example, when I touched my forehead to hers, the pulsing sensation was so powerful that it was unbearable. It was not painful, but it was more than I could handle. For the time we were there, I could not be closer than about 3--4 feet to her without experiencing this powerful phenomenon. I cannot explain what happened, but I believe that I was feeling energy radiating from her, or our energies doing something synergistically, that happened across space. She did not feel it, but it certainly left an impression on me about the possibilities in the realm of ESP.

[@helensmith7596]

Yes. Watch my vibravision link I posted above

[@johnstorton]

What you experienced is called "tripping."

[@helensmith7596]

@@johnstorton yes, he did experience wat he says! Its not imagination!

[@vladimir0700]

Yeah, that’s a really good way to find out what’s real--do drugs

[@big3ye378]

@@vladimir0700 I do not endorse it but I say live and let live. "Drugs" are ubiquitous and human beings have always had a relationship to them for better or for worse. Some would say that psychadelics break down barriers in your mind to experience things that would otherwise be nearly impossible. Most people know that "Reality" is subjective and is experienced largely on an individual level. We as people share time and space but despite whatever you believe, when it comes down to it we all exist in our own reality through our consciousness. For example, your smugness is agreeable to some and laughable to others.

[@RogerLuedecke]

I don't think that any of these phenomena strictly contradict Materialism. Rather, they suggest an expansion of it. Materialism is bottom up, whereas Idealism is top down. They both share an interest in uniting principles, but Materialism derives from the observable whereas Idealism starts with ideas and tried to fit the observed into these largely arbitrary categories.

[@Anna_Fortunka]

I wish to share that in my family, there was a case of a precognitive dream that turned out accurate the very next morning. It was impossible to predict or know through physical channels (happened many miles apart). The only 'rational' explanation would be a crazy enormous coincidence. But. Years later I read a comment from a stranger on the internet. That stranger had in essence, in almost all details, the exact same dream my father had. And analogical event followed for her in the morning. What I have said here is true. From someone who have searched this mystery for decades.

[@lilliansmith8444]

I have often sat in a coffee shop surrounded by customers working on their lap-tops or iPhones. I know that the air around us is full of data carried through Wi-Fi. Yet to us, these are completely invisible and silent. Until you plug into them.

[@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo]

I woke at exactly 07:00 on the 7-7-2017, i looked at my news paper and though i never bet there was a horse running called 'the seventh son of a seventh son' in the seventh race at 07:00 that evening, i checked my bank account and had exactly £700 pound in it, i put the lot on the horse to win, it came in 7th.

[@bazstrutt8247]

hetrodoxly sonov 🤦‍♀️😆😂

[@helensmith7596]

Haha! Synchronicity works!!

[@chanmeenachandramouli1623]

ESP is very real, Sir. Many things happen beyond the realm of Science & logic & ESP is one such. It's very much present in all humans, in some more & in others, much less. MeenaC

[@LowenKM]

"My drug of choice is Ideas"..... Bravo!!

[@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597]

As a psychoanalysis and community service director, I had a great preception for understanding people's mind and how can I reach and ask questions about thier positive motivation. I had studied from my psychology book and then all the great rationals canske this world technolgical. Now if I can have esp could I get definitely THE SIXTH SENSE?

[@John-uh8kl]

You have a sixth sense.

[@averystevens9914]

For me how I experience it for a simple example would be when ur phone goes off as a notification one I’ll sometimes already know it’s gonna happen or even know who it is because I’ll randomly get a feelin or see that person in my head and then boom that notification is from them. That’s just one example.

[@sioliyuda6077]

I have these intuitions. I know things before they happen. I can’t tell anybody. Whoever I tried to tell never believed or said it’s a coincidence. It all started when I was a kid I’m 29 I don’t remember when this happened for the first time because this is all I know that things come to me before they happen. One thing I have noticed is those are the things which affects me. For the first time it happened when I saw myself in future I was getting married and I was feeling things and there was this chat with my mom. It was just like a vivid dream. And everything happened to me after 8 years. I knew my aunt is going to die and I’m looking at her for the last time, it was like someone whispering to me it wasn’t a vivid dream like before. She died in a week and I never saw her after that. Before the death of my grandfather who was healthy had no problem at all. I felt like someone is about to die in family and within 2 days he died. Whoever I love truly and I focus on them I get to see and feel them in my mind. I know how they’re feeling at the moment from a distance and it’s always true. I can even tell if they’ll achieve something or not. Now I have this sensation that someone is about to die in family and I can’t tell anybody and I’m scared because I don’t know who. I don’t want to feel these things but they keep happening. This research led me to this video.

[@DavidEsp1]

Had I not experienced my own extremely specific (unlikely by chance) examples of deja vu etc., along with reiki experiences (information and feelings transfers, both directions) and far-too-specific clairvoyant readings by others (in one case no speaking on my part allowed, so that I could not later attribute it to cold reading) then I would almost definitely reject all this. But I have, many times. Deja vu has always been sporadic, sometimes linked to important events, sometimes to totally pointlessly trivial but very specific items or matters. Like an intermittent leak. None of this happens on-demand, but only when "it wants to". Neither religion nor a wish to persist eternally feature here. Mysterious, as was magnetism when I first played with it as a young child, and again at university when taught to consider it as (mathematical) curls, that I envisioned as circulations in water. Fascinating phenomena, all of them.

[@jessewallace12able]

This is excellent.

[@cosmicsea89]

Great episode 👌🏼

[@stigrynning]

Hey Robert! Have you ever wondered about the religious implications of the simulated universe theory?

[@thomasvieth578]

The perception of my own thoughts is esp. It is akin to the phenomenon of thinking without language that every perceptive translator can testify to

[@missh1774]

Young children will often sense a family member was arriving to pick them up, even though the person has not come into the room. I found it was more common amongst the ones with particular emotional dispositions i.e prefers guidance, prefers observing from distance, drifts off into daydream, is often mesmerized by natural elements, prefers solitary play, and during a "creative process" activity they will either go directly to wait for someone or verbalize who was coming now. I guess the most obvious constraint is the connection a person has with another. As for the superficial connection someone has to a favourite podcast host or popular icon... Idk sounds like an inflation problem.

[@douglinze4177]

I think Charlie earned a “Nobel”… He hit a “Grand Slam”…

[@jamesmadera9861]

Perhaps ESP is the ability to sense a waveform without collapsing it like it classically would be with observation as described by the Copenhagen interpretation.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Many years ago, as my father was on his way to work, he suddenly had a very strong feeling that he needed to immediately turn around and go back home. He had never had such a feeling before, and has never had one since. He turned around and went back home. When he arrived, he found out that at the exact instant when he had this feeling, his father had died.

[@LeeGee]

Had two similar experiences when close family members died

[@JAYDUBYAH29]

Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky confirmation bias is powerful. We all find it convincing, and all naturally forget all the many, many times these kinds of intuitions come to nothing.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

@@JAYDUBYAH29 You did read the comment about how this is the one and only time in his life he had such a feeling.

[@Anna_Fortunka]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I needed to hear this. There has been a very unusual incident in my family preceding my grandmother's death (my dad had dreamed about it the night before she died suddenly and unexpectedly) but I always doubt - as did he. Hearing other people's experiences strengthens my hope that it's not just coincidence. May I ask, was your grandfather's death expected around that time, was he battling an illness, or was it unexpected? edit: oh gosh this is YOU! I've watched so many of your videos! Now I know I will watch more. Thank you so much for what you do!

[@truebomba]

I can't believe you did an episode about ESP without Rupert Sheldrake :D.

[@whydidyouresign]

I would really like to know what the prop was that was behind Bruce Hood. It was the most unlikely and fanciful conglomeration of disparate materials combined into one [Rube] Goldbergian contraption. And it looks like there might be some good outtake footage available as both Hood and RLK can be seen "driving" it!

[@SoftBreadSoft]

Given that brainwaves can transmit and be decoded outside of the brain, given that neurons can encode and decode multiple signals simultaneously, I'd say it's reasonable that it can occur. Outside of other's brainwaves - there's a lot of stuff going on that /should/ disrupt the brains fields and signalling, but it doesn't. The brain filters out lower power or erroneous signals and compensates for signal loss. What is it about a brain, that generally, only accepts it's own signals? Are our signals encoded in a way to act as a password, and the brain doesn't want to see anything without that password, as to know it's you (it)? With new light on the action of neurons and brain structures (pun intended and not intended), the potentials are unending.

[@MrDorbel]

It's quite reasonable to think that ESP might occur, but no evidence that it actually does!

[@etherealadam8242]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnaYkniqi7uiirs

[@avenoma]

@@MrDorbel @what percentage would an ESP practitioner need to achieve for it to count as evidence? A lot of ESP is involuntary to the recipient it seems and this world is very dynamic with trillions of life forms, cosmic rays and the very home at which we live is hurtling through space shaking violently as it travels. If ESP is a thing, Im sure theres a lot of interference and that a lower success rate should be looked at as a strong possible.

[@MrDorbel]

@@avenoma If the success rate isn't significantly better than chance, it isn't a success rate. This applies to blind trials of anything. Why should ESP be any different?

[@avenoma]

@@MrDorbel blind trials normally involve physical objects, manufactured goods. Not a good baseline for studying something humans are only now sensing. Why cant humans see gamma rays? They are extremely dangerous and it would benefit us to "see" them. Its because we havent developed an organ for sensing it. Leaving something this new to chance dictated on a scale not designed to figure it out? That sounds worse. We'd need a reverse bell curve where ever decreasing odds have a chance to express itself properly.

[@adavidmon]

Was any source cited in this entire video?

[@Metaldetectiontubeworldwide]

Great video , always very 'inspiritual' 😉. Maybe information is conserved in gravitational waves ... En there warping of spacetime can in fact go faster then light ... If i am correctly 😉😉

[@orlandoperez655]

I wish to see Marcelo Gleiser on interviewed by Closer to Truth.

[@walkoflife2396]

It’s weird how ,little to none can explain it , it’s pretty simple , but I guess you need to understands the beginning and the end , how we could have started , what the meaning of life is , how we evolved. And the one that would hit you the hardest, is who you really are. Again it’s easy to explain, but pretty hard to grasp. Especially hard if you’re apart of religion.

[@bbffmuyy]

A prerequeset for ESP is honesty.

[@grybnyx]

What and where is that great contraption in the interview with the skeptic?

[@DavidEsp1]

Beautiful organised madness. If only the world were as beautifully organised.

[@xspotbox4400]

Phenomena is real, we all do it every day, this is what it means to be conscious. Look at savants, some people trained their mind to extremes average person can't even imagine are possible for human brain, but we don't see this people as wizards, just special. Other people are very sensitive, they developed ninja like abilities. Mental sphere could be very intensive and vivid, some people have a very powerful charisma, like pop stars or politicians and can envelop large crowds in their mental euphoria. So we know phenomena exist, it's just those things seems kinda rational, just like every craftsman exceptional hand work. But those mental abilities are very special, there's a huge difference how animals visualize reality and also from person to person. It's just not practical to live with your head up in clouds all the time, most people treasure moments of clarity and determinism, when mind is completely devoid of fantasy and emotions. ESP is exact opposite of that, when we try to lose that first person view and focus on inner minds eye. It's like a daydream in a way, but not quite like that. We all let mind wonder away when we work or pedal a bicycle and listen to the music at same time, when we force our brain to control our body and let us trip inside. Real ESP starts a bit further, i think, when we create so overwhelming mental space most conscious functions completely disappear from control of a mind. It's like when we must react in an instant, sometimes time seems to slow down, mind can analyze many thoughts in a split second and project fictional image of reality, by completely replacing input from senses with fictional visualization. Imagine you could exist in that parallax reality for longer, brain can't make more sense from reality than it knows since conscious can extend over material vision. Everything we experience is an imagination anyway, we just got used to perceive self and world outside in some normal sense, to have more control. Mind doesn't need those biological inputs, can replace all sensations with mental projections and recreate sort of simulated reality it can control simply because it's all imaginary. Therefore real question is, can imagination extend influence over real world? What is the difference exactly, if we know something is real, than we can't change anything, but if we imagine real objects are made from dream stuff and can bend to our will, than miracles can happen sometimes somehow.

[@Red-cc8fk]

Numb3rs no esp needed. Everything is math, up to the spoken words which contain numbr3s used in deciphering. Who ppl really are. Just add up the notes.

[@mingonmongo1]

Especially for a series devoted to "Cosmos, Consciousness and Meaning", sometimes it seems like Robert's unusually hard on the 'non-scientists', and perhaps he occasionally 'overplays' the role of _Skeptic._

[@3picZombieN1nja]

How about reoccurring deja vus monthly, An insane internal timer (knows when to return to things before an alert), the ability to feel if your significant other is around you or went home instead.

[@reimannx33]

"Enough of it happens" - that is, ESP. This man is on chemicals.

[@koolazltd718]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[@HouseofRecordsTacoma]

It's about "Into the Mystic" isn't it? But most will still deny the akashic.

[@daniel-zh4qc]

I was on acid once and had a 5 minute conversation with 3 people in the room, all without words, in the middle of the conversation my friend jumped up screamed no way, and then we all realized it was really happening and we went back to talking in our minds and then afterwards we cross confirmed what our conversation was.... I have a phd and dont consider myself crazy but that was real.... If i had to describe it - felt very similar to the intentional force of/from shared innuendo... Thats where id start my experiment - with types of sub- verbal communication we already know exist ( e.g. glance exchange, mimicry, demonstrative identification, etc.)

[@davestr7031]

Too bad you didn’t film it. It might have shown you talking with very little lip movement like ventriloquists. Acid makes you think weird stuff is going on when it actually is not. Not saying you didn’t experience telepathy. But, how would you know? Ocam’s razor said you guys spontaneously learned ventriloquism.

[@aishwariyasweety2433]

Thats very interesting and i believe you. Im in academia too and i believe ESP is true as I've experienced it. I think if humanity survives long enough, we might understand these phenomenon and thats very exciting!

[@galahadgarza6905]

Dave Str I think you make a good point in saying that “acid makes you think weird stuff is going on when it actually is not”. And I believe that is what may have happened in this case. However, to further say that they all “spontaneously learned ventriloquism” would seem to go against the theory of Occam’s razor because the theory states that entities should not be multiplied without necessity. The more simple explanation is to be preferred (that they thought they all experienced telepathy when in fact it was just the effects of the acid).

[@mididoctors]

I have had similar episodes but put it down to the lsd

[@big3ye378]

I was on LSD one time lying on a bed with my ex girlfriend. We were talking and when I got close to her, I felt an overwhelming sense of raw energy in my head. So, the feeling became more intense in relation to our proximity. For example, when I touched my forehead to hers, the pulsing sensation was so powerful that it was unbearable. It was not painful, but it was more than I could handle. For the time we were there, I could not be closer than about 3--4 feet to her without experiencing this powerful phenomenon. I cannot explain what happened, but I believe that I was feeling energy radiating from her, or our energies doing something synergistically, that happened across space. She did not feel it, but it certainly left an impression on me about the possibilities in the realm of ESP.

[@sleeptank444]

Those who know, know... no requirement for scientific validation

[@AlexanderLayko]

If your "extrasensory abilities" can't even give you insight into something as simple as a roulette ball landing on red or black. I'm supposed to believe it has insight into more complicated matters?

[@mo0nstonegirl]

You can't choose to just know about the paranormal, you have to be a certain type of person. Not everyone can do the same things. Especially when it comes to such extraordinary subjects...

[@Casey35516]

ESP is most likely just the beginning of enlightenment. It is an individual thing so you cannot replicate it. The Ego/Self gets whittled down over many lifetimes until we realize the true self-The Soul.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

OK so that second one, looks like Max Planck!

[@paulrite6202]

Your attempt at statistical analysis collapses the wave function and causes the test to fail.

[@weaseldragon]

Best apologetics channel on KZbin!

[@davestr7031]

That bar is not especially high.

[@carlosgaspar8447]

get to visit the nicest of places.

[@andrewa3103]

Reality is not exclusive to only the physical world. "And that is the reason that many facts can be very dangerious" ©. Metaphysician philosopher

[@Sentient.A.I.]

Alot of people have precognition they think about someone they haven't in a long time and then suddenly they call on the phone or knock on the door. If it happened once it would be maybe an anomaly but it happens alot to alot of people.

[@sharonhearne5014]

Thanks for broaching the subject but it is clear answers to these questions are premature due to the limitations of testing.

[@christophergraves6725]

We have to remember that a person's motives have zero to do with their interests or inquiries being true or false if their claims can be independently verified. Otherwise, we run into an Ad hominem circumstantial fallacy. Now in my case, I really don't want to believe in ESP or most other paranormal phenomena. I am a Christian and believe that people exist only as individuals and God is another individual although God is the greatest Being that can be conceived as Anselm points out. What I really find abhorrent about the paranormal is that the most common explanation that I hear for it is based in pantheism and I reject pantheism. I also see some paranormal phenomena as real, but they are demonic and so should be steered clear of. So, my spiritual beliefs are not aided by the reality of the paranormal. I have no predisposition to believe in the paranormal other than over time the experiences are so numerous and cannot be reasonably denied. I have been carried kicking and screaming into acknowledging the reality of the paranormal. So, much to my chagrin I frequently experience paranormal activities. For example, I had a dream in which I encountered a girl I had known decades ago. I had not thought of her for years. We reconciled in the dream. Then at the close of the dream, she died in my arms. I instantly awakened and shot up in the bed exclaiming that she had just died, i.e. really died. I ran to the computer to look up her obituary. Of course, it was not there since in my hyper vivid dream, she had just died and so there had been no time to post an obituary. I wrote down the dream on my word-processing software. Then within a few days, I went on to other things and forgot the dream and the girl faded into the background of memories. Months later, I was out for a walk and got a chill suddenly as thoughts of this girl came flooding into my mind. I remembered the dream. Then I ran back to my apartment and looked up her obituary again. This time it was there. I looked up my written account of the dream where she had died. It was written on the same date as her date of death listed on the obituary. I can give other examples where I have had a vivid impression of something that was occurring at a distance and that clear image in my mind was confirmed in reality. The same has been so with things that have been about to happen and then they did materialize as I envisioned them. These could not be coincidences. To say that they were is a mark of fanaticism in denying reality. My mother had similar paranormal experiences over the course of her life. They come on me as they did her without warning. But they are always accurate without exception. So, are these demonic? No. Are they evidence of pantheism? That's one explanation, but I still reject it. So, what explains these paranormal phenomena? I don't know. That is another reason that I have been so skeptical of them even when I have had them happen to me in the past. I have no idea what is going on with the paranormal, but the paranormal is real.

[@rayvillers2688]

Any skeptics about ESP should read Dean Radins books at least twice and see the high rigor and standards of the research of parapsychology, and then to look at the odds of the results a d deny ESP are as hard headed as young Earth creationists. RLK why didn't you bring up these results ? Maybe deep down you don't want to be closer to truth!!!!

[@yanassi]

We have 5 senses, esp or intuition i believe will be our 6th. But as with everything that evolves, it’s millennium in the making. Necessity for success to gain a competitive edge improves us, but as we have a system that is based on our current abilities, the evolution process has slowed. I believe it was the greeks where we first began celebrating ourselves. As millenniums pass, the first humans with an actual intuitive sense will have an advantage, then reproduction will spread it across the globe. Intuition will not be 100%, but a high probability rather than a probability or a guess. It will not be brain based, even a portion of the brain will be main biological part of us being utilized to facilitate that sense. This concept came about as i have been developing something i call the yanassi theorem.

[@foorwq7816]

Since future branches out from past and present, how is it possible to see personal future in dreams with NO events connecting them to the present. Events developing later do arrive at the projected future, and much later when dots are connected you become intrigued about the whole thing!. Its like someone telling you about a patch of land full of wheat where no seeds have been sown yet(because there is no intention of plantation. Instead there was all intention of urban development) I am a big skeptic and its [skepticism] growing with age. I leave a wide window open for something to come in and pull me back to my old belief system, but ........

[@brydonjesse]

The closer I am and more I understand the better I am at perception. Expirence and time

[@christophermancini3408]

Asking scientists on spirituality is like asking if there’s Lions in The North Pole They are clearly not looking in the right places… A scientist practices science. How can a scientist understand a mystic without experiencing their practice? what I would love to see is them to find and talk to the mystics deep in the caves and mountains on the subject. The ones totally outside and living away from the modern world. Maybe that could lead to a new breakthrough and a wish and hope lol.

[@rammohanv]

The abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Islam, Judaism etc) have reduced and trivialized the discussions on consciousness and the nature of human existence into one God and one book. The Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism etc) seem to have had a much more profound and realistic understanding of these matters..

[@torjalfa]

I have seen a lot of stuff on KZbin, most are just what most of us believe it is, just nonsence. But this one, this ask the questions on a higher and also better levels. And it's also kind of sad, that some people may use decades of their life, and may not find nothing on their search. It may be a few people who can do things that other can't, and they may even not know about it. Or, we all are "wired" into it, somehow. In my own time these decades, I could have been more gullible back in my youth too. And today, I am asking less questions about stuff, because we do not always get the "right" answer. Like going to an old lady who can tell about our future, the pro one may have "read" our eyes, seen how good looking and healthy we would be, or not. What kind of clothes we have. Our shoes, and even more. Some of them are just telling nonsence, and some of them may tell a little more, that could be the "right" path in our life. -these fortuneteller most of us know today, are just that, they aren't that psychic, but of the best one, they are just good to read people. And some may say they are hoax too, just con artists. I can't say I have proof of anything, I can only tell stories too. Like for a few years ago, I was driving to another city. On this road, in a intersection (not in a city, but an half hour from it), I was driving against another car, with a kicksled on its roof. Hours later on my way home, in the same Intersection, I meet the same car again, only the other way this time. For around two decades ago, I was working outside a town hall, driving an old and a littlr blue tractor. And it's very rare to have the deja vu, but that time on that tractor, I had the longest and "clearest" deja vu ever. May in a minute, if it wasn't two minutes, I had that feeling, that I did the same thing once before. It was so out of this world. Perhaps some people would say all of this is nonsence, and some may say the other thing. But I know what happend, both on the road a few years ago, and for two decades ago. And perhaps outside that Town hall, I had just some glitch in my memories, as the most common and more realistic answer would be. As I said, I am just open minded, it could be either of these answers. But at least I do the things some could forget, kind of, ask the questions. Maybe answer some of them myself, when I can.

[@helensmith7596]

Well I had a great psychic on the phone. She said In dec, I won't hear from my ex again til Feb, only as a friend. Got a letter in Feb, TRUE I got in trouble at work. She said I will keep my job, there LL be a glitch in one of the statements. I didn't even know they were taking statements. Two months in advance. There was, a glitch in one of the statements, only one. TRUE I applied for a new job. She said maybe not this one, but another. Informal interview. Two people. People there you know. I got job interview. All true. I looked at the staff board whilst being showed around to check if anyone there I knew. Saw no one. I got the job, they sent paperwork through. On the staff list, I saw my gd friend worked there. TRUE I have loads of examples of precog, etc

[@helensmith7596]

@@Graewulfe well I think, a few things. We weren't very experienced at conducting proper testing before. People were called 'mad' etc for having esp skilss, so no one honed them properly yet. Testing will improve and people will practice esp, as it's not considered Satan etc anymore, to some anyway. People are taking a more scientific perspective. For example, I understand it's something to do with someone's individual vibrational blueprint, so if you ask me right now what yr doing, through a purely writing link , I can't sense yr blueprint well. If we were to continue , it would improve, and if we spoke or met it would get much stronger

[@helensmith7596]

@@Graewulfe oh yeah, ok, lol, gd idea

[@helensmith7596]

@@Graewulfe I know you don't believe it. Yr not a sensitive person

[@helensmith7596]

@@Graewulfe science hasn't caught up yet! People get ridiculed in this modern age for just agreeing with it! Its a muscle it needs exercising! Watch my links on my post

[@DeadEndFrog]

There is no reason to expect the internett existing just because you made a computer in the 1900's Now even what psychology deemed intuition can be interprated as a field theory and light-esp.

[@kendawson4087]

If Khun wants to know the truth about parapsychic phenomena, why does he go to thinkers, scientists and believers rather than practitioners?

[@raunettecordova9304]

y'all should consider the possibilities, sometimes there's a possibility that the impossible might become possible

[@playwithskills241]

In India there's a famous guy Dherandra shastri, Anyone can openly observe his profound esp .he is on the KZbin. No bullshit.

[@dongshengdi773]

ESP is increased through numbers consisting of millions of people . Results become significant . Big events like 911 bombing of the Twin Towers, major earthquakes , etc

[@jamesandalotofgames9211]

I seem to have precognition. We all do just have to recognize the signs

[@mergeform]

A scientist could be the receiver and a sender could beep them at tea time more sugar and more, but mental health should come first. The scientist would believe that it's their own thoughts, as shared minds are as one.

[@andrewbodor4891]

Try making clouds disappear. With practice I was able to "disappear" small clouds within a minute. Coincidence? Was the wind going to blow it apart in any case? But, every cloud I chose DID disappear. Weird.

[@SabiazothPsyche]

"Data" is not the total sum of truth; for even "data" is susceptible to subjectivity.

[@user-wo5bp2oi5c]

Audio is off sync?

[@trulycentral]

They should come to Nepal and meet the fortune tellers.

[@dennistucker1153]

To me, extrasensory perception definitely does exist. Some of it seems ordinary. Ordinary types include empathy, humor, sarcasm, use of statistics, reading body language and understanding human behaviors. Other types of extrasensory perception like telepathy...I'm not so sure about. All types should be testable. If mankind survives and grows long enough, we may find out that extrasensory perception like telepathy is understandable and real.

[@joy1196]

ESP is undeniable, period.

[@JAYDUBYAH29]

Joy De was this English?

[@helensmith7596]

I know, they re Stoopid

[@helensmith7596]

@@Graewulfe kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHzWnXt_r9mUias

[@Drudenfusz]

Inconceivable

[@helensmith7596]

@@Drudenfusz kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHzWnXt_r9mUias Watch a few of them

[@suncat9]

ESP doesn't sound much more fantastic than radio waves to me. Electromagnetic radiation doesn't sound completely physical in the conventional meaning of the word.

[@five_cube]

❤️

[@colonizespace]

I think ESP exists. An example I can give, which recently happened (01/15/22). I had a dream last night that I was in a vehicle with others (Like an SUV) that had gotten swept away from a Tsunami, in which I recalled it being daytime & in a tropical island setting. There were several people inside of the vehicle (Myself included, or so I think?) We were afraid for our lives. When we were just about to capsize/flip before hitting a tree, I woke up not long after. I only found out about an underwater volcanic eruption today, which triggered a Tsnuami near Tonga, around my lunch time a little after 12PM. The Tsunami hit around after 6PM their time, which is after midnight EST where I live (When I was still asleep just before waking up)... Edit: My analyses is that perhaps my mind was sensitive or receptive enough to Earth's geomagnetic activity that was generated from the seismic activity / volcanic eruption, in which it affected the direction of my dream state. Also, some parallels have been drawn where there's an increase in geomagnetic activity when an Earthquake occurs. There was underwater seismic activity, which triggered an eruption underwater near Tonga, ultimately generating a Tsunami as a result. A stretch? Perhaps. But fascinating nonetheless. There was a near full-moon last night as well, which influences our planet

[@avenoma]

Ive come to understand that I have an inner dialog. I heard something ask me how a felt about Japan hours before I had heard about the 2011 Earthquake while it was happening. Its my belief that its "organs" in the brain sensing and actually feeling these signals. Then translating that field into something we can understand. Animals such as dogs and cats dont have language such as ours and so their ESP abilities "manifests" through their actions such as running and barking.

[@nikomolotov9461]

I feel esp connecting to future events must be a type of multi universal hive mind that allows quantum entanglement to transcend the fabric of space time, past and present connections could also form on this frequency but I feel would be less Accurate. Past and present esp I feel could be a mixture of matter radiating residual energy and highly active feramone receptors (in a solitary universe). Before language we communicated a lot like the rest of the animal kingdom and I feel thinking of esp as an ‘instinct’ or gene that can improve and evolve with generational knowledge is the most logical option.. imagine if it was just Feramones and people with esp just didn’t know how good their noses where 😅😅 food for thought.

[@solokototelluride]

Robert, there was a time when microorganisms were not known or observable to science. Were they not part of the physical world? Because (I would conjecture) of the Godel's incompleteness theorem, if taken to its logical conclusion, there is an infinity of knowledge which consciousness can never fully know. To say because we do not know how to explain something does not mean it is not part of an unknown physical reality.

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

The Soul can not be washed completely, that connection is suppose to be closed so we can enjoy this ride. The Universe gives you what you need when you really need it. It won't tell you the lottery #'s but it will hold you back from stepping into the path of a bus or train. A still mind and the opposites, extreme distress and intoxication to excess seem to weaken the barrier. It's really looking like Matter was created by the Spiritual so it could have a vessel to experience in. We are cataloging the Universe with the Hubble and JWST, and the images they are showing us are full spectrum, what "God" would see. I believe there is more than the material.

[@bluestudio67]

Wait... quantum information does go faster than lightspeed. If one particle instantly rotates at the opposite direction of its entangled counterpart, then that is clearly an instantaneous transfer of information over a distance, thus, faster than the speed of light. What am I not understanding here, because I think I learned what data/information is incorrectly.

[@scottmiller4295]

entangled particles can exhibit "spooky action at a distance". this is about the only time you can transmit information "faster" than C. now you can think of it holographically that that field these particles exist in is one thing in their space vs what we see in our space, or that entanglement can wormhole space to unite particles on far flung sides of the universe. but what is not going on at all is those particles ziping their states to each other any faster than their photons can share information about their state, meaning they closer than they seem to us via some means.

[@DavidEsp1]

scott miller Feels right. Any good names/references/links ?

[@scottmiller4295]

@@DavidEsp1 you would be looking for videos on holographic principle, and wormholes, but wormholes are math constructs we never seen that would tend to want to curl up from the math guys i have heard on the topic. there a ton of great channels on this stuff, pbs space time, arvin ash, fermi lab, sean carol, physics by eugine. youtube also hates people posting links even to youtube itself. but a nutshell explanation of a holographic universe is the bare bones of it is 2d and projected up into our 3 dimensional universe. there you could have particles sitting in proximity to one another projecting their momentum and etc into our universe. i imagine it like a 2d space entangled in a 3d energy of our universe. where the particle stuff all happens. maybe one day we can measure whats going on way down in there.

[@jessereiter328]

There's a reason we can't peer into others thoughts if we could guilt would end us quickly. Think about what you would feel like if someone knew what Your Lust was.

[@davecros4887]

If everyone in the world was blind, but occasionally a few people could see for brief moments at a time, how many people would think that sight isn't real? This is ESP. ESP is definitely real. I think that it's funny that the debate on this still exists. If you could see for brief periods of time you would know, without a doubt, that ESP is real. If you never see it for yourself (most people) you shouldn't believe it. For those that have experienced it, there is no doubt whatsoever. Science just hasn't evolved enough yet. If you told people in 1800 that, in the future, everyone will be walking around with little devices that send and receive data like conversations, pictures, video etc. people wouldn't believe it. The science just wasn't there yet in 1800.

[@ikaeksen]

ESP work because your brain and your universe layer (world outside) is realy the same thing. So to be able to meassure it, we must somehow make meassure tool and put into our heads. Or find a way to meassure things in a reality that is between us that we cant tell the difference of...to me there seem to be IE my world, then another persons world (IE one which i speak with),,and then a 3rd world where we meet both... So how to meassure 3 worlds at the same time to prove ESP?

[@bltwegmann8431]

Next episode: "Are Unicorns Real?"

[@johnmatelski6413]

It would be useful if the ESP advocates actually discussed the statistical evidence instead of just referring to it. I would like to leave this video knowing what the evidence is and whether or not the studies were methodologically sound. Maybe the next video gets into this?