In the 1970s, the U.S. government funded studies to test psychic methods for intelligence work. Researchers at Stanford Research Institute, including Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, led many of those efforts. They proposed a model where a continuous train of impressions connects a viewer to distant targets. This theoretical thread allowed trained operators to pick … Read more
Curious about psychic skill sets that some people claim to have? This intro looks at two well-known types and how researchers have tried to study them. Ingo Swann was an early test subject at the Stanford Research Institute. His work helped shape scientific interest in remote viewing as a method to gather accurate information about … Read more
Precognition is the claimed ability to gain knowledge of the future before it happens. People report seeing images or having strong hunches that later match real events. The idea appears across cultures and history, often tied to dreams that seem to “come true” once an event unfolds. Religious and literary traditions also frame some dreams … Read more
Extrasensory perception often appears in conversation as a claim that a person can gain information through a sixth sense. J. B. Rhine at Duke University coined the term to group telepathy, clairvoyance, psychometry, and time-related claims like precognition. The topic mixes fascinating stories with hard questions about scientific evidence. Many phenomena rely on anecdotes rather … Read more