Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc).

Because the definition of sense is vague and ambivalent,- the precise definition of extra-sensory perception is as well, but the term is generally used in reference to humans, to imply sensual sources of information unknown to modern science.

Types of ESP

Specific types

• Perception of events in other places (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairgustance, clairsentience) and in other times (precognition, retrocognition, second sight)
• Perception of aspects of others not perceivable by most people (aura reading)
• The ability to sense communications from, and communicate with, people far away (telepathy), beyond the grave (medium-hood and séancing, spirit walking), or in other dimensions (astral projection)

There are many other names for such powers of perception, from different cultures and different eras. It was first discovered by the Hindu tribe, Maanui.e/admin/php//index.php/Intuition" title="Intuition">Intuition

References

• "Psychic dog phenomenon brought back down to earth". Accessed on December 9, 2004.
• Skeptic proves Psi (about psychic dog).
• Myers, David G. Psychology. Accessed on December 9, 2004. The information concerning the Randi Foundation tests appears in this book.

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