There are many psychological phenomena which science doesn’t yet fully understand. Parapsychology is the discipline which attempts to investigate them. Although parapsychologists use the scientific method for many of their experiments, they will often use other methods, such as qualitative analysis and case studies.

Parapsychology deals with topics such as: telepathy, clairvoyance, reincarnation, hauntings, psychokinesis, precognition, remote viewing, and near death experiences.

Many scientists deride parapsychology as a “pseudo-science”. They see little value in spending time investigating phenomena which haven’t been demonstrated to be technically true. This is, however, a defining feature of parapsychology. When a phenomenon is actually demonstrated to be true, it is no longer in the domain of parapsychology: it simply becomes part of psychology.

A good example of this is Lucid Dreaming. Lucid Dreaming is a phenomenon whereby a dreamer becomes conscious of his dream while it is taking place. Becoming aware of a dream while in the dream itself appears to provoke a change in our consciousness. The dreamer gains access to all his waking memories and can exercise a certain degree of control over the dream world.

Lucid dreaming was largely derided by many who said that there was no evidence for it. The only support for it was a bunch of personal anecdotes. Science cannot rely on anecdotes: it must rely on measurable data. Otherwise we’d be forced to accept any story about ghosts or alien abductions.

In the 1980′s Stephen LaBerge developed an interesting experiment at Stanford University. He recruited a bunch of people who claimed that they could lucid dream. He told them that when they became lucid, they should send a signal to the outside world by performing a particular back-and-forth eye movement. Normally, our eyes dart all over the place when we dream during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. If he could show that people can make the eye movement which he taught them, then he could demonstrate that these people actually did become conscious in their sleep, could remember instructions given to them while they were awake, and could deliberately carry out those instructions.

LaBerge hooked up special eye-tracking equipment to his subjects, and he got the data he wanted. He demonstrated scientifically that Lucid Dreaming is a real phenomenon, and it moved from the realm of parapsychology into mainstream psychology.

So that’s one example of a phenomenon which was “upgraded” from parapsychology to psychology. Many scientists have become jaded because there are so many fraudsters who use trickery and illusion to demonstrate that these phenomena are real. Most of parapsychology is indeed unproven, so it is a good idea to remain skeptical; but we should keep an open mind.

Direct sending refers to sending a message directly to the mind of one person. The sender first mentally locates the intended receiver and then sends them a message. There are different ways to do this. One way is to repeat the receiver’s name mentally, over and over, while focusing on “finding” them mentally. Once they have been located, focus on the message and visualize it moving to the receiver and into their mind.

Broadcasting involves sending a message out to more than one person, maybe even a group of people. In certain ways this is easier for the sender, but can also be more difficult as the focus must be broader and involves more than one person. To broadcast a message, experienced senders can focus on each of the intended receivers, locating them mentally, than sending the message. The sender could also focus more clearly on their own mental location and message, making it easier for receivers to “find” them and their message

To directly receive a message, there must be an established connection. As the receiver, first become aware of the telepathic signals around you and begin to extend your consciousness outward. Notice when a message comes to you and focus on it and where it is coming from. After a while, you should be able to easily send out your consciousness into a “net” that can easily catch telepathic messages.

This is the easiest way to receive broadcast messages. For this, the receiver will need to extend their consciousness and locate the sender. Focus on them and “feel” around them to hear or see the message they are broadcasting. There may be noise surrounding them, but you will soon know the message that is being sent. Allow it in.

It is best to practice with someone or a group of people that have experience sending and receiving messages. Practice both sending and receiving, and don’t give up. Keep trying and try swapping partners if it is difficult. As soon as you figure out how to locate someone, focus, and extend your consciousness you will get better at it. An easy game at first is to send color/shape message. Focus on simple images and clearly think “blue” and “square” while projecting outwards.

Why is it that we do not naturally have the ability to see or perceive the atoms, the electrical, and even finer magnetic forces all around us? We do perceive and make use of them every day with our electronic devices and other machinery, and yet we only in a limited way.

As time goes on and mankind progresses in his understanding at a more and more rapid pace, it seems that perception of what is now considered the supernatural will and must become common knowledge. Things like telepathy, clairvoyance, and other subjects thought by many to be taboo in this day and age will become generally accepted abilities and used by many people in their every day life.

When the telephone was first becoming popular in the earlier part of the 1900′s there was the feeling by many people that this type of thing was of the devil. People were stubborn and slow to accept the facts presented by science that the unseen and little understood forces of nature could and would improve life in many ways.

These days the supernatural is considered as a separate part of our natural world, but more and more it is beginning to be accepted that it is just as much and maybe even more of who we really are than what we think we are. There are many things science has yet to understand or even begin to perceive, but slowly people are starting to experience a major shift in their thinking regarding things of this nature.

Many folks are beginning to get the idea that a human is really not a physical entity with a soul or spirit nature, but actually a soul with a physical body. The proven abilities of psychics as shown on TV and other types of television shows like ghost hunters and celebrity ghost stories shows just how much a part of the human consciousness this subject and subjects like it are becoming.