Extrasensory perception

For the book, see Extrasensory Perception (book).
"Second sight" redirects here. For other uses, see Second Sight.

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Extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as a sixth sense, or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind. The term was adopted by Duke University botanist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as intuition, telepathy, psychometry, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, empathy and their trans-temporal operation as precognition or retrocognition.[1][2]

Second sight is an alleged form of extrasensory perception, whereby a person perceives information, in the form of a vision, about future events before they happen (precognition), or about things or events at remote locations (remote viewing).[3][4] There is no evidence that second sight exists. Reports of second sight are known only from anecdotes. Second sight and ESP are classified as pseudosciences.[5]

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  2. ^ "CRYPTAESTHESIA definition and meaning". Collins English Dictionary. 11 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  3. ^ "WordNet Search - 3.1". wordnetweb.princeton.edu.
  4. ^ "second sight". Merriam-Webster. 16 June 2024.
  5. ^ Regal, Brian (2009). Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia. Greenwood. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-313-35507-3.