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            Picture the scene. A crowded shop in a busy alley filled with books, strange smelling incense and astronomy charts. An old woman shrouded in all black sits at the back of the shop petting her black cat and waiting to read palms or tell fortunes from a crystal ball. This is just one way to view the typical stereotypes of what and who a psychic is.

            But could a psychic instead be the kind man at the Post Office that gives you mail every day.  What about your child’s Kindergarten teacher? Everyone has the potential to be a psychic but before embarking on the journey of developing extrasensory skills some misconceptions need to be addressed.

            As humans we experience life through our five senses, sight, scent, touch, smell and hearing. However extrasensory perception or ESP bypasses the senses to provide information without any physical source.

            Many people encounter their own ESP on a daily basis but the incidents are so ordinary they are generally forgotten. ESP is not necessarily a dramatic experience. Despite dramatic representations of ESP in mystery novels and popular television series in real life it could be a “gut feeling” or a flash of a face in a dream. Because these experiences are generally subtle many people consider them to be a mere coincidence.

            From a scientific standpoint there is still speculation concerning the validity of ESP. And it can be argued that no matter how testing is conducted there may always be skepticism. However, much data has been collected and many studies do indicate that ESP is a very real phenomenon. The term “extrasensory perception” was first used by scientist J.B. Rhine in the early 20^th century. Rhine along with his wife Louisa did much work establishing ESP as well as parapsychology as a scientific field. But despite these advances universally scientists still question the existence of ESP.

            Historically ESP is not a new idea. Specifically in the Mesopotamia and Egyptian regions there are accounts of ESP activity recorded dating back more than two thousand years. These societies believed in psychic dreams and took council from dream interpreters.

            Although ESP is not new in itself the study of it is. And since there is still no conclusive data concerning paranormal experiences ESP still isn’t given its scientific dues. However, one fact has been established and that is the fact that ESP is not a simple concept. There are many different forms of psychic ability as well as different types of experiences and people who have encountered them. Some psychic experiences are shrugged off as coincidences or instances of déjà vu.

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