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Our minds are more powerful than we know. We all
have psychic connections to everyone and everything
around us. Here's what you need to know about the
dimension of the human unconscious and psychic
connections.
What does it mean to study psychic
phenomena? A long-held, common-sense assumption is
that the worlds of the subjective and objective are
completely distinct, with no overlap. Subjective is
"here, in the head," and objective is "there, out in
the world." Parapsychology then is the study of
phenomena suggesting that the assumption of a strict
separation between subjective and objective may be
wrong. Human experience suggests that some phenomena
occasionally fall between the cracks, and are not
purely subjective nor purely objective.
Similarly, modern quantum physics has demonstrated
that light particles seem to know what lies ahead of
them and will adjust their behavior accordingly,
even though the future event hasn't occurred yet.
For example, in the classic "double slit
experiment," physicists discovered that light
particles respond differently when they are observed
[for a simple explanation of this experiment, see
this video]. But in 1999, researchers pushed this
experiment to the limits by asking "what if the
observation occurred after the light particles were
deployed." Surprisingly, they found the particles
acted the same way, as if they knew they were going
to be observed in the future even though it hadn't
happened yet [for more details on this experiment
see this wiki entry].
Such trippy time effects seem to contradict common
sense and trying to make sense of them may give the
average person a headache, but physicists have just
had to accept it. As Dr. Chiao, a physicist from
Berkeley once said about quantum mechanics, "It's
completely counterintuitive and outside our everyday
experience, but we (physicists) have kind of gotten
used to it."
So although humans perceive time as linear, it
doesn't necessarily mean it is so. And as good
scientists, we shouldn't let out preconceived
beliefs and biases influence what we study, even if
these preconceived beliefs reflect our basic
assumptions about how time and space work. |
