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"ESP" is short for extra-sensory perception. As the name implies, it suggests that you are able to gain knowledge of things and events outside of yourself, and without using your five "normal" senses: taste, touch, sight, hearing, or smell. Having ESP is also known as possessing psychic abilities. As a reminder, you scored as being most psychic in the area of Precognition.
There are two ways that your ESP can be determined; Emode's ESP Test uses them both. The first way Emode tests psychic ability is by objective analysis. It's called "objective" because objective questions have a right answer to them. For instance, the question, "One of Emode's employees has a dog. What is its name?" is an objective question. There is only one right answer to it.
On an ESP test, one potential downside of objective questions is that they can sometimes be biased. You might be drawn to give one answer over another based on your own personal experiences or by taking an educated guess. However, even with this bias, an objective score still acts as a good measure of how psychic you're likely to be. If you had no psychic ability at all, you'd theoretically have answered about 6 of the 27 objective questions right. Instead, Emode found that you answered 10 of them right. This means that you got more of them correct than what would be expected by chance, which indicates that you're relatively more likely to possess unusual psychic talent.
The other way to measure psychic ability is to ask about particular experiences common to those who have unusually high psychic powers. These are called subjective questions because they rely on your ability to recall your own experiences from your perspective. Based on the ESP Test's subjective questions, it appears that at this time you have very strong psychic abilities.
To arrive at your overall ESP score, Emode's experts combined both types of questions: the objective and subjective. They also examined your abilities in five varieties of ESP. Their analysis included: how well you do at looking into what has occurred in the past (retrocognition), being able to "see" the unknown (clairvoyance), looking into the future (precognition), viewing physical objects from a distance (remote viewing), and being able to tune into others' thoughts (telepathy). To determine your overall psychic ability, they combined all of these skills together to arrive at a composite score. In the sections that follow, you'll find a detailed analysis of your scores on each variety of ESP. Note that your results have been reported relative to how other test takers scored. Because everyone is somewhat psychic, you would have had to score more highly than others did to be considered highly psychic.
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Of the five key types of ESP, your greatest strength is in Precognition.
Having strong natural ability in precognition makes you more able to tell what will happen in the future, without using information available to you through your five senses. Precognition is the talent possessed by prophets and psychics. You've probably known about this aspect of ESP for a long time, even if you didn't know it by name. For many people, precognition is best represented by the image of a gypsy woman staring into a crystal ball telling someone's future.
Individuals like you who have this ability are sometimes able to utilize it to your advantage; knowing what is going to happen ahead of time can be profound. The problem comes when the events you're seeing in the future are negative. Panic can set in as you wonder whether you can stop bad things from happening. You may not have "seen" enough information to be certain you can make a difference. Oftentimes, people with precognition have visions of things that are going to happen without knowing details like where an event will take place or whom it effects. Depending on the type of information you get, you may not have the whole picture. Most people only have access to a piece of it, and not being able to see the entire thing can be frustrating at times.
Even when precognitive information you receive is positive, it can often be hard to trust. After all, what is fantasy and what is a real vision? By starting to pay more attention to your own predictions, rather than immediately discounting them, you can begin to test your skills. Over time, you'll be able to discern imaginings of what you want to happen in the future from truly psychic thoughts. Pay attention to your dreams as well. Because they're not affected by conscious thoughts, they can be a rich source for the most pure psychic information about the future.
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To develop your ESP, it's worth paying attention to all five types of psychic skill, not only your Precognition. The more you know about each one of your gifts, the more you can use them to improve your life.
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Precognition is the ability to know things ahead of time. Nostradamus is one famous example of a person with precognitive powers. However, there are many psychics who claim they can tell the future. The more precognitive power you have, the greater your chances will be of knowing about events before they happen. Precognition can come in many forms. One of the most common and reliable of these is through dreams. Dreams can sometimes provide very credible information about future events; however, this form of precognition can often be hardest to believe and interpret. Perhaps this is because your dreams don't seem as real or tangible as knowledge that comes to you while you're awake. That's not to suggest that all dreams are predictions of the future — far from it. Most dreams have nothing to do with precognition. Still, learning to use your dreams as guides, and becoming able to discern which dreams anticipate future events, can be very valuable skills.
Even people who have not honed their precognitive abilities sometimes have episodes of precognition. For example, an old woman named Judy awoke one morning with a strong feeling that her long-lost son would show up that afternoon. As she ran her errands that morning and visited with her friends, she told all of them that her son would be visiting that day. They reminded her that he had up and left years ago and told her she was crazy to think he was coming. Even with their doubt and ridicule, Judy was so sure of her precognition that she turned down other afternoon plans so that she could sit home and wait. That afternoon a car pulled into her driveway. It was her son whom she had not seen in 12 years. Even Judy was amazed that her intuition had been correct. She was thrilled to tell her son that she had been waiting for him.
Your overall score
Overall, you scored 99 out of 100, meaning that you scored higher than 99% of people who took the ESP Test.
Your score on objective questions
Emode asked a number of objective questions that have definite right and wrong answers to them. A person randomly guessing on the answers to these questions would normally get at most 1 correct. You got 0 out of 4 correct, which translates to a not particularly strong psychic ability in this area.
How to increase your skill
No matter how strong your precognitive abilities are, there is always room to strengthen them. For most people, the best way to access precognitions is through dreams. However, the challenge with dreams is that they're often hard to evaluate at the time you have them. They're also hard to remember during your waking life. By keeping a journal near your bed and writing down your dreams just after you've had them, you give yourself the opportunity to go back and check what you've dreamt from time to time. You can weigh your dreams against real-life events to see if you've made any valid predictions.
It could take months before something comes true, or it could happen somewhat quickly. Sometimes the clue in your dream will be something small, and oftentimes it won't be literal. For instance, one morning a second grade teacher named John woke up after having the strangest dream. There were lots of different parts to it. It seemed that in his mind he had traveled to the jungles and the tops of mountains all in one night. But the part of the dream that really stuck with him was the end. In his dream, he walked into his kitchen to get some coffee and found Betty Crocker there — the woman from the famous baking goods company — surrounded by pies and cakes. John awoke having no idea what this dream meant and went off to work. That afternoon in school, he was leading a discussion about what his class could do to raise money for an upcoming fieldtrip. One of his students suggested having a bake sale. There was great support for the idea from all the other students and the bake sale was decided on. John had to laugh to himself when he was surrounded by cookies and baked goods at their fundraiser the following week.
Clairvoyance is the ability to know something that is currently taking place without reliance on any of your five senses to obtain that knowledge. For example, sometimes an individual will suddenly see in their mind's eye an event that is currently transpiring; only later will they get confirmation that what they envisioned truly happened. At other times, clairvoyants will not see the whole picture but will simply sense that something happened. Mostly, clairvoyance is the ability to get information about things: "mindless objects." Take this story of a woman who lost the stone in her wedding ring.
One afternoon during lunch, a woman looked down at her hand only to realize that one of the three diamonds in her wedding ring was gone. She was extremely upset because had no idea when or where she'd lost the stone. She was certain it was gone forever. After breaking the news to her husband, the two began to look all through their house for it, not having any idea where the stone might be. Then suddenly, the husband had a vision that his wife's diamond was on the ground underneath the movie-theater seat she had occupied the night before. He didn't tell her about this vision at first, in case he was mistaken. Instead he told his wife he was going to the store and returned to the theater to look for the diamond. Sure enough, when he reached the spot where they had been sitting, the stone was there, just like he had pictured it. He brought the diamond back to his wife to her great delight and told her about the mental picture that led him to it.
Your overall score
Overall, you scored 90 out of 100, meaning that you scored higher on clairvoyance than 90% of people who took the ESP Test.
Your score on objective questions
Emode asked a number of objective questions that have definite right and wrong answers to them. A person randomly guessing on the answers to these questions would normally get about 2 correct. You got 3 out of 9 correct, which translates to a moderately strong psychic ability in this area.
How to increase your skill
No matter how clairvoyant you believe yourself to be, this is a skill you can always advance further. To become more clairvoyant, you need only to pay more attention to your hunches. Day-to-day life provides many opportunities to test yourself. However, you may also want to experiment with some cards or dice.
Here's a good exercise to try: Roll a die but don't look at it once you've rolled it. With your eyes closed, try to imagine the number on the die you just rolled. Once you "see" it in your head, say the number out loud and open your eyes. Were you correct? Take a piece of paper and write down the number you rolled and whether you were correct or not. The more you do this, the better you'll become at recognizing when your visions are accurate and when they're not.
Retrocognition is the ability to look into the past and get information that is not otherwise available to you through one of your five senses. For some people, this information comes spontaneously. For example, one woman with strong retrocognition skills reported that she was standing by the side of the road one day and flashed upon of a scene of a car accident. This vision had a disturbing effect on her. In fact, it was so compelling and realistic that she set out to determine if a crash had actually taken place there. Upon investigation, she found that indeed, a terrible accident had occurred just days before, exactly as she had envisioned it. However, not everyone with retrocognition experiences these spontaneous flashbacks. Certain individuals with this skill use meditation or purposeful visualization to look back into the past.
Your overall score
Overall, you scored 90 out of 100, meaning that you scored higher on retrocognition than 90% of people who took the ESP Test.
Your score on objective questions
Emode asked a number of objective questions that have definite right and wrong answers to them. A person randomly guessing on the answers to these questions would normally get at most one correct. You got 1 out of 4 correct, which translates to a strong psychic ability in this area.
How to increase your skill
No matter how skilled you are at retrocognition, there is always room for advancing your ability. The best way to improve is to go to new places and see if you get any feeling about what has happened there in the past. The more you're able to quiet your mind and focus your attention on where you are, the more likely you'll be able to connect. You may get a particular feeling, have a vision, or just experience a kind of "knowingness" about what has happened there before.
Most times, however, you probably won't have a sense about a place. Therefore the more places you go, and the more times you check in with yourself regarding whether you're having any particular reactions to a place, the better chance you'll have of identifying moments of retrocognition. When you believe you're on to something, try to get feedback and validation by asking others what they know about a location's past. You may be surprised to find that you've picked up on a piece of history. Yet at other times, even if your hunches are correct, you may have trouble finding others to confirm them. This is especially true if the events you are sensing happened a very long time ago.
Remote viewing is the ability, while staying in one place, to "go" somewhere else with the power of your mind and visually see what is there. Space is not a limiting factor for individuals who have strong remote viewing capabilities. Interestingly, there has been substantial experimentation using remote viewers to examine whether or not this type of ESP truly exists and can be relied upon. One example is the government-funded "Stargate" project that had psychics attempt to remotely view foreign targets for intelligence purposes. The viewers' results were good enough that this program received government support for many years. Today it's even the subject of a number of books. However, that doesn't mean that remote viewing has been determined to be foolproof. Although indisputable evidence exists regarding the legitimacy of remote viewing, it's still difficult to rely on this kind of information. Nearly everyone makes mistakes at times, even excellent remote viewers.
Your overall score
Overall, you scored 16 out of 100 on remote viewing, meaning that you scored higher than 16% of people who took the ESP Test.
Your score on objective questions
Emode asked a number of objective questions that have definite right and wrong answers to them. A person randomly guessing on the answers to these questions would normally get about 1 correct. You got 2 out of 5 correct, which translates to a very strong psychic ability in this area.
How to increase your skill
No matter how solid your remote viewing skills are, this is a difficult ability to master. Obviously some people will always be better remote viewers than others. However, with practice, whatever skills you do have can become more refined over time. In psychic experiments, remote viewers practice their skills systematically. The tester determines the latitude and longitude of a particular place or building, and then the person being tested takes that information and goes to that place in their mind. Once they feel like they have an image of the location, they describe or write down whatever they're picturing. It's most effective to do this kind of experiment using three people, so there is an impartial middle person between the tester and the person being tested. That way the tester can't influence the remote viewer with their thoughts. By using the third person, it's easier to make certain that the ESP ability being displayed is truly remote viewing and not mental telepathy.
Mental telepathy is the ability to know what another person is thinking or visualizing without being told anything about their inner thoughts. Statistically speaking, telepathy is a relatively more common way to exercise your sixth sense. Perhaps that's because it can be easier to get information by reading another person than by trying to obtain information from things like one does with clairvoyance. In some cases, the connections between people seem to somehow support telepathy.
Perhaps you've experienced telepathy in your own life by knowing who is on the line as soon as the phone rings, even if there's no special reason to expect that person to call. You might also have had telepathic experiences where you thought about someone you hadn't talked to in ages, only to have them contact you later that same day. In this latter case, you don't really know whether it was you who experienced the telepathy or if it was the person who did the calling that did. You can check with them to try to straighten it out, but the fact of it may never be clear.
Your overall score
Overall, on telepathy you scored 8 out of 100, meaning that you scored higher than 8% of people who took the ESP Test.
Your score on objective questions
Emode asked a number of objective questions that have definite right and wrong answers to them. A person randomly guessing on the answers to these questions would normally get about 1 correct. You got 1 out of 5 correct, which translates to a moderate psychic ability in this area.
How to increase your skill
Even people with great telepathic abilities have room to hone their skills. The easiest way for you to do this is to pair up with a friend so you can both practice. Try this: Sit down together with your friend and spend a few minutes calming your minds and relaxing into a quiet, meditative state. Once you're both relaxed, take turns doing the following exercise. One person deliberately thinks about something, like a day that had special significance to them or a particular scene of some kind. The other person tries to connect with what the first person is thinking and then describes what they're picking up. With practice, over time you'll likely get a better sense of when you are picking up a true "signal" from your friend's mind versus simply imagining what they might be thinking or visualizing.
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Regardless of what type of psychic ability you're working on, practicing with a positive attitude can only help your efforts. In fact, positivity is essential. If you believe something is going to work, you have a far better chance of it being successful. Several studies have established this. Your belief about the nature of ESP may also influence your ability to access it. An experiment conducted in the 1970s showed that this was the case.
At the University of North Carolina, Bruce Layton and Bill Turnbull did an experiment where they gave students a list of 100 randomly generated numbers (between 1 and 5) in a sealed envelope and asked them to guess what number was in each position. If the students had no ESP abilities, they should get 1 out of 5 correct on average or 20 out of 100. When told beforehand that ESP was beneficial, the students averaged 20.66 correct out of 100. A small effect, but significant. Even more telling, however, is that those students who were told beforehand that ESP was harmful averaged 19.49 correct. In other words, they did worse than chance, indicating that there was a bias against giving the correct answer when ESP was a feared ability rather than a revered one.
Other research has also shown that those who believe in ESP are more likely to exhibit psychic abilities in the laboratory. It could be, however, that those who believe in ESP are more likely to have it in the first place. This line of reasoning assumes that people who've experienced ESP firsthand are more likely to believe it. Whatever the case may be, when you go about improving your psychic abilities, it can only help to keep a positive frame of mind. So regardless of your doubts, try telling yourself that ESP is real and that it can be used in whatever way you like once you get more control over it. There is nothing inherently good or bad about ESP; it simply is. Like any tool, its value all depends on how you use it.
Following are a couple of experiments that will help you further evaluate different aspects of your ESP abilities, as well as help you to master the skills you have.
Practicing mental telepathy
This exercise will require a deck of playing cards, a bell, and a friend who is willing to help you work on your telepathy skills. Give your friend the cards and the bell and ask them to sit in another room, far enough away so that you can't see them but close enough so you can hear their voice. In this exercise, your friend will slowly turn over playing cards one by one. Each time they do, they'll strike a bell. This sound will be your signal to guess the suit of the card they've just turned over.
During the exercise, make sure to have your friend mentally project the suit of the card to you. In other words, have them deliberately visualize what is on the card and make that information available to you. Once you believe you have the image, write it down, and say, "OK," so that your friend knows that you are finished. At the same time, your friend should record what was actually on the card so that the two of you can later compare notes. Try to go through the whole deck or as much of it as you can. It's difficult to get a good measure of psychic abilities without testing yourself on a number of tries. On average you should get 1 in 4 correct. More than this is suggestive of having skills in mental telepathy.
But at first, you may wish to simply try guessing five cards and then comparing notes. That way you get more immediate feedback while you're learning how to trust, and work with, your visions. For instance, sometimes you might hear in your mind, "hearts," and you write down that suit. The next card, you might see a spade, so you write down the spade. And so on. When comparing your notes afterward, you might find out that when you saw the suit in your head you were right more often than when you heard the word in your head. Or perhaps the opposite is true. Other times, you might just know that it's a diamond. By taking notes and measuring your different reactions and their results, you'll be able to hone in on the forms your intuition takes and when it's most reliable.
Another exercise you can do is to have your friend go in the other room and go through a book of pictures. It's best to choose a book in which the pictures are varied and the objects in the pictures are distinct. Just as with the playing cards, your friend will visualize the pictures and record which objects they are looking at. You'll use the same procedure with the bell and say, "OK." However, this time, your friend can project not only the picture in their mind but also any emotions they feel along with it. Record everything you feel, see, think, or hear so that you can compare notes later. Studies show that emotions are easier to project by telepathy than static pictures. So the more emotional energy your friend can put into the experiment, and the more clearly they can identify a particular emotion they are trying to send, the more you should be able to pick up on it.
Practicing clairvoyance
There are many ways to pick up clairvoyant information, but one is with a pendulum. To obtain information psychically with a pendulum, you simply hold it over a map or a piece of paper or anything at all, and ask a question. First you will obviously need to either buy a pendulum or make one. It is easy to make one — just tie a ring to a light string.
Once you have your pendulum, do a test to see which direction the pendulum swings when it is giving you a "no" answer and which way it swings for a "yes" answer. You can determine this by placing the pendulum over a book. Ask the pendulum, "Is this the book The Grapes of Wrath?" Assuming that it is not actually the title of the book, the pendulum should swing in a direction that indicates "no." Then, ask about the real title of the book by voicing a question again. The pendulum should swing in the opposite direction, indicating "yes." If it doesn't work at first, practice with more questions and objects until you get the swing of things, so to speak.
Once you get the hang of it, you can try using the pendulum on more difficult experiments. Ask a friend to hide a penny under one of three identical plates with the plates turned upside-down. Then ask them to think about something else entirely or to read a book, so that you aren't getting interference from their thoughts about where the penny is hidden. Once they're ready, you'll come into the room and use the pendulum to figure out which of the plates the penny is under. Ask the pendulum if the penny is under plate #1. Note whether the pendulum swings to the left or to the right, or however the pendulum swings when giving you a "yes" or a "no" answer. Then do this same exercise with the other two plates. Finally, pick up all three plates to find the penny and see if what the pendulum "told" you was correct. This is a great way to see if your clairvoyance skills are on the mark.
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After all this practicing, you're surely going to want to be able to put your ESP skills to use in your everyday life. Below are some ways that your abilities can actually improve your life. In each instance, you'll be applying your abilities to "read" the current situations in your life. Whether looking at your work, romance, or your health, you can use what you know about ESP to get answers to the questions you've been pondering.
Work
The way you use ESP at work can vary depending on the type of work you do. For instance, say you're a salesperson. You may wish to use ESP to determine whether or not to pursue a potential sales lead. However, before making your ESP the gold standard by which you judge such important matters, make sure you have plenty of practice with your pendulum or with reading situations first. It's vital to be certain that you can trust your perceptions before using them in such important matters. Try doing test readings of potential clients for a period of a few months before you actually use ESP to make any real-world determinations. Over time, hopefully you'll be able to sort out the difference between your feelings about a particular person, for example, and the actual potential viability of striking up a deal with that person. It's also important to remember that when you need to justify your work and reasoning to others, saying that you had a hunch will often not be enough to merit your actions. Having solid background data will be important as well.
Another example of using ESP in the workplace would be when you're testing the waters regarding getting a raise. Before asking for a raise, you can test whether it is a good idea to do so. To do this, try doing a pendulum reading about asking for a raise each night. See what answer you get each day and whether the answers you receive are consistent from day to day. The more days you get the same answer, the more certain you can be about your choice one way or the other. Note that whenever you're using a pendulum for such weighty matters you should test it periodically to make sure it's still working in the way it originally did.
Romance
Often the most trying times in romantic relationships can be when you don't know how things between you and your partner are really going. For instance, if you're hoping to settle down, you may want to know, "Is this person really the one?" Alternately, if your relationship is in a rocky place, you may want to ask, "Is this relationship going somewhere positive?" or "Is this situation still good for both of us?"
Using the pendulum to address your questions can be a good place to start. But you can also try another technique. Try this: Write down several different potential futures that you can imagine for your relationship. For example, you could write: Together, happily ever after; Together, but struggling for years; Together, but soon to part; Won't be together very long at all. Put each of these in a different envelope. Then mix them up — or even better, have someone else mix them up for you. Once the envelopes have been shuffled, place your hand on each one and just get a sense of what you feel about it. Does it make you feel calm or anxious? Happy or sad? Hopeful or depressed? Your unconscious may already know the answers that you're attempting to get through ESP. But whatever leads you to a comfortable decision about your relationship is a good thing. At this point you can either open the envelopes to find out if your feelings matched the ending you're hoping for, or you can first use the pendulum on each envelope to see what extra information you find.
Health
One of the premises examined throughout this report is that information is available to you on many levels and in many places, whether you're aware of it or not. This idea also applies to health. Many people believe that you can heal another person from afar simply by sending them positive images of them being well, or by visualizing a stream of white light that you mentally send their way as healing energy. Other people have a hard time believing that this kind of healing is possible.
The next time someone is ill, try sending them a positive mental image of wellness or picture them surrounded in white light. For someone who isn't used to doing this kind of exercise, it can feel strange at first. But when someone is hurting, how can it be bad to do this kind of visualization? At the very least, having positive mental images in your mind can have a positive effect on your mood. Even if the person you're sending the healing energy and thoughts isn't conscious of what you're doing, they may still benefit from your efforts.
Using the mind as a healing tool goes against a lot of principles of Western medicine because it focuses on the whole person — body, mind, and spirit, rather than only on the pathology that Western medicine tends to focus on. Also, Western medicine treats the body almost exclusively. However, even in Western medicine using positive imagery has been shown to help in survival rates in cancer patients and in people with other diseases. It's also been shown to decrease pain levels in some patients. Remember that you don't only have to use the power of your mind to help others heal. You can also use it to facilitate your own healing. Keeping positive images of health in your mind can decrease your stress levels and give your body the extra push it needs to get well.
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Now that you know where your psychic abilities lie and have some ideas about how ESP can be used in your own life, it's time to find out exactly how you scored on the ESP Test's objective questions — those with definite right and wrong answers. See if you did how you expected to.
As a reminder, each question below shows both the right answer and the answer you gave.
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| 2. | There is a picture printed beneath this gray card. What is the picture of?
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| | • | A baseball |
| | • | A basketball |
| | • | A football |
| | • | A golf ball |
| | • | A bowling ball |
| 3. | At the end of this test, Emode will randomly generate a number from 1 to 10. What do you sense the number associated with your test will be?
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| 5. | One of Emode's employees has a dog named:
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| | • | Buddy |
| | • | Shaggy |
| | • | Fenway |
| | • | Emode |
| | • | Spot |
| 7. | There is a word printed beneath this gray card. What is the word?
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| | • | Physical |
| | • | Spiritual |
| | • | Emotional |
| | • | Psychological |
| 9. | At the end of this test, Emode will randomly generate an image of one of the following fruits. What do you sense the fruit associated with your test will be?
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| | • | Strawberry |
| | • | Lime |
| | • | Blueberry |
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| 11. | Emode moved offices in 2002. The newer location has:
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| 12. | In what month of 2002 did Emode move its offices?
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| | • | January |
| | • | February |
| | • | March |
| | • | April |
| | • | May |
| | • | June |
| | • | July |
| | • | August |
| | • | September |
| | • | October |
| | • | November |
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| 13. | There is a word printed beneath this gray card. What is the word?
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| | • | Hear |
| | • | See |
| | • | Smell |
| | • | Touch |
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| 16. | The first engineer hired by Emode was:
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| | • | Ron |
| | • | Otis |
| | • | Kate |
| | • | Kelly |
| 17. | There is a picture printed beneath this gray card. What is the picture of?
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| | • | A person |
| | • | A stadium |
| | • | A birdcage |
| | • | A laptop computer |
| | • | A desk |
| 18. | Emode's kitchen has, among other things:
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| | • | A whiteboard |
| | • | A ping-pong table |
| | • | A futon |
| 20. | There is a word printed beneath this gray card. What is the word?
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| | • | Buy |
| | • | Win |
| | • | Sell |
| | • | Lose |
| 21. | One of Emode's employees got married in July of 2002. What was her name?
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| | • | Mary |
| | • | Trixie |
| | • | Michelle |
| | • | Peggy |
| 23. | What color is the couch in Emode's lobby?
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| | • | Black |
| | • | Gray |
| | • | Dark Blue |
| | • | Beige |
| 24. | How many flower vases does Emode have on display in its office?
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| 26. | There is a picture printed beneath this gray card. What is the picture of?
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| | • | A bridge |
| | • | A plane |
| | • | A bus |
| | • | A train |
| 27. | There is a word printed beneath this gray card. What is the word?
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| | • | Bargain |
| | • | Expensive |
| | • | Sale |
| | • | Priceless |
| | • | Costly |
| 28. | At the end of this test, Emode will randomly generate one of the following colors. What do you sense the color associated with your test will be?
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| | • | Blue |
| | • | Green |
| | • | Orange |
| | • | Brown |
| 29. | There is a picture printed beneath this gray card. What is the picture of?
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| | • | A plate |
| | • | A fork |
| | • | A knife |
| | • | A bowl |
| 31. | There is a picture printed beneath this gray card. What is the picture of?
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| | • | A mouse |
| | • | A gerbil |
| | • | A fish |
| | • | A rabbit |
| 32. | There is a word printed beneath this gray card. What is the word?
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| | • | Yes |
| | • | Probably |
| | • | Maybe |
| | • | No |
| 33. | You can find one of these things sitting on top of a computer monitor at Emode. Which is it?
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| | • | A plant |
| | • | A crown |
| | • | A photo |
| | • | A miniature dinosaur |
| 35. | There is a picture printed beneath this gray card. What is the picture of?
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| | • | A sunset |
| | • | A park |
| | • | An ocean |
| | • | A mountain |
| 36. | How many Emode employees have married someone they met through online dating?
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| | • | 1 |
| | • | 2 |
| | • | 3 |
| | • | 4 |
| | • | 5 |
| | • | 10 |
| | • | 15 |
| | • | 30 |
| 38. | How many pillars are in Emode's office?
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| | • | 1 |
| | • | 3 |
| | • | 6 |
| | • | 9 |
| | • | 10 |
| 39. | There is a picture printed beneath this gray card. What is the picture of?
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| | • | Jeans |
| | • | A shirt |
| | • | A shoe |
| | • | A sock |
| | • | A glove |
| 40. | At the end of the test, Emode will randomly generate a scent. What do you sense the scent associated with your test will be?
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| | • | Sage |
| | • | Lavender |
| | • | Grape |
| | • | Vanilla |
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You've now delved into the amazing world of your sixth sense. But there's no reason to stop your explorations here. For the next four weeks Emode's experts will help you learn even more about ESP and how it can positively influence your life. To do that, they'll be sending you a series of four emails to your inbox, one per week, to help you unlock a greater understanding of your psychic abilities. Get ready for the first one next week and until then, enjoy practicing all you've learned!
Although ESP has been around for as long as people have existed, rigorous experimental studies were not pursued until the 20th century. Researchers of this phenomenon believe that most people have psychic abilities and that some individuals' abilities are significantly stronger than others.
Doctors J.B. Rhine and Louisa E. Rhine, as husband and wife, were true pioneers in the study of ESP. They set out to evaluate whether ESP really existed. To do so, they learned about the psychic experiences of hundreds, if not thousands, of people during their years at the Rhine Research Center. This center was designed specifically to pursue scientific understanding of parapsychology, also known as the psychology of psychic experiences. During the formative years of the center, it was a part of Duke University and Dr. J.B. Rhine was the Chairman of the Department of Psychology there. It now operates independently in Durham, NC. Their website is http://www.rhine.org.
The Rhines published several books and numerous publications and created the Journal of Parapsychology, still in publication today. While at Duke, Rhine developed an experimental method for testing ESP. One set of experiments led them to believe that the statistical probability that ESP does not exist is 1 in 1,000,000. In all, by 1940, Rhine had performed 33 experiments and almost a million trials, using the most rigorous of scientific methodology to test the presence of ESP. 27 of the 33 studies produced statistically significant results — meaning, that chance alone could not explain the results.
The Rhine Center's studies identified several different types of ESP, including clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy. A meta-analysis combining the results of 309 precognition studies conducted by 62 different experimenters was performed to determine whether in general there is support for ESP. Overall, according to this analysis, the probability that ESP does not exist is .0000000000000000000001%.
There have also been very ingenious ESP experiments performed by others outside of the Rhine Research Center. One of the most famous examples is the Ganzfeld experiments, led by Daryl J. Bem and Charles Honorton, wherein one subject guessed what another subject was thinking about, in the most controlled of experiments. The Ganzfeld experiment is considered to be among the best experiments ever done in parapsychological research. It is primarily a telepathy test. Separated by distance and enclosed in what amounts to a sensory deprivation room, the experimenters interacting with the subjects knew nothing of what the participants were seeing, and the chances that the experiments were contaminated is extraordinarily low. With dynamic images (meaning that the sender was imagining an event rather than just a static picture), the receiver got 37% of the trials correct. Without ESP, we would expect only 25% of the trials to come out correct.
The magnitude of this result is hard to comprehend, unless you compare it with the results of other studies. For example, in 1994, Bem and Honorton compared the results of their Ganzfeld experiments with the results of a recent medical study that sought to determine whether aspirin can prevent heart attacks. The finding that aspirin can prevent heart attacks was considered to be a medical breakthrough, however, compared to the Ganzfield result, the margin of proof was quite small. Taking aspirin reduces the chances of a heart attack by only .008, which is about 1/3rd - 1/4th the magnitude of the effect found in these psychic experiments.
In sum, the evidence supporting ESP is overwhelming but continues to be debated. Given that so many are averse to believing in ESP, conviction without a doubt is unlikely to be found among skeptics regardless of the number of trials. Ultimately, science can only prove so much, and the human mind, as these studies show, has capabilities so complex and magnificent that we are only starting to understand it.
To create the ESP Test, Emode's experts took results from ESP research and literature, combined it all, and used it as a basis for creating a test that measured 5 different types of ESP. The test encompassed both objective (right or wrong) and subjective (the test taker reports their own personal experiences) questions. Before finalizing the test's questions, Emode first did a survey of thousands of respondents to gather questions that most reliably assessed ESP. The strongest questions were amassed to form the ESP Test. To learn more about ESP and the sources for the ESP Test, Emode's research team recommends the following:
Bem, D. J. & Honorton, C. (1994). Does Psi Exist? Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 115, No. 1, 4-18.
Rhine, J. B., Pratt, J.G.; Smith, B.M., Stuart, C. E., & Greenwood, J. A. (1966). Extra-Sensory Perception after Sixty Years. Holt: New York, 1940; Humphries: Boston, 1966.
Rhine, L. (1961). Hidden Channels of the Mind. William Morrow and Company, New York.
Steering Committee of the Physicians' Health Study Research Group. (1988). Preliminary report: Findings from the aspirin component of the ongoing Physicians' Health Study. New England Journal of Medicine, 318, 262-264.
Schlitz, M. J., & Honorton, C. (1992). Ganzfeld psi performance within an articistically gifted population. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 86, 83-98.
Some potentially useful links:
http://members.easyspace.com/craigesp/psychictests
http://www.psiexplorer.com/jbrhine.htm
http://paranormal.about.com
http://www.rhine.org
http://www.psiexplorer.com
List of other useful references:
https://www.rhine.org/cgi-bin/os.cgi?set=osp&page=../os/resources.shtml&cart_id=9640220.5996
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