According to its nature, psychic powers can be divided into two different types: one is extrasensory perception, which is called ESP (extrasensory perception) ability in foreign countries, including telepathy, perspective vision, predicting the future and recalling the past. It is this person who becomes very sensitive, and he can feel what others are thinking (telepathy); He can "see" what is happening in the distance, or see what is inside through obstacles (penetrating vision), and he can predict what will happen in the next few hours or days (predicting the future); You can also judge what a person has experienced in the past (knowing the past) by touching something that a person has used or yourself. Another special function is the ability of the human body to control external things by releasing energy, including the idea to make things move and seeds germinate; "Space transfer" enables objects to pass through walls from closed containers.
Second, historical records.
Whether these abilities are true or not, let's take a look at the Records of the Historian: Biography of Bian Que, which records that Bian Que has the ability to "see the color of the five internal organs of the human body", that is, he has penetrating vision and can see through the human body. With his medical knowledge, he has achieved his eternal fame.
The History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom records the special functions of the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan. He appeared more than 40 days after taking the second exam and returning to his hometown. His treatment includes insanity and deafness, and he can "recover with confidence". This ability is comparable to the ability of Jesus recorded in the Bible, which may be the most fundamental reason why Hong Xiuquan founded the "God Worship Society", claiming that God has two sons, brother Tian is Jesus and brother Tian is Hong Xiuquan.
Mr. Chen from the mainland has collected more than 1,000 historical cases from China's historical documents, including official history, local chronicles and notes, and selected 2 18 cases to write a book "Records of Wonders through the Ages", in which there are examples of extraordinary intelligence, extrasensory perception, special functions, telepathy and predicting the future. For example, the remote sensing of the historical facts of the Ming and Qing Dynasties by the mother and son of Gongsun Qiao, Zeng Shen and Xu Xiake coincided with the experimental report of modern parapsychology, which fully proved that the abnormal phenomenon was accompanied.
Third, the status quo of Western studies
The scientific research on human supernormal ability began more than 1 10 years ago. 1On February 20th, 882, several professors from Cambridge University in England organized and established the "Spiritual Research Association", and elected Professor Sidvik from Trinity College as its president to conduct scientific investigation and research on extrasensory perception, mindfulness and smart reincarnation.
The purpose of their alliance is simple. At that time, there were many psychics in Britain and European countries who claimed that they could communicate with the souls of dead relatives and friends, and showed many true stories, which seemed to be true and caused a sensation in society. This supernatural phenomenon has been circulating and spreading in human society since ancient times. Instead of letting the public spread and exaggerate these mysterious phenomena, it is better to bring them into the scientific category to do research, so as to trace back to the source.
The first step in the establishment of spiritual research society is to collect and investigate cases with extraordinary ability and publish academic works. In order to establish the rigor of the procedure, the association stipulates that the investigation can only accept witnesses or physical evidence. For example, if a person claims that he has the ability to predict the future, has he recorded it in advance, such as writing it in a diary (physical evidence) or telling others (witnesses)? If one of the elements is established, he can send someone to investigate new cases in the future and keep recording, analyzing, filing and publishing them. In the first 30 or 40 years after the establishment of the association, the main research work was to collect cases, including telepathy, clairvoyance, mindfulness, predicting the future, agility, reincarnation and so on.
At the beginning of the 20th century, at the end of1920s, the situation changed somewhat. Some European and American universities, such as Duke University in the United States and Edinburgh University in the United Kingdom, formally set up departments to engage in teaching and research in haunters. This department is called "Super Psychology Department", which is formed by adding a para in front of psychology. Moreover, the abnormal phenomenon studied is called psi phenomenon, which is the pronunciation of the Greek letter ψ, representing an unknown meaning, and has a similar meaning to X in the currently popular TV series X Files.
At the same time, there is also a major breakthrough in research methods. At that time, Dr. Laing, head of the Department of Parapsychology at Duke University in the United States, studied statistics himself. In order to prove the existence of the phenomenon from the experimental point of view, he invented a set of five cards called ESP cards in 1934. Each card has a simple pattern: circle, box, cross, running water and star.
When doing experiments such as telepathy, draw a card with random numbers and show it to the subjects, so that they can perceive the correct pattern dozens or hundreds of times. Then, according to the theory of probability and statistics, it is of statistical significance to determine whether the number of sensory correctness of the subjects belongs to the probability category or far exceeds the probability. Therefore, superpsychology broke away from the tradition of case collection and entered the field of experimental superpsychology. Dr. Rein is also known as the father of modern experimental superpsychology.
After 60 years of experimental research, the existence of some competitive phenomena has been basically confirmed, and many theories have been developed to explain these phenomena, but unfortunately, no * * * knowledge has been formed. At present, more than ten academic journals around the world have published research papers on the phenomenon of "competition". Universities with parapsychology departments have also spread to Asia, such as Japanese National Defense University and university of new england. However, only one relevant academic journal can be found in the central library of China, but not in the university library. This shows that although China has an extraordinary ability to spread a long history and traditions, the enthusiasm of academic circles in this field lags far behind that of western society and Japan.