Extra Sensory Perception: Is ESP reserved only for a few gifted individuals? Or does everyone have a special ability that goes above and beyond our five senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste?
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 3 out of 4 Americans profess at least one paranormal belief. The most popular is ESP at 41 percent followed by haunted houses at 37 percent.
I’m a Holy Roller of sorts and believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, three of which are Word of Knowledge, Word of Wisdom, and Discerning of Spirits. This is information provided from a source outside of my normal five senses.
I am a three-fold being of body, soul, and spirit and I receive information via my spirit that operates outside the realm of my body and its five senses.
So, I have ESP. One doesn’t have to play with Ouija boards or have séances to operate in this realm.
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Question: Do you believe you have ESP? If so, what type?
Question: Do you believe you have ESP? If so, what type?
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No Stephen I haven't got ESP but I know many people do have that gift.
ReplyDeleteGreat post and subject.
Yvonne, I'm surprised at so many doubters out there. I'll be following this topic up with a mini series soon. Just too much material for one post.
DeleteI think we all have ESP but we don't know how to harness it. Interesting subject.
ReplyDeleteSuzy at Someday Somewhere
Maybe we all have ESP. Interesting to contemplate.
ReplyDeleteAhh, NO! *scratch head* Well...maybe I do a little. My kids think I have it. Just in case I don't have it, then don't blow my cover! Fun "E" post, Stephen!
ReplyDeleteCathy, glad you had a little fun here and at least scratched your head regarding this topic.
DeleteI think we all have a touch of it...even if it's merely a "gut feeling" of danger ahead. Nice topic for "E," Stephen!
ReplyDeleteI agree; I don't have ESP. but I do have the Holy Spirit guiding me.
ReplyDeleteMelanie, the term ESP gets a bad rap because the hooky poo artists and Hollywood use the term in such a bad light. But really all this means is anything above the realm of the physical, and the spiritual falls into this category. But I understand if people don;t want to relate themselves to the term ESP specifically.
Deleteit would be cool, but I believe what you do.
ReplyDeleteI believe in some level of ESP. I think we all have our own types personalize just for ourselves. I'm a vivid dreamer which is a small thing and have been told I've always had a way of knowing things I shouldn't. I also belief a person can show different levels of enlightenment by whom they are surrounded with. Myself, I have a heightened level of awareness when I'm around certain individuals. This is a really great post!!!
ReplyDeleteDani, I'm a vivd dreamer too. It's important to be able to discern where the dreams are coming from, such as the pizza you ate the night before, or maybe God is trying to talk to you. He does this in dreams because often in our waking hours our brains are too busy with this and that to listen.
DeleteI think everyone has some degree of ESP. Some may have more than others. I tend to have feelings that are true and have dreams that come true. For instance, whenever I dream of a tornado, I wake to hear that a tornado hit some part of the country during the night.
ReplyDeleteIs that the same as a sixth sense? Because that I believe I have. Maybe it's simply in-depth observation, maybe something more. Not sure. I think we all have it, too. After all, we're all connected in the end (at least that's what I believe).
ReplyDeleteI sense that tomorrow you will post on the letter "F."
ReplyDeleteHahaha we'll see joeh.
DeleteNot so much as people think of ESP. I do have an observing and discerning eye that sees a lot and extrapolates accordingly. I also believe in listening to my instinctual gut reaction to situations.
ReplyDeleteSia McKye Over Coffee
I don't believe in ESP at all but I know some people do. I wish it was true because that would be cool.
ReplyDeleteLOL, I loved Joeh's comment :) I don't think I have ESP per se, I can sometimes sense something bad is going to happen, but I don't know when it is going to happen or what it is that might be happening, but a sense I have in my body that leaves me after the event has happened. I've learned to pray a lot during that time for whatever it may be and warn others to be careful (mainly son) when I have such a feeling.
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betty, that truly is a gift and gifts are to be shared with others in order for them to mean anything. Just keep on doing what you're doing!
DeleteI'm not sure about ESP, but I do know that I've often said I knew something was going to happen and it has. Perhaps that was because I simply put some observations together and came up with a conclusion that just turned out to be true.
ReplyDeleteI believe some people have a very heightened intuition - and I do believe this is God-given. We agreed, but phrase it differently.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Glad you're in the A-to-Z!
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Hi Steve - I'm sure we can tap into ESP .. if we have a way ... I know people who do have it ... yet when I expect them to have known somethingare somewhat shattered that they had no idea and then feel awful as I've told them something I thought they'd know, and not in the most empathetic way ...
ReplyDeleteInteresting reading everyone's comments - cheers Hilary
Hilary, there's a verse in the Bible that says we know in part and prophecy in part. Not in full. But in part. So I know when I walk into a situation or hear others talking about something they were involved in that people don;t know the whole story. Often its just fragments. Like anything in life, we do the best we can do and that's all we can do.
DeleteI'm not sure about ESP, not in myself anyway - I accept other people may have the gift, though, it's not my place to dispel other people's beliefs as myths.
ReplyDeleteAnnalisa, writing A-Z vignettes, at Wake Up, Eat, Write, Sleep
Thanks all for stopping by. This is a fascinating topic. Do we have any perceptions that go beyond our normal five senses?
ReplyDeleteI often think about something before it happens so I guess I have ESP. At least I like to think I do. A sixth sense, of sorts. Is that the same thing?
ReplyDeleteSuzy Turner: Author, Yogi Wannabe & Self-Help Geek.
Suzy, anything above and beyond seeing hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling is a perception that is extra sensory. It lies beyond our five senses. So yes to a sixth sense. the question now is, what is that sixth sense? For me, its a Word of Knowledge, a Word of Wisdom, or discerning of sports (good or bad).
DeleteOccasionally I will have something happen that I thought about or dreamed about. I agree with Suzy about a sixth sense of sorts. It happens very rarely and with no rhyme or reason. We probably all have some tendency to it, but not the ability to really harness it. But I believe there are people that definitely have ESP and are able to harness it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I believe in ESP but I do like watching shows about it. I tend to lean more toward the Sixth Sense school of thought.
ReplyDeleteScribbles From Jenn - Visiting from the A to Z Challenge
I have a total of 9 external senses. Sounds shocking, I know. But I you'll be equally shocked to know that everyone does. In fact, everyone has a 'sixth sense'.
ReplyDeleteYou got the classic five:
Sight
Hearing
Taste
Smell
Touch
Then you have 4 additional external senses:
Balance and acceleration (vestibular)
Temperature
Kinesthetic
Pain
There is also the sense of time, that is not based on any external sensory organ.
Not to mention all the internal senses you have, more than 10 of those.
So really, a person has over 20 different senses.
I'm not trying to take away ESP, but if you choose to believe in such things, don't ignore the many senses you already have in place of it. Since you have about 21 different senses, how about designating ESP to #22?
Thanks mad cat for the in depth insight. I'll look at this more closely in the days to follow.
DeleteI don't know if I am ready to go as far as admitting that I believe in ESP, but I believe in a strange, heighten sensory ability to sense when something is about to happen or is happening. This could also be explained as a coincidence. Whatever it is, I believe that it something that god has given us and do not believe in anything outside the realm of god. I don't believe people can conjure up powers that are unrelated to or in opposition to what god has given us. I know many people who claim to and appear to have a much more heightened awareness of things than others. I also believe in and have personally witnessed an unusual and unique power of non verbal communication between identical twins.
ReplyDeleteMelissa, that thing between twins can be really freaky.
DeleteI'm not sure if I believe in ESP. I do sometimes start thinking about something and then that thing happens, but that could be coincidence.
ReplyDeleteNope, but I wish I had.
ReplyDeleteI think that some people definitely have it more than others. There are absolutely many gifts and things that can't be "explained" by science.
ReplyDeleteGreat topic and posts. Love that they are short and snappy. You have an inviting writing style that pulled me in to go back and read through all so far in the A to Z. Thanks. Maria
ReplyDeleteMaria, thanks for visiting and glad you like the posts!
DeleteI have so much to post on this topic. Extra dimensions fall into this catagory and science sure seems to back this up. Can science and the supernatural merge? I think we live in such a world already.
ReplyDeleteIntriguing. Depends, I think, on one's definition of ESP. I do believe in Gifts of the Spirit. That is, in spiritual discernment, dreams, visions, impressions from another dimension.
ReplyDeleteThere is possibility in everything. I think ESP is your subconscious at work. I believe some psychics are real.
ReplyDeleteI have not always believed in "religion" per se. I did reach a point in my life when I knew there had to be a higher power.
I do believe in ESP. But I don't think it's the strictly scientific phenomenon that it's made out to be. I believe, like you, that there are unseen spirits. Not ghosts. But the Holy Spirit and demonic activity. That sort of spirit. I used to sense things before they happened. I was a very 70's type girl and for a while bought into a lot of the scientific hoopla over such stuff that went on then. But over time, I began to see it as door creaked open to something I didn't want any part of. Knowing something bad was going to happen before hand, never stopped it from happening. Once it changed the place and how, but not what happened. Since we are to trust in Our Lord Jesus Christ, the one who holds the future, I came to believe we should not glimpse the future. That glimpsing the future is actually demonic activity. I'd rather be clueless about tomorrow and trust in Jesus than to know anything beforehand.
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Barbara, we have much in common. I don;t need to know everything, even if I might have the ability to do so. Some things are better left behind closed doors and then focus on what is important in life like God and family and writing and wormholes and pizza.
DeleteI think ESP is one that a lot of people relate to because at one point in time everyone has thought they knew that was about to happen or they felt something, a gut instinct and then it comes to fruition. It may have only happened once but it makes it easy to believe that ESP can exist.
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read all your posts from A to E. You have written about all the topics I have been very interested in. Particularly dreams :) Great to have connected via A-Z :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Sushree for stopping by! I really think you'll like H for Haunted House.
DeleteI believe in listening to the still, small voice that can and does reside in each of us. The problem is we stifle it because of all of the outside noise and hustle bustle that is life. It is a gift that one can develop, just like other gifts of the spirit. Take care! Stopping by from A to Z!
ReplyDeleteI think that everyone is capable of what you might call ESP, but we have fallen out of the habit of using it in modern society since we no longer rely on our instincts and intuition. I don't think we've reached the limit in what can be discovered about the senses-I think science will reveal more as time goes on.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's a wrap. Thanks all for stopping by and especially to those who left a comment on your take on this topic.
ReplyDeleteGreat topic!
ReplyDeleteI guess each one possesses ESP but in varying degrees. Some are more aware of it and develop it further, while other might just brush it off. A very interesting topic of discussion though.
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