The term extrasensory perception or ESP is an unfortunate choice of words because it implies that man has an extra or sixth sense. This is not true. All human beings have only five physical senses: sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.
WHAT is a reference point? It is something that tells you what another thing is.
Since the mid-â70s up to the early years of the current century, I often fell into spontaneous trances, during which various entities or spirits spoke through me. A few of them identified themselves, such as the Archangel Ishmael, a Chinese shaman, a messenger from Plaiades, an Egyptian scribe named Amenhetep and an entity named Untala.
I was saddened to read the news that American astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has died on Feb. 4 in Florida at the age of 85, after a short illness which was not specified.
Numerous books have been written about the god-man, Jesus the Christ, from so many angles, and yet we generally know very little about him.
Last week I wrote about the possibility of obtaining knowledge not from our normal five physical senses, but from something beyond them. Such knowledge has been called by various names, such as intuition, extrasensory perception, etc. But there is another type of knowledge higher than this, which is more difficult to describe in words. And much fewer people have experienced it, unlike intuitive knowledge of something mundane or physical.
Where does such knowledge come from? How or why do they occur? Can this be developed and controlled by an individual? This power or ability has been called by many names, such as intuition, extrasensory perception, sixth sense and inner knowing. Nobody knows how it happens, or where the knowledge comes from.
Many have experienced seeing a butterfly either in the house or wake of a close relative or friend who had just died.
I think it was Dr. William James, considered the father of modern psychology, who said the average human being utilizes only 10 percent of his mental capacity.
My attention was called to a Letter to the Editor (Inquirer, July 14) written by Dr. Mary Jacquiline T. Romero of the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. In that letter, Romero stated that my article about quantum physics, Eastern mysticism and ESP was âterribly misleading.â
