Parapsychology Outline
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Since the beginning of time humans have had a distinct interest in the paranormal. From stories told around the campfire to motion pictures like Paranormal Activity to books like the Scary Story series, everyone has heard a good ghost story or two. Some people even claim to witnessing supernatural experiences themselves. Since the start of our obsession with the paranormal science has been attempting to explain the “unknown” beyond the typical bump in the night. B. The investigation into paranormal research has evolved into the field of parapsychology.
II. BODY
A. Parapsychology is a branch in psychology that deals with the investigation or study of the paranormal. Its three primary focuses are pyschokinesis, extra sensory perception, and survival-after-bodily- death-experiences.
B. So when did parapsychology start? In 1882 the Society of Psychical Research began to study cases of the paranormal in an academic manor. Edmund Gurney, Fredrick William Henry Myers, William Fletcher Barret, Henry Sidgwick, and Edmund Dawson Rodgers, a group of famous scholars, set up the society.
C. Commonly referred to as telekinesis, pyschokinesis is the ability to affect people or the environment by the power of the mind alone. Levitation, miraculous healing, luminosities, apports, and other psychical phenomena are some occurrences of pyschokinesis.
D. Extra sensory perception, or ESP persists of three major areas of psychic abilities. One form of ESP is clairvoyance. Clairvoyance is the ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or psychical event through the means of the other known human senses. The second form is precognition. Precognition is the ability to pick on information on future events. Last is telepathy. Telepathy involves mind-to-mind interaction. Supposedly telepathy was the main way of communication before we were able to speak. In day-to-day life we experience a form of telepathy. You
A. Since the beginning of time humans have had a distinct interest in the paranormal. From stories told around the campfire to motion pictures like Paranormal Activity to books like the Scary Story series, everyone has heard a good ghost story or two. Some people even claim to witnessing supernatural experiences themselves. Since the start of our obsession with the paranormal science has been attempting to explain the “unknown” beyond the typical bump in the night. B. The investigation into paranormal research has evolved into the field of parapsychology.
II. BODY
A. Parapsychology is a branch in psychology that deals with the investigation or study of the paranormal. Its three primary focuses are pyschokinesis, extra sensory perception, and survival-after-bodily- death-experiences.
B. So when did parapsychology start? In 1882 the Society of Psychical Research began to study cases of the paranormal in an academic manor. Edmund Gurney, Fredrick William Henry Myers, William Fletcher Barret, Henry Sidgwick, and Edmund Dawson Rodgers, a group of famous scholars, set up the society.
C. Commonly referred to as telekinesis, pyschokinesis is the ability to affect people or the environment by the power of the mind alone. Levitation, miraculous healing, luminosities, apports, and other psychical phenomena are some occurrences of pyschokinesis.
D. Extra sensory perception, or ESP persists of three major areas of psychic abilities. One form of ESP is clairvoyance. Clairvoyance is the ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or psychical event through the means of the other known human senses. The second form is precognition. Precognition is the ability to pick on information on future events. Last is telepathy. Telepathy involves mind-to-mind interaction. Supposedly telepathy was the main way of communication before we were able to speak. In day-to-day life we experience a form of telepathy. You