Is it possible to have E.S.P...without professionals accusing you of drug-induced psychosis?

Question

Phenomenon such as E.S.P. are arguably the largest and most widespread controversies in the pschological field. When a college graduate specializing in psychology, or psychiatric evaluation, is studying a subject with "thoughts or beliefs of having E.S.P."< Could it be characterized as a stigma of prejudice or blatant disbeleif in the powers of the very human mind the chose to study? Psychosis, Being the condition where reality is lost and hallucinations/voices are heard..is a common diagnosis for individuals with E.S.P...But no way to focus it. What is your opinion...rhetoricallly speaking, Of course, hypothetical and theoretical answers are sought.

Answer 1

I'd say it's possible to have it....unfortunately, it may well be impossible to *discuss* it openly without being attacked. There's just too many bad reasons after good ones to actually look at things *at face value* and not rush to judgement:

--In all fairness (and this is one of the few *good* reasons, mind you), lots of people are just unaware of the probabilites of a given situation. It is not only possible but fairly *easy* to "cold-read" someone based on very common cultural assumptions (are you wearing shoes right now? are you sitting down, seeing as how you are awake and most likely *at a computer* right now?).

Not only that, but some people just don't bother going through the process of elimination that a full-blown, double-blind study would require because that is a very nit-picky, anal thing to do that is *expensive* for most ordinary people.

--One of the bad reasons though is that it seems "mainstream" science--that is, the stuff that is published by big companies, and paid for by big companies--just refuses to deal fairly with the notion that human consciousness *could well exist* as energy or information. Consider, if you will, that *much* of the "discrediting" the mainstream claims happened with the CIA/SRI Remote Viewing studies came courtesy of "experiments" with Uri Geller that were clearly *rigged to fail*, as in Geller wasn't allowed to participate in the study unless he clearly *did things* to break the protocol that the CIA and Stanford Research Institute had established. Which is like saying "Ok, we are going to prove that this 'incandescent light bulb' can't possibly work..." and you do it by a) making sure the filament is broken, b) making sure the vacuum inside the bulb is messed up, or c) refusing to hook the "light bulb" up to any electricity.

It's fake science, done to establish the dominance of an *agenda* and not to gather facts or prove (or disprove) a hypothesis. And what would that agenda be...?

That human consciousness *has to be all physical*. That it cannot in *any* way be energy or information, because if it was, that might encourage people to develop a "hypothesis of Soul" and try to prove it. Which we cannot possibly allow as that would throw the religious zealots a *bone*.

Essentially....it is *A* version of the same trick Evangelicals use on the topic of Natural Selection. It is an *endless* raising of the bar. No proof can ever be good enough. The CIA/SRI studies *were* double-blind research, ok? I have no reason to believe they weren't, and that they were not what the field was looking for...but the *evidence requirements* got raised, multiple times, to "discredit" the research.

--Another, more cynical, bad reason is simply this: If the conscious processes of the human brain can be *reduced* to chemistry and nothing else, then it flows right into the *agenda* of Big Pharmaceutical Companies to solve *every* problem, personal, emotional, societal, whatever, with Just Another Pill.

And *that* also flows right into the Political Agenda of creating a permanent Social Underclass out of those who *use* drugs, *legal or otherwise*. It's already happening courtesy of HMO driven "mental health centers" forcibly *lumping* the mentally ill in with *substance abusers*.

Basically, the "purely chemical" outlook on the human brain and its processes *enables* not just a lot of bogus science to go on (search up "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation" sometime, for an alternative to the drugs-only business) unchecked, but it also enables a lot of bogus political and social policy to go on *unquestioned*, in the name of "mainstream science." Drug tests (which detect *common* anti-depressants as "false positives") for the almighty privilege of working for a living. Having to *work* for a living courtesy of needing the *extra cash* to cover "your papers", required by mandatory insurance laws (so basically, it's a *crime* now to drive while unemployed or underemployed). And I could go on, but it is all interlocked like this, and *all of it* traces back to abusing *drug policy* as class warfare.

Which wouldn't happen *so* much, in such a blind, unquestioning manner, if there were *more* to the human brain than chemistry, right? But hey, that might screw some CEO out of his Almighty Profit Margin, god forbid if *that* should happen...

But surely you get the point. Any hypothesis of ESP activity is going to be discredited *within* the American style of Western Culture simply because there is too much money to be made in a) maintaining that "chemistry only/Druggie Psychology", and b) in maintaining a status quo wherein Big Science and Organized Faith are perpetually at each other's throats instead of being allied or in agreement on anything....

Because if it were to ever happen, that Science and Faith could *stop* fighting each other and agree to take out Big Business's worst excesses....well, that just might actually *work* don't you know? That might actually solve a problem or three and deny some Rich CEO some money, and we can't have that....

But hey, what do I know? Everyone else thinks I'm just "worthless" courtesy of being "crazy" or "one of them". Why?

Because dismissing any sort of intuitive or lateral thinking, totally denying it of any credibility at all whatsoever, has a political agenda behind it too.

But I've already said way too much....thanks for your time and patience, and my apologies for going on so.

Answer 2

I am not sure i believe in ESP, but I know that I have "feelings" and I listen a lot to the "the little voice"
I guess you could say that I just know things.
example: Last summer I was swimming with a few freinds and my daughter, I jumped out of the pool and mentioned that I thought my other daughter was pregnant. I just knew deep down that she was. and low and behold a weel later she called me and told me she had just found out she was pregnant. I told her it was a girl, and then she called me a few weeks later telling me the ultrasound showed a girl. now these are minor, but I always can tell when something good or bad will happen. like my moving recently and feeling that i shouldnt, and again a month later i was laid off and am now jobless. no money for the new house.
I think that everyone has the ability to know what will happen, its all just intuition.

Answer 3

I don't know how much I believe, but I do have premonitions sometimes where I will be thinking of a person I've not seen in 20 years and then see them later that day or they will call or I will hear some news about them. It happens a lot and I think it's really strange. I think all of this is connected.

Answer 4

Hm...If you truly believe you have ESP, dont tell any proffessionals, keep it within a close circle of friends or family(unless they're all close minded). Im convinced my house is haunted, and I've seen ghosts. But I'd never tell my therapist I have, because they'd assume I have schizophrenia or paranoia. They take everything you say seriously, in a medical point of view.