ESP - Extrasensory Perception
ESP is the ability to receive or send information not using the five
senses of: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. The story of Edgar
Cayce's life is filled with examples of what this extra sense of
communication is like. His ability to give readings in the sleep
state could be labeled ESP because he somehow knew information that he
had never studied, and he could see people, places, and events without
using his physical sight. Because there are so many different types
of extrasensory communication, researchers have broken the term ESP
into different categories, including:
- Telepathy -- mind-to-mind communication.
- Clairvoyance -- the ability to see events or objects through an inner sight.
- Precognition -- the ability to view events before they occur.
- Retrocognition -- the ability to see past events.
Although some individuals have called Cayce the "sleeping prophet," he
rarely made any predictions about worldwide events, mostly because
these kinds of predictions are subject to countless outside
influences. For example, when psychics try to "predict" the future,
all they can actually do is foretell a possible future based on
current happenings. If events continue to occur along the same course
-- if people's attitudes, lifestyles, and world conditions remain the
same -- then psychics can "see" what the result will be. However, the
Cayce readings make it clear that each of us has free will. If enough
people use their free will and change what they are currently doing,
this in turn will have dramatic effects on the future.
Cayce claimed that everyone was psychic to some degree, because
psychic activity was a "natural ability of the soul." The readings
suggest that we should seek psychic experiences not for the sake of
having them, but for our own spiritual growth or for being of service
of others. In time, individuals may work with their own intuition in
such a way that it becomes as natural as using any of their other
senses.
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