| Psychics provide an opportunity to explore a | | | | children, utilizing the Zener card test regularly encounter |
| mysterious world that lies just beyond our five senses. | | | | statistically significant data that suggests more than |
| Opening a door to the supernatural realm of spirits and | | | | chance outcomes at work. In fact many children |
| other worldly phenomenon psychics hold the key to | | | | regularly defy the odds by scoring 30%, 40%, 50%, |
| the future that is yet to be. | | | | and 60 % accuracy on a test with a statistical mean |
| Some skeptics say psychics do not exist but many | | | | of 20% by chance. If that were a drug trial being run |
| experts disagree. Considering the expansive collection | | | | and that was the incidence of death for participants |
| of unexplained phenomenon, in the world, it is hard to | | | | the FDA would certainly consider that significant. Right? |
| dispute the possibility of psychic powers. | | | | In addition to genetic factors that may predispose |
| We do know that we only use about 10% of our | | | | children to exhibit psychic abilities human development |
| brains resources. So, what is the other 90 % for? It | | | | may hold some clues as to the reason children seem |
| would stand to reason that it has some function. | | | | to possess a higher degree of psychic ability than |
| Right? So, is it not possible that somewhere, in that | | | | adults. Human development occurs in stages each with |
| untapped potential, resides a sixth sense? | | | | its own marked physiological characteristics. During |
| A sense that allowed us to survive a much darker | | | | childhood it should come as no surprise to find out that |
| time when man was forced to compete with | | | | we have the highest number of synaptic pathways |
| oversized predators and elusive prey. Only armed with | | | | that we ever have during the course of our lives. Do |
| the power of the human mind, steely wits, and an | | | | these extra connections provide a medium to the |
| opposable thumb mankind was already a formidable | | | | psychic realm? Is our brain wired towards the |
| adversary. However, the addition of keener senses or | | | | paranormal at earlier stages of human development |
| an additional sixth sense would have made humanity | | | | due to anatomical and physiological processes that are |
| unstoppable. | | | | occurring during the first several years of our lives? |
| The ability to sense, that which lies beyond our five | | | | Furthermore, according to Comparative Embryology |
| senses, would have been an invaluable tool to early | | | | during the first 6 weeks of human development, in our |
| man. It may have allowed the survival of the human | | | | mother's womb, we go through an evolution of sorts. In |
| species, as we know it today. However, as time went | | | | fact up until the time we differentiate we remain |
| on and living conditions became easier with the | | | | almost morphologically indistinguishable from lower life |
| domestication of animals, honing of learned skills, and | | | | forms, in the same phase of development. From a |
| the ability to form agrarian societies these abilities may | | | | single cell to pharyngeal gill slits to lanugo (body hair in |
| have atrophied. | | | | utero) to human morphology we comparatively exhibit |
| Our psychic abilities may have atrophied to the point | | | | similar traits to our animal ancestors. |
| that they became anatomically and physiologically | | | | Is it possible that this comparative morphology extends |
| vestigial in nature. The genetic combination responsible | | | | past the physical development of the human body and |
| for the psychic trait may now rarely appear except | | | | into our development outside the womb? Maybe, our |
| aberrantly, in a chosen few, whose genotype allows | | | | cognitive development goes through an "evolution" of |
| phenotypical expression of the dormant trait or traits | | | | sorts were the anatomy and physiology of our minds |
| responsible for psychic abilities. | | | | comparatively resembles our ancient psychic ability |
| Just because we do not understand something fully | | | | possessing human ancestors. |
| does not mean it does not exist. The possibility of | | | | So, the question becomes can we disprove all plausible |
| psychic ability, in our mysterious universe, is still a | | | | explanations, hypothesis, and theories regarding |
| plausible explanation for many unexplained | | | | psychic ability. Not can we prove psychic ability exists. |
| phenomenon. | | | | In addition many skeptics spend their entire lives trying |
| Even with all of the advancements over the last 100 | | | | to prove that psychic abilities do not exist rather than |
| years there is still much debate and speculation, in the | | | | trying to disprove their own explanations, hypothesis, |
| scientific community, about a plethora of topics. From | | | | and theories about its non-existence. This type of |
| the big bang to evolution scientists agree to disagree. | | | | objective scientific inquiry is tainted with bias and must |
| It stands to reason according to the scientific method | | | | not be considered credible. |
| that until all the explanations, hypothesis, and theories | | | | Only when all the possible plausible explanations, |
| regarding psychic abilities are disproved that it must be | | | | hypothesis, and theories have been tested subjectively |
| considered as a viable alternative explanation to | | | | using the scientific method and disproved can any true |
| recognized unexplained paranormal phenomenon such | | | | scientist or skeptic state with 95% confidence that |
| as deja vu, precognition, and clairvoyance. | | | | psychics and human psychic abilities do not exist. |
| Some scientists studying psychic phenomenon, in | | | | |