ESP BASICS
This term refers to gaining information without using the five senses.
What is extrasensory perception (ESP)?
The global conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union that fueled paranormal research.
What is the Cold War?
The practice of “seeing” distant locations psychically.
What is remote viewing?
These individuals claimed to have special mental abilities.
Who are psychics?
The book asks whether ESP is real or imagined.
What is real?
Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition are all examples of this.
What is ESP?
The U.S. government feared this rival nation was developing psychic weapons.
What is the Soviet Union?
One famous remote viewing program was run at this research institute in California.
What is SRI (Stanford Research Institute)?
Scientists were divided between believers and this opposing group.
Who are skeptics?
Government secrecy made it hard for the public to learn this.
What is the truth?
The ability to see events happening at a distance or in another location.
What is clairvoyance?
This U.S. agency secretly funded research into psychic phenomena.
What is the CIA?
The U.S. military hoped psychic abilities could help locate these.
What are enemy bases, hostages, weapons?
Some psychics worked directly with the government in this role.
What are consultants?
Even today, evidence for ESP remains this.
What is controversial?
Knowing something before it happens is known as this.
What is precognition?
The government believed ESP could be used for this military purpose.
What is intelligence gathering?
Many experiments focused on whether humans could do this under controlled conditions.
What is influence or perceive events without physical interaction?
Many scientists warned that belief in ESP could be influenced by this.
What is bias?
The book suggests fear can strongly influence this.
What is decision-making?
This term refers to the mind influencing physical objects without physical contact.
What is psychokinesis (PK)?
The fear that the Soviets were ahead in paranormal research pushed the U.S. to do this.
What is fund secret ESP research?
Despite years of testing, results were often criticized for lacking this.
What is scientific reliability?
The tension between belief and this scientific principle runs throughout the book.
What is skepticism?
The central question of Phenomena is whether belief in ESP reveals more about this than psychic powers themselves.
What is human psychology?