Does Meditation Lead to Psychic Abilities
From LoveToKnow Paranormal
Does meditation lead to psychic abilities? Throughout the last few decades, the research that does exist regarding psychic abilities suggests that there are abilities that people can develop over time. However, the remaining question is how you can develop those abilities if you don't already have them?
Introduction
The difficulty that science has in determining whether or not meditation can lead to improved ESP or clairvoyance is that measuring a person's level of psychic ability is so difficult.
The Current State of Parapsychology Research
Today scientists still disagree regarding laboratory findings that some scientists say prove the existence of psychic phenomena. Even in the cases where parapsychologists believe they can measure the phenomenon, that measurement is still one that's very statistical. That means that the only real measurement of psychic ability is in percentages of correct answers against incorrect answers. Parapsychologists establish a baseline, typically at 50 percent. Therefore someone who can correctly select the picture under a hidden card 70 percent of the time would be considered psychic. According to some sources that worked inside the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), toward the end of the government's classified remote viewing research, many psychics who were brought in to conduct remote viewing sessions practiced various forms of meditation - suggesting that meditation may very well improve a person's psychic abilities.
Why Meditation Might Improve Psychic Power
Psychic Linda Dalton, in her LoveToKnow Paranormal interview, described the psychic gifts as another sense just like touch and sight. Other ways that psychics typically describe their gifts include the following:
- The ability to focus on a "vision" of another time or place
- A special awareness that enters the mind when it's the most calm (such as in dreams)
- Visions during altered states such as out of body experiences
- An ability to "see" auras or colors surrounding living things
Proven Effects of Meditation on the Brain
Taking those descriptions of psychic abilities into account and comparing them with what science knows about the very real effects of meditation on the brain, it may be possible to confirm that meditation has a very strong potential for improving a person's ESP or clairvoyant gifts. A 2007 study at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health found the following effects of meditation on the brain:
- Meditation increased the brain's ability to focus or "pay attention."
- People who have been meditating for years are able to concentrate almost effortlessly.
- Experienced meditators had almost negligible emotional response to sudden loud and disturbing noises.
- Meditation improved the ability to see brief visual signals that most people can't see.
How Does Meditation Lead to Psychic Abilities?
Given the very real and proven physical and psychological effects that meditation has on the brain, it's very likely that the improved ability to focus and concentrate, to control emotions and to recognize or "see" things that most others can't see are all characteristics that would obviously focus a person's latent psychic abilities. All of the current research into meditation strongly suggests that the practice definitely improves a person's health - both their physical health and their mental health. It would make perfect sense if those benefits also extend into a person's psychic health.
Learn More About Meditation
If you want to learn more about meditation, make sure to read about types of meditation at LoveToKnow Stress, or print out the meditation and imagery guide at LoveToKnow Yoga.
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