If ESP was law rather then theory, how do you think this world would be different? Discuss. Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasensory_perception I have a couple of theories myself, I'll wait and leave the space unbiased for now before speaking up. I cross posted this in the Mind Fuck forum, so if you have to see this twice...pardon.
i think about this sometimes too . to accept the psy factor would probably crash a couple laws of physics ; like the speed of light (thought) ain't a constant unto every context ; of time and space things i mean . to even feel the future is about like existing in the future , and what's up with that ?
My thoughts... The biggest problem and at the same time pleasure from ESP would be the fact that people would be communicating less and less with each other, face to face. People would prefer to communicate telepathically versus verbally. At the same time, as the collective consciousness grows, more and more people in everyday society would walk around and make strange faces. Why strange faces? As more and more people mentally bind to one another, different people's opinions and philosophies will begin to clash together. Resentment for each other will grow more and more psychologically, and even faster if pre-existing physical resentment already floors the ever growing pile. Some of that resentment would never go away. Sometimes physical and psychological wrongs by pass the point of fixation. One can be forgiven, but one can never be forgotten. Building a card house out of resentment, as more and more piles atop, people become frustrated. People begin to feed on each other’s happiness, trying to make up for their own misery. People with stronger minds will try to gain forth power. The more information someone knows about someone else, the more the psychological conversation becomes more one sided. People will use ESP to their advantage. They will use it for evil, to pester others, to make their minds think nasty thoughts, to jeer at another for being different. ESP will to be studied. It will be the biggest contriversiality. Skeptics will rise and claim its illogical, and impossible. People that believe in a higher power will be split in their views. It will either be viewed as a blessing or a curse. People who have ESP will probably view it as both. People who follow their separate paths from the previous ones mentioned above would most likely apply their own logic to their own spirituality and mentality. Experiments and studies will be conducted. Blood will probably be spelt. More people would be diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizophreniform. For it to become law, someone would have to get diagnosed with it. With the way this nation is getting more and more conservative, very few doctors would want to diagnose somebody with it. Any hospital that makes an ESP diagnosis will be famous. As hospital practices will be outed to the public’s eye, the public will cringe at corruption. As one layer of filth is scraped, another layer of filth is uncovered from beneath. Corruption in society will become the new War on Terror. ESP will become the updated homosexual relationship debate and the same old question with the definition of murder in extension to parasites. Remember of course boys and girls, only as a last resort, in the first trimester, never as a morning after option. More contriversiality will rise naturally to the top. On a positive note people with ESP will be forced to learn to tolerate each other. Name calling and other childish acts will be left behind on the playground yard. People with ESP will be devoured into pop culture. They need to work together to get protected because what society does not understand, society dissects with an air mask, three pairs or thick gardening gloves, and scalpel. What society does not want to touch even with a ten foot pole, society brushes away into the closet of the unknown, of course using an eleven foot pole. Some common ground will have to be set between all the people who take a part of the collective consciousness. Common curtsey principles are appreciated. Its just polite to allow someone the freedom to sleep when one’s physical body is exhausted. It also is polite behavior to not throw out every insult in the giant book of insults at somebody’s head. That really sounds painful to get hit in the head by a book. When the contriversiality dies, those who have ESP will have to unite in the march for freedom. People with ESP will become the guinea pigs of society. As more and more people come together, more and more personal secretes will be spilled. People will meditate more, they would try to zone out of ESP. Some people might experiment with psychedelic drugs. After everyone comes to terms with ESP, more and more people with ESP will reach some form of inner peace. As people with ESP will be discriminated against, people with ESP will have to learn to work together in order to fight for equality. A lot of resentment will exist, but the resentment can be overlooked. People will only become less materialistic if people become less and less selfish. When doctors, lawyers, and politicians begin caring about their clients it becomes a beautiful aspiration that the world needs to view. Conservative and liberal beliefs currently clash each others paths daily. At the same time, is one group really and different then any other. Both groups become spoiled by money that they forget about the things that matter the most. Living in today’s society, people get too fixated upon their money that they don’t even care about themselves any more. I don’t think happiness and sadness will no longer exist. They may eventually neutralize each other out. At this level, the people with ESP would begin to tolerate each other enough to work together. This is a beginning to a pre-existing revolution. One generation mirror reflects the previous proceeding generation. Old theories about ESP will be disproven. New theories will come along.
ah , you've done some careful thinking about esp . i do hope , tho , that the issues to be resolved don't cause a war . the espers need wisdom to employ their abilities to make peace for all . here's one theory of esp i wonder about : ? does love make esp more , can you know more by loving more and more ?
I believe that love could bring all controversiality to peace. Love would definitely make esp so much more special if all the people involved learned to tolerate each other or were originally best friends or lovers. In order to know more, one would have to adjust to what’s going on. The only things that currently block wisdom are selfishness, lies, and resentment. I really wish love would conquer all.
^^^^^I agree...I often find myself saying "I knew this was going to happen" or "didn't this event/situation already occur?" I feel this is a form of ESP. I've also experienced things in a dream, and then later in my waking life. I feel a strong desire to spead love using ESP and every other talent that has been bestowed upon me!!
I have thought out, some of the way, the link between ESP and another dimension. Does anyone understand what I'm saying? What I'm thinking of, is the feeling, of some presence that could not be here on earth because of the dimension we're in. A theory about ghosts, is that they are from another dimension. Some people have more of a sense towards feeling the sorts of things from somewhere else. Not just physically here, not just physically here at any time in the past or future. OR maybe from some time in the future? And by more of a sense, meaning, there has to be a point to pass, where it is a sense altogether, I do not know. Reply on this with your thoughts
