Extra Sensory Perception
- Extra Sensory Perception, the ability to pick up thoughts, impressions, hunches and energy patterns, brings awareness of more than the eyes can see, the ears can hear, the nose can smell, fingers can feel or the tongue can taste; " the sixth sense."
- Every person. The fact that some have developed this ability to a very high degree has created the impression that only certain people have ESP.
- Yet we all fit into the category of the sensitive. Everyday in all circumstances we constantly respond to it. This is the most important of all senses for it is the response to life.
- Basically, we are spirit, soul, or electro-magnetic energy. Our soul gives energy to the body. Because man is soul or electro-magnetic energy, we create by thought or energy. Every thought we think is like a radio wave being transmitted, available for anyone in the universe to pickup.
- Just as we transmit, or send out these thought waves, so we receive thought transmissions of other souls. We receive them like a radio and respond to them unconsciously as though they were our own thoughts.
- There are men and women rising to great heights of creative leadership because they have "tuned in" to the higher thought perception or creative intelligence of the universe.
- Mastery of life must find it's greatest challenge in learning the fine art of discernment of what thoughts are our own and what thoughts come from somewhere else. One of the objectives of the IPM program is to help people find mastery of life through understanding the atmosphere and environment in which they move.
- There are basically four ways that we interpret an incoming thought pattern or energy.
- There is the intuitive person who will pick up a thought and hear it. This person is sometimes considered to be "mental" or "intellectual." Understanding is very important to them.
- There is the visionary who will pick up a thought and see it. He sees visions, symbols, colors, etc. in the mind's eye transforming the thought into an image. He is sometimes considered to be clairvoyant.
- There is the prophetic person who receives a thought as a knowing. S/he quickly grasps the "total" concept or idea and has no interest in breaking it down intellectually. This type is usually sensitive to precognition and his/her hunches, dreams and knowings have much to do not only with the future or the present, but how it effects others.
- There is the one who picks up a thought and translates it into a feeling. This person's whole response to life depends upon how it feels. Their sense of touch is extremely well-developed and they know people by feeling what they feel.
- Each of us lives primarily by one of these personality types and partially by the other three. Once we understand this, we can begin to understand ourselves and those around us to a greater extent.
- It is neither religious nor non-religious. It is the common experience of all people.
In the religious field, people have talked about prayer and the reality of hearing the answer to prayer. We read of "the still small voice," "the Father speaking from within," or inner guidance. This reality can be developed so that from a religious sense people can, through meditation, develop a two-way communication. We also read of visions, prophecies and healings.
- From the psychological sense we hear this reality referred to as communication or impressions from the "higher self" or "unconscious."
- From the medical we hear of psychosomatic influences.
