Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical? | Episode 111 | Closer To Truth 

I have a really strange experience that has “haunted” me most of my life. When I was about 7 years old, my family was traveling via an airport in Spain. I had never been there, but when my father asked my mother if she had seen a place where we could buy something to drink. I told him that that’s a bar just around the corner “ 50 meters away and impossible to see”. Remember pulling my fathers hand and pulling him in the direction, he just went along laughing, but when we turned around the corner, my father looked at me and said, how did you know that. We have spoken about this episode through out the years, but neither of us understands it. The strange thing was that I just knew. I’m turning 50 this year and have spent my life in mathematics, having a background in cybernetics. During my last years I have had some more time on my hands, after the kids moved out, and I went back to the University studying quantum physics( just taking a few classes as a hobby) During this time I have been studying quantum entanglement and quantum field theory and since two particles have been proven scientifically to have a way of influencing each other. ( Einstein’s spooky action over a distance). I must raise the question, and even though I’m perhaps making dots that are not there. Is not quantum entanglement a “proof” of a natural occurring example of ESP ? I admit that I have become a bit more open minded, or perhaps just experienced the Dunning/Kruger effect, which has only made me a bit more humble in the way that the more I know, the more I come to understand how little I know. So perhaps noetic sciences should have its legitimacy. Thank you for sharing your journey.

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If ESP was true it wouldn't be unphysical, otherwise it would have no physical effect on anything.

Lawrence can listen seriously to people go on and on about gods and angels, but find this subject totally unbelievable. His expressions and non verbal language are hilarious in this.

The physical reality is just a level or a dimension of reality, not reality itself...

Woo hoo! The graphics! The questions! This channel is, evolving

We are more connected than most of the people realize. There is no I.

The search for something beyond this reality isn't new (See religion ). But it always comes up short on credibility.

I used to be rather closed-minded on concepts such as ESP (as well as out of body experiences / NDEs/ Lucid Dreams) UNTIL I had such an experience myself. I have since had many Lucid Dreams, an out of body experience and often sense things are going to happen which then do. So now I know how important it is to keep an open mind.

I've had precognitive dreams when I was younger. And I mean precognitive dreams, not deja vu. I would literally dream a couple of seconds, frame by frame, of what would happen in the future. Now, I don't mean it was something extraordinary nor do I think that it is a proof for anything. But I like to personally think of it that way.

I have a novel sixth sense...a BS detector and in the absence of serious and convincing evidence it tingles when I here these anecdotes and wild claims.

After having a family church outing last Sunday with breakfast and reminiscing about St Patrick day partying afterwards including at my brothers restaurant who died couple years ago. Later same afternoon at home Alexa in a quiet house with all of us sitting there said and in capital letters ”Did you mean Off The Hook” and repeated it. His restaurant! This stuff happens when you don’t look for it and to many of us who have lost a bunch it happens often and is not shocking just heartwarming and funny. We want to delve into mystery but do need need the proof of more out there - we know it to be so.

Trouble is all the dreams about loved ones where you contact them and, _nope, they're fine_ never gets talked about. Testimonials are not evidence.

"Physical" is a catch-all term. If it exists it is "physical". The opposite of physical is imaginary.

collapsing the wave function in quantum mechanics is One good example . another is placebo effect .

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Thanks for asking this question. I am curious as to what inspired you to ask this specific one.

Are there neural correlates or other brain activity for ESP?

The closest I came to esp was the prediction that my house would burn down at 4.a.m.on christmas night in the year 1990 I told my immediate family of a vision I had about what I saw when I looked outside the window at the fresh snow. I was 100% correct in my prediction we lost everything except our lives that night as our house burned. Our tenant in the basement dropped a lit cigarette in the couch which smoldered and ignited

21:02 I have been wondering this. Is there anywhere else where information can be stored besides a human or animal brain? Like how magnetic hard drives use magnetization? Or how we can now store information in crystal using light which lasts even longer. This could explain why we can't really remember our past lives, if such a thing, with the exception of some remnants of that past existence since most of that went with the brain? If not, how could any information be converted or carried over though multiple existences *if* this is how things supposedly work?

During my army days,a fellow soldier who passed away in an accident told his sister that he had a feeling that something is going to happened to him and he feels uneasy on the last weekend he went home.His sister relate this to my mother and she told me about it.

I'm a Baby boomer I never did any drugs Tried weed dont like it don't like being in big rock concerts but I'm comfortable at a concert at the Phil Harmonic Hall Was A music major etc & a nd eployed in stores like hobby shops etc I'm a divorced dad I've had experiences ,of precognition many times from when I was very young. Telepathy etc Even hauntings But the phenomenon is not described as I've seen here in the media Do we survive death? I don't really know at all But the poltergeist experience I've had including with a family member to them was real, At the time of the event I said nothing and let them tell me the experience they had. Then had at the time the New York Psychical center come over I had cassette tapes of the sound Was no pest critters. My cat and dog was alerted before mr. I don't meditate or pick cards anything like that to improve any ability if I do have I don't know what is And I'm not religious at all This famous Long Island psychi ,and John Edwards all of them to me are full of it. I myself am kind of a skeptic myself about a lot of subjects That's why I'm subscribed to this channel I really dont know how the brain works But we are creatures to me the same as animals I'm sure the brain warns us of danger ahead of time But Maybe some people dont acknowledge the warning? Still a mystery to me I do believe where I came from is where I'll return to after my demise

My esp experience; as a young man (about 18 yrs, now 72 yrs) I developed a friendship with a guard dog , on the top of a fence that separated us. This unlikely bond went on for weeks, until I felt an intense feeling of unexplained anger or fear within me. The moment I felt this way, the dog growled at me and I lost his trust. I was to afraid later to try and reconnect. Did the dog pick up some chemical clues, or was it something else. I just don't know, but something happened that the dog picked up on. Was it fear/anger emanating from me? I have heard dogs can sence these things, but how?

Interesting slant at 24:27. How do we broach this subject without the woo? Perhaps, the entangled self? I've often wondered how my dreams seem so real, as if I was experiencing from the perspective of another mind-body. Perhaps we are more entangled than we realize? Like Shermer, I'm a skeptic of woo. But maybe there exists something beyond our immediate experience of space and time, which needs to be factored in. Maybe ESP is more subtle, yet more pervasive, than traditionally understood. Maybe our dreams are more representative of the workings of ESP. If so, then ESP is something to listen to, not something to control. Some kind of synthesis of Sheldrake, culture, entanglement, Jung, the collective unconscious and all that.

Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields are an interesting approach to how reality (time, space, etc.) is structured.

Why is it that when we remember a have precognition dream it's always a terrible nightmare about a bad situation that always comes true.

I like the field theory. There may be something there. A field created through familiarity and psychological attachment is evolutionarily rational.

My two experiences were not done by me, they happen to me like a lightning strike, they were shocking. I do not believe that you do telepathy or that you are a precoge, it is something that happens to you, that is out side your control. I do not know why, or how it happened to me.

That’s silly… I have seen two kids who were inseparable talking to each other in their sleep and neither remembered it when they were told.

Could ESP be done through quantum fields? Phenomenon like clairvoyance and the others sound like might be quantum in nature?

ESP works, because casinos have to constantly change their games to thwart psychics from winning too much. Hee hee hee, ha ha.

Good video Robert. As for ESP I can only say I've had maybe 10-15 events over my 74 years that I can't explain. A few prophetic dreams, and a few incidents where I've received information that just pops into my head and then is confirmed within a few seconds or minutes through some other method. Like I said, very difficult to explain and certainly not a thing that I can control at will. I can understand your search for answers to such questions as I too ponder such things. Please keep the great programs coming!

Had two out-of-body experiences back as a teen. In my 60s now. First while under emotional duress, the other not so much so. Both happened during sleep without conscious provocation. Never able to replicate them later on in life with conscious provocation. Still, they happened (as far as I'm concerned). Not scientifically verifiable at all. Not useful in day-to-day life, either. Just very interesting happenings. ps: During my attempts, it was still fun taking over my dreams and doing whatever I wanted within the dream world. But was never able to break out into the "real" world...whatever that is. ;) Expanded dimensionality may be something to ponder.

Entanglement is normal in science & its beyond time or it's instant time travel of information/data, just as person to person connections & transfer of some type of information/data through mind to mind is normal & scientific, however creating the identical parameters to recreate such experiences are difficult, as no 2 life situations are identical. However in the book "Beyond Telepathy" there's explanations of what chemicals are present in the brain when certain ESP occurs & that IMHO in conjunction with meditation would be a solid foundation for research.

Science or scientific method is not based on experience or anecdotes. It is based on repeatable, controlled experiments. Of course subjects experiencing some phenomena can be part of experiments that try to study the experience. Coincidences do happen. We do not notice non-coinscidences.

Maybe personal experience of ESP can be better investigated through language and logic?

I believe the ordinary world is amazing. I don´t understand the search for things beyond the rich reality we perceive

Everything within is the truth, everything outside of you is a lie, ,,to me ESP is higher self awareness. Purity in cognitive thinking. Transparency in the truth.

9:22 for mind and brain matter to interact via clairvoyance or psychokinesis the process would fall outside traditional causation. What would the process be made up of? A statement about a process that is unintelligible e is hard to demonstrate.

Food for thought:. What if there was a Big jump in our evolution. Humans develope the means to sent and received radio waves. We could literally transfer thoughts. What do you think? Plausible?

It sounds like Sue could have used Rupert's help in designing her experiments

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another outstanding episode thank you !

These things will not happen when you try consciously .. it will happen when YOU are not there

It's mag fields and the concentration of magnetic strings of force. I sat in a huge substation circuit breaker control room with a monster step down transformer, standing next to it I was doing relay calibration. After about 20 mins I had odd thoughts of my brother and then an old friend from younger years. Then I thought I was hearing a voice, I walked outside, no one no where absolutely,, calm and quit.e I had an odd strange feeling over my skin after an hour. Once I was done left the compound , all the strange thoughts out of nowhere stopped and the distant slurred voice's stopped and was all right again. Magnetic field string lines of force passing thru the circuits of the brain and inducing current flow. This odd stuff changed as I rotated my brain changing the angle o and induction of current in my brain, and thus the different extra perceptions or false perseptions. Same as when the planets line up and mag field of our star condenses thru the matter and makes people feel different.

What happens when use methods of psychology on ESP phenomena?

Even physics is hinting that there are more "realities" multiverses in addition to this physical world. Religious people have always believed in spiritual realities that can be accessed via our spiritual being. Furthermore they believe in a supernatural world they call heaven/paradise/nirvana/etc. If such world's exist, there is no reason why spiritual beings like souls which inhabit them cannot communicate with us from time to time.

Consider swarm phenomena: These are best explainable by morphic fields.

Saying that scientists disagree with Sheldake is silly. Sheldrake is a scientist! Many other scientists do disagree with a sheldrake, in fact they even disagree with the results of his experiments??? Hence the dogma.

The subconscious is where we’re all connected. The subconscious is shared oneness with all who are conscious. It evolved over time and may or may not be eternal.

What is non physical? I can't imagine what that would be.

Excellent!

Tell us about what will happen if esp exist

Susan Blackmore didn't know how to perform PSI tests as well as others, such as Tart, Targ, Sheldrake, Stevenson, Radin, etc. Also, she doesn't take into account the NDEs experienced by blind people. How does she explain their veridical visual experiences?

Evolution of the hyoid resulted in great changes. Consider phenomenological truth as a gift. Enlightenment? Don't know what it is - Van Morrison

She. Is on spot. dreams are not empirical, however it is intuition 😊

I just amazes when I hear obviously smart people discount any possibility that there may be alternate states of reality that science can't yet explain. It's literally the same exact mistake that every scientist ever has made.

Are there any significant changes to energy or time during ESP experience? Is there any other relevant information from ESP experience(s)?

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I’m followed by a very specific set of numbers that always tend to reveal itself when I’m “in tune” (as I call it). Things seem to work out, it’s like I’m in my correct energy lane.

Sue, it's a gift from God and I think you're mad that you don't have it or don't recognize it for some reason.

Thanks for posting. Know thy soul. I recently finished this book by Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Asher, Soul Revolution. It reveals science vs. religion, lost and hidden knowledge of the soul and your existence. How you are being controlled. I could not put it down. I found it on Amazon.

Congrats on the Channel. Have you ever interviewed Alan Lightman? I don't see him around the videos... I think he could be of much value to your series. Cheers from Mexico City!

People who are emotionally entangled work best

I have to totally disagree with the skeptic magazine guy, the guy is so ignorant so that his just assumed there's no paranormal. Because fundamentally we are all connected in intangible field of universe of cosmos consciousness (the source that manifest our physical reality that we believed it's the only reality our world). Where is our physical reality is only a temporary world manifest from the only real world (the cosmo consciousness) that we refer as non physical world.

Does ESP require something more than science to investigate?

Although I like this show. The questions and the people, especially in Philosophy. My main problem is: When someone gives an argument or reason for their views which contradict the common view. The host just says the census of philosophers or scientists or whatever reject this view. And then goes on. But he never asks why they reject the view. Scientists have biases. They have dogmas. From which they reject things that go against these dogmas for no good reason. Maybe ask them why do you reject this view and see if they can come up with a good answer. My intuition says most of the times they probably can't. Especially scientists, since they are so extremely dogmatic for the most part.

H’mmmmm!? “The water droplet in the ocean is all in the Holistic volume”.... “The Ocean droplet is in the trillions of Electromagnetic waves” “Conscious Perception is Unlimited the droplet is Infinite”! ? The Mind (Conscious) is the Ocean. “Human Consciousness is realising that Perception is The droplet and Unlimited in Content”!?

Please discuss EVP too (Electronic Voice Phenomena)

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It sounds more like she did hallucinogens in the 70’s and was just saying “she smoked some marijuana…” for the cameras

by the way: the last irrational one became skeptic about his skepticism lately ! they wanted this existence to be easy peasy to fit their little irrational minds! but it is not so.

Can quantum mechanics be used to test ESP phenomenon?

the irrational said: they interact through a kind of clairvoyance and psychokinesis ! and what is clairvoyance and psychokinesis ! the irrationals have metal defection no doubt ! "still too early to study such a phenomena scientifically, right now just keep science clean."

If you can't find the non-physical using ordinary perception, you're making a mistake. Which of your five senses enable you to perceive thoughts, knowledge, intentions, and morals?

I am involved with the field for over an two decades and conducted about thirty investigations and found no evidence for the parapsychological phenomena..

ESP/'paranormal' = woo-woo

Sue is mixed up. She had a paranormal experience to get her into the field but her own experience did not count as anything. Wow what a scientist, she had an objective experience and decided no proof existed for her. What a joke:) I have had about 50,000 students over the last 42 years of teaching adult students. I always asked how many of you know your Mom is going to call at least 5 minutes before she called. There were always 2 or 3 people in an average class of 50 people that expressed their answer to the class as "it always happens to me". It always happened to me when my mom was alive. These were random calls at random days and random times.

Don’t dreams break the laws of physics?

This is the episodes where all the nut jobs come out of the woodwork

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8:40 this extends to the level of human beings connecting to the earth. Emotions are telec recursion of nature (reality). 🤞 "The attitude of biologists to teleology is like that of the pious towards a source of temptation which they are unsure of their ability to resist." -SPM

Sigh. This comes across more of a well orchestrated hit job than a genuine search for the truth. For example, Dean Radin has over 4 decades of LEGIT TEST DATA which was conveniently absent from this video & therefore not explored. It also lumped him in with people who slant this field toward being fake. (Materialists). Effectively pushing him & his work to the fringe, along with Sheldrake, for whom I also have great respect. These are the two people who ARE increasing our understanding of this field. Some people cannot handle having their beliefs challenged. It terrifies them. So they seek to discredit those who present science based facts that do so. This video is subtle, but that's what I gather after watching it. Such people have to debunk them so they can keep THEIR beliefs intact rather than change. Is that not called denial or cognitive dissonance? For those reading this comment, do your own research. I did. I got the opposite result. (So it's down to follow the money I guess.) Do NOT be influenced by people like this who are good at manipulating others, creating their reality in your mind. Clever, but I see through it. Do you? Is there a hidden agenda trying to keep the woo-woo factor alive, the giggles factor alive, so people stay away from this field, afraid they'll be ridiculed too if associated with it or for believing in it's truth? That's been the mantra with the UFO phenomenon for decades. (That field has been so buried under disinformation, ridicule, threats & intimidation that even I can't fathom THAT truth.)

Sound like the one professor smoke something a bit more than just cannabis that night. 😂

Hey Mr skeptic explain the multiple multiple times i had deja Vu

This gets to the heart of the matter which really isn't esp. It's the afterlife. Is there evidence? One unexplained event might be enough to prove it. Even if esp is real it doesn't answer the question. Take the humans out of it and it might. Robert needs to talk to Ghost hunters and see if he can witness a poltergeist first hand. But even that might not do it. Evidence would need to include intelligence, or as they put it, information along with a metaphysical act. If I see my name magically being written on a pad by a pencil with nobody holding it, that would make me a believer.

I once (in 1995 or 1996) had a pair of scissors dematerialize from and rematerialize on my desk. I was 23 or 24, still attending university and living with my parents, and was behind closed door in my room (10th floor apartment) and was using scissors to cut tape and then hop on the chair to isolate some areas above my window with the said tape. I would cut the tape, leave scissors on my desk (only a clock radio and the scissors were on the desk), hop on the chair, apply tape and hop down for more tape. Then I noticed the scissors were missing from the surface of the desk after jumping down from the chair one time. I stared at the scene for a few seconds, trying to figure it out. The scissors were there just 30 seconds ago when I put them on the desk and now they’re not. I looked around the floor, then back at the desk. Nothing. I took the clock radio and moved it to the floor then used the entire length of my bare arm to sweep the entire surface of the desk right to left, thinking that if my eyes are lying to me at least something may bump into my arm or drop to the floor. Nothing. The scissors were not with me in that room any more. I was pretty perplexed. Then I went and called my mother who was away in the kitchen to ask her if she may have snuck in while I was working near the ceiling and taken the scissors. She had no idea what I was talking about.we both looked around my room for 5 minutes, growing more perplexed. Then when we were just standing in the center of the room talking about how very weird his was, she turned around and looked toward the desk and said: “Oh look!”, pointing at the desk: the scissors were there in the center of the desk, in the same position I remember leaving them in. Where were they for about 5-10 minutes? Or when were they? This to me, along with one or two other, smaller oddities over the years, revealed the glitchy nature of our otherwise very complex world/simulation. Some years back I read a story by someone online, or maybe it was a youtube video, where they related a very similar case: a youth was working with scissors up in their room and put the scissors away for a second then couldn’t find it when they look for it. Then the guy goes downstairs into The living room to ask parents if they took it and after some talking and looking around they actually found it downstairs - at a spot directly below where it would have been if it stayed upstairs. Glitchy world.

All of this is true for me and others too, yes

There is enormous power in the unconscious. One can see and understand things unconsiously which is impossible on a conscious level. It is kind a like using much higher percentage of brain capacity. Folks who have been in a situation where they where overpowered by the unconscious know what i am talking about. Lots out of the ordinairy stuff is unconscious related. I need to point out here that certain stuff happens in the real world in the heat of the moment and cannot be replicated in a lab.

You've took a wrong turn of the road to truth with this one buddy.

Man can I get a job spouting nonsense please? I assure you I can speak proper English and incorporate all types of scientific sounding jargon into my "scientific theses".

No !

Why doesn’t he investigate people who claim to have past lives. There seem to be many impressive anecdotes.

"In my world, science and magic are the same thing". Thor

How could something exist and be nonphysucal? Intrauniversal extracausal intercontinuous.

Susan Blackmore has been a hard skeptic for decades not the last few years, not the last six. She was often on uk shows debunking anything and often talking about her bad drug trip as proof that there is no near death experience. Her approach to science and parapsychology as always annoyed me. Rupert Sheldrake gives me hope that science is not as blinked and narrowminded as it has been for many years. The basic fact is, is that we don't know how the universe and physics 100% work and function. You can have particals that can communicate over vast areas through entanglement and we don't know how still. How can we say something that is paranormal just be wrong. How do animals with no talking ability work together? maybe the development of speech has ment we lost some sort of ability where we can communicate at a differenet level which animals still use to some degree. quantum fields could also be involved in how things we deem paranormal actual exist, or maybe dimensions of things we can not even understand could explain a lot. hell even the matrix idea of the universe being a simulation would explain a lot too. There is nothing wrong with being a bit skeptical about things, but to just dismiss something as wrong without trying to examine why and all the possibilites first, is to me is bad science.

Don’t tell schizophrenics about ESP. 🙂

Mischievous post.

"Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical?" Does ESP exist, would be a more appropriate question. I do believe that ESP reveals the Nonsensical. Sheldrake is a good example of that. None have been a bigger failure than dear old Rupert.

Coming soon.. 5G-ESP! 👍