Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP

1. ESP: An Innate Human Power, Often Misunderstood

We all know, personally, that extrasensory perception does exist.

Universal experience. Extrasensory perception (ESP) is not a rare, mystical phenomenon but a natural, inherent human talent experienced by most people, often as "hits," hunches, or creative inspiration. Despite widespread personal experiences and polls confirming belief in ESP, society and traditional science have largely failed to acknowledge or systematically explore this fundamental ability. This reticence stems from a reluctance to map inner realities and challenge established scientific paradigms.

Systemic "bugs." The scientific study of ESP, known as parapsychology, has been hampered by "bugs" in its own systems, primarily by trying to force ESP into frameworks designed without accounting for its reality. This has led to a century of limited progress, leaving parapsychologists embarrassed and skeptics jubilant. The resistance often comes from authorities whose existing systems would be invalidated if ESP were proven true, creating a psychological rigidity against genuine open-minded inquiry.

A new approach. To move forward, we must recognize that ESP operates on its own terms, not those imposed by conventional science. It's time to look for the "bugs" in the methods used to study the paranormal, shifting from trying to negotiate shifting "dunes" with horses to riding "camels" better suited for the terrain. This requires acknowledging ESP as a self-experience, a psychic-metabolic function that delivers itself into consciousness, rather than just an intellectual label.

2. Beyond Old Labels: Redefining Extrasensory Perception

What we call extrasensory perception is the result of an external sensing by which information and knowledge is contacted and, through subliminal processes, brought into consciousness, without the use of any of the known physical senses.

Beyond physical senses. Traditional definitions of ESP, like those popularized by J.B. Rhine, focused on scientifically controlled laboratory experiments, often reducing complex phenomena to statistical analysis of card-guessing or dice-rolling. This approach, while aiming for scientific respectability, often lost sight of the "big game" of major psi occurrences experienced spontaneously in everyday life. The term "extrasensory perception" itself, while common, is a neutral label that doesn't fully capture the active, phenomenological nature of psychic sensing.

Externalization of sensibility. An older, more evocative term, "externalization of sensibility," used by researchers like Dr. Paul Joire, better describes the active process of a human mind component projecting outside the body to perceive distant objects or events. This concept plunges deeper into the core of self-experience than the more mental label of "extrasensory perception." It highlights a function that "goes out" to sense things beyond the limited physical senses.

Bioinformation: A holistic view. The other crucial half of the definition involves what "comes in"—information and knowledge. Russian scientists have adopted the term "bioinformation" to encompass all unusual mental phenomena, cutting beneath arbitrary Western labels like clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy. This term focuses attention on acquiring "information" rather than hypothetical faculties, and can be categorized into:

• Hardwired: Objectively provable (e.g., remote viewing a hidden object).
• Semisoft-wired: Eventually provable (e.g., a new invention idea).
• Soft-wired: Not objectively provable (e.g., philosophical insights).
  This book focuses on hardwired ESP for building foundational understanding and confidence.

3. The Deeper Self: Your Link to a "Second Reality"

The secret of the clairvoyant’s power may consist in the fact that he or she is able to effect a momentary form of fusion or collaboration between the conscious mind and the secret self.

Beyond singular reality. A major hurdle in understanding ESP is the Western scientific insistence on a single, consciously perceived reality. However, quantum physics, through concepts like Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" and "wave mechanics," has revealed a "second reality"—a non-material, interconnected universe from which all material things derive. This underlying harmony, described as implicate order or a cosmic web, suggests that information is simultaneously available everywhere.

The conscious self. This "second reality" necessitates a new concept of consciousness, one that integrates with both the physical and the non-material. Rupert Sheldrake's "conscious self" (or "deeper self") is proposed as having properties not reducible to matter, energy, or brain states, capable of interacting with universal fields and accessing information across time and space. This deeper self is the true psychic nucleus, operating on its own rules, often unknown to normal waking consciousness.

Natural barriers and spontaneous insights. Our everyday consciousness is naturally protected by "subliminal barriers" from being overwhelmed by the constant influx of information from the second reality. However, information meaningful to an individual often penetrates these barriers, leading to spontaneous ESP events like sensing a loved one's distress or precognitive dreams. These intrusions demonstrate the deeper self's capacity for exact perception and its ability to bypass conscious filters when necessary, highlighting its active, rather than merely "unconscious," role.

4. Picture Drawings: The Direct Path to Your ESP Core

The new picture-drawing method produced results of quite some excellence, and we were, so to speak, “cooking with gas.”

Bypassing verbal interference. My personal journey into ESP research revealed that verbalizing psychic impressions often led to confusion and "noise," as the conscious mind manufactured images and associations based on words. The breakthrough came with the simple idea of "picture drawings"—sketching impressions directly. This method bypasses the intellectual translation process, allowing the raw, image-laden psychic information from the ESP core to emerge more clearly.

Historical validation. A subsequent search through psychical research archives confirmed that picture drawings had been used successfully since the 1880s by ordinary people like George Albert Smith, Miss Edwards, Miss Relph, and later, Mary Craig Sinclair. These historical examples, often dismissed as curiosa, consistently demonstrated accurate core ESP, exhibiting similar characteristics and difficulties across different individuals and time periods. This retrospective evidence strongly suggests the method's validity and the existence of a universal ESP core.

The "ESP Impact." The shift to picture drawings led to astonishing results, such as accurately drawing an upside-down "7-UP" can, which my conscious mind couldn't immediately recognize. This "ESP Impact" was a profound realization: a "psychic mind" or "ESP core" existed within me, capable of perceiving hidden targets and conveying information without conscious intellectualizing. This discovery underscored the need to free the psychic system from conscious interference and study the elements contained in the drawings themselves.

5. Unveiling Preconscious Processing: How ESP Truly Works

Core ESP clearly operates in this hidden atmosphere, and in this sense, again is comparable to other human talents.

Beyond conscious control. ESP, like other natural talents and creativity, is largely a self-generating activity that operates in the "preconscious processing" areas of the mind, beneath willful, conscious control. When psychic information arrives, it is often "already processed," meaning it has taken on form before reaching conscious awareness. Impediments to clarity arise when conscious misinterpretations are automatically superimposed over this true information.

Two information routes. Psychic information can travel through at least two routes:

• Unimpeded route: Information enters the mind system, passes through preconscious processing where it takes form, and is projected into consciousness as a correct output.
• Idea-forming route: Information is rerouted through conscious idea generation, where the mind adds interpretations, often leading to incorrect or distorted results.
  This highlights how conscious thought can act as a filter or barrier, rather than a direct conduit, for ESP.

Creativity and noise. The preconscious processing area, where psychic information gathers its general form, is closely linked to creativity. However, this interaction can also introduce "noise"—random mind elements, analytical thoughts, emotions, dreams, and preoccupations—that impede the clarity of the psychic signal. Understanding these internal, subjective, self-generating activities is crucial for developing the ESP core, as conscious ingenuity can only assist after the essential natural internal factors become clear.

6. Disbelief and Conscious Filters: Barriers to Psychic Insight

If an individual’s ESP mind mound has a bunch of rubbish and ideas on it that tell him extrasensory perception and external sensing do not exist, then that individual might have difficulty in experiencing the nature of his own psychic nucleus.

The power of disbelief. What an individual believes about psychic talents significantly impacts their success. Strong disbelief acts as a "cultural immunization" against psychic experience, causing the conscious mind to actively suppress or "obliterate" incoming psychic information, much like white blood cells attacking a foreign virus. This mental barrier prevents the deeper self's insights from reaching conscious awareness, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy for the disbeliever.

"Sheep" vs. "Goats." Research by Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler demonstrated the "sheep-goats hypothesis," showing that "sheep" (believers in ESP) consistently scored better on ESP tests than "goats" (disbelievers). While the average differences were small, the statistical significance confirmed that a positive attitude and belief can enhance psychic performance, whereas strong disbelief can have a devastating effect on the natural workings of one's psychic nucleus.

Artificial realities. Critics often reject ESP because it challenges their established worldviews, creating "artificial realities" that exclude phenomena that are actually real. This intellectual rigidity, often rooted in a fear of being proven wrong, prevents them from genuinely exploring new scientific frontiers. For the majority of the population who believe in ESP, activating their ESP core might be simpler, as they lack this strong, culturally induced mental barrier.

7. Learning from "Errors": Decoding Your ESP Picture Drawings

If you want to learn to do something well, you have to know the areas in which you are doing it badly.

Beyond "misses." When a picture drawing doesn't match the target, it's not necessarily a complete "miss" or absence of ESP. Instead, it often indicates that psychic information encountered a barrier in the pathway from the deeper self to consciousness, or was replaced by conscious impressions. Viewing these as "information not getting through" rather than total failure is crucial for emotional encouragement and identifying areas for improvement.

Seven hurdles to clarity. As you practice, you'll encounter common "hurdles" or types of interference that degrade ESP accuracy:

• Surrounding objects: Perceiving things near the target or in the sender's mind.
• Reminders/replacements: Drawing something the target reminds you of from your own experience.
• Lack of fusion: Perceiving correct components but unable to combine them into a coherent whole (e.g., drawing parts of a swastika but not the complete symbol).
• Mislabeling: Correctly sketching an object but consciously misidentifying it with a word.
• Partial perception: Getting only details, or only the general outline, but not both.
• Single part perception: Perceiving only one part of a multi-component object.
• Distortion: Correct perception with some added inaccuracies.
  Identifying these specific "error contributions" is the first step in debugging your ESP system.

Analyzing for growth. To learn effectively, actively analyze your picture drawings. Circle correct elements in red and label imaginative overlays or associations in green. This conscious analysis helps your ESP core system learn to differentiate true psychic information from mental "noise." Over time, your drawings will show more red-circled information, building confidence and clearing the pathway for clearer, unimpeded ESP.

8. Cultivating Your ESP: Patience, Pacing, and Intuition

The time to stop trying is when you feel your ESP is no longer pumped up, but seems to have gone flat.

Keep it simple. When starting ESP experiments, simplicity is key. Use standard unlined paper, a sharp pencil, and a quiet environment. Select easy-to-recognize objects as targets, as the ESP core processes bits of information, and complexity can lead to confusion. Maintaining silence and a detached, calm poise helps the core ESP processes work best, as nervousness or over-anticipation can impede results.

Trust the process. Allow your ESP core to work spontaneously, recognizing that psychic information is partly gut feeling, partly intuition, and partly an automatic response that doesn't actively engage conscious thought. Avoid overthinking or trying to consciously "figure out" what the target might be, as this introduces mental noise. End your attempt when you intuitively feel your drawing is "fulfilled," as prolonging the effort often degrades the original psychic information.

Pacing and avoiding "psi-missing." ESP is a fragile talent that needs careful pacing. Overtraining, like in muscle building, can lead to "psi-missing"—a sudden collapse of psychic ability after a string of successes. It's crucial to stop experiments when your ESP feels "pumped up" and before it goes "flat," allowing the system to consolidate gains and recover. This intuitive pacing, rather than conscious excitement to "do more," builds accuracy and endurance over time.

9. Picture Drawings: A Universal Psychic Language

The relative ease by which picture drawings can be produced by nonartists, together with the striking similarity of all picture drawings, suggests that the drawings are not the product of an individual’s artistic processes, but are a kind of basic psychic language in themselves.

Beyond artistic skill. Picture drawings are not merely individual artistic representations of psychic impressions. The fact that non-artists can produce them with relative ease, and that all picture drawings share striking similarities across different individuals and time periods, suggests they are a form of "basic psychic language" or "pictolanguage." This language translates incoming psychic information into fundamental forms and shapes, a universal shorthand that transcends cultural and linguistic barriers.

Primal shape-form recognition. This psychic pictolanguage operates at the same nonconscious, automatic, and spontaneous level as our innate shape-form recognition. Just as children draw "representational concepts" before they learn words, the ESP core processes information into basic shapes and forms. This primal function is fundamental to perception, and its universality in psychic drawings indicates a deeper, shared mechanism for processing extrasensory data.

"It thinks" and psychic communion. Betty Edwards' concept of "analog drawings" and "It thinks"—an interior process constructing concepts beneath consciousness—aligns perfectly with psychic picture drawings. These drawings are the language the unconscious psychic "It thinks" uses to push its perceptions into consciousness. This shared psychic language hints at a universal psychic communion, suggesting that ESP is not just an individual talent but a vast, interconnected plane linking all humanity and existence, a concept that reverses traditional parapsychological views.

10. The Cosmic Web: ESP and Universal Interconnectedness

Perhaps most essential to the field concept is the notion that things are interconnected.

Beyond individualism. The modern focus on intense individualism has failed to resolve global challenges. ESP, when viewed not as a purely individual talent but as a manifestation of a vast, interconnected plane, offers a new perspective. This "field concept," supported by advanced physics, posits that objects, events, and observers are inextricably linked, influencing each other in subtle yet dramatic ways. This challenges the atomistic view of reality and suggests a deeper communion between all things.

Evidence of interconnectedness. Concrete examples illustrate this interconnectedness:

• Flocking birds move as a single, interconnected organism.
• Mental intention can affect bacterial growth rates.
• Prayer and harmonious music can positively influence plant growth.
  These phenomena demonstrate an information exchange environment operating at levels beneath conscious awareness, where consciously held mental attitudes can influence the system.

Psychic realism and global shifts. This interconnectedness is directly analogous to ESP. In positive environments, ESP emerges more spontaneously, and a strong psychic can activate it in others. Conversely, negative attitudes can sever these underlying connections. If a critical mass of people could contact their psychic nucleus through self-experimentation, it could lead to major shifts in global consciousness, fostering world peace and ecological resolution. This "psychic realism" could reintegrate the objective world with the vital elements of the second reality, ushering in a new age of communal understanding.

11. Bioelectromagnetism: The Scientific Foundation of ESP

The human, then, built upon electromagnetic foundations surely is capable in joining the electromagnetic universe, and also in sending and receiving information via bioelectromagnetic means and processes.

A new scientific frontier. Prior to 1969, Western science largely disregarded the potential of ESP. However, the discovery of extensive Soviet research into "psychotronics," "psychoenergetics," and "electromagnetic bioinformation" during the Cold War forced a re-evaluation. This "ESP gap" spurred Western governments to secretly investigate psychic potentials, not just for intelligence gathering but also for implications in human behavior control, highlighting a new, urgent priority for understanding ESP.

The body electric. Soviet researchers, as early as 1924, recognized that psychic functioning is indigenous and natural, governed by biointernal processes that could be developed. They correctly hypothesized these functions were bioelectromagnetic in nature, a concept largely ignored by Western science until the 1980s. Now, it's understood that the human bio-organism is not solely a chemical machine but is fundamentally built upon a profound electromagnetic blueprint, as described by Dr. Robert O. Becker in "The Body Electric."

Implications for psychic potentials. This understanding of human bioelectromagnetism has enormous implications for psychic abilities. Just as electromagnetic waves carry information for radio and TV, the human body, with its electromagnetic foundations, is inherently capable of sending and receiving information across distances. While the exact means and processes are still being understood, this scientific basis provides a powerful framework for explaining how ESP connects individuals to the larger electromagnetic universe and facilitates the exchange of bioinformation.

Last updated: February 15, 2026