How Does Science Explain ESP?
Truth, Lies, and Things Left Unsaid: Debunking the Sixth Sense
Posted: May 8, 2021
Written by: Phoenix Giardino
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
—Albert Einstein
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SELF-PROJECTION
“…Rail on in ignorance of what each other means, and prate about an elephant not one of them has seen”, wrote John Godfrey Saxe. Based on an Indian parable, his infamous poem describes how six blind men in India go to “see” an elephant. Each man grabs hold of a different part and attempts to explain to the others what this beast is most like. The first man feels the body and states it’s a “wall”. The second gropes the tusk and claims it’s a “spear”. The third manhandles the trunk and calls it a “snake”. The fourth frisks the knee and is hellbent it must be a “tree”. The fifth fondles the ear and declares it a “fan”, and the sixth slides his hand down the tail and believes it’s a “rope”. Each convinced their own experience was the only truth, these ‘blind men’ end up in one hell of a fight over “an elephant not one of them has seen.”
From the 10,000-foot view, the moral of the Blind Men and the Elephant appears to be each of these men ended their agenda too quickly. That they each abandoned their exploration before it truly began. But if we dig a little deeper, doesn’t the example of the blind men and the elephant also point to something bigger--the elephant?
Our sensory perceptions and life experiences often both lead to limited understanding and overreaching misinterpretations. Elaine Aron proved “High Sensitivity” is not a personality type, a mental illness nor a figment of our imaginations, but a genuine condition of the nervous system. But what both the ESP supporters, and many psychologists have failed to explain is how a Highly Sensitive Person’s mind and body differs from that of the average person. And just as importantly, why this different form of wiring also explains so-called “psychic abilities”. Now that we understand how average people feel empathy differently than empaths, let’s look at how an empath’s sense of empathy can be confused with a sixth sense.
The Facts of Life
We all know we have five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Or do we? I’m going to suggest we only have one—touch—and it’s interpreted five entirely different ways. Now, before you tell me I’ve completely lost my mind, stop and think about this for a moment. How do we define ‘touch’? The second definition in Random House Webster’s Concise Dictionary expresses ‘touch’ as: “To come into contact with an object or surface.”1 Light touches our retinas causing an image to form at the back of our eyes. Molecules containing odorous material touch the olfactory cells in our noses (the cells that allow us to smell). Sound waves touch the tiny bones in our ears which vibrate and allow us to hear. Food particles contact our taste buds permitting us to taste. And tactile (touch) receptors in our skin allow us to detect various textures, temperatures, and pressures from our environment. When we consider this viewpoint, touch is responsible for every way we sense our outside world.
How Touch Explains Empathy and Telepathy are Just the Tip of the Iceberg
So, how does touch relate to the ‘empathy’ and ‘telepathy’? As we discovered in the previous post, How Do Empaths Feel Empathy? emotions and thoughts are nothing more than natural electromagnetic radiation (EMR), which originate both internally (our own thoughts and emotions) and externally (thoughts and emotions of other living creatures, including humans). Specialized receptor-effector proteins on our cell membranes detect this information, decode it, and instruct our cells how to appropriately react.
But wait! There’s more! A whole shit-ton more.
It’s estimated that only twenty percent (20%) of an iceberg rises above the water. The remaining eighty percent (80%) lingers below the surface. Like an iceberg, the true superstar of this story wishes to remain anonymous—for the time being. Despite its reluctance to be identified, our ancestors across the globe have spoken of this selfless stranger since time immemorial. According to Gregg Braden, author of The Divine Matrix, the Hopi of the southwestern United States referred to this mysterious benefactor as “Grandmother Spider”, who upon discovering the emptiness of the space, spun a web connecting all things, creating a place where her children would live their lives. The Buddhists, who originated in India, spoke of their god Indra who hung a wonderful net, which stretches infinitely in all directions. The ancient Greeks believed wholehearted in an invisible, universal energy field which connects everything. They called it “the ether”.2
Now, before you write this off as the ramblings of uneducated mystics, allow me to introduce you to some well-scientists who firmly believe the “the ether”, “the Matrix Field” as defined by Dr. David Morehouse, instructor and author of Remote Viewing, or as Gregg Braden has perhaps best classified this mysterious electromagnetic field, the “Divine Matrix”. Sir Isaac Newton believed the ether, as he called it, saturates the entire universe. Not only did he firmly believe the ether was responsible for the force of gravity, but Newton was also confident the ether was likewise accountable for the sensations of our very bodies. James Clerk Maxwell, whose theory of light combined with Newton’s laws of motion, laid the foundation of Albert Einstein’s theory of principle relativity,3 described the ether as a “material substance of a more subtle kind than visible bodies, supposed to exist in the parts of space which are apparently empty.”4 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hendrik Lorentz, whose equations were also among the tools Einstein used to develop his relativity theories, stated, “I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary matter.” And on to the man the hour, Albert Einstein himself, “Space without ether is unthinkable.”5
My point? The “Ether/Divine Matrix” is both what I’m calling “the Organic Worldwide Web and the Infinite Cloud”. Just as Dr. Bruce Lipton proved, our cells are the equivalent of a microchip6, the Divine Matrix is the instantaneous “digital” information source that connects our ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
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The Collective Unconscious
Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung (pronounced “Young”) believed we are all part of a deeper directive, a connecting universal force he labeled “unus mundus.” Latin for “one world,” this is what we’re referring to as the Divine Matrix. Taking the concept one step further, Jung called the ever-present, yet unnoticed knowledge uploaded/downloaded/stored in the Matrix the “collective unconscious”.
Remember those specialized receptor-effector proteins on our cell membranes we explored in the previous post? The receptor-end of the protein monitors the condition of the environment and then sends signals down the pipe to the effector-ends. The effector-ends send the “downloaded files” “selected” from the collective unconscious (via the central nervous system) directly from our membranes to our main brain (LOL!!!) and stores them in our subconscious mind. According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, “The subconscious mind is a super-computer loaded with a database of pre-programmed behaviors. It is a powerful 40-million-bit processor, interpreting and responding to over 40 million nerve impulses every second. Some programs are derived from genetics: these are our instincts. However, the vast majority of the subconscious programs are acquired through our developmental learning experiences. The subconscious mind is not a seat of reasoning or creative consciousness, it is strictly a stimulus-response ‘play-back’ device. In the human body, the brain sends messages back to the cell’s membrane to control its behavior. When an environmental signal is perceived, the subconscious mind reflexively activates a previously-stored behavioral response – no thinking required!”7
So, let’s put this in perspective. When we receive someone else’s thoughts and emotions, or we “unconsciously download files” from the Divine Matrix, our subconscious connects the dots between seemingly unknowable data, organizes it into a logical sequence, and shoots it to our conscious minds. Deferring to Dr. Lipton again, he explains, “The equivalent of a 40-bit processor, the conscious mind can handle the input from about 40 nerves per second. It’s the thinking you; the creative mind”8 that expresses the awareness of this otherwise unrealized information into images and/or sounds that are meaningful to us. It helps us makes sense of and convey this invisible knowledge. Because we didn’t recognize the source of this information and how we became aware of it, we incorrectly considered its origin to be outside natural or scientific understanding. Therefore, we labeled it ‘psychic’. Though we are now able to see how science debunks a “sixth sense”, it no way, shape, or form makes the Divine Matrix and the collective unconscious any less mystical.
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1. Random House Webster’s Concise Dictionary, 2nd Ed., s.v. “Touch”.
2. Braden, Gregg. The Divine Matrix. Hay House, Inc., Carlsbad, CA. 2007, 15-17.
3. Encyclopedia Britannica. (2021, January 08). Mobile networking. “Albert Einstein”. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Einstein. Access date: 2021, March 08.
4. Braden, Gregg. The Divine Matrix. Hay House, Inc., Carlsbad, CA. 2007, 15-17.
5. Braden, Gregg. The Divine Matrix. Hay House, Inc., Carlsbad, CA. 2007, 15-17.
6. Lipton, Bruce H. The Biology of Belief, Tenth Anniversary Edition. United States: Hay House, Inc. 2015, 73.
7. Lipton, Bruce H., interview by Meryl Ann Butler, A Romp Through the Quantum Field, published in Awareness Magazine, published in the November/December 2006 Issue. Published online February 8, 2012.
8. Lipton, Bruce H., interview by Meryl Ann Butler, A Romp Through the Quantum Field, published in Awareness Magazine, published in the November/December 2006 Issue. Published online February 8, 2012.