| When it comes to the subject of psychic | | | | brainwave state. This is faster than the calm alpha |
| development, there seems to be no middle ground. | | | | state we enter when we close our eyes and |
| People either believe that it is possible or they don't. | | | | daydream. When we are in a dreaming state of |
| Usually, only those who have had at least one | | | | sleep, we enter the slower still theta range and when |
| psychic experience of their own are willing to believe. | | | | we are in deep sleep, we enter the very slow delta |
| Those who have not remain skeptical. | | | | state. |
| There is still a lot of prejudice surrounding the subject | | | | Remarkably, the healer in this experiment entered |
| of psychic abilities. As a result, many people who | | | | the delta state while still awake. This was unheard of |
| have had psychic experiences keep them to | | | | until very recently. Even more amazing, though, was |
| themselves, to avoid being ostracized by their | | | | the fact that her client began emitting matching delta |
| community. They hold respectable positions in society | | | | brainwaves shortly after she did. It seems that |
| and fear the consequences of admitting that they | | | | psychics are speaking literally when they say that |
| believe in any kind of paranormal experience. They | | | | they have to be tuned into their subjects in order to |
| have good reason to be afraid, having seen the | | | | read their thoughts or perform a healing. |
| ridicule that public figures are subjected to when they | | | | Studies like this help make sense of the often wildly |
| admit to believing in anything related to psychic | | | | disparate results that come from laboratory |
| abilities. | | | | experiments with psychic phenomena. Skeptical |
| This has been the case throughout time. In medieval | | | | researchers usually get results that support their |
| times, the witch hunts throughout Europe cost the | | | | skepticism, while researchers who do believe that |
| lives of millions of innocent people. There are some | | | | psychic abilities are possible get more positive results. |
| signs that things are changing, though, as scientific | | | | It looks like its not that either the skeptics or the |
| evidence mounts, we are learning that psychic | | | | believers are cheating in any way. It is more plausible |
| powers can be developed and that they are not | | | | that they are affecting the outcome of their |
| something that comes from an evil source or are the | | | | research with their own thoughts. |
| products of our imaginations. What's more, we are | | | | There is much more work to be done, but at least |
| discovering that we all have it in our power to | | | | now researchers have some objective data to work |
| develop these skills. | | | | with. Many teachers of psychic development are now |
| Using sophisticated EEG (electroencephalographs), | | | | talking in more scientific terms and achieving better |
| one researcher believes he has found out how such | | | | results with their students. One of the keys to |
| paranormal abilities as mind reading and psychic | | | | success in all the psychic arts is the ability to enter a |
| healing can occur. He locked a well-known and | | | | calm, receptive state of mind. There is a lot of |
| respected healer in one room and one of her patients | | | | evidence to suggest that the frequencies of healing, |
| in another room and recorded their brain activity. | | | | psychokinesis and other psychic phenomena are |
| What he was looking at was the electromagnetic | | | | theta and delta. With practice, anybody can enter |
| activity known as brainwaves. There are four main | | | | these states at will, once they have been taught |
| brainwave states. When we are going about our | | | | how. |
| normal day, we are in a predominantly beta | | | | |