Teleportation, ESP, and Time Travel: 10 Tales of Superpowers

LiveScience takes a look at human superpowers throughout history - and at which ones scientists are working to make a reality.

The idea of people with superpowers is one that has long captivated audiences. Modern-day movies, graphic novels, TV shows and video games are full of fictional stories involving people who have acquired extraordinary and seemingly impossible abilities. The real world has plenty of fantastic claims as well spurring on debate and study.

One person who made fantastic claims was Pedro Ruiz Calderón, a Catholic priest who was brought to trial in Mexico City in 1540. Calderón claimed that he could teleport between continents, make himself invisible, predict the future, make women fall in love with him, find buried treasure, summon and exorcise demons among other abilities. Research by John Chuchiak IV, a professor at Missouri State University, sheds light on his trial.

LiveScience takes a look at superpowers throughout history. Some of them appear impossible while scientists are working on others to make them a reality. Read more

KGB Agent with Frightening Paranormal Powers

Nina Kulagina was a KGB agent with telekinetic abilities who could stop the heart of a living creature with just the power of her mind.

Do Humans Have the Ability to Sense the Future?

Do humans have the ability to sense the future? This survey of experiments so far says…yes!

Can we sense the future before it happens? That question was at the heart of a set of nine experiments that sparked widespread controversy and debate when Professor Daryl Bem published his results in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2011. The reason: Bem's results were positive, suggesting that we can in some way do the seemingly impossible, and somehow 'know' (precognition) or 'feel' (presentiment) things before they even occur. The controversy grew even further, however, with widespread coverage in science media outlets of attempted replications from others that failed to find the same astonishing results. A number of scientists and 'skeptics' poured scorn on Bem's experiments, and prominent skeptic James Randi was even moved to award his infamous 'Pigasus Award' to Bem "for his shoddy research that has been discredited on many accounts by prominent critics". Read more

Psychic Influence

This video explains how to cause something to happen using psychic influence.

Need-Based Psychic Ability Appears to Be Strongest Type

Does this explain why psi lab experiments yield inconsistent results?

David Metcalfe and I have just finished our third Evolver Webinar session with guests Dan Booth Cohen and Emily Volden and I have been struck by some interesting observations. The first of these is that everything fits together. That is to say, While my guests are all working in vastly different areas of research, it isn’t very hard to see how they tie together. Jim Carpenter’s First Sight theory ties together with the healing studies of Bill Bengston, which tie together with with Systemic Constellations which tie together with Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Resonance, and on and on. They are all very consistent with one another with no apparent contradictions. Read more

Ask a Wizard: Divination and Why It Works

A real wizard explains what divination is and why it works.

When you next roll a pair of dice, turn a Tarot card, play the lottery or read the I Chiing, consider this: How do you know that the game in question isn’t rigged?

Divination systems work by simply removing the element of the seeker’s consciousness from the equation. We are presented with a randomized collection of symbolic data instead of suppositions, decisions, hopes, fears and other distractions. By eliminating expectation, we awaken the unconscious factors. These will vary based upon the individual, and it is useful to learn about the ancient systems of personality categorization. More modern systems like the DSM-IV-TR and related psychologically-based arrangements are heavily loaded with judgment and bias. The elder arts are human in origin and will have similar faults. Understanding a multitude of these systems is essential to the successful diviner Read more

Did Psychic Espionage Reveal a Spy?

Did psychic espionage reveal a spy? According to an upcoming book, a U.S. government investigator used a psychic to identify an Australian  spy trying to sell stolen U.S. documents to Singapore.

An upcoming book claims that a spy was discovered through the use of psychic powers. According to the "Canberra Times", Scott Carmichael, a former investigator for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), "is writing a book about how he used a psychic to identify [saboteur Jean-Philippe] Wispelaere after the former Australian Defence Intelligence Organization analyst tried to sell stolen U.S. documents to Singaporean embassy officials in Thailand." Read more

Remote Viewing Solves Murder

A swindler was convicted of murder in a California court in a case that was solved partly with the help of remote viewing.

When practitioners of paranormal “remote viewing” gather here in June, they will enjoy a little more swagger than in the past.

 Last year, a California court convicted a swindler of murder in a case that was solved partly, the lead police investigator said, with the help of remote viewing, a type of extrasensory perception (ESP) that was studied by the U.S. military starting in the 1970s as a way to gather intelligence. Read more