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The Investigation of Extra-Sensory Powers of Perception · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As science begins to recognize the fact that there are ranges
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  of vibration outside of the limited scope that we can
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  normally experience, and that countless reports of perceptions
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  that are inexplicable based on the outermost physical reality
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  that we have heretofore treated as our sole reality, we have
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  seen a breaking down of the narrow and blinkered approach to
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  knowing that has ruled humanity for so many millennia.
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  The insights provided by quantum mechanics have also greatly
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  upset our formerly orderly world view about things and force us
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  to look at reality from an entirely new perspective.
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  Thus, we see that numerous scientists have developed
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  experiments to explore the field of consciousness, to test the
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  potential for extrasensory perception, and in particular,
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  to try to determine the reality and scope of telepathy, distance
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  viewing, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and telekinesis,
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  among other things. It should also be noted that the
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  Russian military and that of the United States have invested
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  considerable resources in developing units of individuals
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  capable of one or more of these powers of perception or action,
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  and not without considerable results.
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  In particular, the power of distance viewing has been tested
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  and actually developed into a systematic methodology that many
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  individuals can actually learn and apply.
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  Sometimes such individuals have been made part of police
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  investigations which otherwise had reached dead ends, and
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  sometimes with very notable results.
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  Of course, as with any new power of perception, there is a
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  certain amount of translation and interpretation of the
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  signals that have been received, with corresponding errors in
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  interpretation and application. Thus, one must exercise care in
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  attributing any specific result to such a cult action.
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  Yet we find a similar failure of interpretation and understanding
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  with our physical senses as well.
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  While we frequently repeat the proverb seeing is believing,
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  there is no doubt that this is not quite as failure proof as
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  the proverb would indicate, Shriorobindo writes quote
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  constantly asserted by human experience and belief since the
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  origins of thought. This truth, now that the
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  necessity of an exclusive preoccupation with the secrets
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  of the material world no longer exists, begins to be justified
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  by newborn forms of scientific research.
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  The increasing evidences, of which only the most obvious and
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  outward are established under the name of telepathy, with its
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  cognate phenomena, cannot long be resisted except by minds shut
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  up in the brilliant shell of the past, by intellects limited in
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  spite of their acuteness, through the limitation of their
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  field of experience and inquiry, or by those who confuse
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  enlightenment and reason with the face.
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  Full repetition of formulas left to us from a bygone century and
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  the jealous conservation of dead were dying intellectual dogmas.
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  End Quote reference Shrioro Bindu and the Mother.
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  The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 6.
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  Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary Forces, page 140.