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When my brother was in the Air
Force he came home on leave and was in great distress because a
girl had broken his heart. As we laid in bed that night a vision
came into my head, I could see the girl and exactly what she
looked like. I described her to him right down to the red and
violet horizontally striped shirt she was wearing. He was
stunned because he hadn't shown me any photos or described her
to me. Later when I was in the eighth grade, I performed my science
experiment on six different forms of ESP, ranging from
predicting the colors on cards to controlling the numbers that
would come up on a roll of dice. With hundreds of attempts in
each category all six outcomes were positive and I analyzed the
numbers to show that the results were statistically significant.
After high school I became a religious convert
and my new church told me that any miracles or anything
supernatural that didn't come directly
through the authority of the church was the work of the devil
and was devised to deceive
and mislead people away from the truth. These thoughts created
mental blocks, leading me to ignore and neglect any
talent for the sixth sense that I may have ever possessed.
I told this story to one of my chess companions and then
chuckling warned him
that he should watch out, that maybe I'll get back in tune with my inner feelings and
start predicting his chess moves. "Perhaps" I said, "That's why in four years of high school
play I never lost a
game." Later I realized that even though I was joking, ESP may very well have
played at least a small part in my high school success. We would pick up a black pawn
and a white pawn and put them behind our backs, mix them up, and
let the other player choose a hand to decide what color he would
get. I always tried to let the other guy be the one to hold the
pawns because I was pretty good at knowing which hand the white
pawn was in. Through the course of my high school career I chose
white 80% of time. I never pointed it out to anyone and no one
ever noticed or said anything about it. So what do you think,
did I have an unfair advantage? |
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