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| Woohoo! My first significant ESP test! | 2018-09-28, 02:56 PM | 7 |
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| Woohoo! My first significant ESP test! |
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| Hi everyone, new member here. I got my first significant score on an ESP test (http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/apps/esptest/ (http://psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/apps/esptest/)) just now. Screenshot below. I did 25 trials of the "Predict a card unknown to you" test, with colors. Score was 9/25, on a binomial distribution p=0.0468. This is the first time I've done significantly better than chance. I've tried these tests about 5 times before where I guessed or tried to rationally work out the likely order of colors, and never scored more than 4. What I did this time was slow down, and try to open my heart to the colors. I do loving-kindness (metta) meditation regularly (I got interested in psi through meditation and reading about siddhis in Buddhism/Yoga) and I would send loving-kindness to the colors, then try to feel which one was sending love back the most strongly. So I might get a stronger feeling of yellow back than any of the other colors when I looked at them with metta, and then I'd choose yellow. I know this is only one test and I will definitely repeat it, posting results here. But I strongly suspect there is something in all this, because when I just guessed or tried to rationally predict the likely order of the colors, I'd get them wrong (scoring in total a 3 or 4). By slowing down and taking the time to feel an emotional resonance with the colors, I did better. There was an unmistakable correlation between being in a calm, loving state and guessing correctly. Any distraction (such as thoughts trying to predict which colors are likely to come up) and I'd guess wrong. Maintaining the loving state of metta as well as I possibly could was when I got them right. I definitely think this is worth pursuing further. | ||
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