Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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self-deceit enter their lives and lead them astray from the right path altogether.
Research in ESP :
Despite occasional reports of such intuitive flashes of knowledge experienced by even ordinary people, the western world had completely ignored or ridiculed such instances off hand with the result that people usually hesitated to narrate their experiences. However, the situation has since changed considerably and such unusual or paranormal phenomena have been taken up for serious scientific investigation. About forty years ago, Prof. J.B. Rhine made pioneering efforts in this field at the Duke Laboratory of parapsychology, Duke University, USA. Since then, it has been receiving increasing attention as a subject of scientific inquiry at many other centres too. As a result, sizeable literature is now available on the subject including the experimental data derived from such research.
The fact that no normal channel of perception (senseorgan) is involved in this type of intuitive knowledge, led the modern parapsychologists to term it as the phenomenon of Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) which is synonymous with the words 'clairvoyance' telepathy' or 'intuition of the common parlance.
The research related to ESP has established beyond doubt that man is not merely an aggregate of physical elements fortuitously brought together into a unique formation of matter as is maintained by materialistic science. The pioneering leader of research in parapsychology, Prof. Rhine states,
Now the occurrence of ESP has been shown to be a fact .... research in ESP has been going on steadily, specially so over the last twenty-five years, and inspite of the many difficulties and small number of workers, some discoveries have been made that are revolutionary.