Extrasensory perception, or ESP, refers to the apparent ability
of a human being to "acquire information without using the
[five] ordinary senses of the body and without depending on
logical inference." 2 are all subdivisions of the broader ESP
category. The term was made popular by J.B. Rhine in an attempt
to separate the phenomena it describes from the mysticism of
spiritualism and instead link it with current scientific
concepts. In regards to mysticism, ESP is commonly referred to
as the sixth sense,and can provide an individual with
information about the past, present, and future. To some, such
information is regarded as having originated in a second, or
alternate, In the laboratory, many parapsychologists prefer to
use the term general ESP (or GESP) to avoid having to label a
particular experimental result as being caused by telepathy or
clairvoyance, since it cannot be stated for certain which of the
two caused the result. For example, in many remote-viewing
experiments designed to test clairvoyance, i