De La Salle University - Manila

Pathfinder - Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

Scope Note :

 “ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc)" (Source: http://www.thethirdi.net/esp.htm)

"The ability to perceived objects, places, thoughts, or events without the medication of any of the known sensory channels. Together with psychokinesis, extrasensory perception is investigated by parapsychologist". (Source: Academic American Encyclopedia, AE 5 A25 vol.7, c1981).

Use For :

• Cryptesthesia
• ESP
• Perception, Extrasensory
• Sense, Sixth

Broader Term : 

• Parapsychology

Narrower Term : 

• Clairaudience
• Clairvoyance
• Precognition
• Retrocognition
• Telepathy

BOOKS

Reference sources located at the Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor:

• How to use ESP : the hidden power of your mind. Dorothy Spence Lauer. BF1321 L38 1998
• Telepathy and clairvoyance. Rudolf Tischner. BF121 I49 v.33

Texts located at the Circulation Section, 3rd floor:

• Afterlife : an investigation of the evidence for life after death. Colin Wilson.BF1311 F8 W54 1987
• Awareness. Eileen J. Garrett. BF1031 G37 1943
• Breakthrough to creativity : your higher sense perception. Shafica Karagulla. BF1031 K37 1967
• The coming science. Hereward Carrington. BF1031 C665 1920
• Clairvoyance. C.W. Leadbeater. BP 565 L438 1903
• Edgar Cayce on ESP. Doris Age. BF1031 A44 1969
• The ESP reader. Edited by David C. Knight. BF1023 E8 1969
• ESP and parapsychology : a critical reevaluation . C.E.M. Hansel. BF1042 H36 1980
• ESP : a scientific evaluation. C.E.M. Hansel. BF1321 H35
• Into the unknown . Reader's digest . BF1411 .I55 1981
• Mental radio. Upton Sinclair. BF1171 S56 1930
• The miracle workers : America's psychic consultants. Jess Stearn. BF1028.5 U5 S8 1973
• New dimensions of deep analysis : a study of telepathy in interpersonal relationships. Jan Ehrenwald. BF1171 E37 1955
• New psychic frontiers : your key to new worlds. Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff. BF1031 U65 1977
• Psychic detectives : the mysterious use of paranormal phenomena in solving true crimes. Jenny Randles. BF1045.C7 R36 2001
• Psychic warfare : threat or illusion?. Martin Ebon. BF1045 M55 E26 1983
• The psychology of the psychic. David Marks and Richard Kammann. BF1042 M37 1980
• Readings in the philosophical problems of parapsychology. Edited by Antony Flew. BF1045 P5 R4 1987
• The roots of coincidence. Arthur Koestler. BF1321 K6 1974
• In search of strange phenomena. Alan Landsburg. BF1031 L35 1977
• Supernature : a natural history of the supernatural. Lyall Watson. BF1411 W37 1974b
• Thought transference : an outline of facts, theory and implications of telepathy. Whately Carington .BF1171 C37 1946
• Understanding the psychic powers of man. Jaime T. Licauco. BF1031 L5 1978

Texts located at the Filipiniana Section, 4th floor:

• Ang kababalaghan at ang parasikolohiya . Virgilio G. Enriquez, Precious Joy Balde, Ma.Angela Bernardo. BF 1038 F5 E57 1989a
• Beings : encounters of the spirit questors with non-human entities. Tony Perez, Cecille Legazpi. BF1040 P47 1999
• Beyond ordinary reality. Jaime T. Licauco. BF1028.5 .P6 L29 1990z v.2
• Exploring the powers of your inner mind. Jaime T. Licauco. BF1031 .L399 2005
• More encounters with the unknown. Jaime T. Licauco. BF1028.5 P6 L3 1997
• People of power : a Philippine worldview of spirit encounters. John P. McAndrew. BF1028.5 P6 M34 2001
• The psychic world and you. Jaime T. Licauco. BF1031 .L4 1999
• True encounters with the unknown. Jaime T. Licauco. BF1031 L45 2000
• True encounters with the unknown : the physic, the mystical & the strange. Jaime T. Licauco. BF 1031 L45 1986   

Texts located at the Special Collection, Archives Section,4th floor:

• Foronda Collection

• Almanac of the uncanny. Reader's Digest. GR 500 A55 1995
• The personality of man : new facts and their significance. G. N. M. Tyrrell. BF1031 T85 1947
• The personality of man : new facts and their significance. G. N. M. Tyrrell. BF1031 T85 1947
• The psychic world and you. Jaime T. Licauco. BF1031 L4 1982
• True encounters with the unknown : the physic, the mystical & the strange. Jaime T. Licauco. BF1031 L45 1986
• What's on your mind?. Joseph Dunninger. BF1171 D85 1944

• Sotto Collection

• Encyclopedia of mystical & paranormal experience. Rosemary Ellen Guiley. BF1407 .G85 1993
• The flight from reason. James Webb. BF1028 .W4 1971
• The future is now : the significance of precognition. Arthur W. Osborn. BF1325.O81 F9 1967
• How to develop psychometry. W. E. Butler. BF1286 .B9 1979
• The paranormal. Stan Gooch. BF1031 .G6 1979
• Parapsychology and the nature of life. John L. Randall. BF1045.P5 R36 1977
• Psychic powers. Editors of Time-Life Books. BF1031 .P79 1987
• Superminds : an investigation into the paranormal. John Taylor. BF1031 .T39 1976

• Calderon Collection

• You can change your life through psychic power. Jo Anne Chase. BF1321 C49 1960

PERIODICALS

PRINT  (Periodicals Section, 2nd floor)

• Parabola

ELECTRONIC

PROQUEST Online
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

• The Journal of Parapsychology

• Establishing methodological guidelines for ESP studies: a questionnaire survey of experimenters' and critics' consensus Milton, Julie. The Journal of Parapsychology 60 (4) : December 1996. p. 289+
• First sight: part two, elaboration of a model of psi and the mind. Carpenter, James. The Journal of Parapsychology 69 (1) : 2005. p. 63+
• Guidelines for extra sensory perception research. Zingrone, Nancy. The Journal of Parapsychology 63 (3) : September 1999. p. 285+
• A meta-analysis of forced-choice experiments comparing clairvoyance and precognition Steinkamp, Fiona. The Journal of Parapsychology 62 (3) : September 1998. p. 193+
• The capricious, actively evasive, unsustainable nature of psi: a summary and hypotheses. Kennedy, J E. The Journal of Parapsychology 67 (1) : 2003.  p. 53.

ARTICLES
(Periodicals Section, 2nd floor)

• 9 outstanding paranormal events of recent times. Wagner, Stephen. Women's Journal 34 (3) : May 13 2006. p. 48+
• Confessions of a closet mystic. Trinidad, Doris. Mr & Ms August 2005. p. 27+
• The departed still get in touch. Rodriguez, Teresita A. Mr & Ms August 2005. p.18.
• Do fairies truly exist? M.I. Mapa. Women's Journal Magazine 27 : August 7, 1999. p. 46+
• Duwendes in my garden. Panlilio, Erlinda Enriquez. Mr & Ms August 2005. p. 38+
• Is there such thing as karma? C.G. Garcia. Mr and Ms Magazine 24 : October 3, 2000. p. 6.
• Memories of past lives. P. Ionata. New City 37 (1) : January 2002.
• Mystical Asia. Licauco, Jaime T. Mr & Ms August 2005. p. 12+
• The Philippines : a center of paranormal occurences. Licauco, Jaime T. Mr & Ms July 2005. p. 18.
• Psychic power defined. Licauco, Jaime T. Mr. & Ms October 2005. p.14+
• Psychic power defined. Licauco, Jaime T.Mr. & Ms  November 2005. p. 40+
• Various E.S.P. and psychic powers defined. Licauco, Jaime T. Mr. & Ms September 2005. p. 23+
• Your incredible memory and what it can do. W. M. Germain. Women's Journal August 3, 2002. p. 46+

VERTICAL FILE
(Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor)

• Fear of PSI retards progress of research. Licauco, Jaime T. VF 00519

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

LOCAL
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

• Hilagyo. Bancairen, Mylene, Ma. Magdalena Vasquez, Yu, Melinda. TU-8138
• Lakbay-diwa. Jarin, Carmelina, Salanguit, Ana Maria, Yabut, Cherry. TU-8262
• Oral history of Jaime T. Licauco on psychic phenomena. Dela Fuente, Jose Allan M. TU-6030

FOREIGN

• The effects of subjective emotional arousal on the occurrence of extrasensory perception in the experimental laboratory. Evans, Ted David,
  PhD United States California, 2007, AAT 8404768
• An exploration into the relationship between cerebral hemispheric functioning and extrasensory perception. Legassick, George Richard,
  PhD California School of Professional Psychology, United States, California, 2007, AAT 7802833
• Towards a science of mind: schizophrenia, mysticism, artistic creativity, scientific discovery, psychedelic experience and extrasensory perception as
  function of a symbo-organismic scheme of human mental functioning. Ellingham, Ivan Halford, PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 2007, AAT 8409767
• A field theory of mind and consciousness. Robinsons, Patricia, Ph.D., Fielding Graduate University, 2006, AAT 3230492
• Personality and electrocortical correlates of extreme belief regarding ESP. Nelson, Lonnie A, Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 2004, AAT 3145111

AUDIO VISUAL MATERIALS
(Instructional Media Services, Ground floor)

• The Sixth sense [videorecording]. Hollywood Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment ; a Kennedy Marshal CD04194 (disc1) CD04195 (disc2)

INTERNET WEBSITES
(Cybernook, Ground floor, Graduate Corners, 2nd and 3rd floor)

ESP (extrasensory perception)
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/e/esp_extrasensory_perception.html
[Retrieved October 04, 2007]

Discusses the history of extrasensory perception (ESP) and the Rhine experiments.

ESP (extrasensoryperception)
http://skepdic.com/esp.html
[Retrieved October 04, 2007]

An article which explains extrasensory perception as a “ perception occurring independently of sight, hearing and other sensory processes.” The site further recommends additional reading materials on same topic.

ESP- Extrasensory Perception
http://home.xtra.co.nz/hosts/Wingmakers/ESP.html
[Retrieved October 04, 2007]

“Provides links to some of the latest scientific findings about extrasensory perception.” The site also offers several resources which are proven useful in testing and strengthening the psychic skills of persons having ESP.

Extrasensory Perception (ESP), Science, the Roots of Consciousness
http://www.williamjames.com/Science/ESP.htm
[Retrieved October 04, 2007]

"Discusses the history, criticism and theories about the nature of extrasensory perception (ESP)."



Should you have suggestions on this pathfinder, please contact any of the Information-Reference staff at reference@dlsu.edu.ph or call +(632) 5244611 local 620.

Compiled by: Mrs. Jennifer Motos
Date: January 2007