“Suppose you find a person who can, reliably, beyond chance, either detect or learn to detect which of three passages will provide that person with, for example, an erotic reward… before the passage is chosen or the reward set up. My claim is that one can locate, become, or produce such a person through simple exposure, practice, desire, or even accident. Nature does this all the time.

And if that’s true, then most of what ‘science’ is telling us about the nature of mind and consciousness, that is, that it is a mechanical phenomenon local to the brain, a ‘possession’ if you will, is misleading — at best. And that’s my point. It is. Unfortunately, it is a simple matter to engineer circumstances (i.e. experiments) whose character or constraints deny the appearance of some ability or phenomenon, and it is just as simple to claim, in such circumstances, that the phenomenon was imaginary, but this fails to account for the billions of direct human experiences of clairvoyance, telepathy, remote viewing, contact with nonhuman intelligence, and other apparent exceptions to the models we are sold.

It seems far more likely that, like almost anything else, such capacities are inherent in our humanity, however we face two problems. On the one hand, the overt and consensus denial of academic authorities. On the other, the raving substitutions of seething delusional subcultures. Neither of these monsters will be satisfied. We must retrieve these capacities without attaching dogma or stories to them. Then, perhaps, we may begin to understand what these clearly present abilities actually are and portend.”

— an anonymous informant