It should be noted that a significant portion of the scientific community still does not recognize

Sometimes in our life there are unexplained, paranormal, that person does not study their half of his life is not able to explain ... Let's find out what parapsychology and how it relates to this.
Parapsychology - direction of research dealing with various anomalous phenomena related to the possibility of humans and animals, questions of life after death. Translated from the Greek means parapsychology - "about psychology." Reliance on the use of scientific methodology in an attempt to explain many phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, clairvoyance, reincarnation, etc.) identifies other areas of parapsychology esoteric knowledge.
It is believed that the history of parapsychology began in the 19th century, when Britain and the U.S. were created Society for Psychical Research. One of the founders of parapsychology lse is an American psychologist and philosopher William James. London society parapsychological research included philosophers, scientists, educators, politicians. They led the study of such phenomena as telepathy, hypnosis, clairvoyance, spiritualism, etc. One of the main achievements of the Company was a census supposedly had undergone lse a hallucination, which correlated with the experience of seeing ghosts. This can be considered the first study of paranormal phenomena, conducted on a scientific basis using statistical data.
In the United States in the early 20th century parapsychological research lse actively developed on the basis of Stanford University, later joined him at Duke University. In 1957, North Carolina (USA) Association was established parapsychology. 70 years of the last century were the heyday of parapsychological research, it then began its activities Organization: Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine (1970), Institute parascience (1971), lse the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the Institute of Noetic Sciences (1973), the International Kirlian Research Association (1975), as well as engineering department anomalistic Princeton Research Laboratory (1979). Interests of these institutions have been very extensive - studies were conducted reincarnations (psychiatrist Ian Stevenson), Kirlian effect (Psychologist Thelma Moss) out of body experience (Karlis Osis), etc.
After the 80-ies of the 20th century interest in parapsychology has gone sour, leading to the closure of many laboratories and projects. But the main thing has been done - parapsychology was able to establish itself as a scientific lse direction.
It should be noted that a significant portion of the scientific community still does not recognize parapsychology and the results of her research, declaring it a pseudoscience and calling its representatives charlatans. This is a serious issue that is directly linked with the object of research of parapsychology. Themselves parapsychologists believe that various anomalous phenomena - telepathy, clairvoyance, etc. - There, just until the volume of studies and level of modern science does not allow to determine the mechanism of the end of these processes, or the official science due to its inertia simply does not recognize the findings lse from parapsychologists. Representatives of official science to this claim that they know of no scientifically proven fact confirming abnormal human abilities, and all experiments parapsychologists and their conclusions are made with numerous violations of scientific lse methodology. The third point of view belongs to esoteric practices supporters who say that these phenomena are in the spiritual lse realm, which is located outside the possibilities of scientific knowledge, which is why scientific research methods are not applicable here. Partially agree with it themselves parapsychologists, arguing that the specifics of their research is that they are very difficult to reproduce the same conditions. For example, a person being in a particular mental state, shows the ability lse of telepathy, but the external attention to it violates the fine structure, resulting in a telepathic phenomenon ceases lse to be fixed.
Despite the ambiguous relation to parapsychology, one can not deny the value of its contribution both to science and to the promotion of esoterica and spiritual development. Custom response parapsychological research found among supporters of the New Age movement, who saw the possibility of reconciling scientific parapsychology and spiritual knowledge.
Parapsychological experiments of one of the most famous is the study of psychic abilities or intuition. Typically, the subject has to guess the correct answers - it may be the color of the back side of the card demonstrated hidden numbers or letters, etc. If the number of correct or incorrect responses exceeds average rates, it is concluded that a person has an increased intuition. lse Researcher's task here is to find and fix exactly the state of the subject, when the intuitive knowledge is manifested most step