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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:04,910 --> 00:00:09,970 Legendary seers who can predict the future with incredible accuracy. 2 00:00:10,730 --> 00:00:15,910 Psychic spies with the ability to see inside enemy territory. 3 00:00:16,170 --> 00:00:21,710 And clairvoyants that gain supernatural powers from the dead. 4 00:00:22,970 --> 00:00:29,969 Throughout history, a number of people have been described as possessing a so 5 00:00:29,970 --> 00:00:31,410 -called sixth sense. 6 00:00:32,490 --> 00:00:37,789 Whether it's called clairvoyance, ESP, or second sight, these individuals seem 7 00:00:37,790 --> 00:00:44,629 to have the ability to predict the future, communicate with the dead, and 8 00:00:44,630 --> 00:00:48,830 times perform incredible physical feats. 9 00:00:49,110 --> 00:00:55,749 But is this intuitive awareness outside the normal human perception 10 00:00:55,750 --> 00:01:00,510 a real thing? And if so, does a sixth... 11 00:01:00,730 --> 00:01:06,130 sense exist in all of us just waiting to be unlocked? 12 00:01:06,950 --> 00:01:09,870 Well, that is what we'll try and find out. 13 00:01:23,990 --> 00:01:28,950 For thousands of years, people have been fascinated with and fearful of 14 00:01:29,770 --> 00:01:33,270 Unique individuals who possess the power of prophecy. 15 00:01:34,070 --> 00:01:40,829 Great seers like Nostradamus, Gregorius Rasputin, and Edgar 16 00:01:40,830 --> 00:01:46,649 Caythe have been revered for their seemingly supernatural abilities to 17 00:01:46,650 --> 00:01:47,700 the future. 18 00:01:47,930 --> 00:01:52,910 Could this so -called sixth sense simply be incredible intuition? 19 00:01:53,710 --> 00:01:58,110 Or is it something scientific we have yet... 20 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:04,939 to understand when we study psychic phenomena when we study mediumship when 21 00:02:04,940 --> 00:02:10,379 study things like precognition knowing information about the future when we 22 00:02:10,380 --> 00:02:15,359 study telepathy getting information mind to mind from another person or 23 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,499 clairvoyance getting information about objects or things that are hidden from a 24 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:24,080 distance all of those would have been considered magic oh so long ago 25 00:02:25,290 --> 00:02:29,869 And today, we still study these same things, but we don't call them magic 26 00:02:29,870 --> 00:02:31,710 anymore. We look at them as science. 27 00:02:32,650 --> 00:02:36,369 I don't think there's anything wrong with being skeptical. And by being 28 00:02:36,370 --> 00:02:40,710 skeptical, I mean the true meaning of skeptical, which is that it's like, 29 00:02:40,850 --> 00:02:41,910 I'm not sure. 30 00:02:42,130 --> 00:02:43,290 Show me the evidence. 31 00:02:44,510 --> 00:02:49,409 Now, the reality is when you look at the research that's been done in the last 32 00:02:49,410 --> 00:02:52,650 150 years, the questions that still remain. 33 00:02:53,260 --> 00:02:58,600 is really why is it that certain individuals seem to have exceptional 34 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:04,140 whereas the rest of us, myself included, sort of minimal abilities. 35 00:03:05,740 --> 00:03:10,100 New Delhi, India, October 31st, 1984. 36 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:18,379 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in a surprise 37 00:03:18,380 --> 00:03:19,600 attack outside her home. 38 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,220 The country is thrown into confusion and grief. 39 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:32,339 But incredibly, this tragic event was foretold in surprising detail 15 40 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:38,240 years earlier by a legendary psychic known as Baba Vanga. 41 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:46,019 It was in 1969 when Vanga said that Indira Gandhi would be killed by her 42 00:03:46,020 --> 00:03:48,500 dress. Her dress is going to kill her, she said. 43 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,580 And what happened? 44 00:03:51,070 --> 00:03:57,229 was that before a meeting, she put a dress which didn't allow for a 45 00:03:57,230 --> 00:04:03,410 vest to be put under, and then she was shot dead by her security guard. 46 00:04:03,930 --> 00:04:10,809 So this is a really strong example of a prediction attributed to her which 47 00:04:10,810 --> 00:04:11,860 really happened. 48 00:04:12,510 --> 00:04:17,609 While skeptics say Baba Vanga's eerily accurate prediction was nothing more 49 00:04:17,610 --> 00:04:19,230 an extraordinary coincidence, 50 00:04:19,950 --> 00:04:25,329 It's believed that Baba Vanga also predicted the September 11th terrorist 51 00:04:25,330 --> 00:04:28,390 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. 52 00:04:29,750 --> 00:04:35,270 And the election of the first African -American president of the United 53 00:04:36,030 --> 00:04:42,849 And quite famously, a disaster involving a Russian nuclear submarine known as 54 00:04:42,850 --> 00:04:44,150 the Kursk. 55 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:52,159 In 1981, Papa Vanga said that a big tragedy will happen around 56 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,760 the turn of the century in August 1999 or 2000. 57 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:04,139 Vanga is known to have said, at the turn of the new century, Kursk will be 58 00:05:04,140 --> 00:05:07,580 underwater and the whole world will cry over it. 59 00:05:07,820 --> 00:05:09,460 So these were her words. 60 00:05:10,460 --> 00:05:14,260 And the whole world was shocked when... 61 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:21,099 At the turn of the century, indeed, in August 2000, the whole submarine sank to 62 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:26,940 the bottom of the ocean, 350 feet, down, with the whole crew dying. 63 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:36,780 How did Baba Vanga predict such a specific and tragic event with such 64 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,349 Many believe the answer can be traced back... to the 1920s, when she was 12 65 00:05:44,350 --> 00:05:45,369 years old. 66 00:05:45,370 --> 00:05:50,270 And a traumatic event unlocked her remarkable powers. 67 00:05:51,610 --> 00:05:56,330 Baba Vanga was from the town, village of Stumitsche. 68 00:05:57,010 --> 00:06:03,630 And at the time, in Macedonia, it was part of the Ottoman Empire, 69 00:06:03,850 --> 00:06:05,510 just before World War I. 70 00:06:06,410 --> 00:06:08,950 It's very simple. It's very small. 71 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:15,920 And Baba Vanga was a normal child, an average child in a way, with brown eyes. 72 00:06:17,020 --> 00:06:23,159 But the life -changing incident that made Baba Vanga who she was 73 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:29,359 was the day where she was walking on a country road and she was caught up by a 74 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:36,199 tornado that literally carried her up in the 75 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,250 air. 76 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,060 and threw her into an adjacent field. 77 00:06:40,780 --> 00:06:45,719 For dozens of hours, people in the village were trying to find her. And 78 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:51,619 they finally found her, they found her absolutely terrified and sobbing in the 79 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:58,399 field. The strangest thing was it was almost as if a lot of rock and dirt had 80 00:06:58,400 --> 00:06:59,960 been stuffed under her eyelids. 81 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,480 Over a few days, the eyes became infected and she became blind. 82 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:10,839 As her physical senses started to deteriorate, she realized other senses 83 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:11,719 starting to grow. 84 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,360 She started to be able to see what was going to happen in the future. 85 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:23,500 She slowly began to develop psychic abilities that replaced her sight. 86 00:07:23,700 --> 00:07:30,519 And it took a while for these to develop, but by World War II she was 87 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:31,900 have psychic visions. 88 00:07:32,890 --> 00:07:35,590 and see what was happening during the war. 89 00:07:36,170 --> 00:07:42,089 After that, people who were very concerned about their loved ones who had 90 00:07:42,090 --> 00:07:46,930 on would come to her to see if she was able to communicate with the dead. 91 00:07:47,410 --> 00:07:54,290 And they gave her the nickname Baba Vanga, which means like a wise 92 00:07:56,050 --> 00:08:01,499 As Baba Vanga's popularity grew, she also attracted the attention of the 93 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:02,640 scientific community. 94 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:10,039 In the late 1960s, Bulgarian scientist Georgi Lazanov studied 95 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:15,899 Baba Vanga at the Institute of Suggestology, which is part of the 96 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:19,120 Academy of Sciences, with quite a lofty goal. 97 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:25,080 Can science unlock the secrets behind the sixth sense? 98 00:08:26,220 --> 00:08:31,740 They made experiments with Baba Vanga from February to October 1967. 99 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:38,760 Lozanov thought that clairvoyance happens because some people, very few 100 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:45,759 are capable of receiving signals from the environment which cannot 101 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,939 be registered, they cannot be seen. So he tried to use the most modern 102 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:53,760 technology and equipment they were able to get. 103 00:08:54,480 --> 00:09:00,479 to try and register and pinpoint those stimuli, those signals he was supposing 104 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:05,640 exist. They were measuring her brain activity while she was making 105 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,800 Unfortunately, they were not able to register what they were searching for. 106 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:17,739 So they also interviewed people visiting her to ask them whether what she said 107 00:09:17,740 --> 00:09:20,320 really came true. It was a long -term project. 108 00:09:24,110 --> 00:09:29,149 answer those questions with, yes, Baba Vanga really could say what will happen 109 00:09:29,150 --> 00:09:30,200 to my life. 110 00:09:30,830 --> 00:09:37,249 In 1996, Baba Vanga passed away at the age of 84, leaving behind 111 00:09:37,250 --> 00:09:42,570 predictions for the coming decades that include deadly plagues, terrible wars, 112 00:09:42,830 --> 00:09:46,010 and even extraterrestrial visitations. 113 00:09:46,430 --> 00:09:51,089 And while we wait to see if her future prophecies prove accurate, researchers 114 00:09:51,090 --> 00:09:56,370 continue. To study people who possess the sixth sense. 115 00:10:00,990 --> 00:10:04,710 10 ,050 Cielo Drive, Los Angeles, California. 116 00:10:05,030 --> 00:10:07,110 August 15th, 1969. 117 00:10:09,870 --> 00:10:15,229 Six days after the shocking murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others in 118 00:10:15,230 --> 00:10:21,849 home, Tate's husband, film director Roman Polanski, arrives to tour the 119 00:10:21,850 --> 00:10:28,029 the crime with a rather unusual investigator, a psychic detective named 120 00:10:28,030 --> 00:10:29,330 Peter Herkos. 121 00:10:30,550 --> 00:10:37,229 Herkos was allowed to go to the scene of the Sharon Tate murders, and he 122 00:10:37,230 --> 00:10:41,690 picked up some interesting details that were not known at the time. 123 00:10:42,410 --> 00:10:44,950 He said that there were three murders. 124 00:10:46,090 --> 00:10:52,989 And he said that he saw a vision of someone in this house who had taken 125 00:10:52,990 --> 00:10:56,630 some bad LSD and visualized the devil. 126 00:10:56,970 --> 00:11:01,909 And that's interesting because Tex Watson, who was one of the killers, when 127 00:11:01,910 --> 00:11:06,809 came into the house, he said, I'm the devil and I'm here to do the devil's 128 00:11:06,810 --> 00:11:07,860 business. 129 00:11:09,290 --> 00:11:13,130 When Herkos got there, he kept getting the name Charlie. 130 00:11:13,690 --> 00:11:16,870 Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, over and over and over again. 131 00:11:17,210 --> 00:11:23,229 And he was able to describe this man who was this force of destruction and 132 00:11:23,230 --> 00:11:29,230 wiry and dark who was manipulating others. 133 00:11:30,990 --> 00:11:35,850 It's very interesting because that's exactly who was behind these murders. 134 00:11:37,490 --> 00:11:41,520 Charlie, of course, turned out to be the notorious cult leader, Charles Manson. 135 00:11:42,430 --> 00:11:46,290 who was convicted of first -degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. 136 00:11:47,090 --> 00:11:51,229 What ability did Peter Herkes possess that allowed him to envision the 137 00:11:51,230 --> 00:11:53,930 mastermind behind this heinous crime? 138 00:11:56,610 --> 00:12:03,569 In 1941, Peter Herkes was doing a job painting a house, and he 139 00:12:03,570 --> 00:12:09,349 fell off his ladder, falling about 40 feet, and he had a brain injury and 140 00:12:09,350 --> 00:12:10,450 flipped into a coma. 141 00:12:10,910 --> 00:12:16,350 So when he awoke out of the coma, he discovered that he had psychic ability. 142 00:12:16,970 --> 00:12:22,229 And he discovered this almost immediately because he could sense 143 00:12:22,230 --> 00:12:25,650 the other patients in the same hospital room as him. 144 00:12:27,610 --> 00:12:31,930 Is a traumatic injury the key to unlocking a sixth sense? 145 00:12:33,650 --> 00:12:37,969 While that may be the case for some seers, there are others who, like author 146 00:12:37,970 --> 00:12:39,020 Laurelyn Jackson, 147 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,440 believe they were born with these remarkable gifts. 148 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,340 So I'm a psychic and a medium. 149 00:12:45,580 --> 00:12:50,620 And being psychic means that I can read energy. 150 00:12:50,860 --> 00:12:55,500 It was before I even had language that I would feel and read energy around me. 151 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,560 I'll see pictures. 152 00:12:59,020 --> 00:13:03,940 I'll see images. I'll see things that are symbols for me to understand. 153 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:11,099 And then being a medium means that I'm able to connect with the consciousness 154 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:13,270 someone who's no longer in a physical body. 155 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,970 Sometimes it can be in the voice of a loved one who's crossed. 156 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,999 Sometimes it just arrives as a thought without much sound, where you just 157 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,639 suddenly know something in every ounce of your being, but there's no logical 158 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:25,690 you could know it. 159 00:13:25,740 --> 00:13:28,920 It took me a very long time to fully embrace my abilities. 160 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,770 And part of that journey for me was getting tested in every way possible. 161 00:13:32,771 --> 00:13:36,239 This will be interesting for me, too, because my readings for people usually 162 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,059 60 to 90 minutes. And so usually the first 15 minutes of a reading, I'm just 163 00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:43,219 aligning my energy with the sitter's energy. I'm doing an aura reading. I'm 164 00:13:43,220 --> 00:13:46,019 seeing what they're like. It's almost like tuning into that frequency. 165 00:13:46,020 --> 00:13:48,659 And then it really starts. So I don't know how this is going to go. We're 166 00:13:48,660 --> 00:13:49,710 to have to say. 167 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:55,579 In 2013, Laura participated in a fascinating experiment under the 168 00:13:55,580 --> 00:13:57,940 psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Durant. 169 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,730 I'm going to turn it over, look at it, and say go. Okay. All right? 170 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:02,850 Go. Yeah. 171 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:10,859 Red. The goal was to analyze Laura's brain waves to see what's really 172 00:14:10,860 --> 00:14:14,300 inside her head when she taps into her intuitive abilities. 173 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:22,179 What we did was we took a 19 -channel EEG cap, kind of looks like a 174 00:14:22,180 --> 00:14:27,019 swimming cap with sensors built into it. What it allows us to do is then compare 175 00:14:27,020 --> 00:14:29,080 her brain in different states. 176 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,160 So what we're looking at in these images... 177 00:14:32,490 --> 00:14:37,569 are a comparison of Laura Lynn Jackson's brain activity comparing a conversation 178 00:14:37,570 --> 00:14:38,790 to a psychic reading. 179 00:14:39,050 --> 00:14:44,989 And really what you notice is this dramatic increase of activity in the 180 00:14:44,990 --> 00:14:46,090 right quadrant. 181 00:14:46,091 --> 00:14:49,869 Here you see it starts to turn a little more white, which is an even greater 182 00:14:49,870 --> 00:14:55,589 increase. And so this is showing this strong increase, especially in these 183 00:14:55,590 --> 00:14:58,050 fast brain waves during a psychic reading. 184 00:14:59,190 --> 00:15:01,050 Looking at the data. 185 00:15:01,710 --> 00:15:06,869 This clearly suggests that for her, a psychic reading and a regular 186 00:15:06,870 --> 00:15:09,820 are distinct states of consciousness. They're different. 187 00:15:10,130 --> 00:15:12,180 And they don't look the same in the brain. 188 00:15:12,630 --> 00:15:17,130 So, for me, the question becomes, why? 189 00:15:18,090 --> 00:15:20,450 This, to me, is the mystery right now. 190 00:15:22,070 --> 00:15:25,290 At one point, you had three in a row. 191 00:15:25,490 --> 00:15:30,739 Okay. Dr. Tarrant's brain scan experiment revealed a lot of very 192 00:15:30,740 --> 00:15:36,760 information. When he looked at my brain in resting state to just get baseline, 193 00:15:37,020 --> 00:15:40,120 he asked me if I had ever had traumatic brain injury. 194 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:46,439 Dr. Tarrant shared with me that my brain looked very similar to people who have 195 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:50,940 had traumatic brain injury, and yet I've had no traumatic brain injury. 196 00:15:51,180 --> 00:15:53,340 It didn't really make sense to me. 197 00:15:54,110 --> 00:15:58,849 So I think the question really is, is there a possible physiological component 198 00:15:58,850 --> 00:16:04,250 to being able to access this sixth sense or these other abilities? 199 00:16:04,690 --> 00:16:06,050 And I think that there is. 200 00:16:07,110 --> 00:16:11,849 Some people have these abilities unlocked after some sort of neurological 201 00:16:11,850 --> 00:16:14,270 incident or a traumatic brain injury. 202 00:16:14,650 --> 00:16:19,729 But then other folks, they're just born with these abilities. I think what this 203 00:16:19,730 --> 00:16:23,809 suggests is that... Whether it's through an injury or whether it's through some 204 00:16:23,810 --> 00:16:28,469 sort of practice of altered states or meditation, somehow we have to shift the 205 00:16:28,470 --> 00:16:30,310 brain out of its normal functioning. 206 00:16:30,830 --> 00:16:36,469 But there's still actually a lot that we need to understand in terms of how it 207 00:16:36,470 --> 00:16:38,590 is possible to unlock our sixth sense. 208 00:16:39,890 --> 00:16:46,249 It's exciting to think that if we can find the key to unlock our minds, we 209 00:16:46,250 --> 00:16:49,050 all possess extrasensory power. 210 00:16:49,470 --> 00:16:53,729 In fact, recently declassified files reveal that both the United States and 211 00:16:53,730 --> 00:17:00,409 Russia spent decades trying to identify and train people suspected of having 212 00:17:00,410 --> 00:17:07,129 psychic abilities. Not just to discover their true potential, but also to 213 00:17:07,130 --> 00:17:08,180 recognize them. 214 00:17:11,490 --> 00:17:13,450 The Arctic Ocean, 1958. 215 00:17:15,369 --> 00:17:19,810 The United States Navy's first nuclear -powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, 216 00:17:19,910 --> 00:17:23,329 dives deep below the waves outside of radio contact. 217 00:17:24,089 --> 00:17:29,309 A sailor inside the submarine holds up a series of cards that have various 218 00:17:29,310 --> 00:17:30,750 shapes printed on them. 219 00:17:31,470 --> 00:17:36,849 Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Maryland, a psychic tries to visualize 220 00:17:36,850 --> 00:17:42,310 cards the sailor is presenting using only the power of the mind. 221 00:17:43,630 --> 00:17:48,689 With the sub under the Arctic ice cap, they did several runs of completely 222 00:17:48,690 --> 00:17:52,130 shuffled cards. I believe it was 160 guesses. 223 00:17:52,790 --> 00:17:57,050 112 turned out to be correct when everything was compared after the sub 224 00:17:57,830 --> 00:17:59,530 That's a 70 % hit rate. 225 00:18:00,370 --> 00:18:04,909 The Soviets heard about this. They did a check apparently with some sources who 226 00:18:04,910 --> 00:18:08,250 said, yes, that's what happened, and decided to start spending. 227 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,959 It turned out to be billions of dollars to investigate the possibility of 228 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,310 telepathy as well as other psychic phenomena. 229 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:20,979 While the U .S. Navy denied these psychic tests were taking place, the 230 00:18:20,980 --> 00:18:25,819 alone inspired the Soviet Union to invest in programs with the goal of 231 00:18:25,820 --> 00:18:28,160 developing psychic weapons. 232 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:35,100 The Soviets started to recruit special people to help them with their studies. 233 00:18:35,260 --> 00:18:38,320 They recruited one woman named Nina Kolizhina. 234 00:18:38,980 --> 00:18:43,919 Nina Kolizhina was from Ukraine, and she was a housewife who said that she could 235 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,510 control different objects without touching them. 236 00:18:48,020 --> 00:18:54,599 She was mainly able to sensibly move objects with psychokinesis, mind over 237 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:55,650 matter. 238 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,179 At one point, they had her try to use her psychokinesis to try to stop the 239 00:19:00,180 --> 00:19:01,230 of a frog. 240 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,120 And it did. At least that was what was reported. 241 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:09,380 Is it possible to turn someone's sixth sense into a deadly weapon? 242 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:16,719 While it's a matter of debate, we do know that this Soviet program would 243 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,860 a top -secret psychic arms race. 244 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:23,760 American intelligence realized, oh my goodness. 245 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:25,580 They're getting ahead of us. 246 00:19:25,740 --> 00:19:29,460 We need to start our own psychic spying program. 247 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:35,979 They wanted to see if they could have people who were psychics get information 248 00:19:35,980 --> 00:19:39,710 about the Soviet Union where their satellites could not get information. 249 00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:45,039 This was a form of clairvoyance, the ability to see objects or events from a 250 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,160 distance called remote viewing. 251 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,020 According to declassified documents from 1972 to 1995, 252 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:59,519 The CIA, Army, and Defense Intelligence Agency engaged in a joint effort to 253 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:04,020 recruit and train remote viewers as psychic spies for the American 254 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:09,680 This top -secret program was called Project Stargate. 255 00:20:10,620 --> 00:20:14,180 The Stargate program ran from 1972 to 1995. 256 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,240 During that period, there were 20 people on staff. 257 00:20:18,540 --> 00:20:21,900 There were nine consultants and two visiting scientists. 258 00:20:21,901 --> 00:20:26,219 I was one of the visiting scientists, and I was there for the calendar year 259 00:20:26,220 --> 00:20:27,270 1985. 260 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:33,319 It took me about nine months to get all of the clearances, but it ended up 261 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,260 having to be a top -secret clearance. 262 00:20:35,261 --> 00:20:40,359 If an agency came and asked, you know, could you look into this thing, whatever 263 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:44,559 it happened to be, these remote viewers would do their best to describe what it 264 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:45,499 is. 265 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:50,079 The CIA and the FBI and a bunch of other agencies, they came back again and 266 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,130 again and again. 267 00:20:51,370 --> 00:20:56,110 There's something like 450 missions that these remote viewers were asked to do. 268 00:20:56,430 --> 00:20:58,850 So somebody somewhere found it to be useful. 269 00:20:59,530 --> 00:21:04,669 In an unassuming building in Fort Meade, Maryland, Project Stargate's military 270 00:21:04,670 --> 00:21:08,330 unit performed hundreds of remote viewing missions. 271 00:21:08,630 --> 00:21:14,090 And one of these psychic spies was a gifted Army officer named David 272 00:21:15,230 --> 00:21:22,159 In 1986, I was recruited to become a member of what at the time was 273 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:26,520 called Sunstreak. Now everyone knows it as Project Stargate. 274 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,980 In a remote viewing session, you're going to be over in the viewing room. 275 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:38,119 What you're doing is calling together all of your senses to go to a target 276 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:42,379 is unbeknownst to you to determine what the temperature might be, what the 277 00:21:42,380 --> 00:21:47,219 sounds are that you're hearing, what the visual representations of things are 278 00:21:47,220 --> 00:21:48,720 that you're perceiving. 279 00:21:49,710 --> 00:21:53,749 Now you're developing an overall picture of it and then putting a summary 280 00:21:53,750 --> 00:21:55,370 together and turning it in. 281 00:21:56,110 --> 00:21:59,830 Three targets a day, 90 minutes each, working it. 282 00:22:01,070 --> 00:22:07,029 Remote viewers used their psychic abilities to search for lost spy planes, 283 00:22:07,030 --> 00:22:12,629 inside top -secret military facilities, and even targeted wanted criminals for 284 00:22:12,630 --> 00:22:14,130 the United States government. 285 00:22:15,030 --> 00:22:18,310 Just how successful were they? 286 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,640 December 21st, 1988. 287 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:31,799 Pan Am Flight 103, bound for the United States, mysteriously explodes in midair 288 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:37,679 over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 289 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:38,730 the ground. 290 00:22:39,220 --> 00:22:41,930 And while a traditional investigation is launched, 291 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:47,819 Morehouse and a team of psychic spies at U .S. Army Base Fort Meade begin their 292 00:22:47,820 --> 00:22:50,760 own analysis of the shocking event. 293 00:22:52,170 --> 00:22:56,110 Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland. 294 00:22:56,590 --> 00:23:03,210 We, of course, didn't know this. We were assembled, and we did our work. 295 00:23:03,950 --> 00:23:06,850 We identified it as an explosion. 296 00:23:07,250 --> 00:23:13,449 We were even able to identify where the explosion came, below the passenger 297 00:23:13,450 --> 00:23:17,090 level, in front of the leading edge of the right wing. 298 00:23:17,550 --> 00:23:21,010 We were the first to identify the explosive device. 299 00:23:21,530 --> 00:23:23,470 being hidden inside of a boom box. 300 00:23:24,350 --> 00:23:30,189 What the Renault viewing team did was provide essential information to at 301 00:23:30,190 --> 00:23:34,090 determine, in part, what happened on that fateful night. 302 00:23:37,270 --> 00:23:40,330 Project Stargate was officially shut down in 1995. 303 00:23:41,110 --> 00:23:45,849 But considering the project's longevity and reported success, you have to 304 00:23:45,850 --> 00:23:51,259 wonder, is it possible that the United States government still uses... Psychic 305 00:23:51,260 --> 00:23:52,310 spies today? 306 00:23:52,660 --> 00:23:58,299 Do I believe that the Central Intelligence Agency is still utilizing 307 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:03,939 viewing, buried it somewhere deeper, darker, more protected in some other 308 00:24:03,940 --> 00:24:07,779 intelligence agency, whether it's the NSA, Directorate of Science and 309 00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:10,670 Technology, or some other agency, as they're evolving? 310 00:24:11,340 --> 00:24:13,280 Yes, of course they are. 311 00:24:16,970 --> 00:24:21,030 If the United States government is in fact still trying to weaponize psychics, 312 00:24:21,130 --> 00:24:26,509 it's no wonder why the program would be kept secret. In any case, some experts 313 00:24:26,510 --> 00:24:32,170 believe an even better use of a person's sixth sense is not to launch attacks, 314 00:24:32,610 --> 00:24:38,110 but to prevent them by looking into the future. 315 00:24:42,050 --> 00:24:45,570 Shorewood, Wisconsin, October 26, 1935. 316 00:24:47,140 --> 00:24:52,579 Nestled along the blue waters of Lake Michigan, all is calm in this quaint 317 00:24:52,580 --> 00:24:59,099 Milwaukee suburb until 7 .32 p .m., when a peaceful autumn evening 318 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:04,140 is interrupted by a massive explosion of dynamite. 319 00:25:07,060 --> 00:25:11,900 There was an explosion at the Shorewood Village Hall. 320 00:25:12,490 --> 00:25:17,610 It exploded and shattered all the windows and left a huge hole in the 321 00:25:18,070 --> 00:25:24,729 Then, less than 24 hours later, two branches of the First National Bank 322 00:25:24,730 --> 00:25:27,450 had explosions about a half hour apart. 323 00:25:28,130 --> 00:25:33,629 So by now, the city is in panic because it appears there's a mad bomber on the 324 00:25:33,630 --> 00:25:34,680 loose. 325 00:25:35,070 --> 00:25:41,989 Four days after the explosions at the banks, Two different police stations are 326 00:25:41,990 --> 00:25:44,630 bombed within about 10 minutes of each other. 327 00:25:45,430 --> 00:25:48,770 These dynamite bombs caused serious damage. 328 00:25:48,970 --> 00:25:55,069 Nobody could quite understand why this was happening. Were these anarchists? 329 00:25:55,070 --> 00:25:59,150 Were these communists? Were these people just trying to sow terror? 330 00:25:59,870 --> 00:26:01,230 No one knew the cause. 331 00:26:01,910 --> 00:26:08,799 From October 26th to November 3rd, 1935, this series of bombings would 332 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,970 become known as the Seven Nights of Terror. 333 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:16,639 And while these shocking attacks caught the townspeople off guard, they were no 334 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:21,959 surprise to a local psychic named Arthur Price Roberts, who predicted the event 335 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:27,000 and its location just one day before the first explosion. 336 00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:33,499 Arthur Price Roberts, throughout his life, was known by many names. Some 337 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:36,920 him Doc Roberts, Professor Roberts. 338 00:26:37,610 --> 00:26:40,890 But his very favorite thing to be called was psychic detective. 339 00:26:41,650 --> 00:26:48,629 The story that gets the most attention is the story of the mysterious bombings. 340 00:26:48,630 --> 00:26:53,029 In fact, the reason that we even know of his prediction is because he gave it at 341 00:26:53,030 --> 00:26:54,250 a live psychic show. 342 00:26:54,850 --> 00:27:01,389 He talks about police buildings, government buildings, banks being 343 00:27:01,390 --> 00:27:02,910 people who are at that show. 344 00:27:03,420 --> 00:27:07,379 start contacting Shorewood police saying there's going to be a series of 345 00:27:07,380 --> 00:27:08,520 bombings in Milwaukee. 346 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,860 And the police instantly dismissed that. 347 00:27:11,180 --> 00:27:17,700 And then, just a day later, the Shorewood Village Hall is dynamited. 348 00:27:18,020 --> 00:27:23,359 So now the police turn to Roberts, and Roberts informed police that there's 349 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:24,860 going to be one more explosion. 350 00:27:25,260 --> 00:27:29,580 And he said that it would happen south of the Menominee River. 351 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,640 And that's exactly what happened. 352 00:27:33,310 --> 00:27:38,889 The two bombers who had been responsible for this had been making the bombs in a 353 00:27:38,890 --> 00:27:45,189 little shed pretty close to the river, and they accidentally blew themselves up 354 00:27:45,190 --> 00:27:48,630 along with their entire supply of dynamite. 355 00:27:48,970 --> 00:27:54,629 And this explosion was so big that they could hear it for about eight miles 356 00:27:54,630 --> 00:27:57,190 away. And that was it. 357 00:27:57,870 --> 00:28:00,610 The seven nights of terror were over. 358 00:28:02,410 --> 00:28:07,069 To this day, the motive behind the dynamite bombings carried out by 20 359 00:28:07,070 --> 00:28:12,570 -old Hugh Rutkowski and 16 -year -old Paul Giovanni remains unknown. 360 00:28:13,570 --> 00:28:18,409 But how was Doc Roberts able to predict these bombings with such uncanny 361 00:28:18,410 --> 00:28:19,460 accuracy? 362 00:28:20,050 --> 00:28:25,869 Many believe it was because he possessed a rare psychic ability known as 363 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:29,670 precognition. And precognition? 364 00:28:29,671 --> 00:28:33,129 What we're talking about is someone getting information that they could not 365 00:28:33,130 --> 00:28:37,490 project from the current circumstances, things that they could never know. 366 00:28:37,910 --> 00:28:42,849 Now, this is very different from someone who is able to look at the current 367 00:28:42,850 --> 00:28:46,550 world and make predictions on what's going to happen next. 368 00:28:47,310 --> 00:28:51,810 We're talking about someone who is able to know an unpredictable event, 369 00:28:51,930 --> 00:28:54,170 something that no way they could know. 370 00:28:56,570 --> 00:29:02,679 With Robert, He was accurately able to do this. As a psychic, he was able to 371 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,760 perform precognitive feats quite regularly. 372 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:10,580 Roberts actually predicted his own death in 1940. 373 00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:16,880 He said to friends, I will be dying on January 2, 1940, and he did. 374 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:23,999 What I love about precognition and studying precognition in the human mind 375 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,140 that it allows us hope. 376 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:30,939 that if we can know about something in the future, we can prepare, which is 377 00:29:30,940 --> 00:29:33,640 incredibly important for our well -being. 378 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,780 Like, for instance, a particular crime happens. 379 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:43,780 And so if you can predict the what and the when, how can you manage that? 380 00:29:44,220 --> 00:29:48,999 I think it opens up a lot of questions about, does the crime actually have to 381 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,050 almost happen? 382 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,280 But then you stop it just before it does. 383 00:29:52,990 --> 00:29:58,329 If they're wrong and someone is thought to be a criminal and they're not, what 384 00:29:58,330 --> 00:29:59,349 happens then? 385 00:29:59,350 --> 00:30:01,820 There's all sorts of ethical problems with this. 386 00:30:02,410 --> 00:30:07,429 The widespread prediction on the eradication of crime does have some 387 00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:12,749 issues. And how would you even find such a large workforce as psychics to 388 00:30:12,750 --> 00:30:14,250 accomplish such a lofty goal? 389 00:30:15,790 --> 00:30:19,010 Well, some believe the answer may be found in Argentina. 390 00:30:20,050 --> 00:30:21,410 Because in 2024... 391 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,559 Argentina's security forces announced plans to predict and prevent future 392 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,740 crimes, not with psychics, but with artificial intelligence. 393 00:30:31,741 --> 00:30:36,459 Some people believe that you can use artificial intelligence to predict what 394 00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:40,819 crimes are going to occur. And if you are looking at patterns of what happened 395 00:30:40,820 --> 00:30:45,379 in the past, with artificial intelligence, you may be able to project 396 00:30:45,380 --> 00:30:46,760 going to occur in the future. 397 00:30:46,860 --> 00:30:48,500 The very premise... 398 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:55,699 is not just that it gathers and weighs information, but it devises new ways, 399 00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:58,260 methods of gleaning information. 400 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:05,639 If AI lives up to its potential as a public tool, it would be foolish of us 401 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:10,700 to conclude that it couldn't be used as an instrument of foresight. 402 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:14,160 There's no telling where that wheel stops turning. 403 00:31:42,199 --> 00:31:44,960 This peaceful, quaint community. 404 00:31:45,450 --> 00:31:48,710 is often referred to as the psychic capital of the world. 405 00:31:49,690 --> 00:31:55,450 In 1894, George Colby, a medium who could commune with the spirits of the 406 00:31:55,690 --> 00:32:00,110 established the Casadegas Spiritualist Camp here. 407 00:32:01,150 --> 00:32:07,789 And today, his legacy lives on with residents of the camp like spiritual 408 00:32:07,790 --> 00:32:10,510 and teacher, Reverend Louis Gates. 409 00:32:11,330 --> 00:32:13,610 The Casadegas Spiritualist Camp is 410 00:32:14,330 --> 00:32:18,930 The biggest spiritualist camp in the southeastern part of the United States. 411 00:32:18,950 --> 00:32:20,810 It's a place for mediums together. 412 00:32:21,970 --> 00:32:26,270 People live here to do their work and to teach and instruct. 413 00:32:26,510 --> 00:32:31,669 But also the camp is here to allow people to come and to get readings and 414 00:32:31,670 --> 00:32:35,149 connect with their loved ones and people who have passed over in the spirit 415 00:32:35,150 --> 00:32:36,200 world. 416 00:32:36,350 --> 00:32:39,869 Camps were actually formed back in the day when there was no place for 417 00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:41,010 spiritualists to meet. 418 00:32:42,030 --> 00:32:47,390 And spiritualism really majorly took off because when we have wars, Civil War, 419 00:32:47,710 --> 00:32:52,150 World War I, II, all the wars we've had, when people have lost loved ones, 420 00:32:52,230 --> 00:32:54,340 people want to hear from their loved ones. 421 00:32:54,830 --> 00:32:58,410 But it has always been a form of communication. 422 00:32:59,550 --> 00:33:03,850 Shamans, part of the tribe, had that communication with spirit. 423 00:33:04,170 --> 00:33:07,250 It's always had some kind of connection with death. 424 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:14,619 While holy men have communicated with the dead since antiquity, spiritualism 425 00:33:14,620 --> 00:33:19,080 a religious movement and belief system that began in the mid -1800s. 426 00:33:19,660 --> 00:33:25,160 Through seances and human conduits to the spirit realm, known as mediums, 427 00:33:25,180 --> 00:33:30,279 spiritualists believe we can communicate with the dead and receive messages and 428 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,480 guidance from beyond the veil. 429 00:33:33,719 --> 00:33:39,260 Spiritualism started in New York State in a town called Hydesville in 1848. 430 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,540 And it started off really in the house of the Fox family. 431 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:48,100 There were three sisters in the house, Kate, Margaret and Leah. 432 00:33:49,420 --> 00:33:54,540 And they started to hear noises, strange bangs in their house. 433 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,040 And they soon realized that they could communicate with these noises. 434 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,600 They would do one knock for yes. 435 00:34:03,340 --> 00:34:04,460 Two knocks for no. 436 00:34:05,220 --> 00:34:09,658 And they were able to determine that it was the spirit of a peddler who'd been 437 00:34:09,659 --> 00:34:11,219 murdered a few years earlier. 438 00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:15,560 And later on, they found human remains down in the cellar. 439 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,780 It became a big news story. 440 00:34:20,739 --> 00:34:25,339 The Fox sisters announced that they had worked out a code to communicate with 441 00:34:25,340 --> 00:34:27,900 intelligences from the other world. 442 00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:33,320 People descended on the cabin to investigate the girls, clergy, lawyers, 443 00:34:33,540 --> 00:34:39,860 newspaper reporters, scientists, and many came away proclaiming them 444 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,179 Americans were ready to believe, and they embraced the claims. 445 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,300 So the movement of spiritualism began. 446 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:54,459 It's been estimated that by the late 1800s, the American spiritualism 447 00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:56,480 had upwards of 6 million followers. 448 00:34:58,060 --> 00:35:02,559 But could there be another reason spiritualism became so popular, besides 449 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,790 longing to speak with the dearly departed? 450 00:35:06,020 --> 00:35:12,640 Well, some believe that it could be a path to unlock mysterious powers. 451 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:19,219 There are different kinds of mediums. Probably the most common forms that 452 00:35:19,220 --> 00:35:23,240 familiar with are called clairvoyant mediums. 453 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,540 They go into a trance. 454 00:35:26,380 --> 00:35:30,230 and then different spirits will start to communicate through their bodies. 455 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:35,439 And then physical mediumship is where the medium is causing objects to 456 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,490 or move. 457 00:35:36,740 --> 00:35:39,820 Their physical body might change in different ways. 458 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,860 You might see their faces transform. 459 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,120 They might become larger or smaller and things like that. 460 00:35:45,980 --> 00:35:51,000 Can some mediums really gain otherworldly physical powers from the 461 00:35:52,140 --> 00:35:56,900 Perhaps the answer lies with one legendary seance from the 1800s. 462 00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:05,360 Ashley House, London, England, December 1868. 463 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:12,859 Members of London's intellectual elite gather to participate in a seance led by 464 00:36:12,860 --> 00:36:17,060 famed Scottish medium Daniel Douglas Hume. 465 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:19,700 It is during this... 466 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,520 that he earns the nickname, the flying psychic. 467 00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:31,019 And he earns it by somehow levitating above the table, hovering above 468 00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:37,559 it, and then somehow physically flying out of the window of the seance room and 469 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,480 in through another window. No one knows how he did it. 470 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:49,099 There were no wires. There was no one in the room that was working with 471 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:55,489 him. It was just the people at the seance and Hume conducting 472 00:36:55,490 --> 00:37:00,569 this amazing feat that we are still talking about and still puzzling about 473 00:37:00,570 --> 00:37:01,620 today. 474 00:37:02,450 --> 00:37:07,730 After the fact, people have raised doubts about what took place on that 475 00:37:08,130 --> 00:37:13,189 But the fact that there were so many witnesses in the room, that they were 476 00:37:13,190 --> 00:37:18,949 supposedly respectable members of society, observing these events from 477 00:37:18,950 --> 00:37:24,970 angles, and they were adamant that what they'd seen was a real phenomenon. 478 00:37:26,330 --> 00:37:29,730 He had a gift that not everybody else has. 479 00:37:30,410 --> 00:37:35,969 But there are mediums that have gifts, that have a connection to gifts from the 480 00:37:35,970 --> 00:37:36,949 spirit world. 481 00:37:36,950 --> 00:37:43,310 I do believe that people can unlock a sixth sense by meditating, by breathing, 482 00:37:43,490 --> 00:37:47,370 by working at it, to open their mind to... 483 00:37:47,820 --> 00:37:51,520 Other realms, other places become in contact with spirit. 484 00:37:51,740 --> 00:37:56,679 If you keep working at the same thing, day after day after day, the energy will 485 00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:57,730 get stronger. 486 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,020 McLean, Virginia. 487 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:11,179 From 2011 to 2015, a government agency known as the Intelligence 488 00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:16,700 Advanced Research Projects Activity conducts a series of competitions. 489 00:38:17,470 --> 00:38:19,700 designed to answer a fascinating question. 490 00:38:20,390 --> 00:38:25,690 How effective are regular, everyday people at predicting the future? 491 00:38:26,230 --> 00:38:31,010 These contests are known as forecasting tournaments. 492 00:38:32,690 --> 00:38:37,549 Forecasting tournaments are competitions where people try to predict a future 493 00:38:37,550 --> 00:38:43,529 event, something that's of global importance, like will this country 494 00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:46,480 its troops from this other country by such and such a date? 495 00:38:47,340 --> 00:38:50,660 Will the yen go up by two points on Thursday? 496 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,440 Really detailed questions that are very hard to predict. 497 00:38:54,441 --> 00:38:56,459 And these are just ordinary people. 498 00:38:56,460 --> 00:39:00,160 They could be someone who works at home raising their kids. 499 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,939 These aren't special PhDs or anything. But when they're grouped together, they 500 00:39:04,940 --> 00:39:09,259 become this kind of super forecasting unit that together can predict future 501 00:39:09,260 --> 00:39:15,220 events much better than even intelligence officials with classified 502 00:39:16,810 --> 00:39:21,069 It was reported that when grouped together, future predictions made by 503 00:39:21,070 --> 00:39:27,789 people outperform intelligence analysts who had access to classified data by 504 00:39:27,790 --> 00:39:32,330 about 30%. And the question becomes, why? 505 00:39:33,190 --> 00:39:39,149 When we look at the work of super forecasters, there's the debate about 506 00:39:39,150 --> 00:39:42,400 what they're doing is just kind of listening to their intuition. 507 00:39:42,401 --> 00:39:46,579 versus maybe some sort of precognition, the ability to know things in the 508 00:39:46,580 --> 00:39:52,940 future. Our mind -body is picking up on something before it materializes. 509 00:39:54,340 --> 00:39:59,080 This is probably an evolutionary adaptation that we've developed. 510 00:39:59,860 --> 00:40:03,280 We all have intuitive abilities, but many times we don't listen. 511 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,180 We're not aware of it on a conscious level, but we have a feeling. 512 00:40:09,230 --> 00:40:13,020 In terms of the super forecasters, maybe they're really good at listening. 513 00:40:13,430 --> 00:40:18,949 Can the sixth sense really come down to highly attuned intuition, something that 514 00:40:18,950 --> 00:40:20,000 everyone has? 515 00:40:20,050 --> 00:40:24,370 And if so, is it possible not to entertain one very exciting possibility? 516 00:40:25,530 --> 00:40:31,530 Through practice, can anyone develop these mysterious powers of the mind? 517 00:40:33,250 --> 00:40:37,350 People are very curious about unlocking a sixth sense. People ask me. 518 00:40:37,351 --> 00:40:41,339 You know, you're a neuroscientist. What do I do to my brain to make it so that I 519 00:40:41,340 --> 00:40:42,720 can have these capacities? 520 00:40:42,721 --> 00:40:45,599 You actually think it's part of how the brain works? 521 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,820 So it's not really unlocking something that's locked away. 522 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,550 It's more like using what's already there, but taking it seriously. 523 00:40:53,420 --> 00:40:59,699 You're already getting in the information, not judging it, not 524 00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:03,480 assuming it's wrong, but testing it out. 525 00:41:04,140 --> 00:41:08,319 So, for example, if I meditate, am I more aware of my thoughts that seem to 526 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,179 out of the blue? 527 00:41:09,180 --> 00:41:11,590 That might help me with a problem I'm working on. 528 00:41:12,340 --> 00:41:14,940 It's more like attending to what's already there. 529 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,679 It's intriguing to consider that the ability to predict the future may be a 530 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,460 skill that can be taught to all of us. 531 00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:30,279 Whether it's seeing events before they happen, communicating with the spirit 532 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,820 world, or... 533 00:41:31,821 --> 00:41:33,799 reading someone else's thoughts. 534 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,940 The human mind seems to be capable of feats that defy our understanding. 535 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,520 Are these abilities a freak combination of luck and intuition? 536 00:41:44,180 --> 00:41:51,099 Or could they be evidence of an elusive sixth sense locked away within the human 537 00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:52,150 mind? 538 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:58,980 It's an intriguing mystery that, for the moment, remains unexplained. 539 00:41:59,030 --> 00:42:03,580 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 52048

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