Eastern psychology views Pratibha, jnana or extrasensory perception as intuition of future- events. It is worth mentioning here that the incidents recorded and described in the eastern texts on ESP and related phenomena are far more complex than what is studied and experimented on by the parapsychologists of today. The capacity to experience these phenomena is the result of one’s actions and effort commonly known as Karma and Sadhana. To the eastern mind such phenomena are neither paranormal nor super-normal but only something extraordinary. Such records give a detailed account and also prescribe ways and means of acquiring such capacity from experience. Phenomena like ESP and precognition are not very strange to the Orientals because such phenomena have been very well recorded in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain texts. In contrast with the Western attitude to such phenomena, the layman of the eastern world has, probably, never been mystified by such experiences. Such phenomena were explained on the basis of the process of vision (drishti) which implies a more active and complex process of perception compared to the sensory perception investigated by Western psychologists. Records show instances where rishis (Yogis) with their extra sensory powers could communicate with people belonging to different continents, with the inhabitants of different planets, create or destroy human beings and other objects by means of meditation, change the course of rivers, stop the winds, reduce the heights of mountains in a moment and so on. He dictated about past and future incarnations thousands of years after and before they really took place. For instance, sage Veda Vyasa dictated to Vinayaka, the Maha Bharat, one of the largest epics of the world. Incidents of precognition recorded in the Eastern scriptures exhibit a superior and powerful perceptual capacities. Eastern View on Extrasensory Perception : Similarly, investigations have shown that some individuals could predict far in advance major disasters like plane crashes, earthquakes, fire accidents etc., without mediation of any kind, not even of the planets. Some individuals reported becoming fully aware of the death of a family member or close associate a few days or months in advance in spite of being thousands of miles away from that particular person. Various instances have been recorded evidencing such a phenomenon. Precognition is a process of becoming aware or knowing an event or occurrence in advance without the mediation of any conscious process, sensory or otherwise. The most outstanding personality in this area of research was J.B. Over the past thirty year research in this area has made great strides and today, a large number of psychologists are actively involved in investigating such phenomena.
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