One Day University

A scientific definition of Extrasensory Perception (ESP) is a “response to external stimuli without sensory contact.” That includes telepathy (knowing what another person is thinking), clairvoyance (knowing, say, the identity of a concealed playing card), and precognition (gleaning information from the future). As a popular psychology professor at Cornell, Daryl Bem has been exploring these phenomena with his students for over 30 years. Bem is not alone in wondering about ESP. Sixty-seven percent of college-educated Americans believe in it, and only 4 percent of college professors rule it out as impossible. And yet 34 percent of Psychology professors deem it an impossibility. This course looks at the phenomenon of ESP, its history, and the latest research on the topic of seeing into the future.