Okay, this is going to sound kinda schizo, but some of you guys are pretty smart, so maybe you could provide me with some relevant literature or resources to study this/these topic(s), but first, you have to understand the background of why I'm asking for resources on these topics. I'm looking for resources on understanding the phenomenon of genuine extrasensory abilities, like reading thoughts or feelings. Essentially mind-reading, like that Shining ability in Stephen King's The Shining, I guess would be a good example. Awhile ago, I used to have a friend, let's call him Jim. Jim has done a lot of mushrooms and acid in his life, and even DMT. The reason I say that is because I don't know if that is relevant or not to what I'm about to discuss, maybe you guys might think it's relevant, I don't know, I don't do drugs so I don't know, and to me, there seems to be a lot of mysticism surrounding psychedelic drugs, people seem to have spiritual or metaphysical related experiences with those things. I had been in my room alone, researching the topic of "eye floaters". A fairly specific thing to be researching, in my opinion. How often do you hear someone talking about eye floaters? Anyways, I practice information security, I use a VPN, always keep my door locked, never let anyone use my devices, etc. Later that day, I go to Jim's apartment. Jim immediately starts talking to me about the topic of eye floaters and how LSD can cure them. I had never talked about eye floaters with anyone before, ever. I was utterly dumbfounded in that moment. What was I supposed to say, "How the hell did you know i was researching that topic earlier? Why did you bring that up just now?" Regrettably, I just didn't say anything. Another time, I'm alone at home and I'm talking about the Dilbert comics with my brother. Again, another fairly specific topic. No one I know of really ever talks about those comics, let alone even reads a newspaper or even knows they exist. I've literally never talked to anyone about Dilbert comics before in my entire life. My brother doesn't know who my friend is, doesn't in any way contact him, and the same goes for the rest of my family, know one in my family has ever met Jim before or talked to him. Later that day, I go to Jim's apartment. Guess what he starts talking to me about? The fucking Dilbert comics. Again, I was dumbfounded and I get even a bit defensive and quickly change the subject, writing it off as another very strange coincidence. Reflecting back on these events, it's led me to believe that they're too strange to be merely coincidences. I think Jim has an extrasensory ability, like the shining. Either that, or my reality is a construct of my unconscious psyche and it's playing tricks on me. Or, God is using Jim as a vessel to make His presence known to me. Those are the 3 options that I believe might be the case, and I'm really not sure what to believe. What do you guys think?
>>24738419AI can help you formulate lists and is significantly more reliable than any human (or mostly human) forum these days. We're trying to mislead you, the AI is not.Also, unironically mentalism texts. Lots of writing has been done on "cold reading" and psychological quirks that can help bridge the gap between what can be explained and what cannot. You'd be surprised how many magicians throughout history were never capable of fully understanding how their own tricks worked.Outside of that, I'm not sure, maybe the /x/ board will have some good stuff underneath the mountain of post-ironic schizophrenia.
>>24738429>We're trying to mislead youwhy do you say that? also, thanks for the advice, i'll see what AI says about it and look up mentalism too
First of all, you seem highly suggestible and maybe a little dim and I think you may be becoming schizoaffective.Secondly, you should definitely check out the declassified docs from the stargate project in the 70s. They were literally actually working on developing techniques for remote viewing and astral projection to spy on the russians. Shit was crazy.
bump for interesting effort thread of genuinety
But you are also a bit gullible. Dont mean to use this as an insult, ive learned that a lot of people surprisingly even if atheist, have an odd predisposition towards, spiritual, supernatural, and superstitious believes.What I always wonder with these "how did they know that..." questions, is why they never ask the person why or what reason they brought up a particular concept they presumably had no reason to.It is not that odd to come across a sudden interest in eye floaters or whatever those comics you mentioned are. Especially in the social media age. Because of how much random useless information pops up in most peoples feed, youre bound to encounter something not everybody is necessarily interested in, for some oddly specific reason, like one particular video on the topic went viral or whatever.
