Six Core Human Abilities Identified by Scientists

The natural world is full of incredible mysteries, and the human body remains an unexplored scientific frontier, with many intriguing enigmas still waiting for scientists to uncover. Among these mysteries are extraordinary human abilities and phenomena.

Research into these extraordinary abilities began relatively early in some countries. The Society for Psychical Research, established in London in 1882, is one of the earliest academic organizations focused on studying these abilities. Currently acknowledged extraordinary human abilities include psychokinesis, non-visual image recognition, remote viewing, clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy (the latter five are collectively known as Extra-Sensory Perception).

Psychokinesis

Since the discovery and experimental verification of psychokinetic abilities in the late 19th century by Italian woman Eusapia Palladino, numerous experiments have been conducted, providing credible data. Researchers like Wang Xiubi have studied how psychokinesis can overcome spatial barriers, demonstrating that individuals with extraordinary abilities can move a target sealed inside a glass bottle to outside the bottle. High-speed cameras recording at 400 frames per second have painstakingly documented the entire process of the target overcoming spatial barriers. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, physicist Helmut Schmidt used the decay of radioactive elements as a random source to control a lamp's on-off state in a circular circuit. People with psychokinetic abilities were able to influence the lamp's flickering in a specific direction, rather than it randomly turning on and off.

Non-visual Image Recognition

This ability allows individuals to recognize colors, images, and text through body parts other than the eyes, such as the ears or fingers. Experiments conducted by Ye Xinquan have quantitatively demonstrated the existence of this ability.

Telepathy

Telepathy enables the one-way or two-way transfer of thoughts between two individuals without using sensory organs. Experiments by Japanese scholar Dr. Motoyama have shown that willpower can successfully transmit information to a subject through a space that electromagnetic waves cannot penetrate. Experiments conducted by Quineas indicate that telepathy is more pronounced between individuals with similar mindsets.

Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance allows individuals to perceive the inner state of objects despite obstacles and without using ordinary sensory organs like the eyes. In 1920, American scholar J.B. Rhine conducted experiments at Duke University's Parapsychology Laboratory using 25 Zener cards, which have different shapes. Cards were drawn randomly without seeing their contents, and subjects were asked to use clairvoyance to identify the patterns. Over 85,000 observations revealed that the subjects' success rate was significantly higher than chance, demonstrating the existence of clairvoyance.

Remote Viewing

Remote viewing allows individuals to directly acquire images of distant targets without using their eyes or telepathy. Typical cases reported by researchers like Gurney, Myers, and Podell offer substantial evidence, especially from quantitative experimental research. By utilizing random number tables to randomize the objects viewed (eliminating influence from researchers' thoughts), results showed that subjects' success rates were far greater than random chance would suggest.

Precognition

Precognition is the ability to foresee future events or their occurrence. A notable experiment by Carrington involved a drawing test. Each session lasted 10 days, during which Carrington would randomly open a dictionary to a page, select the first drawable word, and make a drawing. Subjects, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles away, had no prior knowledge of Carrington's drawings. They were asked to guess what Carrington had drawn within 24 hours. Results showed that subjects sometimes drew what Carrington had previously drawn or what he would draw next, suggesting an ability to perceive both past and future events. In 1967, the British Precognition Center received 500 prediction cases in its first year. French physician E. Osty's "Chair Experiment" had subjects correctly identifying the location of a randomly chosen person several hours ahead of time, with success rates notably above normal probability.

In fact, extraordinary human abilities and phenomena extend far beyond these examples. The phenomenon of incorruptible bodies is noteworthy, such as the preserved body of Tang Dynasty monk Jin Qiao Jue (629-728 AD) at Baogong Temple in Jiuhua Mountain, Anhui, China. Reports from domestic media describe the "century-old monk's still uncorrupted body on a meditation cushion," referring to monk Fazhongda, whose body remained intact with elastic soft tissue for 170 years after death. Other cases include an elderly person in Yixin County, Hunan, and an old woman in Xianghe County, Hebei, both of whom exhibited no signs of decomposition after death without preservation treatment. Within temples, high-level monks sometimes discover "relics" post-cremation. Famen Temple in Shaanxi, China, houses what are believed to be Shakyamuni's finger bones. Some claim relics are simply calcifications, but since calcifications contain calcium that reacts with acids, and relics do not, the two are evidently different.