I mostly find it interesting that the term extra sensory performance is generally related to an ability beyond the normally accepted senses. E.g., sight, smell, taste, feel, hear, and the vestibular system. Many, when what they are experiencing doesn't seem to fit inside of what they have come to BELIEVE as normal, begin using terms such as Psychic, or extra sensory perception.

However, as best as I can gather, much of this extra sensory performance is not outside of our accepted senses, but rather a response to something not fitting inside of what we have come to accept as normal.

As far as I am concerned, we are all sense. That is, as far as perception goes, we need to be able to make the distinction between what is coming in through our extraordinary sensory apparatus, and that which we are responding as a method of using past information that we have installed internally. And, that which is coming through our senses and being filtered by what we have already installed internally.

Many times I have found myself modeling young, preverbal children. Especially when they are discovering the world through their own sensory apparatus. And, well before they have begun the process of making any conscious, or unconscious distinctions about what they are sensing.

I believe that what is called Psychic, or extra sensory perception, is simply an activity of utilizing our sensory apparatus in a way that goes beyond our internal system of classification.

Now, depending on how far into this you want to go, you can actually create amnesia for how you now understand the world, and begin again by simply exploring your ongoing experience without having to filter any of the experience through your own present world model. Sort of like how these young preverbal children are experiencing the word.

Further, it has been my experience that a larger majority of people have organized their world models to move toward understanding. I am suggesting a move in the opposite direction. One in which you do not care to understand anything at all. But to navigate through your surroundings with absolute curiosity, never really applying meaning to anything that comes through any of your senses.

Not to far from where I live, there is this wonderful Indian community. people whom have come to the US from India, and have spent the time building a community that resembles home for them. Every so often, I like joining there community. At first, I did not understand one word these people were uttering. I could go there, immerse myself in this other reality, and simply wonder what was being said as they shared their experiences one with another.

Another experience I have had that sort of mirrored this, was when I first got behind the wheel of a car that was designed for left hand driving, and drove down a road that was opposite of what I had come to experience as normal. Although I was able to adapt quickly, I did have that period of time in which I was able to enjoy having my neurology out of sync with what I had come to understand.

Sure, there are ways in which you can tune up your sensory apparatus so that you can slow the world down, thus speeding things up on the inside. But, I do believe that there would be more usefulness if you first develop the ability to alter the meaning of what is coming in through your senses. This way, rather than more of the same, you wind up first building in difference.

Consider this. A near as I can tell, most people not only enjoy the experience of rapport, but they also seek it out. But, more of the same will always mean more of the same. So, another idea would be to seek out difference. Because it is when we are experience difference, that we are providing ourselves with an opportunity to challenge our world model the most.

Now, what does all of this have to do with exploring extra sensory performance? Everything. In the model I am offering, extra isn't really all that extra, as it is only a response to something that we perceive as being different than what we have become familiar with, and have accepted as normal. And since history has proven that there is no such thing as normal. That through time we continue updating the maps we are using to understand our worlds. Then we can begin using our brains as a means of deliberately challenging what we have come to know.

Now, when I tell people that I can learn things as quickly as I can, the first thing most of these people do is to go inside, compare what I am saying to what they have come to believe as TRUE, thus either deleting, or distorting the meaning of my offering. Yet through all history, there has always been new information that first met it's match by coming up against a firmly held belief system, only later to become the norm. But, either side of that coin leaves something to be desired. Because on the one side, there is little reason being applied to what is being introduced. e.g, how many different ways can I test this before jumping to any conclusion, And on the other side of this same coin is the repetition of a pattern that finally accepts this new information as TRUE, only later having to have it challenged again when new information comes along.

As far as I am concerned, genius is not about knowing, but rather knowing that you do not know, and perhaps never will, and being totally comfortable with that reality. When you talk about enhancing things, especially your ability to improve on what you are calling perceptual possibilities, I would first suggest that you begin by building in a belief system that allows you to begin re-coding all of what you have experienced and have coded through your own life, and begin accepting it all as only tentative at best. This way, you can open yourself up to begin questioning everything you have in the past come to believe as true. This way, you can explore anything you want to without having to first disprove it only because it does not fit well inside your previous understandings of the word. When I go down to the retirement home to enjoy playing checkers with the old timers, one of the most common things I hear, is how much the world has changed. This is expected I guess. But what continues to surprise me, and I have thought about this long and hard, is how surprised so many of these old timers when they say it. Me, I not only expect the world to change more each day, but I have come to begin having more responsibility for my part in how the world changes.

It's like anything else. You get into your car, and more times than not, you know where you are going. It's not like you just wind up somewhere. But, I think it would be a good idea of you deliberately got off at the wrong exit, so to speak. That you took the time once an a while just to discover where you would wind up. Having a direction is a great thing. But, working hard at trying to control each step along the way isn't. When I think of some of the greatest thinkers of all time. The inventors. The scientists. The Musicians. The one common thread that continues to pop up is the notion of the accident. I was intending this, and this happened. But in all, if people were really good at maintaining their perceived world models, we would still be living in caves. So rather than just accept what you think is there, challenge it. This way, you can cycle between having rapport with yourself, and breaking that rapport. In the end, you will find that there is more. In fact, not only is there more. But there is so much more that we don't even have a clue to think about yet. And for those who know what is true and will fight! Why bother? Things are going to change anyway, and you can have a choice. You can simply fight, then accept what comes along. Or you can be part of the equation. Things will change. So rather than just be the recipient of those changes, become the engineer.

Well, I have to go for now. It time to go out and experience something new. Something different.

Carmine