The Workermonkey

Saturday, February 21, 2004

The future of psychology 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 2/21/2004 12:33:00 PM

Okay Chump, last blog was hilarious, but I could see where lifeblood of the 'children' was starting to permeate your head what with the increasing frequency of typos. hehe.

So of course, what with the exponential growth rate of technological advances in our time, we can expect to see many startling new discoveries across the entire spectrum of human knowledge. We haven't discovered nearly all of "science" as of yet. Tangible stuff....very peachy. But what I'm most looking forward to seeing progress in during my lifetime would have to be transpersonal psychology.

This field of psych is has not been tremendously explored yet, and for good reason - it would be hard to test the realm of transpersonal psychology with empirical methods, and governments and businesses wouldn't derive too much tangible benefit from funding it. Let me explain:

This is the type of field where we would see the 'sixth sense' come into focus. Intuition is powerful, and there's got to be more behind it that can't just be explained away as like a 'vestigial animal sense' or something.

example #1: People who know each other thinking of the same things at the same times. For instance, "Hello? Oh, I was just going to call you! What a coincidence!" In my experience, an emotional attachment can strongly increase the probability of this happening. Almost as if you might just KNOW that someone is thinking of you just through using the faculty of intuition.

Example #2: Ever experience how people can feel when someone is looking at them? More accurately, feel when somebody's attention is on them? When driving around campus, you might try looking at someone who's back is turned to you, and yet they'll turn around in the direction that attention is paid. A girl walking alone will flit her hair, sensing that eyes are on her. A dude fresh out of the gym will stare menacingly if sensing he's being watched (hehe). This is a very straightforward example of a type of sixth sense in action. Since Kolpak is more of a person-watcher than I am, I ran this by him the other day. We came up with a set of clinical experiments to try and gauge a person's ability to notice when attention is being paid unto them. Obviously, of course, it's kinda tough thinking of all the controls to set for such an experiment, making me appreciate scienticians that much more. Perhaps he or I will post it.

These are just the tip of the iceburg here. The psychologist Jung had a lot to say about this stuff, and these examples are just low-level types of transperson-psi. I dunno how the hell it works, whether we all have a collective unconcious or we're all linked through a bio-electric flux. Whatever. I'm just hoping people do some more research on the Third Eye. I want to see some Triclopses in my lifetime.

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