ESP = Extrasensory Perception

Telepathy

Telepathy is the communication between two or more partners without spoken words. It is the transmission of thoughts and can consist of words, images, feelings, etc. This is similar to a two-way radio. Communication can take place between living beings or between a living person and a spiritual entity.

My wife was born in Yugoslavia and spent the first years of her life during WW2 in the area, which now is the border between Croatia and Serbia, formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. My wife's family had received a huge territory as a grant by the Austrian Emperor for valuable services rendered to the Empire and had settled there.

During the later years of WW2 partisans challenged the German occupation. One especially dangerous aspect of this conflict were landmines. Because the situation was so dangerous my wife had a bodyguard of her own. One day strolling hand in hand with this soldier over fields considered being safe her bodyguard stepped on a landmine. The force of the explosion threw the little girl on a haystack. When she regained consciousness she still was holding this man's hand but this was all that was left of him.

The little girl was unharmed but her eardrums were pierced by the force of the explosion and it took many months until her hearing came back; it is impaired to this day. She couldn't hear and she wouldn't speak. During these silent months as in retrospect she calls them something dramatic happened. Her father had been a prisoner of war in WW1 and had been sent to Siberia. He escaped and walked on foot from Wladiwostok to India where he had contacts with suppliers for the family factories. It took three years for this epic journey. On his way he learned to speak Chinese and he learned about the culture and religions of the peoples he encountered. Her also learned about direct communication between minds, telepathy.

When the little girl had recovered from the shock she noticed that her father's thoughts materialized in her mind. With a little practice she learned to communicate with him without words. This proved to be invaluable later when the family had to leave the castle and fled to Austria. The family took refuge in a farmhouse in a remote location. There was no phone and the only contact with her father was by telepathy. Through these contacts my wife was able to tell her father where the family was and eventually he was able to join them.

Telepathic communication can also take place between a living person and the spirit of a person who lived before. - My father died shortly before I moved to Vienna to study. The change was dramatic and very hard for me. In my home village I had a special position as the son of the Maire and of one of the leading politician of our province. In Vienna I was a nobody and a poor one at that. My father had died shortly before the move and in postwar Austria there had been no occasion to make money. - The Nazis had taken everything as my father was considered an enemy of the party.

I soon developed severe depressions and became dangerously suicidal. Then, one night, my father appeared in my dreams. From then on he talked with me many times and this helped me a lot even though I did not understand what went on because I knew that my father had died. Over time as I got better the contacts became scarcer and ultimately stopped altogether, when I was all right.

Tele-empathy

When someone feels the physical pain or the mental and emotional situation of somebody else this is called tele-empathy. - When I visited a friend in Atlanta I had a bad heart attack. The test showed that my arteries were dangerously clogged and I had to undergo a quadruple bye-pass surgery. The second day after surgery my wife was allowed to talk to me on the phone. She was relieved that the surgery was successful but she had question. My wife and I are very close so she understood that she had these terrible pains in her chest. She wondered, though, why her legs below the knees were swollen and hurt badly. - As my arteries had been clogged very badly the surgeons had taken blood vessels from both my legs all the way from the knees to the ankles and transplanted them to my heart. My legs were swollen and hurt very badly.

Feeling someone else's emotions or mental state is the most common form of a psychic phenomenon. Twins frequently are so closely connected that they feel each other's emotions whenever something out of the ordinary happens. The same situation can exist between a mother and her child or between lovers. But this also happens on a daily basis when people sense someone else's mood or emotions when they meet, talk on the phone or just think of someone.

Clairvoyance

This French word means "clear seeing". Clairvoyance is the ability of a person to "clearly see" present or future events or situations at will. The best clairvoyant alive probably is my friend Rosalinde Haller, the foremost psychic in the German speaking world. The range of her work is truly amazing. She has her own TV and radio shows and makes predictions on those shows, which put her reputation at risk many a times. - She always is right! Here are a few examples:

Several years ago snowfall in Western Austria was unusually heavy. During her TV show a caller from that area asked whether there was increased danger of avalanches and, if so, where. Rosalinde paused for a moment, then she said: "The valley of Paznaun is in grave danger. It should be evacuated immediately". The valley was not evacuated and four days later a major avalanche killed 34 people.

On another show she was asked what the result of next days world champion soccer match would be for Austria. She predicted the minute the goals would be scored, the circumstances and the outcome. She was right on.

During one of my visits to Austria Rosalinde called and invited me to go with her to Lake Woerthersee in Carinthia over the weekend. She picked me up in a brand new Porsche she said the company had put at her disposition so she would get a feeling for the product. She was to conduct a seminar for this company's top management and to advise them which marketing strategies would be the right ones for this brand new product.

There is no speed limit on Austria's autobahn and Rosalinde proved she is a fast lady. Cruising at 120 mph she noticed my apprehension. - On the island where I live the speed limit is 30 mph. - She said she knew nothing bad would happen to me so she dared to really take the car to its limits. Again she was right. We had no accident but my nerves took while to recover.


Precognition

Precognition can happen to anyone. It does not require a special talent. Usually it pinpoints a dramatic event in someone's own life or in the life of a loved one. - Heidi was my wife's best friend. When she got married she moved to Germany where her husband had been offered a top management position. Heidi used to phone at least once a month to keep the contact alive. In one of those calls she was terrified. She had a vision of a crowd of people standing next to a streetcar. Next to the streetcar a woman was lying on the ground her left leg severed below the knee. Then she realized that she was that woman. - Several weeks later she called from a hospital. She had seen her own accident and she really had lost the lower part of her left leg.

Premonition

A premonition is a feeling about something to happen in a specific way without any details given. For instance, at an intersection one has the feeling that a car is coming even though one does not see it because something is obstructing the view - and there really is a car. There are long term premonitions, as well, and here is an example.

When my mother was 56 she came down with a severe pneumonia. She survived but from then on her health was not good. She knew we were worried about her but she always said: "don't worry. I'll live to be seventy." She never said why living to seventy years of age should be her life's goal. Several weeks before her seventieth birthday she contracted pneumonia again and had to be hospitalized. We usually visited on Sundays and so we came three days after her birthday. The nurses told us that on her birthday she had looked so bad that a priest had been called to give her the last rites. Nonetheless, she survived.

Mother did not look good. She took about 3 minutes to come to herself. As I was sitting on her bed she squeezed my hand and with a happy smile she said: "I made it"! Next morning the call came from the hospital. The nurse was upset not so much that my mother had died that night; that did not come unexpected. Before going to bed she usually took her false teeth out. The evening before she died she did not do that and her roommate inquired why. Mother said: "tonight I am gong to meet my husband and he is not supposed to see me without teeth." Her roommate knew that my father had died many years before and she got really scared because she thought my mother had gone mad. Very much to my mother's relief the woman was moved out of the room because, as she said: "tonight I want to be alone". - Mother's long term premonition of living to seventy was as accurate as was her short-term premonition about dying that night.