Sixth Sense

You hear martial art masters claim they can sense people behind them, when the people are going to attack, from what direction they are going to attack, and in what manner they are going to attack. Rubbish? These masters cannot tell you what you thinking when you are standing in front of them starring them in the face, but they want us to believe they can sense and read the mind of a person behind them. Rubbish?

People with disabilities or deformities say they can sense when people around them are staring at them and are feeling disgust at them. When I call my mother, she says she sensed that I was going to call. How do we know they are correct in their assumptions—we know it because they say they are correct. Everyone claims to sense things, and yet, when it matters, such as when a drunk driver runs a stop sign in front of them or when a tree falls on their house, they never have even slightest indication that it was about to occur.

People claim to have predicted events after they happen, but they have a problem predicting things before they happen. After things happen, psychics and the like find things they previously said that they say shows they had predicted the events. However, the predictions were vague statements with no definite details. In addition, psychics predict hundreds of things every year, most which everyone knows have a good chance of occurring, and, when one of the predations occurs, they claim success—neglecting the hundreds of predictions they got wrong. No one predicted the World Trade Center Attacks or the Iraq War. I remember in 1997, when Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, two of the best known women in the world, both died within a month of each other—no one predicted either death.

Think about your own experiences. For every time you have sensed something and been correct, you will have sensed something else and been incorrect. That means you were correct 50 percent of the time; the number expected in random chance. Even if your success rate exceeds 50 percent for a short time, it is still random chance. No one has been proven to be able to predict or sense anything consistently or significantly.

While being aware of your surroundings and the circumstances will help you avoid being in a position to be attacked, no amount of training will enable anyone to sense an attack. People believe what they want to believe, regardless of facts to the contrary.