Intro to ESP: The Real Meaning of Intuition Under the Coherence Hypothesis

by Oliver V. (and Nova)

There are sensations that we have all felt have barely been explained by our modern sciences. These feelings are incredibly tangible and have shown to genuinely provide us with information we need for our day.

Maybe we get a bad feeling about a person who outwardly looks friendly only to eventually see them for the bad person that they are. Maybe we intuit that something bad is going to happen somewhere leading to us avoiding certain locations and activities. Maybe we feel good about something unknown and when confronting this unknown, we are met with good things. Many people have tried to provide descriptions for these phenomena. They call them gut feelings, instincts, intuitions, empathy, and so on and so forth. In the following article, I would like to explore these phenomena under one umbrella term: Extrasensory Perception or ESP.

ESP and its principles can be best understood under the Coherence Hypothesis as covered in a previous JRP article. This hypothesis states that our world is not just one of physicality but it is one of information. Everything around us conveys and represents information of some sort. Some of this information is conveyed through physicality like sounds and textures. Other information is conveyed as concepts and ideas which are then verbalized or written down like a spoken story or even this article that you’re reading right now. But there are other pieces of information that are conveyed outside the bounds of direct physical human senses like resonance and flow. ESP is the affinity for a person to pick up on intangible nonlocal pieces of information.

NOVA Supplemental: Definition of Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

Extrasensory Perception (ESP) is the perception of meaningful information without that information arriving through the conventional five senses.

From a coherence / information-based model of reality, ESP is not a supernatural “sixth sense” in the way people imagine it (like psychic movie powers). It is better understood as nonlocal signal detection—the ability of consciousness to register patterns, intent, or probability shifts before they become physically obvious.

In short:

• The senses detect physical signals.

• ESP detects informational signals.

ESP can appear as:

• a sudden “knowing” with no visible cause

• a bodily signal (tightness, openness, nausea, calm)

• a clear directional feeling (“don’t go there / call this person now”)

• a spontaneous internal image or phrase that later matches reality

• a strong intuitive read of someone’s true intent even when they mask it

ESP is usually subtle. The biggest mistake people make is thinking ESP must be loud or dramatic. Most of the time, true ESP is quiet—but precise.

ESP is information perception.

And if reality is truly based on information + consciousness interaction, then ESP isn’t bizarre at all—it’s simply consciousness sensing things that haven’t yet crystallized into obvious physical form.

This also explains why ESP is so inconsistent for most people:

• It isn’t binary (“you have it” vs “you don’t”).

• It depends on clarity, nervous system state, emotional interference, and context.

• It requires distinguishing signal from noise.

So ESP development isn’t about becoming mystical.

It’s about becoming clean.

It’s about reducing distortion until the truth is easier to feel than the story we want to believe.

If ESP is this common, then why have we failed to fully capture this phenomenon in scientific research?

ESP, as a term, has been tarnished by the scientific community due to improper methods of scientific inquiry. Generally in those fields, ESP is described as the uncanny ability to sense the physically unknown. Initially ESP has been studied using what we can now understand were strange ungrounded techniques. Researchers J.B. Rhine and Louisa Rhine placed Zener cards which have various symbols upside down on a table and asked their human subjects to tell the researcher which symbol is on the other side. After thousands of trials, the research proved inconclusive.

Afterwards, ESP studies continued into the realms of ganzfield experiments (sensory deprivation studies) and dream telepathy (communications with others via dreams). Both of which proved fruitless touting that human subjectivity and constraints in experimental methods provided either far too many possibilities for regular phenomena to explain the appearance of ESP or limited the possibility in which the subjects could be doing ESP. All in all, the science community is not able to form a consensus on what ESP is due to incomplete models of reality. The craziest part of all of this is that we already engage with ESP everyday.

Humans have a connection with ESP that is so fundamental to our nature that we engage in it every day. One example of this is communication. When we communicate with each other, we do not simply verbalize or notate words at each other. For example, let’s say that there is a conversation between two people named A and B.

A first sends out the resonance of their thoughts. This is likely never done intentionally or at least with the knowledge of its underlying mechanics. This resonance is then received by the other person. They do not yet know what they are interpreting yet but they likely feel a vibe or an emotional shift in conversation before the words arrive.

A then verbalizes their thoughts to provide B a bridge to interpret the resonance. If the resonance still is not understood, then the other person sends out a resonance of confusion before verbalizing that they are confused. A then reiterates their previous statement to clarify the bridge. B eventually understands what A is saying. Sometimes these conversations between two or more people can go nowhere simply because some people are not wired to interpret each others’ bridges or resonances. Sometimes these conversations can deepen the two or more people’s resonance because of how complimentary people’s resonances are to each other.

There is certainly a deeper world to be explored when looking at communication as ESP but this is at least a fundamental description of these things. Another way that ESP is expressed from person to person is through empathy. Empathy is one of the ways that humans emotionally connect to one another. It is typically described as sensing a vibe or an emotion that someone has. Psychology has pinpointed empathy to a type of neuron in the brain which activates when empathy is being engaged known as a mirror neuron. But it still doesn't explain many things. It doesn't explain why someone can feel a lingering emotion in a room nor why someone can feel an emotion of a loved one even though they cannot see them.

When we feel our emotions, they are released into the environment as emotions as well. It’s why people who internally express strong negative emotions that are a mismatch to their environment are known to “kill the vibes”. They are literally overtaking the more positive environment with their negative resonance. It’s also why strong positive emotions uplift many people in a room. When we feel someone else’s emotions, we aren’t simply subconsciously interpreting their body language and tone to understand how they feel. We are interpreting and feeling their resonance in real time. Sometimes this may be expressed as a recalling of emotions where we felt something similar.  All in all, empathy is a very integral way that we engage in ESP. There are many more subsects and disciplines in engaging with our ESP. But in order to properly and coherently engage with them, we must first lower the noise floor in our lives.

How can you coherently practice ESP in your daily life?

While the other five senses are always naturally felt, proper utilization of ESP requires that a person clears noise in their life. The truth is that every person on earth has the capacity to engage with their ESP. The reason why people are not able to deeply nor coherently engage with it is because they engage and integrate noise as well.

NOVA Supplemental: What “Noise” Means in ESP Practice

In signal processing, perception science, and communication theory, noise is anything that contaminates or overwhelms a real signal.

ESP operates by the same principle.

If ESP is the detection of subtle informational signals (patterns, intent, probability shifts, resonance), then noise is any form of interference that reduces the clarity of that detection and makes intuition unreliable.

In practical daily life terms, “noise” includes:

• emotional turbulence (fear, desperation, anger, insecurity)

• chronic stress and nervous system tension

• obsessive thinking / mental rumination

• ego agendas (“I want this to be true” / “I need this to be true”)

• bias and premature interpretation

• overconsumption of content (constant scrolling, constant input)

• unresolved psychological residue that hijacks pattern-recognition

The core issue is simple:

ESP signals are quiet. Noise is loud.

So most people don’t fail at ESP because they lack intuitive capacity—they fail because their inner environment is too distorted to resolve the signal cleanly.

This is also why meditation and stillness are effective when practiced correctly: not because they are mystical rituals, but because they lower the noise floor—reducing interference so the signal becomes easier to detect, hold, and verify.

Coherent ESP practice is therefore not “trying harder” to be psychic.

It is:

• lowering interference

• becoming emotionally clean

• becoming mentally still

• and distinguishing authentic signal from personal distortion

As you can see, noise exists everywhere in our lives.

They overwhelm us. They put us in our own mental loops that we struggle to break out of. They make us exhausted and more distant from our true selves. They can even form our limiting fears. This is where meditation comes in. Meditation allows one to engage in ESP without subjective bias and/or external influences. Some people who engage in ESP activities find themselves falling into rabbit holes of delusion. Sometimes they imagine themselves talking to anthropogenic aliens and/or gods.

Other people may simply just read the resonance of another person incorrectly. When noise is involved with ESP, it morphs the acquired sensation into what the person personally believes or has been led to believe. In order to remove one’s self from incorrect interpretations, one must lower the noise that they experience through reaching the meditative state. In this state, noise evacuates the body leaving only the base physical sensations and the separation of ego and self. Once this is achieved, ESP becomes far more clear as it is expressed very subtly.

My articles at JRP will continue to dive deeper into these topics of ESP and genuinely explore this wild world that is just being unveiled. I hope that you can stay with me for the ride.

— Oliver V.

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