You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

PROOF OF ESP?
 
�            Extrasen­so­ry per­cep­tion (ESP) refers to sens­es or “pow­ers” that are
not proven, qual­i­fied, or quan­ti­fied by accept­ed sci­ence. These can
include — telepa­thy,  psy­chom­e­try,  clair­voy­ance,
and pre­cog­ni­tion or retrocog­ni­tion.
 
�       The ear­li­est record­ed sci­en­tif­ic inquiries into ESP were con­duct­ed by
Joseph Banks Rhine (1895–1980) and his wife Louisa at Duke
Uni­ver­si­ty in 1930. Although noth­ing was proven, the Rhines helped
estab­lish the sci­en­tif­ic mer­its of study­ing ESP.
 
�            “Pre­cog­ni­tion” is the abil­i­ty to “see” future events, while
“retrocog­ni­tion” is the abil­i­ty to see the past. Often, retrocog­ni­tion is
tied with claims to know about “past lives.”
 
�       ESP is gen­er­al­ly includ­ed in the wider sub­ject of “para­psy­chol­o­gy.”
Para­psy­chol­o­gy stud­ies also include ghost sight­ings and oth­er
ele­ments of the super­nat­ur­al.
 
�            Cana­di­an psy­chol­o­gist, James Alcock, is one of the world’s top
crit­ics of ESP and para­psy­chol­o­gy. He lec­tures, writes, and con­ducts
his own exper­i­ments that debunk ESP claims.
 
�            “Psy­chom­e­try” is the appar­ent abil­i­ty to “chan­nel” knowl­edge of
peo­ple or events by han­dling an object asso­ci­at­ed with it or them.
Joseph Rodes Buchanan first coined the term in the 1840s.
 
�       ESP is often gen­er­al­ly referred to as the “sixth sense.” Researchers of
ESP often argue that the sixth sense is inher­ent in all or most of us,
but some are bet­ter able to tap into it.
 
�            Amer­i­can psy­chic Nan­cy Myer claims to have con­sult­ed on 300
police inves­ti­ga­tions in the 1980s and to have giv­en use­ful
infor­ma­tion in 80% of those. Clear­ly, the police believed her because
they kept call­ing her.
 
�            After World War II, Leonid Vasiliev con­duct­ed offi­cial research on
ESP for Joseph Stal­in and the Sovi­et gov­ern­ment. Vasiliev claimed
that he was suc­cess­ful, although the pro­gram was dis­con­tin­ued.
 
�            Although Joseph Rhine and his Para­psy­chol­o­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry were
offi­cial­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Duke Uni­ver­si­ty, its suc­ces­sor orga­ni­za­tion,
the Rhine Research Cen­ter, is an inde­pen­dent, non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion.
 
�            When New Jer­seyan Eliz­a­beth Cor­nish was found raped and beat­en
to death in her apart­ment, the police had few leads until they turned to
psy­chic Nan­cy Weber. Weber told them to look at the upstairs
neigh­bor, John Reece, who lat­er con­fessed.
 
�       You’ve prob­a­bly seen those cards that have a cir­cle, a plus sign, three
wavy lines, a square, and a star, right? They’re called “Zen­er cards”
after cre­ator Karl Zen­er, who invent­ed them to deter­mine psy­chic
abil­i­ties.
 
�       From 1966 until she died in 2012, Irene Hugh­es reg­u­lar­ly loaned her
psy­chic exper­tise to the Chica­go Police. Hugh­es pri­mar­i­ly worked to
locate miss­ing per­sons.
 
�            Near­ly half of adults in the US believe in the exis­tence of ESP to
some extent, with many claim­ing to have expe­ri­enced it.
 
�            Zen­er cards work by shuf­fling a deck of 25 that has five cards of
each sym­bol. The exper­i­ment picks a card, looks at it, and the sub­ject
guess­es the sym­bol.
 
�       “Psi” was coined by Joseph Rhine in the 1930s as a sub­sti­tute for the
less sci­en­tif­ic sound­ing “psy­chic.” Psi, there­fore, relates to any and all
aspects of ESP.
 
�       Charles Hon­or­ton devel­oped the “ganzfeld exper­i­ment” in the 1970s,
which is a test where a “sender” tele­path­i­cal­ly emits images to a
“receiv­er” for them to guess. Its pop­u­lar­i­ty has declined in recent
years.
 
�            “Dream telepa­thy,” or the abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate with anoth­er
per­son while dream­ing, has had some main­stream accep­tance.
Sig­mund Freud wrote about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of it in the 1920s.
 
�            In a 1932 Zen­er card exper­i­ment con­duct­ed by Joseph Rhine,
divin­i­ty stu­dent Hubert Pearce scored a 40%, which was far above the
20% that was con­sid­ered “chance.”
 
�            The CIA became involved in ESP exper­i­ments in 1978 by work­ing
with the Defense Intel­li­gence Agency (DIA) on the Star­gate Project.
The project was shut down in 1995.
 
�            In 1938, Amer­i­can spir­i­tu­al­ist, Edgar Cayce, claimed that Atlantis
would be found in “near Bimi­ni” in “‘68 or ’69.” A large struc­ture
was found in the waters off Bimi­ni in 1968!
 
�       Accord­ing to a YouGov poll, 34% of the respon­dents believe they’ve
had a psy­chic expe­ri­ence. The dif­fer­ence is split on gen­der with 40%
of women feel­ing the psi but only 29% of men.
 
�            Joseph Rhine out­lined his and oth­er ESP exper­i­ments in his 1934
book, Extrasen­so­ry Per­cep­tion After Six­ty Years. Rhine argued that he
had sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly proven the exis­tence of ESP.
 
�            In a 1984 CIA remote view­ing exper­i­ment, an offi­cer wrote “The
Plan­et Mars: 1 mil­lion BC” on a card. The sub­ject then eeri­ly
described an advanced soci­ety that was dying from an apoc­a­lypse.
 
�            Psy­chic Rose­marie Kerr lived in Los Ange­les in 1987 but only
need­ed to see a pic­ture of Andre Daigle to know where the miss­ing