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While not 100% convinced of the legitimacy of mind-reading, I do believe that some people possess powers of extrasensory perception (ESP), so I have to leave room for the possibility of mind-reading. Much research has been done on the subject of ESP and the debate may rage on for years, but there is some compelling evidence to suggest that it a real phenomenon.

Many of us think of those late night infomercials where someone in a turban promises to tell us all about our romantic and economic future, or a fortune-teller gazing into a crystal ball offering a glimpse into the future if we only cross her palms with silver. These, in my opinion, are the fakes that give anyone with true psychic abilities a bad name.

Numerous police departments across the country have employed the use of psychics to help locate missing persons and in other criminal cases. There has been a surprising amount of accuracy and good turnout, which is why this practice is still being used. If someone as jaded and cynical as a law enforcement official can admit the possibility that there are those with powers of perception beyond our realm of understanding, then there must be something to it.

The United States military has even spent money and time doing scientific research and study into the use of what they called "remote viewers" to be used basically as psychic spies by transcending their physical bodies and somehow looking behind enemy lines without ever being there. According to an article on remote viewing on Wikipedia, "Remote viewing was popularized in the 1990s, following the declassification of documents related to the Stargate Project, a 20 million dollar research program sponsored by the U.S. Federal Government to determine any potential military application of psychic phenomena."

That same Wikipedia article goes on to say that other agencies involved in research into remote viewing include the CIA and the US Air Force. Even the USSR and China have explored this phenomenon and how it might be used in intelligence gathering and other covert operations. It stands to reason that there must have been some pretty strong data somewhere suggest the legitimacy of this phenomenon for the US government to have spent 20 million dollars on it.

If we can believe that a person potentially has the ability to perceive things that are going on miles away from their physical body, it only stands to reason that someone being able to pick up on and "read" the thoughts of others is a clear and distinct possibility.

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