Suppressed Senses: Exploring the Science Behind Latent Psychic Abilities

The sixth sense may not be fantasy — just filtered.

For centuries, accounts of telepathy, clairvoyance, and other so-called "psi phenomena" have been dismissed as pseudoscience. But what if the reason we can't reliably access psychic abilities isn't because they don’t exist, but because our brains have been actively suppressing them?

A recent study conducted by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience suggests exactly that. By using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to temporarily alter activity in the left temporal lobe of participants, researchers observed an increase in accurate psi responses, hinting that what we call “psychic” may actually be a latent sense filtered out by the conscious mind.

In other words, the sixth sense might be real — we’ve just been trained not to hear it.

What the Study Found

The study, originally reported on NeuroscienceNews.com and echoed by How & Why’s, involved a carefully structured experiment using brainwave-altering magnetic pulses.

Participants underwent sessions of rTMS targeting the left temporal lobe, a region of the brain associated with logical reasoning and language processing. Then, they were tested using a computer-based psi task — essentially, intuitive guessing across a series of trials designed to measure non-random performance.

The result? Participants showed statistically significant improvements in their ability to “guess” accurately after the brain stimulation, but only when the left temporal lobe had been temporarily suppressed.

The implication is profound: psychic abilities may be naturally present, but filtered out by the dominant, analytical structures of the brain.

The Filtering Theory

The lead researcher behind the study, Dr. Dean Radin, has long posited that consciousness is not fully contained within the brain, but that the brain may act like a filter or tuner, allowing only certain bandwidths of perception to come through.

This idea is not new.

• Aldous Huxley described the brain as a “reducing valve,” narrowing down the full scope of consciousness so we could function in daily life.
• William James, the father of modern psychology, believed the brain might limit perception to prevent psychic overwhelm.
• Even Carl Jung spoke of the “collective unconscious” as a shared psychic field that most people are unaware of — but occasionally tap into.

What this new study suggests is that by reducing the influence of the filtering regions, we may allow deeper, more intuitive or non-local forms of knowing to emerge.

What Are Psi Phenomena?

“Psi” is a term used to describe extrasensory experiences or abilities outside the five traditional senses. This includes:

• Telepathy – direct mind-to-mind communication
• Clairvoyance – perceiving distant or hidden events
• Precognition – knowing something before it happens
• Psychometry – receiving information from physical objects
• Remote viewing – visualising places or events far away

These phenomena are often reported in altered states: dreams, meditation, near-death experiences, and spontaneous moments of “knowing.”

The recent rTMS study offers a clue as to why they seem inaccessible during ordinary waking consciousness: the left hemisphere — especially the left temporal lobe — may be over-dominant, suppressing intuitive, right-brain signals.

The Left Brain vs Right Brain Model (Revisited)

While the classic “left-brain vs right-brain” model is oversimplified, the functional differences between the hemispheres are still significant.

• The left brain handles language, logic, categorisation, and linear time.
• The right brain is more spatial, intuitive, emotional, and symbolic.
• Many intuitive or psychic processes seem to correlate with right-hemispheric activity — especially when the left is relaxed, quiet, or disrupted.

By disrupting the left temporal lobe, researchers may have temporarily reduced cognitive inhibition — allowing non-rational perceptions to surface.

This doesn’t “create” psychic ability. It uncovers what’s already there.

Psychic Potential as a Human Default?

The findings raise a provocative possibility: psi may be innate — a default layer of perception that we suppress as children to adapt to social norms.

Children often report:

• Talking with unseen beings
• Knowing things before they happen
• Feeling or seeing energy
• Sensing other people’s emotions without explanation

Most of us were told to ignore these things — that they were “imaginary” or “overactive imagination.”

But what if they weren’t?

What if psychic awareness is something we all had, and slowly filtered out?

Why It Matters Now

As interest in consciousness, intuition, and non-local perception grows, research like this signals a turning point. The intersection of neuroscience and metaphysics is no longer fringe — it’s becoming fertile ground for rethinking what it means to be human.

We’re not just bio-mechanical machines.
We’re not limited to what we can see or touch.
And maybe — just maybe — we were never meant to be.

Can You Access These Abilities Yourself?

You don’t need a lab or magnetic coil to explore your intuitive senses. While rTMS isn’t practical for daily life, the state it induces — reduced left-brain dominance — can be accessed through:

• Meditation and breathwork
• Sleep and lucid dreaming
• Hypnagogic and liminal states
• Creative flow or deep nature immersion
• Listening to Solfeggio frequencies that quiet the analytical mind (like 852 Hz or 963 Hz)

Try keeping a dream journal, practice remote viewing exercises, or simply follow intuitive “pings” and track the results. Psychic ability isn’t a switch — it’s a muscle, and it responds to trust.

How This Helps You in the Simulation

If reality is a simulation — or at least partially rendered by perception — then developing your psychic senses is like learning the developer shortcuts. Intuition, precognition, and energetic awareness give you access to layers of data beyond what’s rendered by default.

Instead of just reacting to the visible world, you begin to navigate by signal, not surface. This isn’t about breaking the rules of the simulation — it’s about remembering you’re a co-creator inside it, and aligning with the deeper architecture of reality itself.

The suppressed sense may not be some fringe anomaly — but a long-lost part of what it means to be conscious, connected, and fully alive.

The psychic isn’t supernatural.
It’s subconscious and recoverable.
All it takes is a willingness to listen beneath the noise of thought… and remember what you already know.

References:

• Brain Stimulation Unlocks Our Telepathy and Clairvoyance Powers, New Study Reveals, How & Why’s
• Brain Stimulation Boosts Psychic Powers, NeuroscienceNews.com, May 2024