Wow, that's fascinating.

I think there's a whole world of extremely subtle micro-communications
that we are not at all concious of. But unconciously, we take note of
it all, and some of it ends up bubbling up to our conciousness, and we
call it ESP. Not sure it's an *extra* sense, though - I just think our
brains are capable of taking in so much more than what we are conciously
aware of.

Other animals have more access to that stuff because they don't have
the kind of brain filters we have, which cause us to miss all those
little details. So they catch on to the little micro-communications
that most humans miss.

That's my theory, anyway. I believe that almost everything we refer
to as "magic" or "supernatural" actually has a physical, real-world
explanation, but we just haven't discovered what it is yet. Partly
because our scientific knowledge base doesn't have enough information
to explain it, and partly because we haven't developed the technology
to observe it. But I strongly believe we will! Remember, people once
believed that colds and other diseases were caused by "spirits" entering
our bodies. And I guess they are, in a way - they're little beings we
can't see. But scientifically we can observe them as microbes, and I
think one day we'll be able to observe ESP and other phenomena as they
happen, and we'll learn what causes it. I'm just sorry I won't be around
to see it!

Joyce