As more discoveries are made in the fields of human consciousness and related areas of science, people around the world with diverse perspectives and points of view seem to be learning more about these emerging developments.

How does increased understanding of the human mind and the world around us affect nations, cultures, communities, organizations, groups, families and individuals?

What are the impacts on international relations, military matters, economics, the natural environment, social dynamics, human development and other areas of interest?

The answers to these questions appear to often be elusive. Many people seem to have ideas about how changes in human psychology could help create significant advances for the human race.

But do we have any hard evidence that evolving human consciousness will have the necessary influence to change "business as usual" on planet Earth?

ANOMALOUS COGNITION

It is at once new and very ancient. What is now often called "anomalous cognition" is a concept that includes many kinds of interesting human perception and understanding.

The term refers to people, and perhaps animals, perceiving information, ideas or concepts through means other than their five senses or, in the case of humans, the intellectual processes of the brain.

Rather than obtaining information strictly from the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell or through brain computations, anomalous cognition involves obtaining understanding from deep within, and from sources both inside and outside of ourselves.

Intuition, hunches, gut instincts, dreams, visions, extrasensory perception (ESP), "remote viewing" and other kinds of internal "intelligence" all fall within the general concept of anomalous cognition.

Hallucinations, delusions and similar kinds of psychological phenomena are differentiated from anomalous cognition by the basic quality of accuracy. Hallucinations and delusions, by definition, are basically not accurate, not true.