Human emphatic, telepathic, observing, and aware powers have NOT undergone research and development during the modern period.
Indeed, even definitions for the terms have remained sparse, absent, or confusing, while many of their early substantive meanings have been declared archaic and obsolete.
Attention is still not identified as a significant human power and thus the direct connection of attention to empowerment has never been discussed.
The term attention is drawn from the term attend which is taken from the Latin word ad + tendere, which is defined as “to stretch to” something. Hence the earliest English definition, circa 1300, is given as “to direct the eyes, ears, mind, energies to anything.”
But there is a familiar phenomenon many experience, a phenomenon known from ancient times, having to do with focusing attention on the back of another head, and having that head turn around to look-see who or what.
Indeed, the ancient Greeks thought that the eyes had the power of focusing a kind of energy power and stretching it out until it touched someone in some energetic way sufficient enough to call forth some kind of response.
Between 1925 and the fall of the Soviet Union, this phenomenon was tested within the context of Soviet bio-information transfer research not only between individuals in the sight of each other, but across larger distances. The attention-stretching-out phenomenon was found to exist in both the near and far aspects.
The stretching-out type of attention is an output of some kind, and if the energies involved are focused and have strength, the stretching-out equates, fair and square, to a power projection. Like human powers of awareness, the human powers of attention are two-fold, i.e., passive and active, intake and output.
The psychiatric dictionary (compiled by Robert J. Campbell, 5th Ed., 1981) defines attention as “Conscious and wilful focusing of mental energy on one object or one component of a complex experience and at the same time excluding other emotional or thought content.”
