An alternate, possible mechanism for how I/M works...

[Willworker]

I've been reading about the mountains of evidence that researchers such as Stephan A. Schwartz and Charles T. Tart have found regarding the paranormal, specifically ESP in regards to abilities of remote viewing, psychokinesis, and psychic healing.

One suggestion fascinated me: that ESP is part of natural mental functioning, and when an organism(or at least humans) wants something, it uses ESP along with other senses to achieve its goals. To the conscious mind, this automatic use of ESP would just seem like intuition and its accomplishments, coincidence.

Is it possible that with I/M, we are actually just utilizing a part of our mind we don't usually consciously exercise? If its part of our natural subconscious, our meditation and visualization is just giving our minds a more specific set of instructions to exercise, so our subconscious and all its "paranormal" abilities can then work harder to bring it about?