CIA employ many smart people. Some analyses the Agency conducted decades ago accurately predicted today's situations around the world. However, CIA has a long history and expertise on deceiving people, including U.S citizens.

How can you be sure that declassified documents haven not been made up before their release to the public? I wouldn't bet one dollar on it!

Thanks to science, we have know many proofs on how our brains function. Still, we have a long path to fully understand our capabilities. Nevertheless, I think there is no need to imagine--or invent stories as for the CIA--to explain how some of us have "extraordinary" capabilities.

Everybody in the western world have heard about mentalists. The eponymous TV serie let its main character explain that he has no special powers. His only gift is to be able to read body language and influence his opponent. Hypnosis, once associated with magical powers, works in the same way. And top negotiators usually use a few tricks of the same ilk.

For example, did you know that your Central Nervous System (CNS) automatically and unconsciously analyse pupil dilatation to evaluate your interlocutor's level of excitation, then assessing the possibility of danger? We all have incredible functions wired deep inside us. We simply don't imagine it. Instead we look for waves, energy, additional dimensions hidden to our perception.

There is no magic, we all have the possibility to be mentalists without magic wands.