Extra sensory perception, or ESP, is the ability of "sensing things outside of the usual senses".  These sensing gifts are sometimes called spiritual gifts. These spiritual gifts are also associated with the energies of each chakra point in the energy body.

There is nothing in the words of ESP about future sensing or past sensing, but the fact that this is not a normal and usual sensing ability makes it a form of ESP.  Significant dreams are another form of ESP because they, too, are sensing through outside the normal senses.   And communication with another source of information not using the ordinary senses is also a form of ESP.

ESP can also be a form of telepathy.  This can be very disconcerting to realize that you are receiving others thoughts.  In fact, it can be downright confusing trying at first to know which are yours and which are theirs.  But as the mind settles down and accepts the experience you will recognize that your thoughts are controlled and you can start and stop and change the subject, but telepathy thoughts seem to appear without warning or notice.  You can not change their content at will but you can stop their reception by desiring their stoppage.  In other words, you no longer seek the other person’s thoughts.  It does take considerable effort to gain telepathy but is considerably easier to restrict it.