telepathy

This psychic phenomenon involves communication between minds, and includes transference of thoughts, ideas, feelings, and mental images, among others. It can simply be called the direct communication between minds. Always thought of as a special ability that only psychics and mystics possessed, many tribal societies, including the aborigines of Australia, considered telepathy as a normal human faculty. Today, scientific studies are still being conducted on this psychic phenomenon.

However, studies on telepathy is not new. Telepathy happens to be the first paranormal and psychic phenomenon to be scientifically studied when the American Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1885.

Explaining Telepathy

Everyone has heard about telepathy. Some people may even have experienced it. All humans have the ability to communicate by thought process, and it is not as rare as it was thought to be. Just as some are born with various natural talents – the ability to swim, or to play a sport – similarly some are born with a natural ability to communicate telepathically. As a matter of fact, all humans have this inherent talent, but we do not get the chance to develop it.

There are two patterns to communicating telepathically. Either the sender and the receiver of thoughts do not see each other, or are in a position to see each other. In the first case, distance does not matter. Whether the sender and the receiver are across the town, or half way across the globe, a feeling, an impression, or just an image is transferred. In the second case, both can see each other, and communicate logical thoughts clearly.

Communicating through telepathy has three major forms:

• Transmission Of Feelings – This is the most common form of telepathic communication, even among animals.
• Transmission Of Emotions And Images – This form of telepathic communication is the most common among humans.
• Transmission Of Words – This is not an easy way of communication, and requires training.

Telepathic Theories

Many theories have been advanced about how telepathy works, and all do not explain adequately. Democritus, a philosopher of ancient Greece had theories about wave and corpuscle. The 19th century British chemist and physicist – William Crookes – thought telepathy depended on radio-like brain waves. The 20th century Soviet scientist – L. L. Vasilies put forth the electromagnetic theory. Lawrence LeShan – the American psychologist – thought each human had his/her own personal reality. According to his theory, mystics and psychics had their own separate spaces, different from other people, which allowed them access to information other could not have.

Though it may be difficult to test telepathy systematically, just as it would be difficult to test other forms of psychic phenomena, enough evidence is available to ensure that this paranormal phenomenon does exist.