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Monday, October 6, 2008

'Telepathy' and how it works

Say, I've been thinking of my mother who lives in Delhi all day, and want to talk to her...But life gets in the way, and the moment passes...But then later in the evening, the feeling comes back, it is stronger.... and I decide that I will.

I reach out for the phone, and it starts to ring- the receiver is in my hand....

And my mother is on the phone! 'Telepathy.'......

This has happened not just once , but at least a hundred times, in the last few months, and vice versa. But this needs a very strong bond, and the key is understanding each others minds..

Telepathy, is also observed in other cases- such as best friends, siblings, lovers, and those who've been together in moments of severe stress or trauma.

Telepathy" is derived from the Greek terms tele ("distant") and pathe ("occurrence" or "feeling"). The term was coined in 1882 by the French psychical researcher Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).Myers thought his term descrbed the phenomenon better than previous used terms such as the French "communication de pensees," "thought-transference," and "thought-reading."

And as someone said recently, "If only there was a way to send messages by 'thought transference', "wouldn't that make for the most expressive and quickest means of communication...... and how very effective it could be...

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