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Telepathy?
Jeffrey
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Has anyone heard of anyone having telepathy? If you were telapathic and discovered others who were the same... Wouldn't you want to prove it and start a clan of psychics? It could be the nobel prize and 'hogwarts' could be started.....
So do you think the above is proof that telepathy does not exist? Any ideas?
So do you think the above is proof that telepathy does not exist? Any ideas?
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we are so accustomed to seeing, listening and using logical evaluation to make our minds up, that we 'listen to our gut' to a much lesser extent than we sometimes should.
My dog used to know, at least 20 minutes before he came home, that my husband was on his way - and his homecoming time was different every day, because he was a travelling computer engineer, and he never knew where his last job of the day was going to be.
We are also equipped with a similar ability - but we tend to ignore it, or are ignorant of it at all. We rely on phones and clocks, they're so much easier.
I'm constantly pre-empting what my husband is going to say, or what he would like....he keeps asking me "How did you know i wanted *that*...?"
By a process of accessing my memory of his previous likes and dislikes, and other factors, I use my gut instinct, or intuition to guess at what he'd like now.
it's really like putting 2 (cats) and 2 (mice) together and coming up with a probable yet extremely likely 2.
Being telepathic doesn't mean you can go around reading other people's minds at will. It means you can pick up on some people's thoughts some of the time (I've done that). But in the experiments discussed in the book above, subjects were able to send a message or image at will, and the person "receiving" was able to provide a reasonably accurate sketch of the image the person was sending. And there were experiments with cards, where the receiver picked up on the number or word (whatever) the subject was sending at odds that far exceeded chance.
We all have psi abilities to some extent. It's a matter of tuning in (this is where meditation is helpful--stilling the analytical mind) and practicing the skill.
'over'......
you mean people actually being able to have conversations with each other simply through transmission of thought?
No.
On TV/movies/the scifi channel, doubtless yes.... but not IRL, Jeffrey....
It has however been shown that there can be telepathy in particles so far as quantum entanglement is concerned, but that's not quite what you're talking about :P
@Federica, yes exactly. Science fiction. Thanks.
But communicating specific words on a page, that kind of detail? No, but I think the general gist can be communicated.
Thanks for the facts on the Kalahari Bushmen. Interesting.
I think emotional telepathy is far easier to send and receive. Think about all the stories of someone getting a hit that a loved one far away is in trouble, and it always turns out to be true.
When it does turn out to be true (a loved one feels a vibe of trouble correctly), it's quite astounding and the story is spread (often through the media).
When it doesn't turn out to be true (a loved one feels a vibe of trouble falsely), it's not spread and is quickly forgotten ("I thought he might be in trouble but it turns out he wasn't" doesn't make a very good story :P )
This causes a confirmation bias; only occurrences that support the idea spread and get reported on - giving the effect that there's some causal connection as opposed to coincidence. That's my 2c anyway, sorry for hounding on a little point :P
I mentioned that in detail in my first post in this thread.
(It's the third one, after Fenix)
"if you had any superpower, what would it be?"
The amount of people who wanted to read minds was astonishing, but I never opted for this, and in hindsight i think a lot of people wouldn't really want that either....
they say the worst lies you can tell, are the ones you tell yourself - I'd hate to be able to 'read' those - or the lies people subsequently tell you....
No wonder 'Right Speech' comes up in both the 8fold path AND the 5 precepts!
Yeah that's pretty much true. The mind is not as pure as our social face.
In our brains there are mimic neurons. Which are one of the things that give us humans an edge. When we look at a person moving those mimic neurons mirror that movement. This is a way for us to learn.
Playing chess players try to predict each others moves and to do that you have to be able to read the other person. Guess their motives and level of skill. The same goes for Kumite.
I think it is a social skill to read another person and know what they are thinking and to some accuracy guess their motives.
It is just that we do not consider it telepathy because 'everybody' does it. In home life, at work or at school. Those who are bad at this skill have a harder life. Empathy is a large part of it.
Then there is the kind of telepathy called sixth sense. I have experimented with my pupils. One held a wooden knife behind the back of another student. And the second had to guess if the knife point was pointed away from or directed at him/her.
The amazing thing with the result was that if the one holding the knife put intention into the pointing (malice) then the result of the guessing was improved!
Also it was clear that some were naturally adapt at feeling malice from others.
Anybody up for an experiment?
Cheers.
Victor
What is Kumite? Does it mean that someone from your past can have a running literal word for word transmission of telepathy? Like if I am drinking an odouls they can make a comment about that like 'he's drinking an odouls.. see he is lonely'... or something like that. Remember it is someone from the past that the person has not seen in 20 years. Can they know with literal word for word and emotional analysis?
I do feel though that if you are empathic you can get a feel for anothers way of thinking and then play out an imagined conversation with a fabricated image of them where you may be able to sort of guess what the other might say.
Especially since you have schizophrenia I'd really be sure to assume that any type of conversation is created solely in your mind unless you can actually verify it happening first.
Kumite is sparring. One on one or several on one.
I think some thoughts are pretty easy to read. But at large it is easier to read intention.
Do you really want to get into this practically?
/Victor
But I have been reasoning how my own human mind is so amazing. Just reading this message how do I know how to write a sentence of expression? I don't actually know how I do it we just say 'the brain did it'. So reasonably my own brain could be simulating actual people. A lot is based on guilt, guilt for pleasures and laziness.
In the long run I am feeling better when I don't have the voices but they do light a fire under me sometimes.
So I was wondering if anyone else had heard of something like this?
I don't tell people about this for a few reasons, one is that i can be wrong. Another is that I don't get what people are thinking about or have total control. So I can't just say what a person is thinking about at that time, it more subtle and emotional. And I really don't have to tell anyone, if I am good at using it skillfully then I will make things better rather than worse so that is all it is supposed to do.