Telepathy

[Horror Fiction Writer]

I am curious to know how many members here believe that telepathy is possible and happens between people without their even knowing it is happening to them, and mistake the voices they are hearing as amental illness? Also, does anyone believe that mentally directing thought forms into one's psyche is possible? I have a viable reason as to why these questions are important to me, and would appreciate this topic being taken seriously enough for mature answers. Thanks.

[Shadowsfall]

I definitely think there is some form of link maybe telepathy between twins….

[acute]

@writtenfromadarkness

Telepathy is "communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception"  between living persons.

Are you refering to conversations, messages, feelings, or dreams?

[XenoFish]

30 minutes ago, writtenfromadarkness said:

I am curious to know how many members here believe that telepathy is possible and happens between people without their even knowing it is happening to them, and mistake the voices they are hearing as amental illness? Also, does anyone believe that mentally directing thought forms into one's psyche is possible? I have a viable reason as to why these questions are important to me, and would appreciate this topic being taken seriously enough for mature answers. Thanks.

Telepathy isn't real and the only way you can put a 'thought-form' in someone's head is to share an idea with them. 

[+joc]

2 hours ago, writtenfromadarkness said:

I am curious to know how many members here believe that telepathy is possible and happens between people without their even knowing it is happening to them, and mistake the voices they are hearing as amental illness? Also, does anyone believe that mentally directing thought forms into one's psyche is possible? I have a viable reason as to why these questions are important to me, and would appreciate this topic being taken seriously enough for mature answers. Thanks.

I think telepathy is not real.  There is no known medium for the transference of thoughts.  There are no scientific studies that show any evidence of the ability of humans to transfer their thoughts.

Edited August 17, 2023 by joc

[openozy]

I think we have it on a daily basis with our partners, if you are close, siblings as well. I know dogs have this ability, with their owners and in a pack situation. I owned a pit cross who knew when my wife was having an epileptic seizure. You can understand the dog sensing an approaching seizure maybe by smell or actions but this dog could sense it at a distance, once at over 200km's away. She would start a weird howling and sure enough someone would ring telling me the wife was in distress. It happened several times and it's enough proof for me that this is a real phenomenon.

[openozy]

5 hours ago, writtenfromadarkness said:

Also, does anyone believe that mentally directing thought forms into one's psyche is possible?

I think this is possible and almost the same thing. I don't feel this is ethical if used for your own benefit as in some kind of mind control. I think both have a scientific answer rather than a paranormal one that will probably, or I think most certainly be discovered in the future if humans survive long enough.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

I’ll share my thoughts on telepathy….

[Shadowsfall]

51 minutes ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

I’ll share my thoughts on telepathy….

I thought that’s what u said….

[Alchopwn]

12 hours ago, writtenfromadarkness said:

I am curious to know how many members here believe that telepathy is possible and happens between people without their even knowing it is happening to them, and mistake the voices they are hearing as a mental illness? Also, does anyone believe that mentally directing thought forms into one's psyche is possible? I have a viable reason as to why these questions are important to me, and would appreciate this topic being taken seriously enough for mature answers. Thanks.

I have had some things happen that suggest to me that telepathy is more common than anyone suspects.  And yes, they involved schizophrenics in a non-clinical environment being able to tell me complex information that they couldn't have had access to and that they themselves didn't properly understand, and which I was thinking at the time.  It was uncanny.  They also paid me the compliment of saying that I had a bright clear mind that was easy to hear and didn't lead them astray.  I have since become aware that this is called being a "sender".  If this was a stage magician's trick it was a good one, and wasn't like any cold reading I have since witnessed, as the information was accurate, spontaneous, and unprompted.  It was also, unfortunately, unreliable, seeming to come and go according to the mental  energy level of the patient who was normally exhausted and lethargic.  I offered the obvious advice that perhaps it was the ability to "receive" that was causing the problem, but I then realized that the condition was due to them having no psychic defenses or "ego bubble", which is why they couldn't hold onto energy themselves and everyone's thoughts just went thru them like a freight train.  I now suspect that the clarity they experienced with me is substantially due to the fact that I let them leech a bit of energy from me.  I have had a similar experience with 2 schizophrenics now.

Edited August 17, 2023 by Alchopwn

[+Desertrat56]

13 hours ago, writtenfromadarkness said:

I am curious to know how many members here believe that telepathy is possible and happens between people without their even knowing it is happening to them, and mistake the voices they are hearing as amental illness? Also, does anyone believe that mentally directing thought forms into one's psyche is possible? I have a viable reason as to why these questions are important to me, and would appreciate this topic being taken seriously enough for mature answers. Thanks.

I have experience that leads me to believe that telepathy is real and natural, however it is not mind reading, it is communication at a level that does not usually include words.   I don't think it is something like you describe that would make people think they are hearing voices, that is a different thing all together.   You could (and people do all the time) direct though forms towards others, but what would the point be?   There were experiments done decades ago in several different areas, with sevearl different theories.   Maybe you could look some of them up, they are probably on the internet by now.

Do you believe someone is directing thought forms into your psyche?  

[+Desertrat56]

1 hour ago, Alchopwn said:

I have had some things happen that suggest to me that telepathy is more common than anyone suspects.  And yes, they involved schizophrenics in a non-clinical environment being able to tell me complex information that they couldn't have had access to and that they themselves didn't properly understand, and which I was thinking at the time.  It was uncanny.  They also paid me the compliment of saying that I had a bright clear mind that was easy to hear and didn't lead them astray.  I have since become aware that this is called being a "sender".  If this was a stage magician's trick it was a good one, and wasn't like any cold reading I have since witnessed, as the information was accurate, spontaneous, and unprompted.  It was also, unfortunately, unreliable, seeming to come and go according to the mental  energy level of the patient who was normally exhausted and lethargic.  I offered the obvious advice that perhaps it was the ability to "receive" that was causing the problem, but I then realized that the condition was due to them having no psychic defenses or "ego bubble", which is why they couldn't hold onto energy themselves and everyone's thoughts just went thru them like a freight train.  I now suspect that the clarity they experienced with me is substantially due to the fact that I let them leech a bit of energy from me.  I have had a similar experience with 2 schizophrenics now.

You make a very good point that makes sense to me.   That "ego bubble" is something we need in order to navigate being human on planet earth and I have seen different effects of not having a strong "ego bubble".  I would have never thought to put it that way but it is something I wanted to ask the OP but could not figure out how to word it.

[lightly]

12 hours ago, joc said:

I think telepathy is not real.  There is no known medium for the transference of thoughts.  There are no scientific studies that show any evidence of the ability of humans to transfer their thoughts.

       other than speech, and writing?   And art and music?  …and ,perhaps, more vaguely, a punch in the nose?      But as for telepathy?  I tend to think,  Everything is forces…and forces are not always strictly confined/contained.??    ???

[papageorge1]

I believe telepathy is real and can happen without our conscious effort.

[Inn Spectre]

You seem to think that hearing voices is a form of telepathy; I consider the two phenomenons separately, discounting neither.

[lightly]

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Edited August 17, 2023 by lightly

[lightly]

19 hours ago, joc said:

I think telepathy is not real.  There is no known medium for the transference of thoughts.  There are no scientific studies that show any evidence of the ability of humans to transfer their thoughts.

 

6 hours ago, lightly said:

       other than speech, and writing?   And art and music? 

Sorry joc,  for my dum response to your statement.    You were obviously referring to  telepathic  transference of thoughts.    ..and not normal Conveyance of thoughts ..through speech, or writing  etc.      

  I’m not entirely certain of the former, and ,apparently, not exceptionally adept at the later.   

[Alchopwn]

17 hours ago, Inn Spectre said:

You seem to think that hearing voices is a form of telepathy; I consider the two phenomenons separately, discounting neither.

That is the correct attitude imo too Inn Spectre.  You can certainly hear voices which are a pure audio hallucination.  This fact is well documented.  When things get interesting is when you can identify the voice as belonging to someone you know, and you discover that you now have information about their situation you couldn't possibly have access to otherwise.  Is it still a hallucination if you are producing valid information about situations you couldn't know about from an audio hallucination of a person you know's "mental voice"?

[Alchopwn]

17 hours ago, papageorge1 said:

I believe telepathy is real and can happen without our conscious effort.

I agree about conscious effort papageorge1.  I think the harder people try to engage their telepathy, the less effective it becomes, because nobody knows what triggers it in the first place.  Its like pushing very hard on a door that you can't read says "pull to open".

[XenoFish]

1 hour ago, Alchopwn said:

I agree about conscious effort papageorge1.  I think the harder people try to engage their telepathy, the less effective it becomes, because nobody knows what triggers it in the first place.  Its like pushing very hard on a door that you can't read says "pull to open".

I never figured you as someone who'd believe such nonsense. 

[Alchopwn]

1 hour ago, XenoFish said:

I never figured you as someone who'd believe such nonsense. 

If you've experienced it, and you can't reasonably explain it, and it isn't stage magic...

[XenoFish]

42 minutes ago, Alchopwn said:

If you've experienced it, and you can't reasonably explain it, and it isn't stage magic...

I have years of strange coincidences and odd synchronicities under my belt. I just find it foolish to assume it's supernatural, psychic, or paranormal. 

A month ago on a Thursday I was thinking about having some Mexican food. The next day my friend suggested hitting up a Mexican restaurant after work. I serious doubt I put a suggestion in his head. It's a coincidence. 

Psychic abilities create a causal problem.

Edited August 18, 2023 by XenoFish

[papageorge1]

7 hours ago, Alchopwn said:

I agree about conscious effort papageorge1.  I think the harder people try to engage their telepathy, the less effective it becomes, because nobody knows what triggers it in the first place.  Its like pushing very hard on a door that you can't read says "pull to open".

I believe there are those more psychically gifted for telepathy that can focus to pick up more.

But the spontaneous stuff has its explanations too that might seem uncaused at the physical-only level but have their explanations originating above the physical level.

[+Desertrat56]

34 minutes ago, papageorge1 said:

I believe there are those more psychically gifted for telepathy that can focus to pick up more.

But the spontaneous stuff has its explanations too that might seem uncaused at the physical-only level but have their explanations originating above the physical level.

If we were trained as children to use telepathy instead of trained not to use it there would be telepaths that could prove scientifically that it is a real thing.   But it is discouraged in many ways, "that's impossible", "it is the work of the devil", "quit listening at keyholes"...

[papageorge1]

5 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said:

If we were trained as children to use telepathy instead of trained not to use it there would be telepaths that could prove scientifically that it is a real thing.   But it is discouraged in many ways, "that's impossible", "it is the work of the devil", "quit listening at keyholes"...

I believe it has already been proven scientifically to be a weak but real human ability in thousands of controlled studies.

And, yes, if society encouraged the development of psychic abilities, it would be a bigger and more accepted thing. But scientific-materialism has held the power sway in the last century or more.