What is Telepathy?

Question

Any experiences?

Answer 1

Telepathy is the ability to use your mind to read or influence the minds of others. However, as we are outside the realm of fiction here, there is no evidence that is it possible or that anybody is ecven capable of doing it. Some people say that they can do it, but going on the evidence their claims are to be taken as a matter of faith.

Answer 2

Telepathy (from the Greek τηλε, tele, "distant"; and πάθεια, patheia, "feeling") is the claimed ability of humans and other creatures to communicate information from one mind to another, without the use of extra tools such as speech or body language. Considered a form of extra-sensory perception or anomalous cognition, telepathy is often connected to various paranormal phenomena such as precognition, clairvoyance and empathy.

While there have been numerous scientific experiments into telepathy over the years, no positive result has ever resisted scrutiny. Positive results have always been demonstrated to be the result of flawed methodology, statistically erroneous conclusions, or could simply not be replicated by independent researchers.

Answer 3

Telepathy is an art to communicate without use of any external tools / devices not even speech or touch to others with simply use of your mind. It needs to be developed. Many a times we get thoughts about receipt of some mail or someone dropping at our place and it comes true at the earliest ... it is the telepathic message communicated by that other and person received by us. every human being possesses the art it only needs to be discovered.

Answer 4

Telepathy is since

Answer 5

telepathy is reading other persons thoughts from a distance

Telepathy is defined as “the communication of one mind with another other than through the channels of the senses.”

read this

http://www.manyuniverses.com/telepathy.htm

Not personally experienced it - but seen it live - on the streets of delhi and agra in India when i was touring

they have roadside show of those magicians - they are not educated at all but have learned the art of telepathy

this particular road show - the man asks all people around him to think of something

then he will pickup anyone from the crown watching him
this time when i was watching the show - he picked my partner and said "i know what you have been thinking"
of course he said it in his own language and our guide was translating it

when asked what my partner was thinking
he said in his language which was interpreted to us

"i have left my passport and money under the pilow on bed, i dont know whether it is safe"

and bang - that's what she was thinking all the time
i dont understand how he could read her mind - it was mind blowing

after finishing the roadshow - he passes a bowl for alms - and people give him money for extraordinary show

Answer 6

Telepathy is knowing that some idiot out there is going to "cut and paste" somebody else's answer (or excerpt from a wikipedia) before they actually do it; instead of NOT answering if they don't already know. Geeesh. (Gotta get them points, I guess.)

Answer 7

Telepathy is like 'talking' into someones mind.You can hear them, and they can hear you.
I used to do telepathy with my friends last year.
It's pretty cool.

Answer 8

The ability to read peoples minds and no.

Answer 9

Telepathy (from the Greek τηλε, tele, "distant"; and πάθεια, patheia, "feeling") is the claimed ability of humans and other creatures to communicate information from one mind to another, without the use of extra tools such as speech or body language. Considered a form of extra-sensory perception or anomalous cognition, telepathy is often connected to various paranormal phenomena such as precognition, clairvoyance and empathy.

While there have been numerous scientific experiments into telepathy over the years, no positive result has ever resisted scrutiny. Positive results have always been demonstrated to be the result of flawed methodology, statistically erroneous conclusions, or could simply not be replicated by independent researchers.

The majority of the scientific community believes that claims of phenomena associated with telepathy constitute pseudoscience

Unlike many other supernatural occurrences, mention of telepathy is quite rare in historical texts. In the Bible for example, some prophets are described as having the ability to see into the future (precognition), and this seems to be a common claim among ancient people. But the sending and receiving of messages from individual to individual by mind alone seems to be a relatively modern idea.

Western scientific investigation of telepathy is generally recognized as having begun with the initial program or research of the Society for Psychical Research. The apex of their early investigations was the report published in 1886 as the two-volume work Phantasms of the Living. It was with this work that the term "telepathy" was introduced, replacing the earlier term "thought transference". Although much of the initial investigations consisted largely of gathering anecdotal accounts with follow-up investigations, they also conducted experiments with some of those who claimed telepathic abilities. However, their experimental protocols were not very strict by today's standards.

In 1917, psychologist John E. Coover from Stanford University conducted a series of telepathy tests involving transmitting/guessing playing cards. His participants were able to guess the identity of cards with overall odds against chance of 160 to 1; however, Coover did not consider the results to be significant enough to report this as a positive result.

Perhaps the most well-known telepathy experiments were those of J. B. Rhine and his associates at Duke University, beginning in the 1927 using the distinctive ESP Cards of Karl Zener (see also Zener Cards). These involved more rigorous and systematic experimental protocols than those from the 19th century, used what were assumed to be 'average' participants rather than those who claimed exceptional ability, and used new developments in the field of statistics to evaluate results. Results of these and other experiments were published by Rhine in his popular book Extra Sensory Perception, which popularized the term "ESP".

Another influential book about telepathy in its day was Mental Radio, published in 1930 by the Pulitzer prize-winning author Upton Sinclair (with foreword by Albert Einstein). In it Sinclair describes the apparent ability of his wife at times to reproduce sketches made by himself and others, even when separated by several miles, in apparently informal experiments that are reminiscent of some of those to be used by remote viewing researchers in later times. They note in their book that the results could also be explained by more general clairvoyance, and they did some experiments whose results suggested that in fact no sender was necessary, and some drawings could be reproduced precognitively.

By the 1960s, many parapsychologists had become dissatisfied with the forced-choice experiments of J. B. Rhine, partly because of boredom on the part of test participants after many repetitions of monotonous card-guessing, and partly because of the observed "decline effect" where the accuracy of card guessing would decrease over time for a given participant, which some parapsychologists attributed to this boredom.

Some parapsychologists turned to free response experimental formats where the target was not limited to a small finite predetermined set of responses (e.g., Zener cards), but rather could be any sort of picture, drawing, photograph, movie clip, piece of music etc.

As a result of surveys of spontaneous psi experiences which reported that more than half of these occurred in the dreaming state, researchers Montaque Ullman and Stanley Krippner at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, undertook a series of experiments to test for telepathy in the dream state. A "receiver" participant in a soundproof, electronically shielded room would be monitored while sleeping for EEG patterns and rapid eye movements (REMs) indicating dream state. A "sender" in another room would then attempt to send an image, randomly selected from a pool of images, to the receiver by focusing on the image during the detected dream states. Near the end of each REM period, the receiver would be awakened and asked to describe their dream during that period. The researchers claim that the data gathered suggest that sometimes the sent image was incorporated in some way into the content of the receiver's dreams.

Ganzfeld experiments have received widespread attention in recent times, and some believe they provide some experimental evidence of telepathy[citation needed]. Such experiments, however, are generally believed to be flawed by the scientific community.[1][2]

Other experiments have been conducted by the biologist Rupert Sheldrake, who claims strong results. These include experiments into:

The 'sense of being stared at', in which the subject guesses whether he/she is being stared at by another person
Whether a subject can tell who is phoning them before picking up the receiver
Whether dogs can tell when their owners are about to return home.

No experiences.