a quest. on telepathy?

Question

is telepathy only possible with a person you love/like? If you know anything about that, pl. share.

what happened in my case was, someone i know was fooling around a little bit and contacted me, he created a profile on a dating website and it was a false one but i figured out it was him and i liked him secretly.

Answer 1

Is it telepathy or good thinking skills, observation skills, and good investigatory skills? Why do you have to believe in some supernormal power? You may be great just the way you are when you apply your skills.

Answer 2

My first answer would be no, given my surprising experience, but in truth I am undecided.

I developed a strong empathic/telepathic connection with someone during a period we liked each other very much. Since then he has developed a dislike of me, a pretty hostile attitude, yet the connection is as strong as ever. The details are on my blog site:

www.telepathyexists.blogspot.com

Personally, I was very skeptical that telepathy existed at alluntil I had a direct and undeniable experience. It's posted in my blog, along with scientific and other resources on telepathy and some commentary.

http:/telepathyexists.blogspot.com



The more I read, the more convinced I am that we are stuck in a quagmire that makes it very hard to get any clear sense of what is going on with paranormal phenomena. There are several elements tangling up and blocking any reasonable discussions:

1) There are a multitude of fakes, charlatans, and genuinely misled people who are putting forth a variety of false claims. This is fed by the need people have to believe in magic, to control the uncontrollable. People long to know what is going on other people's minds, believing this will somehow help them achieve their goals. Others are in pain, longing for a connection with someone who died. There are many people are making huge profits off of other people's pain.

2) Because of the fakes (well-intentioned or not) people like me have a knee-jerk reaction that ranges from skepticism to hostility when we come across discussions of the paranormal.

3) We are probably not asking the right questions or doing the right studies. For example, the empathic/telepathic connection to Jeff is very hard to explain away. However, put him in one room and have him focus on a photo or card, ask me what he is looking at, and I will have no idea. If we were studied using traditional methods the telepathic connection would be disproved. Also, while I have been alarmingly accurate including very specific details (see my other posts), I have no idea whether I ALWAYs pick up his strong emotions, or only a small portion of them. I don't know if I am accurate with his positive emotions at all. For example, I have sense he had a pretty good time last night (Saturday night) but that could be wishful thinking on my part. Unfortunately, when Jeff and I were friends we weren't especially focused on the telepathic connection (since I talked to him almost every day) and so I didn't do any clean tests. I just told him what I had sensed, hoping to be disconfirmed, and he told me what was actually happening, and my senses were correct.

4) There is an incredible amount of supportive research. However, skeptics discount it out of hand. Because there have been so many hoaxes, they assume all supportive research is actually a hoax. Even though I have had a first-hand experience of this, I read study results with a jaundiced eye.

5) Skeptics often don't actually look at the data. There are so many examples of scientists and skeptics discussing these phenomena while admitting they have not read the research that it is getting very tiring. The fundamental assumption is that it MUST be fraudulent, so why bother to read it? In the best scientific tradition, we do not impose our beliefs, but rather look at what the data tell us (not that its possible to do that completely). However, this basic rule is discarded when examining data on paranormal phenomena.

One of the very best illustrations of all these things can be found at Skeptical Investigations:

http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/controversies/Shermer_skepticscage.htm

It is very easy and interesting reading, so I would urge you to check it out.