Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Telepathy in Mentalism

The word Telepathy has derived from two Greek words: "Tele" meaning distant and "Patheia" meaning Feeling" or Experience. It is a process where minds of two people connects and communicates without any physical means for communication. This may be exchange of ideas, images, thoughts or feelings even if the persons may be situated thousands miles apart. The concept of Telepathy is not something new to human civilization and can be traced back in human history all over the world in written scripts and by word of mouth.

Though there is no scientific evidence that telepathy can really be established between two persons, it has always lured researchers and studies are going on to explore and understand the phenomenon. After World War II the interest in Telepathy had increased substantially when thousands have lost their dear ones and tried to find solace by resorting to spiritualism and connecting with the lost ones by telepathy. During this period lot of researches had taken place in the United States and Britain. With advancement of physical sciences, the modern concept of Telepathy is experimenting to combine it with scientific concepts to understand the paranormal phenomena which are yet not explained by scientific concepts alone.

In the process, researchers discovered that when a subject was "magnetized", it develops a special power to understand unspoken and unseen instructions. Psychiatrists were also experiencing the same phenomena. According to the renowned Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, it was a natural power of early living being which was lost during the course of evolution. But under special circumstances and following some specific synchronized steps it can manifest itself.

Though definite steps have been described by researchers to induce telepathy, in most cases it is spontaneous at the time of crisis and generally occurs between relatives and loved ones. For example a friend meets with an accident; the other friend immediately knows it without being told and being physically present at the site The type of information the receiver receives are many. It can just a feeling of something going wrong, feeling of sadness about that person or getting a sense of impending danger. The receiver may receive it while awake or in dream. The receiver may or may not be able to interpret the signal, but he surely knows something has gone wrong. Often it results in change of course of action of the person receiving the signal, like cancelling his travel plan or trying to get in touch with the person, etc.

Telepathy is closely associated with emotional bonding of both the receiver and the sender. Generally women are more likely to be at the receiving end. The reason may be that women are more emotionally attached to their loved ones.

Greek philosopher Democritus attempted to prove Telepathy by wave and corpuscle theories. British chemist and physicist William Crookes postulated that telepathy is carried by radio- like brain waves. Likewise many researchers have put forward many theories to explain telepathy. But none of the theories seem to be adequate. It is a process initiated by the strong emotional bonding between the sender and the receiver. Like any other psychological processes it is beyond time and space. Hence it is very difficult to establish the fact by pure laws of science.

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