Telepathy is very real. It is actually a natural form of communications between people and animals. However, for most people it is shut down and they don't use it. Why -- well firstly, we have language to communicate, and secondly, when people have thoughts they want hidden, this secretiveness shuts it down naturally. In our culture, we learn to have secrets very young, hence little telepathy.
For most, to experience telepathy, you need to not be wanting to hold secrets and others need to be the same; you need to, so to say, be an open book, and very comfortable with that position. For others they experience it anyway -- I don't know why.
As in any gift, telepathy brings its own price. I can tell you firsthand that to know what people are thinking and feeling can be very, very hard to take. It makes ones life in this world much more difficult.
You could develop this gift if you wanted to. However, I would really consider the implications before you go for it. Frankly, if you are fine and comfortable as you are, why would you want this gift? It brings its own responsibility; and it is sooooo not something most people understand.
I have this gift, and I can tell you it is hard sometimes. To know that someone you liked and trusted has ill thoughts and feelings towards you is not an easy thing to face sometimes. For those who are telepathically gifted, they live with this all the time. It can be a mild distraction, or it can add hurtful, unkind input into your psyche from others all the time (there is also the positive input -- but in our culture, believe me, the hurtful, unkind stuff is much more common.)
In times when people close to you are in crisis, you may find you know something before anyone tells you -- that is the most common form these days. We let in that information for those we care about, when perhaps part of their psyche's are screaming out.
My input, be careful what you ask for. When you are an open book for yourself, this gift will probably come naturally; even so -- it has its down side. As an everyday kind of gift, if you don't have it, I'd let it go. If we lived in a culture where people were more kind and caring, less self-absorbed and egotistical, it would be natural and easy and we'd all be experiencing this ability. I do believe it is as natural to us as breathing.
Blessings from Belle,
