Is Telepathy real?

[Akashic_Librarian]

I have never done it spontaneously (well maybe one) and I have never had any sort of epiphany where i understood how it was performed, my studies in psychology and physics have so far yeilded no positive or negative results, and frankly I would like some opinions.

Is it possible, and if so, how?

[bellemeadows]

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,

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian

my studies in psychology and physics have so far yeilded no positive or negative results, and frankly I would like some opinions.

If you are interested in telepathy from a physics perspective, do google this name:

Professor Brian Josephson.

He is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who believes in telepathy and has been researching it for many years.

[Lea]

I feel there has to be a feeling of trust and being in "tune" with another person. At least that has been my experience with reading someones mind. I wrote about my experience here Does Telepathy Really Work? | Ocean Of Perspectives

[Lallymac]

I had a telepathic relationship with a man I was in a relationship with for 4 yrs.
I assumed it was because we were on the same frequency and in 'tune' with each other. The first time it happened we'd had a fight just before going away for the weekend. During the day while we both working working we had a mind to mind conversation apologising to each other and agreeing to go away. He rung when he got home from work and said I'll be back to pick you up in half an hour. Driving up north I asked how he knew I'd come with him. He said because you apologised, then we argued over who apologised first, then cracked up laughing about arguing over a conversation that we never physically had.

After that we communicated quite freely telepathically even for a couple of years after we split up. He was talking to me a lot telepathically at one stage, I got frustrated and said 'pick the phone and call me'. Which he did. As time went on and he moved away the contact was broken. We had a lot of fun with it for awhile and spirit joined in taking us on journeys together. We'd interigate each other for details afterwards and became more adept at being able to pick up relay specific information about our travels. It's a great way to hone your psychic skills.
Lallymac

[newmark]

Belle; is it possible you are taking this too seriously? Just because your friends had negative thoughts and feelings one moment doesn't mean they were true. Can't people lie in their thoughts as much as in their speech? Can't people switch from one emotion to another very quickly?
Can you distinguish between thoughts and feelings? And if so, how do you know you can? I'm just interested in your ideas on this.

[Spartan]

I doubt it. I think people can read others by looking at their body language and listening to their tone of voice. Anything more than that is a lucky guess.

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by Spartan

I doubt it. I think people can read others by looking at their body language and listening to their tone of voice. Anything more than that is a lucky guess.

I don't agree. It already happened to me many times that I knew how someone was feeling without even communicating physically with them, or that I sent an image to someone and they exactly could describe it.

I'm not able to have telepathic conversations unfortunately, but I know there is much more out there than just physical communication. We are all connected and permanently communicating with each other

[bellemeadows]

Originally Posted by newmark

Belle; is it possible you are taking this too seriously? Just because your friends had negative thoughts and feelings one moment doesn't mean they were true. Can't people lie in their thoughts as much as in their speech? Can't people switch from one emotion to another very quickly?
Can you distinguish between thoughts and feelings? And if so, how do you know you can? I'm just interested in your ideas on this.

I can only guess you don't have much personal experience. Especially in a work environment where there can be people who aren't your friends, who are competitive, and have issues -- or in a crowd -- picking up on their thoughts and sensing their feelings can be a distraction, and if you're not careful it can be a HUGE drain.

Be careful what you ask for. Belle,

[newmark]

You're right, I don't have much personal experience of this. Only a limited experience of telepathy, and that limited to certain people.
I guess it would be distracting. Is there any way to block them out?

[Spartan]

To those who claim to be telepathic, how does telepathy work exactly? How does one go about reading someone else's thoughts?

Do you have to concentrate really hard on the other person, blanking your mind of everything else, whilst you affirm the belief that their thoughts are entering your mind?

However, belle said she can access other people's thoughts in a busy crowd, so it can't take that much concentration, can it?

[Billy]

Originally Posted by Spartan

To those who claim to be telepathic, how does telepathy work exactly? How does one go about reading someone else's thoughts?

Do you have to concentrate really hard on the other person, blanking your mind of everything else, whilst you affirm the belief that their thoughts are entering your mind?

However, belle said she can access other people's thoughts in a busy crowd, so it can't take that much concentration, can it?

Its not difficult to do really, in my cases I just meditiated for a few years very intensively and after a while noticed that I could just hear out of focus peoples minds talking to themselves. After another couple of years I couldn't just hear it I could hear it quite loud and clear. The big question for most people that I have is do you really want to hear it? The human mind is a very complex thing and if a person has problems with dealing with other peoples day to day egocentricities then hold onto your pants because hearing others thoughts and conversing with their subconcious is one hell of an eye opening ride, Freud would have had a field day.

[bellemeadows]

Telepathy is like any other sense input, and we all have the ability to some degree or another. However, most are not taught that we have the ability, which means consciously we rule it out as a possibility.

For us to be consciously aware of what we broadcast and receive, we must experience it consciously; for that to happen with any regularity, it must be accepted by the conscious, thinking portion of the mind. You can receive and send input most naturally, but if your mind, occupied with other things, doesn't acknowledge this and allow for such input, what you receive will never make it to conscious awareness, or if it does make it through your mind will discount it and move on. . . .

Since the mind is occupied with the sense input you have been taught about, seeing, smelling, tasting, etc, it just keeps itself occupied with that, and kind of screens out telepathic input the same way it screens out other sensory input when it is focusing on something. For example, when you are driving, are you noticing how your hands feel holding onto the steering wheel? Probably you are focused on your driving. Other stimuli is screened out, so you can focus your conscious attention on your driving experience.

So if you want to experience telepathy consciously, the trick is to allow yourself to consciously accept the input from telepathy, or it will just get screened out. The other trick is to be peaceful of mind, to keep your mind from being in turmoil; although even when your mind is in turmoil sometimes info gets through.

Still, I stand by what I said before; this is a gift with mixed blessings. If everyone knew about telepathy and managed themselves to keep of clear and kind mind, it would probably be easier. But there are many folks out there who are somewhat on auto-pilot, some have secrets they don't want any to know about, some are thinking dark thoughts or unkind thoughts, some in pain, grief, emotional turmoil; some happy sunny thinkers too. It can be much easier to go through life with no real conscious awareness of what is happening within other's minds around you. And yes, you don't have to see them to have telepathy work. Seeing has nothing to do with this input and space is not a boundary.

Blessings from Belle,

[Spartan]

Originally Posted by bellemeadows

Still, I stand by what I said before; this is a gift with mixed blessings. If everyone knew about telepathy and managed themselves to keep of clear and kind mind, it would probably be easier. But there are many folks out there who are somewhat on auto-pilot, some have secrets they don't want any to know about, some are thinking dark thoughts or unkind thoughts, some in pain, grief, emotional turmoil; some happy sunny thinkers too. It can be much easier to go through life with no real conscious awareness of what is happening within other's minds around you. And yes, you don't have to see them to have telepathy work. Seeing has nothing to do with this input and space is not a boundary.

Blessings from Belle,

I think it would be awesome to be able to access other people's thoughts. For example, you would never need to wonder whether somone already has a boyfriend or whether they're in to you lol.

However, it would probably be really annoying if you couldn't control when you wanted to read people's thoughts and when you didn't. Is telepathy controllable?

[bellemeadows]

Originally Posted by Spartan

I think it would be awesome to be able to access other people's thoughts. For example, you would never need to wonder whether somone already has a boyfriend or whether they're in to you lol.

However, it would probably be really annoying if you couldn't control when you wanted to read people's thoughts and when you didn't. Is telepathy controllable?

Be careful what you wish for. Belle,

[Lazarus]

one is a blessing, twice is a curse :P the way i see it, sounds fun and cool at first, but what's the point on talking if you can read the person's mind?

there are points where what we say affects one's mind about the past, and to read it? i say "keep the grave burried as is"

IMO, a person with strong empathy would regret reading his gf/her bf's dark past. =/

[AndreaHess]

Belle, I'm with you on this! First of all, there's a thin line between energetic sensitivity and telepathy, and BOTH can be an issue if not controlled. I'm highly sensitive, and being around someone who is in a funk or bad mood or angry is downright painful. Happily, I work from home, and so have no co-worker energy to put up with!

As for true telepathy .... I don't have that gift turned "on" most of the time, but lately when I'm coaching, I swear I practically "hear" (not in a physical way) my client's thoughts occasionally. Now, I'm actively tuned in to their Akashic Record AND spiritual Guide team, and it only happens when they are thinking limiting or self-defeating thoughts - it's almost as if I get a big ole' heads-up to call them on their thought forms, because they are limiting themselves.

I doubt that I could do that without the openness of the client in a coaching situation, and the help of their Guides. But there's my 1 cent worth on telepathy - yes, it happens.

[seo1]

1000% I know there are people that can communicate like this at will. I'd like to learn how. However, I've only done it twice in my life. Once when I was very young and another during a Near Death Experience. It is very real and I believe that it is the most basic form of communication. However, most have forgotten how to activate this part of the brain. One reason why I'd like to go into neuropsychology.

[clair08]

can claircognizance be considered a type of telepathy

[illuster]

When I was about 15, I was at home alone with my older sister. Our parents were paying the neighbors a visit and we were supposed to be doing our homework.
Instead we decided to play a game.
One of us would concentrate very hard on a word (it had to be an item). The other one would try to guess what it was.
When it was my turn to guess, the first thing that came to mind was "spoon". So I said it out loud. My sister ran to the neighbors, I freaked her out because apparently I got it right.
She still gets spooked by it now (15 years later...) I just found and still find it mildly amusing.

At that time we were pretty close.

Lately we have been growing apart quite a bit. But maybe not as far as I sometimes think... A few months ago, we were playing a game with a few mutual friends. We were paired up in teams of 2. My sister and I together. One of us would have to draw something, the other one would have to guess what it was.
The other teams had a very hard time keeping up with our scores. My sister would only have to draw a squiggly line and I would guess instantly she was trying to draw an elephant. And vice versa. The other players even started to wonder if we were cheating in any way...
I don't know if any of this has anything to do with telepathy. Maybe my sister and I are just thinking along the same lines more than we realize.

[clair08]

I think it sounds like telepathy but to be sure maybe you and your sister should try to play some more of those guessing games.

[illuster]

I wouldn't mind trying it some more but it tends to freak my sister out. I don't think she would agree to playing a game if I suggested it was for practicing our (supposed) telepathic connection.

[Perhin]

Actually, yes it is. I do it sometimes with my pets, but I'm not good enough on a level to do it with people for some reason, or maybe it's the people. All I know is that I think to my pets and they think back. When cats move their ears a lot they're talking.

Hope this doesn't sound stupid.

[Dan.Linehan]

My ex, Fred, is telepathic as well, he could mentally talk to animals just like Perhin says, and also to certain people (only other people who were telepathic basically.)

Fred also believes in the God and Goddess just like you Perhin. It's interesting that you two are the only people I've met who have mentioned the God and Goddess as being integral parts of their spirituality and you're also both telepathic too..

[lasti]

Originally Posted by Perhin

When cats move their ears a lot they're talking.

That's so interesting!

[ghfever]

I think the whole thing is REALLY interesting. I'd like to learn telepathy, but only if I could control it. I know a lot of people who are ill-minded and self-centered and I wouldn't want to know there day-to-day thoughts. But it would be nice to hear certain things that i've been dying to know. (My roommate is too quiet sometimes).

Anywho. I don't think i'm in an emotional psyche to learn this gift just yet.