Telepathic communication is a trope in literature that can be observed all the way from modern science fiction back to Homer with many stops along the way in religious and spiritual writing. It’s also a frequent conviction of people diagnosed as schizophrenic. Sceptics dismiss mind-to-mind communication as an illusion comparable to children having an imaginary friend. And yet the military of several nations have investigated telepathy, as did navigators in search of instant, private communication.
It’s challenging to read your review of reputable experiments, because my experience leads me both to dismiss any such claims, and to make use of telepathy in my novels.
In real life, I’m a sceptic, as I am about ghosts, god, and the afterlife. Wishful thinking and the occasional coincidence seem to me sufficient explanations. Wanting it to be possible gets in the way of improving more conventional means of communication such as words, despite all their many shortcomings.
Seymour, you are correct, this is a real challenge. It flies against what we know and rely on to define the world. Reading some of the studies will do a better job of laying out the evidence than I ever could, by merely saying it is so. I was finally convinced by the sheer volume of good quality, replicated studies. It does not, ultimately, get in the way of the demands and responsibilities of social communication and connections to others. Just another facet.
Telepathic communication is a trope in literature that can be observed all the way from modern science fiction back to Homer with many stops along the way in religious and spiritual writing. It’s also a frequent conviction of people diagnosed as schizophrenic. Sceptics dismiss mind-to-mind communication as an illusion comparable to children having an imaginary friend. And yet the military of several nations have investigated telepathy, as did navigators in search of instant, private communication.
It’s challenging to read your review of reputable experiments, because my experience leads me both to dismiss any such claims, and to make use of telepathy in my novels.
In real life, I’m a sceptic, as I am about ghosts, god, and the afterlife. Wishful thinking and the occasional coincidence seem to me sufficient explanations. Wanting it to be possible gets in the way of improving more conventional means of communication such as words, despite all their many shortcomings.
Seymour, you are correct, this is a real challenge. It flies against what we know and rely on to define the world. Reading some of the studies will do a better job of laying out the evidence than I ever could, by merely saying it is so. I was finally convinced by the sheer volume of good quality, replicated studies. It does not, ultimately, get in the way of the demands and responsibilities of social communication and connections to others. Just another facet.