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Posted: 02-09-2001 23:51 Post subject: TELEPATHY & KIDS

What do you all think about telepathy, is it real or imagination, do you think it is more apparent in young children, I have a four year old grandson who seems to anticipate what I am about to talk about with uncany accuracy.

Posted: 03-09-2001 02:37 Post subject:

I found some old teaching-notes last week in which
I expressed my amazement at the way some children would
read my mind.

Often it was occasioned by the twenty questions game. On
several occasions girls - it was always girls - dispensed with
the animal, vegetable, mineral crap and went straight for the kill.

OK, so maybe "Charles Dickens" was an obvious thing for an
English teacher to be thinking of. But "Soot", "Palm Tree" and
"Mammoth" ?

It was a bit lame telling them that A, they were correct and B,
they would not get any credit because witchcraft was against
the school rules.

Children are weird. Surprised

Posted: 05-09-2001 01:24 Post subject:

Yeah, cool, I just had a long discussion about this with a friend last night.

My theory (and I have a 4-year-old who is uncanny in her ability to read me): all kids or at least most have this ability. As with any talent, invalidating it will quash the budding or native talent. Pooh-pooh a child when she or he tells you that the plant does NOT like it by the dining room table, it wants to be by the door. Very shortly you will no longer get updates on how your plants feel. Tell her to shush, it's not polite to say Gramma's really dark today, and you will no longer know the state of your Mom's aura (which, BTW, you can't see!) Contradict them when they describe how their playmates view them (e.g. clumsy, show-off-ish, babyish), and they will learn to mistrust their own ability to read people's (to them) crystal-clear but utterly unspoken attitudes.

As with any talent one posesses, faith in that ability needs to be nurtured by those we love and trust. And a child's love and trust in their parents, grandparents, and loving caregivers is a boundless thing.

Posted: 05-09-2001 03:19 Post subject:

We are educated out of so many things. Maybe
developing the imagination is the "light of common day"
allowed?

Posted: 14-09-2001 05:28 Post subject: personally...

On the subject of children and telepathy, I was particularly struck by the post that talked about Gramma being very dark, and how plants feel etc. And I agree that you should nurture your child when they say things like that. I, as a child, was like that, and was humored in what I said about things, but my parents didnt believe me or anything. As a kid, you think its normal to say things like that, because you feel it (maybe its not all kids, but at least for me) and you dont know that others dont. My parents didnt shush me, exactly, they were just like "That's nice," so I suppose that's why this hasnt gone away since I was little.

Its theorized that all children have the ability to sense things that adults may not, in whatever sense that may be, but then it is taught out of them. My little brother never posessed this ability, oddly enough, and it seems to me that I'm still the only one in my family that has it. It's harsh going through school, and going to as many historical places as my parents took me to, and sensing things that no one else does, and then talking about it as if its the most normal thing in the world, and the listener looking at you like you should be institutionalized. (And that does still happen). More adults would probably have this ability, if they were nurtured in it, or at the very least, humored, as a child. If it's real or just imagination, you'll see soon enough.

Posted: 14-09-2001 22:33 Post subject: Re: personally...

Posted: 20-09-2001 18:18 Post subject:

Bearing in mind the previous posts attributing telepathy mainly to children and girls, I find it somewhat embarrasing to admit, as a twentysomething male, that I occasionally suffer from minor telepathy.

It's nothing that could in any eay said to be either a) useful or b)provable, relating as it does almost entirely around my mother and her desire for tea.

Many is the time when I have suddenly been overcome with a desire for tea, a drink which I normally avoid, and turned the kettle on, only for my mother, a notorious consumer of large quantities of this beverage, to appear at the door.

I also remember an occasion, when I ws much younger, in which I was playing Pictionary. My sister was my partner, and we managed to guess answers correctly from the most bizzare of scribblings. However, I'm not sure whether that actually counts as telepathy, or if it could be due to the fact that, as siblings, we would naturally tend to think along the same lines and attribute similar meanings to visual symbols.

Any thoughts? Any suggestions on how to keep my mother out of my head (short of wearing a tinfoil hat) would be most appreciated!

Wink

Posted: 20-09-2001 20:21 Post subject:

Why would you want to keep your mother out of your head, their the best friend you'll ever have, wish mine was still around to confide in. Sad

Posted: 21-09-2001 09:24 Post subject:

I think most of us are telepathic to a greater or lesser degree, especially with people they are close to. Everyone has had that feeling when the phone rings that they just 'know' who it is and they're often right. My husband works abroad and we communicate by phone and email when he's away. He often says or writes something that I was about to say and vice versa. And the same thing happens with my mum and my kids, a thought will enter my mind, I'll put it into words and one of them will say "I was just about to say that!"

Carole

Unfortunately my 'telepathic' ability does not extend to my boss, who really does expect me to be able to read his mind! confused

Posted: 21-09-2001 10:51 Post subject:

My four kids are certainly telepathic and lots more besides. If anyone's read Cassandra Eason's 'The Psychic Power of Children' they'll have come across my daughter Layla and son Dylan who constantly read minds, see Dead Deople and have OBEs! None of which went down at all well with their professional scientist dad.
Hmph

Posted: 21-09-2001 14:00 Post subject:

If Telepathy is possible then I would expect it to exist within a family, or to be much stronger in that context. For a piece of A-level statistics courswork I had to do a Telepathy experiment (guess which suit the card someone on the other side of the room was looking at was) and the only person around when I actually got around to doing it was my kid brother.

I was amazed when I scored over 70% accuracy on the first 25 card test. I dismissed it as anomalous and tried again. Over 500 cards I scored an average of 71% accuracy, rather than 25%, which is what you would expect. Both my brother and I were very freaked out by this (although I have never been sure he wasn't deliberately messing up my results because he's my brother...) and I had to hand in a piece of coursework saying that Telepathy was possible. Fortunately my analysis was good, so I still got the marks for the maths...

From an evolutionary point of view it seems to me that if telepathy is possible then it should occur in nature (makes me think of pack hunters) but possibly is weaker in humans because language has overcome our need for it.

Posted: 21-09-2001 17:49 Post subject:

How's this for telepathy?
This morning when I was looking on here I decided to send my mate a daft anonymous text message. So I sent, 'Put that sausage down, you don't know where it's been!' She rang me just now. She'd been at work eating a sausage bap and had nearly choked to death craning her neck round to see who was watching her! It really scared her. I bet I can't do that again! Very Happy

Posted: 21-09-2001 18:47 Post subject:

Some years ago, recently domiciled in Essex, we went on a family visit to Harwich - none of us had been there before. But as we walked around, my daughter, then aged 5 or 6, said: "There's a castle here!" Imagine our surprise when we turned a corner and found ourselves in Castle Street!

(There is no castle in Harwich now, but presumably there once was, guarding the harbour entrance.)

I had a few notes once on similar happenings, but I've lost them.

Posted: 21-09-2001 22:37 Post subject:

Breakfast - or anyone else - do you want to have a quick bash at the RetroPsychoKinesis experiment?

http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/

I cannot even fathom how those results could be possible. It's gotta be a hoax. Hasn't it?

Posted: 21-09-2001 22:41 Post subject:

Does anyone know the probability of guessing 75% of 500 cards correctly (see Breakfast's post) by sheer luck? It must be pretty low.

You ought to watch out, Breakfast - the CIA will by out for you if you don't keep a low profile. Wink