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Posted: 11-09-2002 03:42 Post subject:

In university, I participated in a telepathy experiment run by the Psychology Department. Two people were seated in separate sound-proof rooms. The "sender" tried to send a different image every 10 minutes for an hour (six images total). When my roommate was the sender, I got all but one image correct. Going the other (me sending), my roommate got three of the images correct. There was no communication between the subjects or from the research staff during the test period. The sender simply looked at a clock to see when it was time to "send" a message.

The researcher was making plans to continue his project when he became very ill and had to stop. Soon after, I left for California, and my roommate moved to Ohio.

I also had a very close telepathic link with another person--and the link seemed to be two-way. We finished each other's sentences, picked up the phone to find the other person had just called, knew when the post contained a letter from the other one. He asked me to consider marrying him, but, you know, the intense mental link was really a bit creepy, so I said 'no.' I believe this creepiness is discussed in the movie "The Piano."

I did marry later on, but my husband and I do not do the telepathic thing with each other, and I find this is good.

My current theory is that what we call "mind" isn't contained in our brains (although it is focused in the brain). How large "mind" is would be very interesting to discover.

Posted: 12-09-2002 19:59 Post subject:

Regarding the issue of similar events happening to identical twins, I think either the statistics are being misinterpreted, or there is something much stranger that telepathy going on (as Androman hinted at).

Dealing with the second option, telepathy wouldn't explain a lot of the events that supposedly happen between separated twins. People don't marry on the basis of their spouse's name, or hair colour, or (usually) profession, yet many accounts have twins doing exactly this, and at exactly the same time. And telepathy wouldn't account for the tales of twins suffering simultaneous and identical injuries, or suffering identical bereavements. All these things suggest it's not just the twins themselves that are being affected, but everything around them.

But then again, instantaneous connections between individual (and completely separate) particles has now been proved in the lab, and seeing as everything is made of particles of some form or another...

Posted: 25-01-2003 20:33 Post subject:

I told my 4 young kids about the Rhine cards once, on a rainy afternoon, so we made a set and the results were stunning.
It varied from 3 out of 5 for to maximum..5 out of 5. The kids were unimpressed..after all, they were just guessing!
Then I explained it was supposed to be impossible...and immediately the results reverted to chance only.

Hagrid.

Posted: 20-09-2003 19:10 Post subject:

Telepathy

Posted: 21-09-2003 05:03 Post subject:

I am sure someone here has talked about Rupert Sheldrake's work, but I thought I would post it here anyway.

I am not a scientist by any means, but my dearly departed father was, and he sought information that would support and quantify things that I felt needed no explanation. He talked a lot about Rupert Sheldrake's books, and I inherited a couple of them when he passed away in February of this year. Interesting stuff.

Rupert Sheldrake Online

Posted: 21-09-2003 23:23 Post subject:

Telepathy isn't necessarily a trait like eye color or something. Assuming that it's just tapping into the background energy of the universe, then it could eb a compelte accient our brains are wired such that they can pick up on it accidentally.

Posted: 11-06-2004 01:31 Post subject: Does he have a new book to flog perhaps?

Posted: 12-06-2004 14:28 Post subject:

When you look at Sheldrake's analysis of his "telepathic parrot" experiment, you realise how poor his work is. His stats make no sense, and the protocol itself is very shoddy.

http://www.sheldrake.org/nkisi/

Posted: 13-06-2004 17:06 Post subject:

Recently I was doing an informal telepathic number game with some of my friends - sending and recieving numbers between one and ten. I found that the results with some people were much better than with others. I also found that the results seemingly weren't as good as when we used to do the same thing but as children.

Posted: 17-06-2004 13:04 Post subject:

So what is the best way to train up your phychic skills such as telepathy, telekinesis ect? There seem to be alot of people about with such abilities, also the science fraternaty are now taking the research seriously.

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Posted: 18-06-2004 01:41 Post subject:

<<TheBoyPaj:
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So what is the best way to train up your phychic skills such as telepathy, telekinesis ect? There seem to be alot of people about with such abilities...
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No, there aren't>>

Yes there are. Blah

Okay, there are a lot of people claiming to have such abilities. Many of them have this ability and don't tell anyone because of such responses as this.

Imagine the first person who saw a tornado, telling his buddies.
WitnessA: "Hey guys, I just saw a huge finger come down from a cloud and wipe away half the forest!"
BuddyB: "No you didn't"
BuddyC: "Now, wait a minute, let's hear what he has to say! It sounds interesting."
WitnessA: "Nevermind, if BuddyB isn't going to believe that I saw something odd, it's not worth the effort trying to convince everyone."
BuddyB: "Yeah, that means you didn't see anything."

There IS something going on, and these events DO happen. They are just so random, that it is not feasible to test it under most laboratory conditions. It happens unexpectactly, and trying to place the mind in a circumstance to expect it would get in the way of the usual process of the events.
. . . although if I could figure out a way. . .

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Posted: 18-06-2004 10:10 Post subject:

Thanks headnspace, there are many american/english university based science stations constantly doing research into psi all you have to do is "read" news papers magazines, watch the discovery channel ect and they inform us of such activities taking place (ie the media). Please not that the above "media" are the same ones that promote the same cynicle veiw such as promoted here by BoyPaj. SO what makes one veiw right and the other wrong i do not know, unless perhaps certain individuals posses some "mistic" (probably the wrong term really) ability to know the truth about whats is wrong and right.

Im not saying for one minuite that i belive every claim that comes to pass, but im also not discrediting them either investigation is whats needed not instant dismissal.

Take the humble bumble bee; for decades it defied the laws of physics, untill they did a proper investigation into and managed to explain it. This was not seen as strange that a creature could hover and fly at good speeds (for a small thing) and defy gravity and there was no explination of it?

Theres enough S&*% going on in the world, lets not lose all that is strange, mysticle, and magicle.

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