GAMES IN TELEPATHY :
The following game is intended to reveal whether you can bring on, what some believe to be a natural telepathic ability, inherent in all of us, but usually lost following childhood. It requires two players - a 'receiver' and a 'sender' - and an ordinary
pack of playing cards. The aim is for the sender to look at each card, without showing it to the other player (the receiver), who has to identify whether the, card is red or black. To play, proceed as follows:
1. Sit one behind the other, so that the receiver's back faces the sender.
2. The sender now shuffles the pack of cards and lifts up the top card, looking at its face. The sender should now signal that he or she is ready to transmit information by tapping the card, and then attempt mentally to send either 'red' or 'blacW - depending on the colour of the card - to the receiver. One way of doing this is to close your eyes and imagine the word 'red' or 'blacW somewhere around your forehead. Alternatively, try to visualise a red door, a fire engine or a British pillar box.
3. The receiver then calls out the colour that he or she thinks the card is.
4. The sender places a tick (for a correct answer) or a cross (for a wrong one) on a sheet of paper.
A score of 26 correct answers out of 52 - the number of cards in the pack - is what you can expect according to the laws of chance. The player who scores consistently higher then the average 50150 score is undoubtedly making use of some kind of telepathic power. More advanced games can, of course, be attempted, and will involve the guessing of specific suits.
From experimentation, it appears that we all have certain latent ESP ability. One way of becoming aware of this is to enter a passive and receptive state, such as that induced by the Ganzfe" thereby learning by experience how to interpret the imagery received. In this sense, such experiments can be regarded as a kind of training programme in ESP. Through it, we may eventually come to greater understanding of the processes involved.
ADRENERGIA :
They say the best time for vivid telepathy is when the body is under stress. The hormones Adrenaline and Noradrenalin, which increase heart rate and raise blood sugar levels, are secreted by the body in large emergency quantities in moments of crisis. Experiments suggest that it is under these conditions known as Adrenergia that telepathic signals are most vividly transmitted hence "Crisis Apparitions".
CRISIS APPARITIONS :
The most dramatic form of telepathy could be the crisis apparition, in which a person under great stress transmits a vivid signal. The first serious attempts at psychic research in the 1880s concluded that most so called ghosts are phantasms of the living. These pioneering Victorians were particularly impressed by the number of cases in which the ghost was a vision of a person undergoing severe injury or death at the time of its appearance. There was a great rash of crisis apparitions during both World Wars, when soldiers were dying in terrible numbers on distant battlefields. A typical example follows:-
"During the last war my late husband was called into the forces and sailed overseas in December 1941. One night as I lay awake, there was tapping on the window pane. I heard a key put into my front door, then someone walking up my stairs, I saw my husband stood at my bedside, looking at me. He kissed me on the cheek held my hand and then vanished into thin air. It was not until 1945 that I received the news that my husband had died in a prisoner of war camp in the Far East at about the same time I saw him. It was April 1942".
DREAM TELEPATHY :
Dreams are a rich source of psychic experience. During sleep, the noise from the external world is greatly reduced, allowing the subtler psychic senses to work more freely. This would explain not only the telepathic communications received in sleep but also the many well attested cases of "Prophetic" dreams by people who claim no psychic powers. Even allowing for subjective interpretation, the results of some remarkable experiments in dream telepathy in the 1960s and 70s were significant by any standards. Most of the research (at Marnonides medical centre in New York) centred around the ability to guess "Target" pictures whilst asleep. Scores achieved by certain subjects provided unmistakable evidence of Dream Telepathy.
RAPPORT TELEPATHY :
Telepathy seems to operate best between those who are closely related or have strong emotional ties. The psychic bond that often exists between twins can beggar belief. For example, in 1962 the Eller twins were admitted to a state mental hospital in North Carolina, having been diagnosed as schizophrenics. Despite their strong protests, the ladies aged 32, were placed in different wards. On the first night of separation, both were found dead. They had died at roughly the same time, the bodies were found in a similar fetal position, and there was no detectable cause of death.
There are also accounts of twins separated at birth who have gone on to live curiously synchronised lives. Such telepathic bonding can also exist between relatives (notably mother and child) and close friends. One ten year old boy discovered that he had a close friend with whom he could "talk in glances". After he had moved away from the area, his friend was crushed to death by a lorry. The boy woke sharply with a piercing headache. He claimed that this pain was stopping him from falling off to sleep. This happened, so I later discovered, at the exact time he was killed. Such cases are too many to be reasonably attributed to coincidence or synchronicity.
AN OVERVIEW OF TELEPATHY :
The definition of telepathy which is often used is the detection of thoughts of one human being by another, without the first needing to make any effort to communicate those thoughts.
THOUGHT TRANSMISSION :
The exact nature of consciousness is unknown. However, it is widely agreed that neurological impulses are involved. Such impulses involve electrical currents in the neurons, and such currents produce electric and magnetic fields. Such fields may also induce currents in other medium, and such currents may stimulate other neurons. When a current stimulates a neuron, the magnitude of the current does not affect the magnitude of the resulting impulse, - the all or nothing principle.
PROBLEMS :
The strength of a magnetic field is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from it, so this makes induction over a long range difficult as sensitivity needs to be increased greatly, perhaps of the order of a billion (taking 30cm range). If detection is increased as such, then induction from background sources becomes a problem - it could get confused with the signal.
However, there is a limit to the energy derived from a field, and if much energy is derived by Eddy currents, etc; in intermediate medium (a kind of dissipation) then this can help to reproduce the detection threshold, hence magnetic shields. It can be likened to altering the permittivity of a medium. The point of this is that it makes it possible to have a direction - sensitive detector, which can help to eliminate the background noise. In addition, if detectors are of irregular shapes, then the shape correlating to the magnetic field could give better signal-to-noise ratio; in this case, the counterparts in the other brain of the neurons themselves could make ideal detectors if the configuration is similar.
A localised region of the brain through which thoughts occur, on the edge of the brain (say 45 degrees to the left from straight ahead,) with appropriate permittivity and threshold adjustments to make a highly direction-sensitive detector, would suffice. Random inductions tend to be discounted by the brain, as has been shown experimentally and hence one can walk up to a fluorescent lamp without being confused.
THE TWO TELEPATH PROBLEM :
This relates to what happens if two different people who are both telepathic attempt to read each others thoughts. Neural impulses induced in the second would cause the same impulses back in the first and so on, creating a continuous loop of positive feedback and blocking all thought. This could be rectified by varying at regular intervals the detection threshold and synchronising the phase correctly, though this may be difficult to implement.
The Three-Telepath Problem (or Two-Telepath plus another person); This relates to when one telepath allegedly reads the mind of another person, and a third person who is also telepathic reads the mind of the first telepath. The third person would probably conclude that the thoughts are those of the first telepath where-as they are actually that of the other person.
CONTROLLING ALL THOUGHTS :
If the region is localised then not all thought would be transmitted, which is just as well as otherwise it would amount to take-over, including sensory and motor information, etc. Exactly what is transmitted is dependent on the region used.
FORCED TELEPTHY :
It is theoretically possible to forcefully induce appropriate currents in people not naturally telepathic, with high enough technology. This could be the ultimate in virtual reality.
TELEPATHIC TRANSMISSION :
If telepathy does operate as set out above, then it is possible to transmit thoughts across any media (for example, even the Internet); if it is possible to store electronically and recreate patterns of magnetic and electric fields to enough precision. This could be theoretically done with a large array of small inductors. However, these resources are hard to come by. Electromagnetic induction is not the only method of detection of magnetic fields. A magnetic field of the order of milliteslas can create a change in electrical resistance of as much as 5% in some materials at room temperature. This has been proved scientifically and was featured in the New Scientist Magazine, Issue 2016 on page 34.
CAUSE OF TELEPATHY :
Trying to link, in a feasible manner, telepathy, induction of thoughts into others, no problems with two telepath's, and unexplained physical problems initially thought to be psychological. A neuron is stimulated by a certain amount when a certain threshold of its stimulation is reached over a certain time, the variables depending on the neuron. The variables would be altered during the neurons development to match a function.
Neurological stimulation involves electrical currents, sometimes communicated via chemical neurotransmitter ions and sometimes induced. Changes in current generate magnetic fluctuations (effectively radio waves) which induce other currents. The current induced is negligible compared with that those are chemically transmitted. If a neuron were some-how shielded such that chemical transmitters would not work and induction were also affected, it would develop a lower threshold to compensate. Its degree of stimulation would also be higher so that surrounding neurons could be stimulated through the shielding. Were there a hole in the shield, the surrounding neurons would also develop to compensate.
If the neuron in question were at the edge of the brain and not hole faced outwards, the neuron would develop such that it is highly sensitive to external induction; because of its high level of response to stimulation, it would also create large fluctuations when stimulated, most of which would emerge from the hole.
Both transmission and reception could be highly directional (the degree to which they are depending on the shape of the neuron and the hole) and as such more efficient and less sensitive to background noise.
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