I wrote this post for another internet forum, and Michael (moderator here) asked me to repost it here.
Someone had posted a telepathy test: "okay, someone tell me what object I am thinking of." He said that was a simple way to prove whether there was such a thing as telepathy. I was writing mostly in response to that post.
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Looking for telepathy is like the fish looking for the water -- or even more, like the water looking for the water. You could say in a very true sense that we are =made= of telepathy. We are creating this world together out of our shared web of telepathy. Shared not only with other humans, but with all life forms -- though since our telepathy is only partial with other life forms, we experience this world in a different way than a tree, an insect or a cloud does. In our sleeping dreams, it is easier to visit each other as individuals, because we can recognize each other more easily outside of the groupmind consensus world. It's like, the stars shine during the day, too, but you can't see them till it gets dark. Your saying, "Tell me what object I am thinking of" is a little like saying "Point to the star Algeiba" in broad daylight. The fleeting, surface kind of thought you are focusing on is the kind that takes the greatest degree of sensitive connection between two people, because it is so light and changeable, no emotional impact whatsoever, almost nonexistent. A purely mental thought with no emotion behind it barely ripples the surface of the water, let alone stir the deep currents at the telepathy level.
Telepathy works best when going unnoticed, taken for granted. When I was young my sister and I used to practice telepathy intentionally, and we found consistently that it worked least well when we were "trying" to do it, and best when it went something like, "Hey, what animal am I looking at a picture of?" "I'm busy, I'm not in the mood to do it now." "Come on, just guess something!" "I told you, I don't feel like trying it now!" "Come on, guess something!" "I don't know, a lion! Now quit bugging me!"
If you were to pay close attention to your fellow humans, you would see casual unconscious telepathy happening among friends and family members constantly. We are a species that forms telepathic bonds and needs their nourishment to survive. It's only when you start getting self-conscious about it that it starts becoming like the caterpillar considering how to run.
This world is created directly from our consciousness, much the same as our sleeping dreams.
The difference between sleeping dreams and consensus reality, though, is that our sleeping dreams are our individual domains, and the consensus world is woven by all of us together, through our telepathic consensus that is constantly discussing among itself how it wants this world to be. That is why consensus reality is more stable than individual dream realities. It is one telepathy that is experiencing via infinite points of view, each point of view unique. The only thing that makes you and me "different individuals" is the fact that we are different points of view, having different experiences and histories.
Through the spaces, the threads of telepathy weave together to weave a world. If there were no distance between our points of view, if we were all only one point of view, there would be no loom upon which to weave this world. The consensus world is more stable and hard to change than sleeping dreams because it is a collective creation of many distinct points of view, weaving their energy patterns (created of thought, experience, memory, expectation and belief) together.
If we were not connected, the "world" would not exist. Not even our individual sleeping dream worlds would exist, because without a consensus world through which to gain experience, we could not be individual viewpoints processing experience, and without individuation of viewpoints, there would be nothing to create sleeping dream worlds.
You suggest someone try to catch an ephemeral gnat of a thought from the surface of your individuated mind, while not considering the awesomeness of the telepathic ocean of which you are a part of the One Mind.
But some people want to improve their telepathy skills. Well, there are expert private tutors available. They are called "dogs" and they will work very very hard to help you with your telepathy skills. Go to the pound and find a dog with whom you sense a bond, and then take her home and proceed on the assumption that she is 100% telepathic with you within the domain of things that can be understood by a dog: love, food, babies, scary things, anger, every kind of emotion, etc., but not non-doggy things like money, of course. And if you are willing to try to see the world through her eyes, as well, then pretty soon, you won't need to have any more doubts about telepathy.
Gayle
Someone had posted a telepathy test: "okay, someone tell me what object I am thinking of." He said that was a simple way to prove whether there was such a thing as telepathy. I was writing mostly in response to that post.
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Looking for telepathy is like the fish looking for the water -- or even more, like the water looking for the water. You could say in a very true sense that we are =made= of telepathy. We are creating this world together out of our shared web of telepathy. Shared not only with other humans, but with all life forms -- though since our telepathy is only partial with other life forms, we experience this world in a different way than a tree, an insect or a cloud does. In our sleeping dreams, it is easier to visit each other as individuals, because we can recognize each other more easily outside of the groupmind consensus world. It's like, the stars shine during the day, too, but you can't see them till it gets dark. Your saying, "Tell me what object I am thinking of" is a little like saying "Point to the star Algeiba" in broad daylight. The fleeting, surface kind of thought you are focusing on is the kind that takes the greatest degree of sensitive connection between two people, because it is so light and changeable, no emotional impact whatsoever, almost nonexistent. A purely mental thought with no emotion behind it barely ripples the surface of the water, let alone stir the deep currents at the telepathy level.
Telepathy works best when going unnoticed, taken for granted. When I was young my sister and I used to practice telepathy intentionally, and we found consistently that it worked least well when we were "trying" to do it, and best when it went something like, "Hey, what animal am I looking at a picture of?" "I'm busy, I'm not in the mood to do it now." "Come on, just guess something!" "I told you, I don't feel like trying it now!" "Come on, guess something!" "I don't know, a lion! Now quit bugging me!"
If you were to pay close attention to your fellow humans, you would see casual unconscious telepathy happening among friends and family members constantly. We are a species that forms telepathic bonds and needs their nourishment to survive. It's only when you start getting self-conscious about it that it starts becoming like the caterpillar considering how to run.
This world is created directly from our consciousness, much the same as our sleeping dreams.
The difference between sleeping dreams and consensus reality, though, is that our sleeping dreams are our individual domains, and the consensus world is woven by all of us together, through our telepathic consensus that is constantly discussing among itself how it wants this world to be. That is why consensus reality is more stable than individual dream realities. It is one telepathy that is experiencing via infinite points of view, each point of view unique. The only thing that makes you and me "different individuals" is the fact that we are different points of view, having different experiences and histories.
Through the spaces, the threads of telepathy weave together to weave a world. If there were no distance between our points of view, if we were all only one point of view, there would be no loom upon which to weave this world. The consensus world is more stable and hard to change than sleeping dreams because it is a collective creation of many distinct points of view, weaving their energy patterns (created of thought, experience, memory, expectation and belief) together.
If we were not connected, the "world" would not exist. Not even our individual sleeping dream worlds would exist, because without a consensus world through which to gain experience, we could not be individual viewpoints processing experience, and without individuation of viewpoints, there would be nothing to create sleeping dream worlds.
You suggest someone try to catch an ephemeral gnat of a thought from the surface of your individuated mind, while not considering the awesomeness of the telepathic ocean of which you are a part of the One Mind.
But some people want to improve their telepathy skills. Well, there are expert private tutors available. They are called "dogs" and they will work very very hard to help you with your telepathy skills. Go to the pound and find a dog with whom you sense a bond, and then take her home and proceed on the assumption that she is 100% telepathic with you within the domain of things that can be understood by a dog: love, food, babies, scary things, anger, every kind of emotion, etc., but not non-doggy things like money, of course. And if you are willing to try to see the world through her eyes, as well, then pretty soon, you won't need to have any more doubts about telepathy.
Gayle
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Re: Telepathy
Wed, July 28, 2004 - 12:23 PMYeah, like you said, dogs take their cues from YOU. They totally believe their masters' expectations of them. They will be just as smart or as dumb as you think they are or expect them to be.
Of course, I am talking really about -- there has to be a connection between you and the dog in the first place. You can sense it if there is. So can the dog. But assuming that connection, the dog completely takes your word for it, so to speak, about how much he is supposed to understand.
But the other side of animal communication is -- learning how to see through the animal's eyes. If, on your own side (I am sure you probably already do this, Michael) you learn to look at things through the animal's eyes, then you really have communication. You can see how =your= messages or efforts to communicate to the animal are perceived by the animal, and keep fine tuning.
The thing about dogs (and horses, Grandma?) is that dogs WANT to communicate with their humans, whereas a lot of animals don't care and need convincing.
Once you start developing, with your dog's help, the ability to see through the eyes of another species, you can use it to tune in to many other kinds of animals. The more you know about that animal's world, the more you can see the world through its eyes. For example, spotting a sudden quick movement has a different interest for a predatory animal and a prey animal. Being stroked on the back has a different significance for a mammal, for whom it evokes the feeling of being licked by its mother, than for a bird, who has =no= positive associations with its back being touched. Etc. So the more you know about the world of each species, the more you can see through their eyes and telepathize with them.
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Re: Telepathy
Wed, July 28, 2004 - 4:05 PMI think all animals have such telepathic =abilities=. Dogs just have, in addition, a powerful driving ==DESIRE== to communicate with their humans -- to have active give-and-take, not just reading/witnessing. Some individual cats =may= have such a desire, but I don't know if any of them have as strong a desire as dogs do; they seem to me to mostly be take-it-or-leave-it. But I don't know what I'm talking about, because I didn't grow up with cats, since my mother was allergic to them, so I'm not imprinted with cat-mind. The people you should ask about cat telepathy are people who are really attuned to them.
Bird telepathy I know, though.
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