Thoughts on a possible human telepathic network?
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Hey, rocketman9070 read my mind.  Get out of my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey!  Don't put down a seemingly silly question that is under the alternate section of the science and mathematics area, especially under paranormal phenomena.  He has placed it in the right spot.  Be good little scientists and use logic and evidence to prove or disprove the topics brought up in here.\n\nI have never heard of shadow people myself.  I don't think we could ever sense "people" in another dimension or that they could ever sense or in any way interact with us because we are governed by different laws of physics.
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Cool Thought!!!!  Ever thought of astral projection.  Hank Wesselman has some great ideas about it - in story form so its entertaining and readable.
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Yes; healing, telepathy, telekinesis, prophecy, spirits, God manifesting, sequences of events that defy all odds.  My mother, one of the sanest and most loving people I have ever known, college educated, worked at the U.N. and with various embassies in New York (and I think Washington D.C., but I'd have to ask my stepfather) experienced even odder things.  She only lied to me once in my life (I never even suspected she lied, but I had asked a HIGHLY personal question that was NONE of my business, even as a son, and she corrected the lie 30 seconds later.  I didn't even suspect despite her agitation.  She could easily have not told me despite the embarressment it cost her.  She did so anyway.  She was an amazingly ethical person.  Yet, she claimed that she had frequently seen faeries as a child and teenager, as well as a number of other experiences through adulthood.  And yes, the family is a strong supporter of psychology and none of us take drugs or drink, or seek such experiences.  They just happen.\n\nJust one example, one of the minor ones: On a trip to Hawaii my family and my best friend's family were at the Mauna Kea Hotel.  While outside walking with his son, my friend, his father had a major heart attack.  The hotel is somewhat isolated.  We called emergency services.  Here is a list of the coincidences:\n1) A busy popular hotel (nearly empty during that hour, for no reason the staff could figure out and remarked on it)\n2) Elevator was there exactly on time for the paramedics (they remarked on the coincidence)\n3) A new hospital had JUST opened very close, vs. the clinic that was much farther away (we were told how incredibly fortunate that was, as he would have died.  They were blunt)\n4) No traffic on the busy section (ambulance people again commented on how everyone seemed to be gone)\n5) We were told he would not make it.\n6) Next day we were told he would never walk leave his bed.\n7) Next day we were told that he would probably recover in a several years, but only partially.\n8) Next day after that we were told he might recover in a few months, and they remarked that they were just stunned with his recovery.\n9) Within six days, he was out of the hospital, walking on his own, and within another week it was as if it had never happened.\n10) If it had happened at home, at the isolated location the family had chosen to live, he would have died.\n11) It even happened on the very tail end of our vacation!  We had a great time until then!\n12) He's still alive decades later.\n13) Here's the big one: We barely talk about it.  It's not that uncommon in my family.  \n\nThis is not proof, just one person's experience. At the same time, be very careful.  I encourage you to read "Flim Flam" by James Randi.  There is so much nonsense and fakery going on, and so few people know scientific method or formal logic.  But keep an open mind.  That's part of being truly skeptical.  I'm skeptical, because there are ALWAYS other explanations.  I've met too many people who claim such things, and ten minutes down the discussion I've realized that they just this side of an insane assylum.  Keep questioning, even as you explore the wonders we have all around us.  Don't be gullible, but never shut your mind to the wonders and magic we, as just people, can experience.
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"Telepathy" is derived from the Greek terms tele ("distant") and pathe ("occurrence" or "feeling"). The term was coined in 1882 by the French psychical researcher Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). Myers thought his term descrbed the phenomenon better than previous used terms such as the French "communication de pensees," "thought-transference," and "thought-reading."\n\nResearch interest in telepathy had its beginning in mesmerism. The magnetists discovered that telepathy was among the so-called "higher-phenomena" observed in magnetized subjects, who read the thoughts of the magnetists and carried out the unspoken instructions.\n\nSoon other psychologists and psychiatrists were observing the same phenomena in their patients. Sigmund Fraud noticed it so often that he son had to address it. He termed it a regressive, primitive faculty that was lost in the course of evolution, but which still had the ability to manifest itself under certain conditions. Psychiatrist Carl G. Jung thought it more important. He considered it a function of synchronicity (1). Psychologist and philosopher William James was very enthusiastic toward telepathy and encouraged more research be put into it.\n\nWhen the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) was founded in 1885, after the SPR in 1884, telepathy became the first psychic phenomenon to be studied scientifically. The first testing was simple. A sender in one room would try to transmit a two-digit number, a taste, or a visual image to a receiver in another room. The French physiologist Charles Richet introduced mathematical chance to the tests, and also discovered that telepathy occurred independent of hypnotism.\n\nInterest in telepathy increased following World War I as thousands of bereaved turned toward Spiritualism attempting to communicate with their dead loved ones. The telepathic parlor game called "willing" became popular. Mass telepathic experiments were undertaken in the United States and Britain. \n\nExperimental findings:\n\nMost often telepathy occurs spontaneously in incidents of crisis where a relative or friend has been injured or killed in an accident. An individual is aware of the danger to the other person from a distance. Such information seems to come in different forms as in thought fragments, like something is wrong; in dreams, visions, hallucinations, mental images, in clairaudience, or in words that pop into the mind. Often such information causes the person, the receiver, to change is course of action, such as changing his travel plans or daily schedule, or to just call or contact the other person. Some incidents involve apparent telepathy between humans and animals.\n\nTelepathy seems to be related to the individual's emotional state. This is true of both the sender and receiver. Most women were receivers, as case findings showed, and one possible explanation is that women are more in touch with their emotions and rely on intuition more than men. Geriatric telepathy is fairly common, this may be due, it is speculated, to the impairment of the senses with age. \n\nTelepathy can be induced in the dream state. It appears to be related to some biological factors: blood volume changes during telepathic sending, and electroencephalogram monitoring show that the brain waves of the recipient change to match those of the sender. \n\nDissociative drugs adversely affect telepathy, but caffeine has a positive effect on it.\n\nDuring his 1930 ESP experiments J. B. Rhine also made some discoveries concerning telepathy: It was often difficult to determine whether information was communicated through telepathy, clairvoyance, or precognitive clairvoyance. He concluded that telepathy and clairvoyance were the same psychic function manifested in different ways. Also, telepathy is not affected by distance or obstacles between the sender and receiver
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Hi Brenda--let's put it this way: "Most" people who haven't got it don't believe in it.  I've no choice since I've got it.  Sometimes I wish that I didn't. There are various "categories"--one that is often painful to me, is the non-intellectual floating senses about someone, often at great distances, of "concern." I'm always COMPELLED to find this person; for some reason that seems almost serendipity, I do, & discover (without exception) either that they have died, or are in a very tenuous health/emotional situation. In the latter case I do "help" by simply listening, or being able to provide suggestions. I find this quite draining, however. Precognition is different in that I've prevented potentially fatal incidents, or been able to "warn" someone & direct them in ways that preclude what would have been a disaster. Not always! but often. I'll also feel a good "energy" & discover that all my friends are experiencing positive things & gaining insights. My "night" dreams, (there are many different kinds of dreams also), have given me profound messages. I do not have the single psychic ability my mother had. She knew the instant of someone's death. I'll never forget her running out into the freezing Wisconsin Winter night because she heard her brother calling her. We lived in a very rural area, no phone. The following day, my aunt drove out from the city to tell her he had died, & it was at the precise time she heard him. (She had many more experiences like this.) I've had many, many more, but shan't belabour them here. People who know me well have relied on me for the things that I "see" & sense.  Some people will scoff at the very idea of psychic abilities, just as they do about astrology, (I can perceive the 3 major signs in a stranger the moment I meet them, although I can't always be specific of "how" I do this). To the few people who "hassle" me--the disbelievers--I simply say that they aren't "required" to believe, & will NEVER get into a debate with them. I KNOW that I'm psychic, & just used these few rather general examples. I hope no one "jokes" about your question, yet I rather think that SOMEONE will. YOU know what you are, & that's truly all that counts, isn't it?\n\n*** Just looked at your answers. "Amy" must know something about you that I don't; your question asked what others believed, not to tell you if you are. But ThatLady made me aware I hadn't mentioned that I'm only a "receiver." No further comments needed....
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Its been done already!!!! I read a headline about a company (I'm sorry I don't remember which one) that created a robot controlled by brain waves.  WOW!
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Yeah, some frat house buddies and I went to the hospital once to visit a brother who was in there for observation. Someone caught him sitting in the middle of a pentagram he drew on the floor with lighter-fluid. He set it afire and was rocking himself to his bizarre chant hoping he'd cast a spell to bring peace to the mid-east. He didn't come back to school. I think he moved somewhere to a lower rent area downtown. And, that was just fine with me. Anyone with psychic abilities needs to stay clear away from me!
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Tinfoil works very well.Just shape it into the form of a Hat.Then wrap some thin copper wire around the hat.That will keep anyone from knowing what's going on inside your Mind.Make one for all your family and friends.
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i have no dought that this will one day happen...people have found on freak events, a brain cell that reacts to a picture in lab animals...i would imagation after a while they will have much better brain mapping to a cellear level...then from there they could figure out how to make a computer to read the information...but i think that is as far as it will go...i do not think that the computer will think for us or anything like that...i think it would be read only in a sense
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I get the point. It's a good joke. However, do you realise that a clairvoyant could actually e-mail you through Answers?\n[Wednesday, 15/11/06 14:31]
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Yeah, some frat house buddies and I went to the hospital once to visit a brother who was in there for observation. Someone caught him sitting in the middle of a pentagram he drew on the floor with lighter-fluid. He set it afire and was rocking himself to his bizarre chant hoping he'd cast a spell to bring peace to the mid-east. He didn't come back to school. I think he moved somewhere to a lower rent area downtown. And that was just fine with me. Anyone with psychic abilities needs to stay clear away from me!
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I can see how it could happen. There are artificial intelligence programs that do get smarter over time. But as for physical evolution... maybe in the future.
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telepathy is either God speaking through you words of wisdom or the familiar spirits speaking through you for evil.. i would be wary of the latter
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Ichi THAT is BRILLIANT......I know that in the tangential thinking that often bests me 'thinkos are the weakest links, perhaps the 'savants' of my mind and truly the innocents. Perhaps they are what saves my butt altogether.\nAbsolutely Brill!!!! I am going to ask if I may have permission to use this in my writing for in my speaking & writing i have for the first time just spoken it aloud...thank for the new concept on somethng I have been doing, another thing to obssess on, fair play to you mate, brain food doesnt often ome through the screen like this. and it just did.\nNow does this include the frontal and temporal lobes? Will Kirlean Photograhy show this in action? Or is it a different part of the brain where the lost socks of our lives go to?\nTHIS is a cool quesion. I now possess a new word..and it is awesome..."THINKOS"..now THAT is HOT!!!
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Others have wondered whether or not downloading the contents of one's brain into an ultra-high-capacity chip would allow for the continuation of the consciousness. Arthur C. Clarke seems to think so. I'm not so sure, but it is an interesting Q.
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Man there's all kinds of nonverbal communiation.\nBody language, etc.\nbut\nI feel you're wondering about cooler stuff like psychic powers and whatnot...\nPhysically, it all seems possible to me;  One can spends hours, days, weeks researching QM, and a mild conceptual understanding of the amazing subatomic world that makes up our physical reality can really leave one with lots of questions and interesting conclusions...\nWe're built of all those amazing little atoms too.\nThey say we can't really dabble in the world of the quantum mostly because we can't measure it without changing it.\nScience just can't make sensitive enough machines...\nIt took several million years, but we may each have grown an instrument powerful and sensitive enough to muck around in the quantum world.\nI'm talking about the brain, of course.\nPerfect instrument\nno eyepieces, screens, readouts,\nit's wired directly to our perception