Telepathy is something which many people look at with a great deal of skepticism. It's a concept; after all, which most of us are familiar with from the context of science fiction and other sources in popular culture. While telepathic abilities may seem beyond explanation, just consider the world we live in: people fly all over the world in a matter of hours, we are able to create flame in the palm of our hands with the use of a lighter and we receive information seemingly from the ether to our cell phones and computers. Not long ago, many of these things would be simply inconceivable.

As little as a century ago people would have denied that much of what science and technology has accomplished is impossible. It is true that when technology is advanced enough it is seemingly indistinguishable from magic. Consider what we have been able to do. Not only have we left footprints on the moon, we have also walked along the bottom of the ocean. And as we look to the future we consider our current knowledge to be rather primitive. Yet we have not only harnessed the energy of the wind, water and even the sun, we have also put them to work for us. A century ago, no-one could know that we would one day carry a small device in our pockets that would enable us to communicate with anyone, anytime, anywhere and in a variety of ways.

Those who talk about telepathy are typically regarded as mystics and their ideas are discounted by the majority of the population. However, is it really too farfetched to consider the idea of telepathy? This ability may just work in ways which we do not yet understand.

Telepaths are in fact studied scientifically in paraphysics and parapsychology. Paraphysicists and parapsychologists design experiments according to the scientific method to answer questions concerning telepathy; like all professional scientists (or as they are supposed to be), they are agnostic about the results they will get-they neither believe nor disbelieve in telepathy.

Oftentimes the results of the experiments are very intriguing. For something like telepathy to be considered by the science world to be a scientific fact it has to be possible to measure it, the results must be consistent, and the results must be repeatable. However, when it comes to telepathy the results are not always repeatable or consistent. While science then declares telepathy as improvable of unsubstantiated, others point out that perhaps they just haven?t invented the proper tests yet, since we still do not know or understand why some people are telepathic.

But there are some important questions about telepathy that need to be answered. For one, how can people possibly transmit communications with pure thought, with no involvement of the five physical senses? But once again, existing technology gives us the answer. If you have a radio receiver in your home or office, you can listen to a vast array of different programs, ideas, music, and voices all with the touch of buttons or the flip of a dial…but, have you ever seen a radio wave pulsing through the air? Why can't there be 'telepathy waves' that also propagate invisibly and undetected by the five senses? Ah, you say, because the human brain is not a radio tower!

..Or, is it? One thing that science does know and acknowledge is that there are electromagnetic waves generated by the brain called 'thought waves'. And researchers who have not dismissed telepathy say that this is the key insight that is needed to understand it.

Our thoughts are in fact what science calls neurons. These neurons move around our brain between different synapses. We know for a fact that as these neurons pass between the synapses they produce a tiny electrical current which in turn produces a tiny magnetic field. Despite their small size they can be measured and, at any given time, there are thousands and thousands of synapses firing neurons in our brains.

Telepathy researchers are trying to find if the bio-electric and bio-magnetic fields created in our brains could be a means of communicating with others. Can a message be carried on these signals, or is it just so much static? If thoughts can carry information to others, is it possible to learn telepathy through mental training? Are meditation and controlled thought a viable way of training one's mind to use its inherent telepathic abilities?

One obstacle to using telepathic communication is that these bio-energy fields are very weak. They can easily be lost in the other electromagnetic fields which are part and parcel of modern technology.

However, science has discovered that during times when we are afraid, in pain, feeling threatened or in shock the brain produces a spike in bio-electrical and bio-magnetic brain waves. This spike occurs during a heightened emotional state, because our synapses are firing more neurons between them at the same time.

There is scientifically conducted research which has documented possibilities here. Perhaps that is why people see departed loved ones during near-death experiences: they are emotionally intensified and, as a result, tune in telepathic thoughts-maybe even some old thoughts that somehow still linger around them from loved ones but could never be tuned in before! So, does this prove brainwave boosting capacity? Would genetic ties matter? Or, is this all just reading into coincidences?

As of yet, parapsychology researchers have not gathered sufficient evidence to definitively prove the existence of telepathy, at least in terms of mainstream scientific acceptance. The scales are starting to shift, however as more and more evidence suggests that telepathic communication is a real phenomenon which can be taught to anyone with the proper training.