Many people do not really understand what ?mental telepathy? means. This term basically refers to the communication that occurs beyond the five senses. Nevertheless it's a world of variation between trying to read some one thoughts and trying to delve in some one's mind without their knowledge. Mental telepathy encompasses a wide assortment of different types of techniques and skills which can be either simple or very sophisticated. Here we will try to give you a brief glimpse into the various types of mental telepathy.

NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Being able to use kinesics or non-verbal communication to transfer thoughts between two people has been considered mental telepathy on some level. This can range from simple messages like 'go away' to entire conversations that don't involve language, other than body language or facial expressions. This form of communication is realized more easily and more exactly between people who are very close and familiar, such as spouses, children and their parents and sometimes even friends that are very close.

Some believe that this doesn't qualify as mental telepathy. The argument is that two people are communication by using their senses, such as eyes or touches so it cannot be telepathy. The fact is this is not true mental telepathy, however it is possible that mental telepathy does play a role. Non-verbal or kinesics communication tends to occur most successfully between people who are related or who have lived together for extended periods of time might mean their minds may be more attuned to each other. It could also mean that this merely means the two people know each other well enough to understand each others body language, or have nonverbal signals to communicate that have developed over time.

EMPATHY

We all know about empathy. When you can feel the other person's pain, elation or other emotions and understand them, then it's known as empathy. There are some people who can really empathize with the other person and think and feel like them. The ability to empathize can be enhanced with regular practice and training. This ability is evident in actors who can actually feel the characters pain and elation to the extent that they can cry and laugh as per the character.

Feeling sympathetic pain is another example of empathetic reactions that has been experienced by some people. They can vividly feel an injury to another person like it happened to them. For example, this is common when witnessing someone close to you getting a medical procedure done, such as an immunization. When someone close to you is experiencing an overwhelming emotion, like a close friend going through a divorce, where you experience the same feelings of anger towards her husband, is an example. The level of long distance empathy is a higher level of mental telepathy, like a person suddenly knows that a plane is going to crash and even doomsdays the news to co-workers, because they get a sick feeling in their stomach, and then they see it on the news when they get home, is an example.

Psychologists dismiss such feelings as an overactive imagination instead of empathetic mental telepathy. It is true that they do have a point, as other senses, such as visual and audible stimulants are used here. Could we feel the sympathy pains if we did not see it? Yet, this does not explain the strange experiences of long-distance empathy

CONCRETE CONCEPTS

The thought transference of concrete symbols, such as card tricks is considered a higher level of mental telepathy. Mental telepathy at this level moves beyond the regular five senses because it involves un-related and unbiased participants. Intense concentration on an object or symbol is necessary to send the thought or picture using mental telepathy.

It is easier to communicate a simpler concept through thought alone, such as a color or shape. It is harder to communicate, through thought transfer, concrete symbols that are more complex such as an animal or relatives name that is unknown.

Experiments in mental telepathy are often conducted using The Zener cards. These are the cards that are used in tests of mental telepathy they contain symbols such as a square, circle, plus sign, star and three wavy lines. When it comes to the Zener cards, since there are only 5 cards, critics and skeptics have pointed out that a random guess would give a 20% chance of being right. One could argue that is easier to coordinate thought transference if a shared, known, limited set of concrete symbols is used between the sender and receiver. A success rate of 50% or higher can not be explained away by simple statistics and has happened to those that believe in this mental telepathy meaning.

ABSTRACT IDEA LEVELS

Shapes and sizes are easy to communicate, however in the abstract concepts level mental telepathy moves one level ahead. This level involves communicating ideas and concepts without using the five senses and is quite a tough thing to do. Telepaths seldom achieve this kind of an expertise and most trials do not have a high rate of success.

Science is not able to explain how it is that some animals appear able to communicate. Mental telepathy should not be ruled out and in some cases it appears animals are using abstract or non-concrete concepts, although they may be very basic. Since animal brains lack prefrontal lobes, ideas such as this would probably not go beyond simplistic impulses to express emotions such as ?danger', ?hungry', ?thirsty' or ?horny'.

There is a theory that humans may have used mental telepathy in ancient times, but once they developed language, they no longer needed to communicate in this manner. Humans should be able to re-discover this ability if that theory is true and it may just involve practice.

There are others still that theorize that having psychic powers such as ESP and mental telepathy are actually a "future" development in human evolution. If enough people develop these powers, humans in the future could become telepathic in communication as they evolve.