Is it objective, rational, scientific, even sensible to call someone 'telepathic'? Well, of course, most people would say, 'no; that's just science fiction, not science fact.' Yet, they would not stop to consider that we all can fly…Talk to other people who are not even there with us, who may even be in another nation, instantly…See people who are not there without having to exercise our imaginations…and so many other amazing things.

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.

To the people living a century ago, all these things would have been considered impossible. But we know that they do exist. This begs the question: Is it not possible that telepathic people are merely operating in a way that science does not yet understand? But by much telepathy is still viewed as nothing more than magic.

Paraphysics and parapsychology are the areas of study which cover the investigation of telepathic abilities in people. Just as with any other branch of the sciences, parapsychologists and paraphysicists use the scientific method in their efforts to learn more about telepathy and other phenomenon.

Some telepath experiments have produced intriguing results. But nothing is accepted as 'scientific' unless it's shown to be measurable, consistent, and repeatable. Unfortunately, telepathy experiment results usually fall short on the consistent or repeatable parts, so that many doubt the truth of telepathy. Then there are researchers who argue that this is merely like Edison's experiments to create the light bulb-he failed 10,000 times before he finally got it right, but that never meant that electric lights were 'not real'. They say we just have to design better experiments around this phenomenon.

Yet, questions about telepathy remain. How can people communicate, at least to a significant degree, without making use of any of the five physical senses-communicate with pure thought? Well, human beings do this now with the use of artificial communication technology. For instance, probably every home in the civilized world has a radio in it-but radio waves, which surely do exist, can't be observed intuitively or felt with our five physical senses. So, it would seem that telepathy is made possible by some force or energy that is there but, like the radio wave, cannot be intuitively or tactiley observed. Yet, the problem here is that the human brain isn't a radio receiver…

..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.

Scientifically speaking, our thoughts occur as the result of biochemical processes which involve electrical impulses being transferred from neuron to neuron in the brain. These electrical impulses are very small, but they are measureable ? and of course, any electrical current will generate a magnetic field. In the human brain, there are thousands of these electrical impulses happening at any given time.

The question which research into telepathy seeks to answer is if these bio-electric and bio-magnetic fields can be used as a medium of communication. Is it possible to convey information in these impulses and if so, can the ability to communicate this way be learned through training? Can meditation and controlled thought exercises be useful in learning to make one?s brainwaves into a viable means of communication?

Another problem could be the relative weakness of the brain's electromagnetic field. We have computers, cell phones, TV sets, stereos, and appliances all over the place today; and they all generate electromagnetic fields-stronger ones than the brain's, meaning they might interfere with the brain's transmission capacity.

It might however be possible to give the brains a boost. It seems that in times of extremely high emotional intensity, which might be brought on by a sense that one's life is in danger for instance, more neural synapses than usual fire simultaneously, temporarily spiking the brain's bio-magnetic and bio-electrical intensity.

When a mother who is far away from her child suddenly knows that her child is in danger, her synapses are firing more neurons simultaneously and parapsychologists have been able to document these brief instances of telepathy. This raises the question then that if we detect a spike in bio-electrical and bio-magnetic brainwaves, does that mean that there is a link between that and telepathic communication?

With the use of mainstream science there is just no way to prove that telepathy in hums exists beyond a shadow of a doubt. But we are seeing slow changes as science continues to increase its studies into telepathy. And with this increase in studies science is showing that telepathy does exist and anyone can learn to become telepathic with training.