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Telepathic Articles
THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF TELEPATHIC HUMANS
When we say someone is ‘telepathic’ are we talking
about something that really exists? Most people think not—they dismiss
the idea as mysticism or science fiction. On the other hand, don’t we
live in a world where people fly on a regular basis? Where information
floats invisibly through the air for use with laptops and cell phones?
Where anyone can conjure a tongue of flame in their hand with the use of
a $1 cigarette lighter?
Is has been said that a sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from magic. The human race has used
science and technology to learn things about the natural world we never
knew. We’ve done things that were considered impossible flights of
fancy jut a hundred years ago. We’ve had men walk on the bottoms of the
oceans and on the surface of the moon (and we did it with technology
that, by today’s standards, seems primitive). We can gather energy from
the sun, the wind, and the water. And anyone can have a small device in
their pocket that allows them to talk to anyone anywhere in the world.
But this isn’t magic, its science… right?
The idea of someone being Telepathic is often
disregarded as mysticism—which is just another word for magic. Is it
that much of a stretch to consider the possibility that someone really
could be Telepathic, but that they simply operate under scientific
principles we don’t yet understand?
The scientific investigation of Telepathic people
falls under the area of paraphysics or parapsychology. The people who
investigate it, paraphysicists or parapsychologists, try hard to use
experiments and the scientific method to answer questions about
telepathy, whether or not they like the answers they find.
Some experiments on people with Telepathic powers
have produced tantalizing results. In order to consider something
scientifically provable, however, the test results must be measurable,
consistent, and repeatable. This is where the scientific investigation
of telepathy falls short—the test results are inconsistent and can’t
always be duplicated. Some say this proves people can’t really be
Telepathic. Others say this only proves that we don’t understand how it
works yet, and haven’t developed the proper tests to measure it.
But how could humans really be Telepathic? How
can people communicate without the use of their five senses, using only
thought alone? The obvious answer is through some means that we can’t
hear, see, smell, taste, or touch, but that exists nonetheless. On the
one hand, humans can already do this artificially using communication
technology—radio waves can’t be observed with our five senses, but they
definitely exist. On the other hand, the human brain is not a radio
tower.
Or is it? “Thought waves”, defined as an
electrical and magnetic fiend generated by the brain, has been proven to
exist. This is the keystone that scientific Telepathic studies rest
on. We’ll try to explain it in layman’s terms, but it may get a little
complicated, so just bear with us.
Scientifically, human thought is just a
biochemical process of neurons being transferred between different
synapses in the brain. However, this transfer of neurons creates an
electrical current—tiny, sure, but measurable. This electrical current
also generates a tiny magnetic field. Keep in mind the brain has tens of
thousands of synapses firing at any one time.
Can this bio-electric and bio-magnetic field be
used by humans to communicate mind-to-mind? Do these electrical and
magnetic waves carry content, or just the brain equivalent of
meaningless static? Can people use mental training to control these
brain waves? Can techniques like meditation or controlled thought be
used to shape these brain waves into meaningful communication?
Another problem is the weakness of the electrical
or magnetic field. It can easily be drowned out by the electrical and
magnetic fields of everyday technology—stereos, televisions, computers,
even microwaves and refrigerators all send out much larger electrical
and magnetic fields. Is there any way the electrical and magnetic
fields of the human brain can be boosted? Perhaps. Sometimes for
example, during a heightened emotional state (such as pain, shock, fear,
or feeling endangered), more neural synapses fire simultaneously,
temporarily creating a spike in bio-electrical and bio-magnetic brain
waves.
Researchers of parapsychology have documented
brief instances of Telepathic communication during such moments—a mother
knowing instantly that their child has been hurt, for example, even
though they are miles away. Is there a link between such brain
chemistry activity spikes and instances of telepathic communication?
Does the fact that the two people are genetically related play a role?
Or is it all just a coincidence?
Unfortunately, we just don’t have the knowledge or
technology to determine this yet. Until it can be shown for certain
that people really can be Telepathic, it remains (scientifically at
least) just a theory, not a fact. However, what little scientific
evidence we have offers tantalizing clues that someday, when our science
and technology is more advanced, we may finally be able to prove beyond
doubt that humans can either already be, or with the right training,
learn to become, Telepathic.
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