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Posted by: Guest Blogger: Thought Provokers

Oftentimes the results of  telepathic experiments are very intriguing. For something like telepathy to be considered by scientists 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 unprovable or 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 may be telepathic.

Science has not disproven the existence of telepathic people. But is it possible to communicate without using any of our normal five senses? Just by thought alone? We would have to find means to test and measure it. Science and technology have already done this in the high tech way. Consider radio waves. True, we cannot see them, touch them, taste, hear or smell them, but we all know that they most certainly do exist.

Could it be possible that ‘thought waves’  exist - signals electrically or magnetically generated  by the brain?  Telepathic studies have been based on trying to find these thought waves. Explaining this in terms for the average person might be a little difficult, but stay with us.

The conventional wisdom in science is that human thought is ‘merely ‘ the result of a mass of biochemical neurons transferring electro-chemical impulses between different synapses. Indeed, this has led some to conclude that consciousness is merely an ‘illusion’. But, there is electrical current that gets generated—and as small as it is, it’s consistently and repeatedly measurable. Like all electrical currents, there is a proportional magnetic field that goes along with it. And the brain has tens of thousands of synapses activated at any given second.

So, now we are talking bio-electric and bio-magnetic fields - and we know very well that electrical and magnetic fields enable ‘mystical ‘ communications, for example, your cell phone. But, within these electrical and magnetic brain waves, is there content or mere static? Is it possible to be trained to control these waves? Does something like meditation actually operate by shaping thought waves into meaningful communication?

There is also skepticism because of the weakness of the brain ’s electromagnetic field. The common, ubiquitous electromagnetic fields of modern devices like televisions, computers, stereo systems, refrigerators, microwave ovens are all much greater than the brain’s; therefore they may possibly interfere with the brain waves.

It might however be possible to give  brains a boost. It seems that in times of extremely high emotional states, 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.

And in fact, parapsychologists have documented short instances of telepathic communication in these moments. One of the most well-known examples is when a mother knows that her child is hurt or in jeopardy even though she is miles away and there has been no direct communication made between them. So, is this an example of brainwave boosting? Do blood-ties matter? Is it all just coincidence (mothers always worry about their children anyway, for instance)?

The jury of mainstream science is out on telepathy for now, and the general attitude is one of doubt. However, this may be slowly changing, and there are more researchers all the time who become convinced that telepathy is a real ability and that all it takes is the right training for just about anyone to become telepathic.