Thoughts Through Space: a Pioneering Long-Distance Telepathy Experiment

18th November 2014

 

By Brendan D. Murphy

 

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

 

“Those who reject even telepathy have reached the point where they are impugning either the honesty or the sanity of several thousand scientific researchers on all major continents over a period of decades. Such expedient ways of disposing of data are shared only by the most ardent anti-Evolutionists among the Fundamentalist sects.” ~ R.A. Wilson, from the book Cosmic Trigger.

 

Thoughts Through Space

 

The term “telepathy” was coined in 1882 by Frederick W.H. Myers, a founding member of the LondonSociety for Psychical Research (SPR). The word means “feeling at a distance”, though this may be slightly misleading in that this is not usually how the term is deployed. Telepathy is essentially mind-to-mind contact, or the exchange of information between two different consciousnesses separated by an arbitrarily large distance (it doesn’t matter how large). Though many of the more narrow-visioned would claim any discussion involving telepathy is “unscientific” by default, we can see that many years ago there were eminent scientists who not only recognized its existence but sought to understand the phenomenon.

 

The first studies of telepathy were based on collections of spontaneous experiences, with 1886 seeing the publication of the seminal classicPhantasms of the Living, by the British scholars Edmund Gurney, Frederick Myers, and Frank Podmore — who actually took the time and effort to analyse all reports to identify the best and most reliable cases for publication and eliminate the fraudulent.[1]

 

Over a decade later, the eminent chemist and physicist Sir William Crookes — also an avid and meticulous researcher into “paranormal” phenomena — spoke on telepathy before the Royal Society at Bristol, England, in 1898. This address was, in the words of occultist Swami Panchadasi (a.k.a. William Walker Atkinson), “made before an assemblage of distinguished scientists, many of them rank materialists and quite skeptical of all occult phenomena.” Crookes, facing this gathering as its president, expressed the view that it is a “fundamental law… that thoughts and images may be transferred from one mind to another without the agency of the recognized organs of sense — that knowledge may enter the human mind without being communicated in any hitherto known or recognized ways.”[2]

 

If telepathy occurs, he continued, “we have two physical facts — the physical change in the brain of A, the suggestor, and the analogous physical change in the brain of B, the recipient of the suggestion.” While Crookes would eventually be vindicated in these comments by the development of the EEG and other modern technology and experimental designs, he assumed that “between these two physical events there must exist a train of physical causes”,[3] which we can accept if we modify our definition of “physical” to include subtle energies (such as torsion/scalar fields), as well as the plasma-like particulate matter of the various aetheric densities (etheric, astral, mental, etc.).

 

In the modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with telephone calls, according to biologist and paranormal researcher Rupert Sheldrake. Over 80% of people claim to have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who then phoned them; or that they have known, in a telepathic sort of way, who was on the phone before answering it. Sheldrake reports that controlled experiments have provided highly statistically significant repeatable positive results.[4] Many people (probably about 80%!) however, will need no convincing of the fact, as repeated personal experience has a way of making experimental proofs a little bit redundant sometimes.

 

CONTINUE READING:

 

Previous article by Brendan:

 

• The Belief Effect in Psychokinesis – Psychics, Skeptics and Science
• Time and Torsion in a Conscious, Holographic Universe
• Who Thinks Your Thoughts?
• Junk DNA: Our Interdimensional Doorway to Transformation

 

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