Telepathy could be defined as the art of hearing the whispers of
another's mind. In order to do this, we must be quiet within our
own minds. Most of us, by nature, have a party going on inside our
own heads. We're always conversing with ourselves or running
tapes through our heads. When added to the usual din around us,
this dulls the receptivity of the fifth chakra. We're accustomed to
using technological devices to send our messages beyond the
limits of our voices. We're not accustomed to listening for the
subtle stirs in the ether that can bring us communication across
time and space.
And why should we be? Isn't gross, physical communication
more accurate, more specific, and less subject to loss or error? If
you send a telepathic message, how can you be sure it's received?
Or received accurately?
Consciousness is not really a verbal process. In order to
communicate, we must translate our consciousness into a symbolic
structure. In order to receive the communication, we must translate
symbols back into consciousness. While this may seem
instantaneous, we are downgrading consciousness from its purer
form. As any linguist knows, the essence of a communication is
often distorted in translation.
Seen in this light, telepathic communication can be more precise
and immediate than verbal communication, which can often contain
lies and omissions.
While few people are really adept at this form of
communication, there are even fewer people who have never
experienced it at all. Two people saying the same thing at the same
time, finding a busy signal because your friend is simultaneously
calling you, or getting the psychic hit that a family member is in
danger are a few examples of the common ways telepathy can
occur.
If we accept the ether as a connective field of gross and subtle
vibrations, then communication occurs through a perceptible
alteration in that field. Telepathic communication is merely a
subtler alteration, perceptible only when the grosser vibrations are
quieted. Telepathy may result when two or more minds are rhythm-
entrained such that a variation in the pattern of one rhythm results
in a similar variation in the other. Entrained rhythms increase the
amplitude of the wave. A wave of higher amplitude has more
potency, more chance of being heard.