Telepathy (Part-III)- Telepathy in Unconscious or Subconscious Mind

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Do you know how Telepathy is done when you are sleeping and dreaming? What are the several forms of Telepathy? How these are done? 

Here we continue with the third part of the blog on telepathy. Those who have missed the second part can read it from Here. It will help to connect with this third part of the blog discussing amazing facts regarding telepathy like how it is done during sleeping or dreaming and what are the the different forms of telepathy and how are they done. Let us explore the blog to find out these interesting facts in more details. In words of James Dashner:

"Wonder why we can do this, he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining—he felt a headache forming like a bulge in his brain. Maybe we were lovers, Teresa said. Thomas tripped and crashed to the ground. Smiling sheepishly at Minho, who’d turned to look without slowing, Thomas got back up and caught up to him.  What? he finally asked. He sensed a laugh from her, a watery image full of color".

Within the field of parapsychology, telepathy is considered to be a form of extrasensory perception (ESP) or anomalous cognition in which information is transferred through Psi. It is often categorized similarly to precognition and clairvoyance. Experiments have been used to test for telepathic abilities. Among the most well-known are the use of Zener cards and the Ganzfeld experiment.

Types of Parapsychology Describes Several Forms of Telepathy

• Latent telepathy, formerly known as "deferred telepathy", is described as the transfer of information, through Psi, with an observable time-lag between transmission and reception. 

• Retro-cognitive, precognitive, and intuitive telepathy is described as being the transfer of information, through Psi, about the past, future or present state of an individual's mind to another individual.

• Emotive telepathy, also known as remote influence or emotional transfer, is the process of transferring kinaesthetic sensations through altered states.

• Superconscious telepathy involves tapping into the superconscious to access the collective wisdom of the human species for knowledge.

What is Zener Card? What are the Five Distinctive Symbols of Zener Card?

Zener cards are marked with five distinctive symbols. When using them, one individual is designated the "sender" and another the "receiver". The sender selects a random card and visualize the symbol on it, while the receiver attempts to determine that symbol using Psi. Statistically, the receiver has a 20% chance of randomly guessing the correct symbol, so to demonstrate telepathy, they must repeatedly score a success rate that is significantly higher than 20%.If not conducted properly, this method can be vulnerable to sensory leakage and card counting. J. B. Rhine's experiments with Zener cards were discredited due to the discovery that sensory leakage or cheating could account for all his results such as the subject being able to read the symbols from the back of the cards and being able to see and hear the experimenter to note subtle clues. Once Rhine took precautions in response to criticisms of his methods, he was unable to find any high-scoring subjects. Due to the methodological problems, parapsychologists no longer utilize card-guessing studies.

How is Telepathy Carried Out in Dream?

Parapsychological studies into dream telepathy were carried out at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York led by Stanley Krippner and Montague Ullman. They concluded the results from some of their experiments supported dream telepathy. However, the results have not been independently replicated. The psychologist James Alcock has written the dream telepathy experiments at Maimonides have failed to provide evidence for telepathy and "lack of replication is rampant". The picture target experiments that were conducted by Krippner and Ullman were criticized by C. E. M. Hansel. According to Hansel there were weaknesses in the design of the experiments in the way in which the agent became aware of their target picture. Only the agent should have known the target and no other person until the judging of targets had been completed, however, an experimenter was with the agent when the target envelope was opened. Hansel also wrote there had been poor controls in the experiment as the main experimenter could communicate with the subject. An attempt to replicate the experiments that used picture targets was carried out by Edward Belvedere and David Foulkes. The finding was that neither the subject nor the judges matched the targets with dreams above chance level. Results from other experiments by Belvedere and Foulkes were also negative.

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