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Sceptics have always been fast to dismiss the idea of telepathy – auto-communication between separate, individual minds but now new brain-scanning technologies in various parts of the world are producing new and fascinating evidence of the phenomena.
Perhaps four out of five of us have experienced thinking, abstractly, of a friend or relative of who we had heard nothing in years when suddenly that person telephones.. There are many instances of what appears to be a telepathic link between minds separated both by space and time. In 2008 the British Association (a registered charity that exists to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering in the UK) brought coals of fire upon its head for daring even to debate the subject. The wrath, of course, from died-in-the-wool sceptics in the scientific world who have a pathological disbelief in any philosophy that strays from the confines of their own expertise. The usual outcry following the lines “the samples are too tiny, the effects are statistically insignificant, the experiments were not conducted in a scientific way, there are no serious reasons for believing” and so on ad nauseum. Another ploy is to disparage the reputation of a diligent researcher with statements such as “well….. everyone knows Professor So-and-so is a bit of a wild card”. Then, of course, when samples are made massive, controls tightened and the most prestigious centres of learning in the world become involved, they shift the goal-posts. Professor H J Eysenck, who occupied the Chair in Psychology at London University and was Director of the Psychological Dept. at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals said "Scientists, especially when they leave the field in which they have specialised, are just as ordinary, pig-headed and unreasonable as anybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous".
In a recent edition of New Scientist, a magazine devoted to the latest in science, in a theme considering research into the likes of drugs and ESP (extra-sensory perception). I quote: “In no other area of scientific endeavour would it be deemed acceptable to consistently reject data that finds in favour of a certain hypothesis and instead look for flaws in that data”. If a series of experiments were to conclusively establish the existence of ESP this would entail the revision of so many laws of physics as to undermine our ability to use concepts like verification and falsification consistently so it is not surprising that scientists offer more resistance to para-psychological findings than findings in other areas.
Thank goodness, an ever increasing number of scientists are becoming more open-minded and scientific equipment is becoming more sophisticated, the latest being brain-scanning. In particular Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), a medical scanner which uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to affect and observe the behaviour of atomic nuclei in biologically important molecules. Now scientists in leading research institutes in the Western world, are producing fresh evidence for telepathy which is infinitely more difficult to explain away. Instead of confining experiments to people to send and receive images, whilst under strict supervision and observation, medical scanning techniques are used to examine and record the activity within the brain. The first extraordinary results are now appearing in published scientific papers and journals and they point to amazing correlations in the brain activity of people who attempt to transmit thought and others who are “recipients”.
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Just over a decade ago distinguished British theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose hypothesized that consciousness may be the result of sophisticated quantum effects within the brain. The idea was not generally accepted as it was argued by others that such effects were too delicate to survive the relatively high bodily temperatures. Sir Roger was too highly respected and far too big a gun for lesser scientists to start baying at his heels as happened to the likes of Professors Robert Jahn of Princeton University and and J.B.Rhine of Dukes University. Drs Stephan Schmidt and Pym Van Lommel who have conducted parallel researches into the reach of the mind seem largely to have been ignored.
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However, recent research on individual nerve cells suggests that there might be a loophole in these arguments against the quantum effect. A team led by Dr Rita Pizzi of the University of Milan created two small arrays of human nerve cells and monitored the effects of stimulating them.. The arrays were first connected together then separated. One array was subjected to pulses of laser light. Despite being isolated from its partner, the second array still responded as if it had been struck by the laser light.
Reporting their findings in the journal Quantum Information and Computation, the team suggested that the apparent connection between the two arrays may be due to the kind of quantum effects proposed by Penrose. If that is the case, some believe it may explain the binding together of brain activity thought to underpin consciousness.
If quantum effects are at work, they might explain the reports of telepathy (“distant intentionality”) detected elsewhere under laboratory conditions. Many of the studies have been carried out in sealed, electrically screened rooms to rule out conventional forms of communications and yet still have produced positive results. The answer may lie in the quantum phenomenon of “entanglement” in which particles stay in intimate and instantaneous communication with each other, even when separated by vast distances.
A quite separate study was carried out at Manchester University on identical twins and triplets. Three teenage male triplets were separated and one was subjected to reasonably painful electrical shocks every time he got a wrong answer in a set of problems. Neither the boy answering the test question or the other two had any idea that they were being subjected to a test of this nature. The two separated boys were monitored by electroencephalogram machines although they believed something entirely different was going on.. Each denied and found laughable that they may have reacted to their sibling’s mental reactions – but the machine showed that they had each reacted strongly at a subconscious level and at the identical moment of their brother’s pain.
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Well i have often had Deja Vu moments and phone ringing and knowing who its will be,
I am VERY open minded to there being vibes or whatever you want to call it , and things or experiences that cant be logically explained.
I had a very strange out of body experience when my mum died suddenly .wont go into details BUT i know what happened to me which simulestainlessly happened to my brother some two hundred miles away where mum was with him at the time
I know sceptics say everything has a logical explanation But i too think that some things defy that theory
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Whoops only clicked submit once but it double posted,perhaps "someone" is trying to tell me something!!
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Not quite on the topic exactly, but reading this made me think of coincidental birthdays etc cropping up in the family tree. Obviously if you identify enough people in a tree on different branches, there are bound to be some who are born on the day other people die or who share birthdays, death dates, wedding anniversaries and so on, but . . .
My grandparents named their firstborn Joseph (after grandad, I imagine) and my uncle Joseph was born on the 11th December but died in infancy. I often wondered if it was just a coincidence that Grandad died on 11th December forty-seven years later?
Perhaps there is something that makes these events come together?
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The writer and philosopher Arthur Koestler said "coincidences happen too often for them to be coincidences".
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Good morning Len
Still reading, not always commenting :-)
Susan
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Hi Susan.
I have to assume you are interested - otherwise why be reading?
Go on - be a bit of a devil - add some comments.
len
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