Telepathy

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This paper defines telepathy as the direct transference of thought from one person (sender or agent) to another (receiver or percipient) without using the usual sensory channels of communication, hence a form of extrasensory perception (ESP). The author points out that, while the existence of telepathy has not yet been proved, some parapsychological research studies have produced favorable results using such techniques as card-guessing with a special deck of five sets of five cards. The paper relates in detail that Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, a theologian and philosopher, was able to determine why human beings are not telepathic.

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History
Experimental Findings
Theories
Telepathy: Belief in Parapsychological Phenomena - A Comparison of Males to Females
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Why Are We Not Telepathic?

From the Paper:

"Most often telepathy takes place in a person's mind when there is some kind of crisis or in situations where a relative or friend may have been injured or killed in an accident. At times, some people can see signs and become aware of the danger that may be posed at another person from a distance. However, information of this kind does not come in direct streams but in small broken or discontinuous thought fragments to tell us that something is wrong through our dreams, visions, hallucinations, mental images, in clairaudience, or simply in small hints that arise into the mind."

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