Telepathy

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Telepathy is communication between one mind and another by extrasensory means. Telepathy is a possible Connection Outcome. ESP is an example of the Enhanced Intuitive Function often attendant opinion Connection.

Examples

Enhanced Intuitive Function > ESP, Expansion of Meaning, Glimpse, Intuitive Glimmering, Spiritual Emergence, Telepathy

List of Connection Outcomes

Connection Outcome > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Permanent Connection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union}}

Notes

Traditional Ojibway accept telepathy as an established fact of communication between individuals and "dreamers." "I have been expecting you. I sent my thoughts to your farm, for my daughters' lodge is nearby. I wish to see her, but because I am as I am, I need help to get there and so I have sent my thoughts....That is the way of the Dreamers of the Ojibway. That is why Oona knew she must make the journey south..."[1]

The Winnebego peyote eaters accepted telepathy as part of the peyote experience. "Just then Harry Rave got up to speak, and no sooner did he get up, than I knew exactly what he was going to say. This must be the way of all peyote-eaters, I thought. I looked around me; and suddenly I realized that all these within the room knew my thoughts, and that I knew those of all the others."[2]

Telepathy is noted as a connection outcome in the Yoga Sastra of Hemacandra[3]

"The fortune of the blossoming flowers of the [fabulous] wishing tree of yoga consists of [supernatural attainments (labdhi), such as] walking in the air (caarana), the ability of curse and favour (asivisa), extra-ordinary perception (avadhi), and mind-reading (manahparyaya)."[4]

Footnotes

  1. Ignatia Broker, Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative (Minnesota: Minnesota Historial Society Press, 1983: p. 111).
  2. Radin, Paul. “A Sketch of the Peyote Cult of the Winnebago: A Study of Borrowing.” Edited by G. Stanley Hall. Journal of Religious Experience 7, no. 1 (1914): 1–22. p. 14. https://archive.org/details/journalofreligio07worcuoft/page/8/mode/2up
  3. Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth-Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002.p. 21.
  4. Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. p. 21.