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We usually never call these experiences telepathy. And yet we transmit and receive most complex contents in a highly precise way without using material means of communication like speech, gestures, posture, facial expression, the arrangement of objects etc.
Certainly - these examples are simple, our ability is not always exact and stays more at the periphery of our awareness. But this is only because we never really cared to seriously train this channel.
Our present, rather naïve idea how telepathy functions, is the biggest obstacle for training this particular ability.
Telepathy is not the transfer of single words or symbols, but an extremely fast communication of complex contents that happens on the level of feeling and intuition. The main carrier of this communication are our emotions, not our thoughts.31
It is easy to train telepathy. Since we use this ability quite often in daily life, we only need to focus our attention on the extent and precision with which we already send and receive contents through this channel. Once we remove our erroneous concepts and prejudices towards this ability and playfully experiment with it, the bandwidth of this channel rapidly expands.
Clairvoyance also gives us insight into regions we cannot access through our senses or external knowledge. Through clairvoyance we perceive events and objects that exist outside our physical
31 Our thoughts are far too slow for this task. We notice this when we
consciously use words and sentences to paraphrase ideas that shoot through our mind.
In a similar way telepathy is not well suited for the transfer of single pictures, words or symbols that are disconnected from the dynamic events of life. And this is also the reason why most attempts to research telepathy with the usual scientific methods fail. As long as the current concepts of telepathy remain this far out of its actual range of functioning, no experiment will ever yield conclusive and productive results.
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