Global said:
There have been experiments where they put two people who have never met but who are both experienced in meditation in the same room to silently meditate without communication for 30 minutes. Following this 30 minute mediation period, they separate the participants and put them in separate opaque Faraday cages. Faraday cages inhibit any kind of electromagnetic signals from penetrating and the fact that they were opaque prevented the participants from being able to see anything going on outside their individual "cages". Each participant was set up with an EEG to measure brainwave activity. For only one participant, there would be a blinking light in his cage. The observation of this blinking light would naturally create changes in brainwave activity. The other participant received no visual stimulation. What they found was that each of the participants had practically identical brainwave activity, so even though the light pulsated in one of their cages, they both responded to it all the same, and without and delay for that matter. Now of course in this case they weren't transmitting full verbal thoughts, but the point of the experiment is to demonstrate how humans can share information in some form through completely mental means. If you take the mind and power it with a psychedelic, who knows what kind of valid information can be shared.
Interesting experiment. I hadn't heard of that one. If you have any links or remember any info about the people who conducted the experiment, I would love to check it out.
As for telepathy...
Happens all the freaking time. My lady and I are constantly doing it.
If entheogens enter the picture, telepathy, shared visions and the like become quite common. Typical (literally hundreds of examples) experineces tend to run like... People sitting around and a lull in the conversation descends. Someone gets thirsty and is too sunk into a sofa to reach for a bottle of juice, but the person next to them just hands it to them. When asked why they randomly handed this particular bottle of juice to that person, they respond that the person clearly asked for it. To which the person in question responds "Not with my voice..." Often the person who heard the voice can't believe it was in their head, so everyone else has to say "Nah dude... she didn't say shit."
This kind of thing has happened sooo often that it is expected among the regulars... and has been for decades.
It is a bit more difficult to do it on call, or under pressure... but this has been achieved plenty of times as well.
The most useful aspect of this tends to be when tripping outdoors and someone wanders off. If they get into a sketchy situation or need help, all of a sudden everyone else perks up... and the most sensitive one will say "So & so needs our help. They are experiencing such & such." We don't have to look for the person, because we all pretty much know where they are. Inevitably, whatever we knew they needed... they actually did need.
Aborigines are said to be able to do this dead sober. There is the famous scene from the book "Mutant Message From Down Under" where a guy breaks his leg (or was it arm) something like a half days walk away from the camp. But the healer women got to work getting ready to heal him at the EXACT moment he broke the bone. By the time he came into camp with his injury, no one was surprised and just immediately set about fixing him up. Most people remember this scene because of the wild manner which the Aborigine women healed him. They had collected their period menstrual blood in a hollow stick, and took this dried black paste and applied to the wound (a compound fracture) which proceeded to heal in a matter of hours.
Anyway, I can already hear the skeptics crowing and cawing. Have a field day.
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