I think of telepathy occurrences as all of us swimming in a matrix of consciousness that isn't here, and that is where 'we' - on a 'more real' level - really are, and you and your friends had all 'swam  up' to the subject and were actually handling it like a physical object, but on another level of reality of more pure consciousness beyond the physical domain and the 'veil' that separates there from here. Psychedelics allow us to become more conscious of that level of our existence and thus act more freely on that level where we can handle thought/energy forms in much different ways compared to the aspect of us that identifies with our physical bodies and is more restricted to the physical realm and our extremities here in day-to-day life.

But we have 'other extremities', if you will. We aren't just 'here' in these bodies.