I would be very interested in getting comments and suggestions.

You said:

‘Given all of that it’s amazing the capacity we have to be at each other’s throats for the less than 1% difference.’

How very true. But that’s a different story.

Thanks for the link; I hadn’t read that post before.

And I suspect you’re right; we probably do receive potentially telepathic information that is simply the “fuzz” of thought patterns. I also think it varies from individual to individual as to the sensitivity of their reception. Some people are highly tuned, some people are in a perpetual, cellular/mobile “blind spot.”

So it seems that humans by design, paranormal or biological, have a capacity to be highly linked to each other. And now they say that we are all 99% genetically identical. Given all of that it’s amazing the capacity we have to be at each other’s throats for the less than 1% difference.

http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/psychic-detectives

Your point about telepathy usually occurring with people who know each other prompts a subtle reaction. Basically, how can we know this? Would we recognise a telepathic communication from someone we didn’t know, and couldn’t recognise the significance of the received message?
I’ve a suspicion it would just be buried in the ‘fuzz’ of normal thought patterns. And who knows, we could be ‘receiving’ such messages all the time, unknowingly.

Your very welcome. I appreciate the balance of approach you bring to topics such as the one under discussion here.

Modern-day mystics like Krishnamurti and Eckhart Tolle would say that time is an illusion. Logically this makes sense as the past is only remembered, and the future is only anticipated, but both remembering and anticipating only happen in the present moment. So passage of time could be considered merely a point of view.

Some physicists would argue that time travel or bending is possible in an as of yet very limited sense, but even so it is still relative to the consciousness of the perceiver, so you are back into the present moment as a point of reference.

This all does seem to point to there being only an eternal “now,” at least conceptually.

For some reason your post jogged my memory about a sidebar article I read in “Time” magazine years ago. (Probably because we are discussing time and the paranormal.) Although this would fall under the heading of “clairvoyance” rather than “telepathy” it is still thought provoking in regard to this discussion.

A woman had been murdered in California and her body left in a forested or mountainous area. The police had no clue as to who the murderer was. Another woman, totally unrelated to the victim in any way, was driving down a highway when suddenly she had a “vision” of the murder. This woman was not prone to these sorts of experiences, and was so overwhelmed by the intensity, realness and urgency of the vision, that she overcame her fear of being thought a fool and went to the police. As it turned out she described the murder scene so perfectly, knowing details only the killer would know, that she was arrested for the murder, obviously much to her anger and dismay. I don’t recall that they were able to hold her in jail for long, but other clues she had provided led police to the real killer who confessed to the crime. The reason this was reported in “Time” magazine was that the woman who was arrested was now taking legal action against the police for false arrest. I do not know what the outcome was.

Most examples of telepathy seem to involve individuals who either know each other, or are in visible sight of each other. For a woman who has no relation whatsoever to the victim of a crime to have a vision of it raises a lot of questions: Why her and not some other person? Why not one of the police? What was the recording media in consciousness that this event impressed itself on and where was it stored? Etc.

Personally I am interested in stories like this; where there is no apparent connection or emotional investment yet something “paranormal” happens to someone who doesn’t have the slightest bit of interest, or later wishes it had never happened at all.

There is an article from a past BMJ (British Medical Journal) which documents such a case. I’ve taken the liberty of sending it to your email (don’t worry, not a trend). You may find it interesting.

The idea that everything that ever was or will be is already existent is certainly not new or exclusive to the Greeks, and I believe there are reports from various mystics who confirm this as being the reality of things. (If God always was and always will be, and everything exists within God, you have a theoretical case anyway.) Personally I can only examine my own observations and report on them. In the end, who knows? A randomized, controlled double-blind, longitudinal study certainly is not going to give us the answer as these events aren’t exactly predictable, although much of science, in my view, is aimed at the same goal as the little old lady who goes down the street to see the card reader; wanting to be able to know the future predictably.

In my own life I have experienced striking examples of thought-specific telepathy, conscious “co-dreams” with others, and experiences of premonition that were shared with others before the event in question happened. One premonitory experience was distinctly unpleasant in the knowing that the “event” had already happened in the future and could not be changed, only experienced in the present. This engendered an existential sense of experiencing the absence of hope in a literal way as even speculative hope was destroyed, (i.e. hope for a miracle based on faith). Premonition can be a curse in that respect.

So my own personal experiences tend to support the “it’s already there” hypothesis although I also believe (maybe hope) that not “all” of it is there, and a paradox exists in some fashion (e.g. the idea that we may be “co-creators” in some limited sense).

I enjoy your website tremendously. Thank you for doing this.