TELEPATHY

        Can technology finally give us telepathic powers, like in The Twilight Zone?

Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone starts with a bang, or, more appropriately, a whisper. The premiere episode, "Meet in the Middle," starring Jimmi Simpson and Gillian Jacobs, gives us the story of two individuals separated by hundreds of miles, able to communicate with one another using their thoughts.

It begins as a story of an unconventional connection between two people, before taking a turn for the bizarre, as is expected in The Twilight Zone. Viewers might be forgiven for wondering if the episode’s central character, Phil Hayes (Simpson), is losing his grip on reality, but the episode goes out of its way, throughout, to make clear that, at the very least, the person he’s hearing inside his head actually exists. By the end, there’s no doubt.

There’s little about Hayes’ experience that is desirable, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t seek to discover if it isn’t at least possible.

Could science give us a world filled with intimate conversations and deadly subterfuge delivered direct, inside our minds?

👉FINDING TELEPATHY

Humanity has a long history of belief in extra-sensory abilities. The term “telepathy” was coined in 1882 by Frederic Myers to describe “all cases of impressions received at a distance without the operation of the recognized sense organs.” In short, being able to perceive things one shouldn't be able to perceive using the five senses. In modern parlance, it’s tantamount to mind-reading, hearing the thoughts of others without the benefit of the sender speaking, or the receiver actually hearing.

Despite the claims of countless individuals, there is, to date, no good scientific evidence for the existence of such an ability. There is, however, a possible explanation. It all comes down to the way we perceive the world. More specifically, the way we perceive one another. Enter: mirror neurons.

Mirror neurons are so named because they activate in the same way both when an individual is completing an action and when they are observing that action. Mirror neurons were first discovered in macaque monkeys being used in a study.

The monkeys had electrodes implanted in their brains and researchers found neurons activating when the monkeys observed humans moving or eating, which usually only activated if the monkey itself was moving or eating.

Later, these same neuron interactions were confirmed in humans by way of electroencephalograms (EEG). Research has shown that these neurons kick into gear when we’re observing other people, and they do so in ways that are strikingly similar to what we would see if the individual were actively completing the action being observed.

The data seems to suggest that these neurons are important for observational learning, but some studies show they might also play a role in empathy. Essentially, certain regions of our brains seem to activate when we’re observing emotional content, as if we are experiencing those emotions ourselves.

While the research is not yet conclusive, it makes sense. It’s likely you’ve experienced an emotional response when watching a movie or reading a story about people you don’t know and aren’t actively involved with, even people who might be fictional. It’s possible that this explains at least some claims of telepathy as we really are capable of sensing how other people are feeling and maybe even to some extent, what they’re thinking.

It isn’t a superpower, it’s just the way our brains work.

That said, when have we ever let nature limit what we’re able to accomplish? If our bodies won’t give us extrasensory perception on their own, maybe we can build it ourselves. And, in fact, that’s exactly what some scientists are trying to do.

CRAFTING TELEPATHY

Where biology fails us, technology provides.

Telepathy, as described above, is the act of perceiving information outside the use of the ordinary sensory processes. All that’s needed is to devise a way to deliver the silent information from inside one person’s mind to the interpretive systems of another.

If we know anything to be true, it’s that if there is something cool to be done, and the technology exists to achieve it, scientists have already devised a way to make it happen....... 

Previous studies have been done to interpret the internal signals of the brain into visual images, essentially reading the minds of participants. Individuals are shown images and their brain activity is recorded. Using machine learning algorithms, a computer program is able to recognize which areas of the brain correlate to which images. After a while, the brain activity present when shown an image is able to be interpreted into a reconstruction of that image....... 

This work is laying the foundation for translating brain activity into data that can be transmitted and interpreted elsewhere. This, however, amounts to a brain-to-computer interface. What we want is brain-to-brain.

This endeavor requires three parts: Interpretation of the brain signals of a sender, a transmission method, and interpretation of that data by a receiver. EEGs, utilized in the identification of mirror neurons above, serve the first purpose. By connecting electrodes to the surface of participants' heads, neural signals are able to be read and interpreted by a computer. Instead of looking at or imagining images, participants thought of words, and the associated brain activity was interpreted by a computer. The transmission method is easy enough; global internet is available to send data across vast distances almost instantaneously. All that’s left is a method by which to deliver that information into the mind of a receiver.

A research team including Alvaro Pascual-Leone, a neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and professor at Harvard Medical School, crafted a way to make it work, at least a little.

Using EEG machines, the brain activity of the sender was recorded while they thought of a greeting, either the word “hola” or “ciao.” The brain data was then sent over the internet from India to France, roughly 5,000 miles away.

The receiving participants did not hear the message as auditory stimuli in their brains. Instead, the data was delivered as pulses of light, which they were trained to interpret into words. All of the participants correctly interpreted the greetings.

This is, of course, a ways off from direct communication, hearing a voice inside your head as it’s spoken (or thought) by the person with whom you’re communicating, but it’s an important first step.

This research serves as a proof-of-concept that information can be delivered from one mind to another, even across large distances, and correctly interpreted, without the use of ordinary speech and hearing. This research has important implications for individuals incapable of standard speech, on top of it being immeasurably cool.

Given the adoption of wearable technology and the increasing ubiquity of our digital lives, it isn’t at all outside the realm of possibility that, before long, we’ll dispense with our keyboards and our telephones, and commence to speak directly and privately, mind to mind.

👉More Science Behind the Fiction

Every day brings us just a little bit closer to... the Twilight Zone.

Years ago, I used to play a game with my grandmother, where we would ‘send’ each other mental images and the other would try to pick up on what was ‘sent’. To be honest, we weren’t that good at it. Sometimes it took many tries before we could pick up the right image, but other times we would be scarily accurate in what we picked from one another. In doing this, we possibly strengthened our telepathic connection to one another and as a result, she often seemed to know when I was having a bad day, even though we were hundreds of miles apart.

👉Why Empaths Are Natural Telepaths

The word telepathy comes from the Greek ‘tele’ – meaning far away and the word ‘patheia’ which means feeling. It literally means feeling or sensing from a distance. This is one of the gifts that empaths naturally have. Emotional empaths pick up feelings from other people (and this can be at close range or at a distance) and psychological empaths are more likely to pick up on thoughts from those around them. (The mechanism through which we receive and transmit thought energy is through our psychic ties to people.)

Both my grandmother and I are empaths so it makes sense that we would pick up on these feelings and thoughts.

Telepathy is also more likely to occur in people who have the gifts of clairaudience and claircognizance. Developing your clairaudience and claircognizance can make you a better telepath, and likewise, developing your telepathy can strengthen your clairaudience and/or claircognizance.

👉How to Develop Telepathy

It is possible to develop your telepathic skills, if you wish, however there are a few considerations to bear in mind.

If you are going to develop telepathy, do it with the aim of picking up on feelings or thoughts of your loved ones, or those who are closest to you, and who are in agreement with you doing this. For example, couples who are very close and who share everything with one another might be open to developing a telepathic connection. As for other people in your life, they may not be open to you picking up on their private thoughts and feelings.

So for this to work, you should ask to be given access to the information that is useful or relevant to you, but nothing else.  So perhaps you pick up when your loved one is having a bad day or upset, so you can give them a call or text.

Or perhaps you pick up on the thoughts of strangers if you can help them in some way. I remember reading in a book about a psychic man who ‘overheard’ thoughts from an employee of his who was planning on committing suicide that evening. He was able to help prevent this from happening by talking to the man about it. So that’s an example of when telepathy might be useful.

Here are some steps to help you develop your telepathy:

1. Set an intention to develop it

“Spirit, please help me to develop the gift of telepathy in ways that are useful and supportive to the people close to me. I ask not to be granted access to the private thoughts and feelings that those close to me would not want to share.”

2. Transmitting mental images

Play this game with a loved one (ideally someone you have a strong and close emotional connection with):

Close your eyes and visualise an object. To make this easier, make it something uncomplicated. For example, a bicycle, a washing line or a teapot.

Focus strongly on this image for a while. See the colours of it and try to make it as vivid as possible. Visualize sending it to your loved one. Take turns in sending images. You may find that one of you is better at transmitting images and the other is better at picking them up.

Once you start to get better at this, you can make your images more complex, with movement or multiple elements to them. Send images like a train coming out of a tunnel, in a mountainous place. Children playing on a beach. Clothes on a clothesline blowing in the breeze.

You may also wish to conjure up a memory and send this to your loved one – memories with strong emotions attached to them work particularly well.

Most people have to practise this exercise many times over in order to have any success at it – most of us get it wrong repeatedly at first.

3. Intend for someone to call you

Think of someone you have not heard from in a while – somebody you have a strong emotional connection with and whom you know would like to hear from you or speak to you.

Focus on the image of you speaking to this person over the phone. Feel how great it would be to hear from them. Hear yourself saying hello to them. Telepathically ask them to call you.

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🎯 Writer : Prof.Dr.Vaibhavi Trivedi 

🎯 Matusri Shantaben arts College 

👉 Image courtesy : Google 

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