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Beloved of science fiction and horror writers, telepathy is often associated with stories about psychic spying, brainwashing and manipulation. The reality is quite different, far less sensational but much more satisfying and, on the whole, quite safe. In fact, we are all telepathic to some degree and go about our daily lives transmitting and receiving information without being consciously aware that we are doing so for much of the time. While we each transmit and receive in different ways, the basic principle is the same: we all act like radios which are able to tune in to information and send out our own signals on certain frequencies. Some of us have a greater ability to receive, others are more able to transmit.

Our individual telepathic abilities are closely linked to our other psychic gifts. If we are more clairvoyant than clairaudient, for instance, then we are much more likely to receive our telepathic information in the form of visual images or symbols than to ‘hear’ the thoughts of other people in our head.

Telepathic clairsentients may receive a sense of another person’s physical or emotional state, even at a distance.

Telepathy can operate at short distances and at great ones. We certainly experience short-distance telepathy on a regular basis with our families and close friends. In these cases, our telepathic abilities become entwined with our other abilities to read and transmit information. For instance, we often know when someone we are close to is angry with us, even when she or he does not express it openly. We may pick up a combination of signals that includes body language, tone of voice, changes in behaviour and clairsentient emotional messages as well as telepathic thoughts that the person transmits and we receive, loud and clear. In addition, most of us at some time experience having the same idea as our partner, parent, friend or child at exactly the same moment as she or he has it.

Long-distance telepathy can be just as common as the telepathy we experience at close range, though perhaps it can appear more remarkable because we do not have the more obvious physical signals to rely upon. I regularly think about friends from around the world just as they are writing me a letter or as they are contemplating telephoning me. In fact, even at close range I frequently think about people before they contact me or before I bump into them. Of course, it is not always clear who thought of whom first!