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f telepathy include a close personal bond or blood relatedness between subjects, a time of crisis, or an urgent need to communicate when other channels of communication are unavailable. It has also been shown that in persons who are in close proximity or compatible relationships, telepathy becomes a normal component of the daily communication process (Slate 9). (Netzley Slate)

The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in 1882 in Cambridge, England, to study the paranormal using scientific methodology, with the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) opening only a year later (parapsych.org). Among the earliest studies of telepathy, Professor Gilbert Murray was tested by placing message “senders” in another room and Murray would describe the sender’s thoughts. Murray was correct approximately thirty percent of the time, with an even better success rate when the sender was his daughter (Netzley 17). (Netzley Parapsych.org)

While telepathy most often occurs spontaneously in incidents of crisis or between closely related persons, a telepathic experiment was conducted during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, proving that distance and relationship is not always a barrier. Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell conducted the experiment with four recipients on Earth, focusing on sequences of twenty-five random numbers. The mean chance of this experiment was forty correct out of two hundred sequences. Two of the four recipients guessed fifty-one correctly, exceeding Mitchell’s expectations (www.themystica.com 1). As author Joe H. Slate states in Psychic Phenomena, “Research studies have repeatedly shown that group practice for most psychic abilities is superior to individual practice (Slate 18).” (themystica.com Slate)

Another interesting aspect of telepathy involves the use of hypnosis, defined by Webster’s II New College Dictionary as “an artificially induced sleeplike condition in which an individual is re...