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TELEPATHY IN RELATION WITH SCIENCE

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Source: Stlinta si Tehnlca , Vol 23, NR 5, May1972, PP. 34—35.

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T~~ EPA THY II 1~~LATI ON WITH SCI~~ CEby

Dr. Sorin Stanescuterm telepathy 1~~ long ago entered our daily language. It usually

“transmitting” or ”r.ceiving” ~~~a distan~~ another

There is no cioubt that t.lepathy, as a phenomenon and preoccupatiox~ s

no longer something new. It has a history, and even a “prehistory” , if we

can say so. The empirical idea is that there are people able to feel froma distance somebody ’s presence , emotions, and even thoughts. But can thoughts

really be transmitted? Are there indeed such “unknown senses” which could

explain some strange and rare manifestations of the human psychic , of the

brain?

In fact, ior immemorial time the idea has persisted that it is possibleto transmi t and receive thoughts, the belief that certain people possess amysterious and rare power of being Informed by others - from a distance —about certain - usually important— events occuring at the very moment

they are”recopted’JXI

Later , toward the end of the Ui century, this phenomenon was named

“telepathy”. The word comes from the Greek “tele” ( — far) and “pathoc”( — feeling), and it means capability of feeling from a distance. The term

U).was placed in circulation by the English researcher Myers, when science

first tried to study this phenomenon, and j~ie founded in London (in 1882)the renown.d’Society for Psychic Researches” . Shortly before tha t , a fewresearchers had started studying such abnormal psychic phenomena. Most dis-

tinguished among these researchers were Carpenter, Thoma s Huylea , etc. Thebasic method used at the onset by this Society was the “Investigative method” ,the inventory, with conclusive proof, of various “spontaneous” (involuntary)telepathic phenomena.

On this occasion, telepathy started to be gradually defined. The English

researcher Podmore, for instance, defined it as a “cerebral vibration startingin a person’s brain (emitting agent) and transmitted to another person’sbrain (percipient)” .

Frederic W.H. Myers , who coined the word “telepathy”, assumes that thiswould mean the “acting of a spirit upon another, outside the usual sensory \~ ~organs”.

The first results obtainsd through the investigative methods used by theEoci.ty for Psychic Researches are gathered in an impr.saive collection , the

volum e “Phant asme of the Living ” , by Ourn.y, Podsors and Myers. But n.ith.r

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C.data, nor definitions an su~~ed in defining the telepathic phenomenon in a

satisfactory manner. Of great value were the minute studies undertaken by

the famous k rench physiologist Dr. Richet, from the Faculty of Medicine in

Paris, Nobel prize laureate , discoverer of the “anaphilaxy” ; he gatheredhis observations in a m.negrsph~,”Trsati.s of Meta psychology ” (Paris, 1926).

Richet establishes the basic principles in the study of abnormal psychicphenomena that will be later, toward our time, be named “parapsychology”.

He includes telepathy within the sphere of a still unknown faculty of grasp-ing by unusual means information from a distance. He calls this capacitycryptosthesia, and is convinced that it is a matter of a so—called “sixth

sense”. Richet was among the first to apply the theory of probability in

telepathic experiments he studied , and he noticed the fact (which he consideredof crucial importance) thatbiis theory support8 the idea of telepathic ph e-nomena . Moreover , it is established that out of 1?653 experime nts ( doneonly in Engl and) , 4760 correct transmissions were obtained , exceeding thusby 347 the proba ble number.

Along the years , telepathic phenomena were wrapped under various ce—nominations. Later though, they were all considered by parapsychology underthe shortened term i.S.P. (extrasensory perception). It is worth noticing though

the fact that study of paranormal psychic phenomena has

actually always aroused very little interest among scientists. Fear of

being compromised , skepticism “ab initio ” , and lack of infor!~i tion deprivedparapsychology of the very necessary contribution which could be broughtonly by laboratory specialists. On the other hand, this skepticism is under—etandable. The grounds of telepathy had to be cleared of false practices,(coincidences, superstitions, naivstiea, pure quackeries of various “sooth-sayers”, magicians or m~asic—hall fakirs) which were misleading people .

A dvere *~ies of telepathy advocated its rejection by moat often~~ invoking

the theory of chanceq, sustaining that usually a remarkably equal number offailures and successes are obtained . Among researchers who rejected the

idea of telepathy on the basis of such arguments was Nicolae Vaschide, aknown psychiatrist of Romanian origin. Be published in Pari s, at the turn

of the century, a study entitled “Exp.rimental findings with respect to the

phenomenon of telepathy”. In his work, he rejects telepathy on the basis ofexperimental data. Together with another rIuI~nown~~.ychologist, prof. Henri

Pi~ ron , he observed that, out of 1343 cases of “thought transmission” betweentwo person., success was obtained only in ~8 cases , and even then it was(according to the authors) a matter of mer e coincidence. It is evident

though that thi. kind of”telepathy “, evalu ated in this somewhat simplisticmanner, does not exist.

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The t ru th is that we cannot transmi t our thoughts in a simple manner ,exactly as we would spehk , because this is not possible . What is considered

as possible is the transmission of strong emotional states felt by anindividual.

Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine from Duke University (North Carolina) has anextremely important role in bringing telepathy up-to—date. He achieved not

less than 90,000 experiments between 1 935 and 1938, with an unaccounte d numberof students volunteers. The experiments were usually done using the trans-mission , according to a standard code , of a number of cards ~ith geometricaldrawings (square , cross , star , two undulant lines , circle , e to .) , namedZener ’s cards. The experiments are done only with “sensitive”, “pre—disposed”

subjects, strictly selected beforehand. One student was ,for instance) submitted

to 11 , 250 tests, and he always gave nine correct determinations for each series

of 25.

Another valuabl e contribution in defining and demonstrating telepathicexperiments was made by the Soviet scientist Leontin Vasiliev (Leningrad),

11who denominated telepathy “an ideatory suggestion at a distance” . Evidently -

Iisaid Vasiliev — not thoughts are transmitted, this would be absurd, but

±nformation (bloinformation) about thoughts”. Vasi].iev clarified the problem

of how the telepathic messages are transmitted. Before him it was believed

that telepathy is caused by radio waves, electromagnetic waves, emitted bythe brain. Vasiliev accomplished a series of experi~~nts and demons~~ted

that a “receptive” subject , even if isolated in a metal shielded room ,type Faraday cage, succeeds nonetheless to receive “telepathic waves”.It thus became clear that these were not electromagnetic waves.

We ought to point out that such a screening demonstration had been made

back in 1 940— 1942 by the Pomanian physicist Emil Giurgea (1886— 1960), atthe Laboratory for Parapsychology (Posu , near Bucharest) .

I t is known tha t radio waves do not pass through water. Thiai~ie reasonwhy for instance1 atomic au bmarin*5 annot be controlled from the base , unlesstiieyleurface. But when surfacing they become dangerously exposed. For thi s

(j -4_ _/ q , f jreason , it was tried in U. ~~rI complish control by telepathy, between

the atomic submarine “Nautilus ” and the military bass Friendship (Maryland).The experiment consisted o f a “telepathic dialog” between two trained sub~~~s(one on ground , the other on the submarine ),, It is said that the •xp.xi”~~ ts

were successful in 75% of cases. But from the military point of view thispercentage is still highly risky — this is probably why the “Nautilus”

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• experiment was leakedc~t ’~t1Ie press... Notwithstanding, Rand Corporationcarries on intense study of “psionics” , and the Soviet scientist Guliaev , studiesthe “phenomenon psi” and the way “telepatheme s” are transmitted.. .

Obvious demostrations regarding viability of telepathy are also repre-

sented by the laboratory experiments called “Pratt—Woodruff” and, respectively,

“Peace—Pratt” experiments. Of no lesser interest are experiments done

by Ochorowit~~ Warcollier, the American scientist S.G.Soal, those done by

prof. dr. .~~.C. Tenhaef I from the Dept. of Parapsychology of the Universityof Utrecht (Holland), etc. But if telepathic waves ( admitting they •xist )are not electromagne tic , then what are they? A famous Germa n physicist , Gordian ,a d v a n c e s the seductive theory that “telepathi c waves” would be one and thesamL thing as “gravitational waves”. But , since It is not known as yet whatgravitational waves are , we find ourselves still at a standstill in theunderstanding of this phenomenon.

Many researchers today agree in the idea that telepathy acts throughthe unconscious , and they consider the telepathic faculty to be something

} atavic , v e s t i gial , a bioinformation modality currently observed on the zoo—

~ logic scale , and which was lost in moat humans. Other resoarcbern — ~~

lesser~

number of them — believe that this faculty ‘kill — under anothe~ (fb rm - eventuallybe a faculty of the far away fu ture . But , be it as it ~~y, either the expressionof a “signi ficative coincidence ” or of a “synchronisation” originating in theinmost depth of the “archetypal” unconscious , as C.G.JUng used to believe,or “the glancing of the third eye ” , telepathy still remains a fasciz~~ingenigma tha t science Is called upon to solve.

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Pictures named Zener ’s card. used by Professor Joseph Banks Rh ine of DukeUniversity (North Carolina) in 90 ,000 experiments demonstrating telepathy.

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