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Telepathy

Telepathy (from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) 'distant' and πάθος/-πάθεια (páthos/-pátheia) 'feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience') is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical…

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related to Further reading · 49
Telepathy → An Outline, And Other Nonsense, Anomalous Experience, Bergen Evans, Carington, Cassell, Chapter XII, Co, David Marks, Edition, ESP, Facts, Felix Planer, Frauds, Hansel, Implications, Irrationality, Is Telepathy All Bunk, ISBN, James Alcock
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Telepathy → Alice, Between, Blackburn, Creery Sisters, Douglas Blackburn, Emily, George Albert Smith, Gilbert Murray, Harvard University, However, In, Kathleen, Mary, Maud, Psychical Research, Psychologist Leonard, Society, The, Troland
related to Dream telepathy · 16
Telepathy → According, Brooklyn, Hansel, However, James Alcock, Krippner, Maimonides, Maimonides Medical Center, Montague Ullman, New York, Only, Parapsychological, Stanley Krippner, The, They, Ullman
related to Origins of the concept · 15
Telepathy → According, As, Barrett, Eric Dingwall, Frederic, Janet Oppenheim, Myers, Psychical, Psychical Research, Roger Luckhurst, Society, SPR, The, Western, William
related to Thought reading · 13
Telepathy → Another, Bishop, British Medical Journal, Cumberland, During, Francis Galton, He, In, Psychical Research, Society, Stuart Cumberland, The, Washington Irving Bishop
related to Ganzfeld experiment · 11
Telepathy → Because, Charles Honorton, Ganzfeld, Honorton, Hyman, Over, Ray Hyman, Six, The, The Ganzfeld, When
related to Twin telepathy · 10
Telepathy → According, Hupp, In, Jeremy Jewell, Jewell, Psychologists Stephen Hupp, Susan Blackmore, The, Thus, Twin
related to Scientific reception · 9
Telepathy → Council, Evaluation, Mario Bunge, Philosopher, Physicist John Taylor, Taylor, The, There, United States National Research
related to External links · 8
Telepathy → Psychoanalysis, Science, Skeptic's DictionarySoal-Goldney Experiment, Soal-Goldney Experiment, Telepathy Archived, The Intuitive Magician Archived, Wayback Machine, Wayback Machine Bruce HoodTelepathy
related to Psychiatry · 8
Telepathy → Along, Psychiatric, Psychiatrists, Schizophrenic, Some, The, This, Thought

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Telepathyis acommon theme in science fiction0.90text
Telepathyis abelief that has been described as a myth in psychological literature0.90text
Roger Luckhurstinstance ofOrigins of the conceptAccording to historians0.80text
Janet Oppenheim the origin of the concept of telepathy in Western civilization can be traced to the late 19th centuryinstance ofOrigins of the conceptAccording to historians0.80text
the formation of the Society for Psychical Researchinstance ofOrigins of the conceptAccording to historians0.80text
identifying a hidden object in a room that a person had picked out or asking someone to imagine a murder sceneinstance ofHe was famous for performing blindfolded feats0.80text
then attempt to read the subject's thoughtsinstance ofHe was famous for performing blindfolded feats0.80text
identify the victiminstance ofHe was famous for performing blindfolded feats0.80text
reenact the crimeinstance ofHe was famous for performing blindfolded feats0.80text
the subject being able to read the symbols from the back of the cardsinstance ofRhine's experiments with Zener cards were discredited due to the discovery that sensory leakage or cheating could account for all his results0.80text
being able to seeinstance ofRhine's experiments with Zener cards were discredited due to the discovery that sensory leakage or cheating could account for all his results0.80text
hear the experimenter to note subtle cluesinstance ofRhine's experiments with Zener cards were discredited due to the discovery that sensory leakage or cheating could account for all his results0.80text

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