Telepathy is typically defined as the ability to sense another person's thoughts or feelings without the use of the commonly used senses of hearing, sight, smell, touch or taste. Often referred to as a sixth sense, telepathy is essentially the ability to sense things about another without having to be face to face with them. Scientific research over many years has shown that many animals use telepathy to communicate the location of food sources or transmit danger signals, often over large distances.
For many scientists, this fact has led to the belief that ancient humans, too, had this ability as part of their survival tools. It is also believed that while the majority of humans no longer has, or at least is unaware of, these abilities, some are still able to use them. In reality, telepathy is latent in all humans, but today it tends to be called instinct, intuition or 'just a feeling'.
A particularly striking example of telepathy in ordinary people is that of a woman hearing a loud crash one day. After investigating the noise and finding no reasonable explanation for it, she eventually blamed her daughter, assuming she had dropped something in her room and decided not to own up to breaking something. A few hours later, her husband, who had been taking the family car to its annual check, returned home, looking somewhat distraught. It turned out that he had been involved in a serious car accident.
On discussing events, it came to light that the woman had heard the crash at the precise moment her husband hit a truck in a collision that should have cost him his life, but miraculously left him uninjured. At the moment of impact, he had cried out for her in despair, not wanting to leave her and their two daughters in this way. He stated that he very clearly felt her presence at that moment. She called it intuition, he called it coincidence, and both of them should have called it telepathy.
Essentially, this vital tool of survival is still present in everyone, but as a result of cultural changes, technology and the tendency of religious institutions to brand these perfectly natural abilities as the work of the devil, most have lost the ability to use it. Why this is done is easy to see - by declaring these abilities are unreal at best and evil at worst, religious leaders were able to force the masses into putting their trust into what they were told by the church. Instead of taking their destiny into their own hands by following using their own abilities, they began to do as they were told and followed rules imposed on them. There could not be a better way to control the masses.
Fortunately, the tide is turning and more and more people are taking note of the truth. Those who have not forgotten how to use this ability are helping others and increasing numbers of individuals are realizing just how helpful it really is.
Rachel Ann works for the psychic & metaphysical arena and is a Reiki Master, promoting discovery of the personal spiritual pathway through the use of established and expert clairvoyants, astrologers, tarot readers and mediums.