I can somewhat see what you are saying in regard to your "telepathy". I am one of the few who could play music by ear and actually repeat what I've just heard on my piano. Most people don't believe me when I tell them this, and since I'm not a professional musician, I stopped telling people this long time ago unless they ask me.
With regard to how a person could "telepathically" read other people's thoughts, I propose the following experiment to confirm what you have told us.
We could put someone in such a deep state of unconsciousness that he wouldn't even dream. We then have at least another person standing close to him thinking about a specific event.
In your opinion, would this simulate what you referred to as the silencing of the mind?
I'm just trying to understand how this works and see if we could possibly devise any experiment that could be repeated.
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