The answer to this is, I believe, Yes. It does relate to telepathy.
That's not exactly what I had in mind, but I would agree that telepathy will qualify a form of transcendent thought.
Can humans detect EM radiation. Of course, we can see. So can lots of other creatures, and sharks can detect fish in their area that are in distress by sensing electrical impulses.
Do you think that animals sense this EM radiation when they, say, become distressed about an incoming storm? If that's true, then what of earthquakes, since various animals from fish to dogs to birds have exhibited strange behavior just before a quake hits?
Do you think there is a sensefield, of sorts, being emitted in the form of raw energy? If so, would you classify this phenomena also as EM radiation?
Can you read other people’s thoughts?
Well, as bizarre as it might be, I have read quite a bit about
MK Ultra that, quite honestly, I found astonishing. I wouldn't say that I'm a true believer in it or a total skeptic. I'm somewhere in the middle.
You can turn it off by getting in a car, and deciding to drive across America without ever sleeping. Sooner or later you will get so tired you will lose “depth perception” and crash. Or you could “find” it and figure out how to turn it on and off at will. I can do this. It took me a long time and I have no idea if you can learn how to do it or not.
Turn what off? Your depth perception? If so, how is it done for you?
So far in my 58 years I know well only two people who can “see/perceive” what other people are thinking. A fellow named Frank I had worked with at one time back in NY and me. I’ve come across a few others in Lily Dale a spiritualist community where mediums “contact” the dead. Actually what they do is perceive what someone is thinking about their deceased loved ones and describe what they “see”. Most mediums there aren’t very good and some are fakes.
None contact the dead.
Interesting.
BTW even though I can perceive other people’s thoughts I have no psychic/spiritual ability. I only detect EM radiation people are naturally putting out. I don’t do it very often since most of the time like everyone else I’m occupied thinking and if a person is primarily thinking in words and symbols I don’t perceive that very well. They have to be thinking of an actual event in their lives. Let me give you an example. When my older son was 9 he mentioned that nobody could read people’s thoughts. I told him that some people could and asked him to close his eyes and recall sometime in his life when he was having a good time and keep thinking about it, but to say absolutely nothing. I then shut everything off and became a “total observer paying attention”. What happened was I felt something across the upper part of my chest and when I “looked” at “paid close attention” to it, I realized and saw in my mind that I was in a swimming pool (could feel that water lapping against my chest) and saw my older brother standing at the side of the pool on his deck( this was a “picture” from my son’s viewpoint as it would have had to have been, he was doing the recalling). So I said to my son it was the summer before last, you are in Uncle Joe’s pool looking up at him on the deck. His mouth dropped open, yes that was exactly what he was recalling.
Very interesting.
Is thought transcendent? Do radio waves and light waves last forever? Thought results in the same thing. Ask a physicist, I think they might, but I’m not sure.
Which brings me to my next question. What are thoughts, actually? Are they merely just temporal signals? If so, what is the mechanism that accounts for memories? Is there not something grander than that?
I also wanted to get your input on a very strange phenomenon that might be along the same lines as what we've been discussing. When I played in band, my bassist and one of my guitarists used to ask me strange questions, like,
"What color do see to that song?"
As you might imagine, my answer was,
"What color do I see? I'm sorry, but I'm not following you what you're saying. Explain it to me."
The description they gave me was that morphing color schemes appear in their mind whenever they hear music. Dependent upon the tone or mood of the music, variations of colors could be seen in their mind.
Being that they are both really eccentric kind of people, I sort of dismissed it. But then I started reading about a phenomenon called,
Synesthesia. Immediately I thought of my band mates.
And what seemed fanciful began making more sense in a very real way. Based on their descriptions, I have imagined that screen saver that plays on audio files, with undulating patterns of color, morphing in to different shapes and shades of color.
A couple months back, I was watching a television program about an English idiot-savant, who, for all intense and purposes, is a mathematical genius. In describing his talent, he takes his synesthesia a step further. He claims that each number, no matter how many characters, illicit in his mind very distinct shapes and colors.
Some oblong, some very angular, some intricately geometric, along with varying colors. The number, say, 71, is completely unique to just 7 or 1.
Now, a lot of good neurological theories have been proposed that seem plausible, but I'm curious to get your take on it, given your alleged talent.
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