A Little History on Telepathy

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The term ���telepathy��� derives from two Greek words, ���tele��� and ���pathe���.

The term ���telepathy��� derives from two Greek words, ���tele��� and ���pathe���. ���Tele��� means ���distant��� and ���pathe��� means ���feeling��� or ���occurrence���. This term was coined by Fredric W. H. Myers, a physical researcher, back in the year 1882. According to Myers, who founded the Society for Physical Research, or the SPR for short, the term he invented was better than most of the terms used before that. Before using the term ���telepathy���, people would use any of these terms instead: ���thought-reading���, ���thought-transference��� and ���communication de pensees��� (French).

Definition

To understand telepathy better, people can simply think of it as the ability to either transmit or receive messages, or both, to and from another person even when the communicating parties are actually located at two physically distant locations at the given time. However, it is important to keep in mind that the process of sending and receiving messages here does not involve any means of communications, such as a cellphone, and any of the five human senses that normal human beings use every day in their life. The human brain is the sole component involved here.

According to some sources, this ability to send and receive messages using only the brain can be categorized into two kinds, which are, the telepathic communication and the telepathic perception. The former represents a person���s ability to deliver a message to another person���s mind whereas the latter represents the ability of a person to receive a message from another person���s mind.