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The ego considers itself the self, and considers anything outside of its self as being either nonself or another such separate identity, and so the individual man is led to believe that telepathy is basically a communication between two or more basically alone, separate and aloof selves. Telepathy does not operate at the level of the ego, although its actions may protrude into the domain of the ego. Telepathy operates within the inner self, within various levels, different levels of the subconscious, where the ideas of separation and limitations of self are not nearly so limiting.

The type of telepathy which is most commonly thought of as telepathy is of course not the elemental type of which I spoke earlier, but a different variety. This particular, more advanced telepathy could not and did not occur in its most complicated form until the development within your plane of psychically developed personalities. This development involved separations and concentrations of energy into self-conscious identities. This development was an advancement, yet this advancement led also to a separation and objectifying of consciousness, into dual segments of subject and object.

In the most simple of living structures telepathy is a necessity for communication, particularly before the inside energy is concentrated sufficiently to form any sort of more complicated pattern or nerve structure. Even when such nerve structures and physical complications are evolved telepathy operates, still a necessity as a communications system within the physical structure, and still handling data which cannot be carried through any physical medium, simply because it is untranslatable by its nature into physical materialization.

These points are all extremely important. Much will be said yet to clarify the term telepathy itself, since there are many types, which you should be able to see from what I have said. This in itself is a complicated subject, and yet when I am finished it will be shown that telepathy is an intimate, innate ability within all cells.

(No doubt, of course, that extrasensory information was obtained; telepathy from Jerry in some cases perhaps—from her conscious and subconscious mind. [...]

You mentioned telepathy. [...] Here I want to emphasize the importance that telepathy can play, and the vital role of suggestion.

[...] If one wanted to consider telepathy, that could have an effect. [...]

[...] As you know, telepathy operates constantly beneath the dictates of the ego, and so is your intellectual climate formed.

[...] Telepathy is indeed affected by chemical reactions, as dreams are.

If physical laws were the only basis for actuality, then telepathy would be impossible. [...]

[...] It goes without saying that telepathy operates within the dreaming state quite as effectively as it operates while the individual is awake. [...]

[...] There is no basic difference between telepathy and clairvoyance, as you term them. [...]

[...] To call this telepathy tells you nothing however, for all such information is the result of emotional force.

[...] At the time Jane and I suspected telepathy from me. [...]

8. See the brief definitions of telepathy and clairvoyance in Note 19 for Appendix 18. In Note 3 for Session 723, I quoted Seth on the relationship between telepathy and language.

It did not serve your species’ purposes at this time to work with the mind — with telepathy, with the feeling for the earth that you could have developed.

[...] Therefore, that world-probability in which telepathy and clairvoyance⁸ would have been common, well-known facts of life, self-evident in any civilization — that probability became latent while the species followed another route.

[...] Telepathy goes on constantly, my dear friends, in all fields of actuality. Telepathy goes on within the body between the cells. Telepathy exists because no systems are truly closed systems.

(“Vital telepathy? In what way is telepathy vital, Frank Watts?”)

[Vikl no] Vital telepathy.

It goes without saying that telepathy is one method by which events are formed as well as perceived, but telepathy hides so far beneath physical perception that it is hardly detected.

[...] “I’m quite willing to admit that telepathy might exist,” I said. [...]

There is nothing like a witness to convince our darling Ruburt that I am I, and not her, [meaning Jane] or like a good evening of telepathy, as in the case of this evening.

Why then do you [mankind in general] insist that an inner experience such as telepathy or premonition does not exist because you cannot hold it in both hands? [...]

[...] But even though I think telepathy is possible … I can’t quite believe that in a trance state, through me, another personality read someone else’s mind — that’s it!” I said. [...]

[...] Telepathy will be proven without a doubt, and utilized, sadly enough in the beginning, for purposes of war and intrigue. Nevertheless telepathy will enable your race to make its first contact with alien intelligence. [...]

The actual telepathy contact with this alien intelligence will occur, your time I believe, not too far distant, perhaps by the year 2001. [...]

Telepathy involves of course a focusing of abilities and energy. [...]

[...] Telepathy is one, of course, but eventually it should be disconnected from camouflage physical material.

“The slight evidence of telepathy I gave you had a purpose. I wanted to show you that telepathy did exist, and I wanted to show Ruburt that more than his own subconscious as he knows it was involved. [...]

This was the first sign of any kind of telepathy or clairvoyance in the sessions. [...]

You told Timothy what I told the Petries, about the importance of telepathy and ideas on Peg, yet often you do not realize those implications with Ruburt. [...]

[...] Current feelings regarding personality, however, do not take into consideration the existence of telepathy or clairvoyance, nor the fact of reincarnation. [...]

[...] Telepathy accounts for the usefulness of spoken language. Without telepathy no language would be intelligible. [...]

[...] This indeed has actually been proven, in so far as telepathy is recognized as a fact, at least by some, and soon by all.

It is true that telepathy has nothing to do with distance in space as you know it. Nevertheless, telepathy represents but one sphere of influence.

[...] Now, I have told you that there are many factors involved in the construction of matter, and I have explained that telepathy and many other factors which I have listed are important.

Most of the declared instances of telepathy or clairvoyance that happen in schizophrenic situations are instead the individual’s attempts to prove to himself or herself that the idealized qualities of omnipotence or power are indeed within grasp—this, of course, to compensate for the basic feeling of powerlessness in more ordinary endeavors. In some situations, however, there are definite, quite valid instances of telepathy or clairvoyance, vivid out-of-body experiences, and other excursions beyond the officially accepted realm of reality.

[...] Jane and I have often speculated on what part telepathy plays in the envelope experiments, since I usually am consciously aware of the object in detail. I thought the method used tonight might make ordinary telepathy harder to divine on Jane’s part. [...] If he got any help from me it was telepathy twice removed.

[...] He also cited a few examples where telepathy from me had helped out. [...]

SUGGESTION, TELEPATHY, AND THE GROUPING OF BELIEFS

[...] Chapter Three: “Suggestion, Telepathy, and the Grouping of Beliefs.”

[...] Naturally, I had no idea whether telepathy was involved, but had attempted during the first call to explain our ideas of such possibilities. [...]

[...] I did downplay the telepathy ideas, however, thinking it was much better that he solve the puzzle through ordinary channels and approaches. [...]