Showing posts with label zener. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zener. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Mental Telepathy

      Is there any way for someone to be able to communicate with another person without talking verbally, using body language or writing messages? There is a way, and that way is mental telepathy. Mental Telepathy is the communication through the mind, without body signs or spoken words. In these sources, the authors talk about this psychic ability and how we can prove it and one day use it. An experiment that one source points out is the card test, or zener cards. These cards were invented in the early 1930's by Karl Zener as an ESP (extrasensory perception) experiment. There is a deck of 25 cards with 5 different patterns. There are two people, one person studies the card and the other person must try to guess what the symbol on the card is. It is just a guessing game, but according Karl Zener, if one gets more than 36%, there might be a mental connection between the partners. When Karl Zener experimented, he used thinner paper, so it is unknown if his results are true. For my research project, I am going to test Zener cards with my class mates, and even test it on twins. Many believe that twins have a special connection, so it would be very interesting to test this. There have been many tests on mental telepathy, although when it was tested present day at several universities, the results weren't too convincing.
            One source believes that mental telepathy does exist; we just need to master it. Although this one source believes so, many others believe that it is a myth or a scam. Using mental telepathy could help us in many ways throughout our everyday lives. As scientists, we need to determine of mental telepathy exists and if it does exist we need to master and learn how to use mental telepathy. Realistically, if mental telepathy does exist, there is not much evidence supporting it.
            I personally believe in mental telepathy. i have little evidence, but I think there are still parts of our brains in which we have not learned how to use. After all only 350 years ago, when Newton was alive,  gravity and calculus were just being discovered and investigated.
I am making a commitment as a scientist to investigate with an open mind.  If there is no evidence of mental telapathy I'll admit it.
PL