Originally posted by OCEANOS:
Let me do an introduction on the various types of Psychic
Abilities. One of the most common psychic abilities that exist in
majority of human population is Telepathy!
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Telepathy
Telepathy is the ability to read thoughts, usually surface
thoughts. Telepathy is fairly common to some degree. The most
common type is between close family or friends and manifests as
answering questions before they are asked, knowing when a family
member is thinking of you, or thinking about them and they call.
Slightly less common is the ability to read the surface thoughts of
strangers. Even less common is being able to read the deep or
subconscious thoughts of people, friends, family or anyone else. It
is not, however, completely unknown. If you have the disconcerting
habit of knowing everything about a person when you meet them, you
are at least a highly gifted telepath. In crowds this may manifest
as "white noise" or constant buzzing in the ears (brain),
accompanied by a feeling of pressure on the brain. This is due to
the constant noise of all of the thoughts of others that one is
unable to block. Many highly gifted telepaths are unable to live in
highly populated areas, and an apartment complex is a nightmare.
They are also prone to intense headaches. This gift may or may not
be related to proximity. For strangers, it is usual that the person
must be close by (though not always the case). Family seems to be
instantly accessible, due to the non-local nature of the gift,
speed of light laws do not apply. Strong thought, as in a disaster
or violent attack, may be picked up without prior knowledge of the
person at all, if they are in the vicinity or there are enough
people concentrating on mentally screaming at the top of their
lungs. This gift also manifests more strongly if one really desires
something (a strong focus of will or emotion). To block out the
noise, shielding must be practiced constantly, and the person
should put up permanent shields around their home. To develop this
gift, one should focus on an individual and relax, allowing
whatever impressions one is receiving to come through. Write them
down. This is best developed with close friends or family.
Telepathy can manifest in three ways. A sending telepath can not
"hear" the thoughts of others, but instead broadcasts his/her own
thoughts to anyone even remotely sensitive. A sending telepath can
influence others, without being aware of it, by strongly desiring
something. A danger is that one who is a sending telepath, without
any of the other gifts, has a tendency to be self-centered and
demanding, and petulant when they dont get their way. A receiving
telepath can "hear" but cant send, others dont pick up their
thoughts. This person might believe the voices, thoughts, or
impressions of ideas to be internally generated, and might doubt
his/her sanity. As is often the case, the thoughts are incongruous,
and seem to come from nowhere, but the individual can not
distinguish the internal thought from the external. Most common is
one who can both send and receive, and the response is usually
enough to convince the person that s/he is not crazy, though the
gift might be hidden out of a fear of being unusual, especially if
the persons church mistakenly equates the gifts with possession.
The "voices" or impressions gathered by the telepath are relaying
accurate, verifiable information based on the consensual
hallucination we call reality. Ask. The information is usually
pretty mundane, and the telepath, upon thinking about it, can learn
to tell that the thought did not originate in his/her own brain
(for example: "I need to remember the ice cream" when the
individual is allergic to ice cream and is talking to someone on
his way to the store.) If one is hearing voices counseling them to
murder or warning that the toaster is influencing our thoughts by
controlling the television, then some mental health care is
definitely in order.
