Last Updated on September 15, 2012 by Mike

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In 2009, Gemma Houghton was busy on a beautiful spring day when she got a strange, uneasy feeling that something was wrong with her sibling. She experienced a sudden urge to check up on her twin sister Leanne who is an epileptic. The 15-year old rushed to the bathroom where she saw her sister unconscious in the bath tub and close to drowning. She quickly removed her from the water and performed CPR thus saving her sister’s life. Leanne had suffered an epileptic fit and couldn’t call for help. How did Gemma know that her sister was in trouble? Lucky coincidence some might say, but experts argue that it is the perfect example of telepathy.

Transferring information in such a manner without the use of sensory channels may not be the stuff that sci-fi novels are made up of and might actually be a reality. With a large number of case studies all around the world, the scientific arena is still struggling with the question: Does it exist or not?

History of thought-transference

Frederic W.H. Myers came up with the modern name for telepathy and that just goes to show how far back people were interested in finding out whether it actually worked or not. A number of case studies have been carried out that tries to prove that thought-transference actually existed and it just differed from person to person. Here’s a mind-blowing one.

• In 1937, Harold Sherman (author) and Hubert Wilkins (explorer) decided to carry out their own experiments in telepathic communication. The former stayed in New York while the latter was exploring the Arctic. Every night they made a note about the events of the day gone by and sent the results to a psychologist. The results were quite interesting. Seventy-five percent of both the individuals’ events matched completely.

Different theories

A number of people are of the opinion that telepathy can be viewed as a paranormal phenomenon. This implies that certain external forces that are completely unknown enter a person’s mind and allow him/her to convey or receive telepathic messages. On the other hand, another theory that caught up is that thought transference is a completely scientific phenomenon. What actually happens is that a person’s conscious mind is linked to the sub-conscious part that allows such a transfer to take place.

Controversy

While not a scientific discipline that is officially recognized, thought transference does have its fair share of believers. Skeptics who are looking to find holes in various telepathic cases usually state reasons such as fraud and self-delusion. This usually happens as people look for cheap publicity.

While there might be a number of case studies that add meat to the telepathy debate, believers still have a long way to go before their theories are globally accepted. However, one thing’s for sure. There is no denying the fact that thought transference has become a topic that the world loves to discuss. There might be a few rough patches in certain cases, but there are genuine ones, as well.

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