Many people who keep pets have noticed that their animals respond to their thoughts and intentions. The same principles apply to telepathy between people and animals. This kind of telepathy typically occurs between people who are closely bonded. A connection or channel of communication is opened up. In this kind of telepathy, someone's attention is attracted, just as it is by hearing one's own name called, or by seeing an alarm signal, or by hearing the telephone ring. This results in thinking about the other person, or seeing an image of that person, or hearing his or her voice, or experiencing a feeling or impression. In the second kind of telepathy, which I will discuss in chapters 3 through 6, one person picks up a call, intention, need, or distress of another at a distance. I discuss this kind of telepathy in this chapter and the next. Although thought transference is most common between people who know each other well, it can also occur with others with whom they are currently interacting. There seem to be two main kinds of telepathy, the first of which is exemplified by thought transference, and usually occurs between people who are nearby, each aware of the other's presence, and already interacting with each other. The figures vary, but they show clearly enough that many people in western Europe and the United States claim to have experienced telepathy, and most people believe in the reality of psychic phenomena. In a large newspaper survey in Britain, 59 percent of the respondents said they were believers in ESP. In recent random household surveys in Britain and the United States, 45 percent of the respondents said they had had telepathic experiences. In another national survey, in 1990, 75 percent said they had had at least one kind of paranormal experience, and 25 percent had had telepathic experiences. In one national survey in the United States, 58 percent of those questioned claimed personal experience of telepathy. Nevertheless, many people claim that they themselves have had telepathic or other psychic experiences. Therefore, from the materialist point of view, they are impossible, and dogmatic skeptics dismiss them as illusory. Telepathy and other psychic phenomena contradict the assumption that the mind is confined to the brain.
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