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We Can Communicate Telepathically?

Neuroscientists broke the brain-to-brain barrier years ago and nobody noticed. Why?

James Horton, Ph.D
Lessons from History
13 min readMar 6, 2022

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In 2014, in the open-access PLoS One journal, a small international team of researchers published the results of an experiment they had conducted, detailing the first scientifically unimpeachable case of telepathic communication.

For the most part, the public has not noticed. You can tell by looking at their Google searches from that time frame; the following graph shows the number of searches for “telepathy” from 2004 to the present. I’ve circled the part corresponding to the publication of their results:

Graph reproduced from Google Trends (search term: “Telepathy”; search range: 2004 to present)

It’s interesting to me that, as a culuture, we have fantasized about telepathy for over a hundred years, and yet in the months following the first demonstration of real telepathy the world mostly ignored it. Why the silence?

As best as I can tell the reason is that in that strange liminal space between the dream of telepathy and the reality of it, something was lost. Telepathy exists at an odd cultural nexus; for many people, it still holds connotations of…

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James Horton, Ph.D
James Horton, Ph.D

Written by James Horton, Ph.D

Social scientist, world traveler, freelancer. Alaskan, twice. Writes about psychology, well-being, science, tech, and climate change. Ghostwriter on the side.

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Calen this is a great piece of writing. Thank you so much! This shows how really connected we all are with our humanity.

There are a number of people who claim to have been able to communicate telepathically with whales/dolphins. I am also curious as to the nature of animals living in large groups and their ability to communicate in this manner. Are you aware of the idea of morphic resonance?