Telepathy is communication without intervention of known sensory means. Incoming messages suddenly flash into the mind. It is the most straightforward form of ESP and has been seriously investigated for years. The question is no longer whether telepathy exists. It is whether we can master it.

Telepathy supposes a sender and a receiver, but communication also occurs without voluntary participation. Instances abound in the history of sciences and technologies, where researchers unaware of each other simultaneously published discoveries or applied for patents. It is as if inventions or ideas would be floating in the air, waiting for minds to tune into them.

Spontaneous telepathy may also be tied to intense emotional distress. Persons in great danger or near death need not call their distant loved ones. Their mind does it on its own. Its silent voice may reach the targeted receivers even in their sleep.

Certain forms of telepathy connect several persons at once. Overwhelmed by emotion, a crowd will start binding mentally, each individual both a sender and a receiver of psychic vibrations. The phenomenon will persist for as long as everyone maintains the same spiritual diapason.

Eternism explains all telepathy as an extension to whole organisms of what happens at the level of their individual Eternons: instant interconnection. Telepathy therefore is not limited to humans or to members of a particular species. Any two organisms can exchange psi waves. For instance, a dog will read the mind of its master, even in the absence of physical clues like facial expression.

Expanding on this notion, telepathic contact is possible between us and aliens or discarnate beings. Actually, we humans, including many scientists, have always regarded this last form of communication as normal. We have practiced it long before the word "telepathy" was coined. It it a basic feature of every religion. We call it "prayer."

Is telepathy electromagnetism? No, but waves of the mind stream and electromagnetic waves have a lot in common. Both usually work at extremely low energy. Both spread in all directions around their sources. Both may have their reception distorted by background "noise." ESP channels are so easily scrambled that it is difficult to achieve perfect telepathic connection. For the tenuous psychic energy to build up significantly, Eternons have to vibrate in concert as photons do in a laser beam. Thus, successful psi requires great concentration. Religious rituals, with their distinctive locations, objects, attires, gestures, and sounds, have no other purpose than to improve transmission during prayer.