Social Groups as your Psychic Friends.

Ever been thinking about someone and then, poof! (er, ring), they call? It may be less coincidence, more science after all. Scientist Rupert Sheldrake--who believes in the interconnectedness of all minds within a social grouping--is showing how tech is bringing us closer by promoting proof of what he calls "telephone telepathy". E-mails, too.

In his experiments, each person in the trial was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.

"The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected," Sheldrake explained, citing, "The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one." The same result was found with people being asked to name one of four people sending them an e-mail before it landed.

I don't know about you guys, but this happens to me all the time: with phone calls, e-mails, blogging, running into people on the subway I've just thought of but aren't on my normal route. And, oddly enough with TV; I'll think about an episode or movie I've seen way back and then it's on a few hours later. So I guess according to Sheldrake's hypothesis, TV characters are in my social grouping. Lottery numbers and hot stock picks most assuredly not.

Comments

[nvineberg]

CK, love the topic. This sounds completely logical. I think everyone has some level of intuitive power. It's just an aspect of our nature. And we can nurture it through meditation and similar practices.

[Paul McEnany]

Hippie!!! :)