Conference hydra::dejavu

    
    
    RE: .0 Wollen
    
    
    Sounds like your telepathic abilities were heightened that day,
    or are beginning to open up on a permanent basis.  I have had
    similar experiences and always feel a childlike delight about
    them.
    
    What I am feeling lately is that we are at a time in our
    evolution where telepathic communication will become more
    commonplace, as I believe it is part of our heritage.
    
    Carole

  Carole, your reply stimulated the following chain of thought in me:

  What if telepathy has always been a human faculty? In fact, what if
  there are, and always have been, many people who use it regularly and
  effortlessly, just as almost all of us use verbal communication? What
  if those of us don't accept telepathy as being possible or common just
  haven't learned it yet, like a young child who hasn't learned to talk?
  What if those who use it are always helping and teaching us, just as
  parents help and teach their children to talk? What if there's nothing
  mysterious or occult about telepathy, it's just another human faculty
  that each individual learns in their turn, when they're ready?

  If any of that's true, then I feel like a jabbering toddler, making
  telepathic "noises", "hearing" and imitating the telepathic
  conversation of adults around me, but having no clear comprehension of
  their communication, or control of my own ability to communicate. It's
  both frightening and exciting at the same time.

  Could it be true? I can't wait to learn!

    
    Re.2
    
    Spot on, Mike.  It is true.  We are only as limited as we perceive 
    that we are.  
    
    You might be interested in "Travels" by Michael Crichton.  It's an
    autobiography of sorts, as opposed to science fiction.  While he
    doesn't go into telepathy per se, he does talk about a lot about these
    sorts of things and lends a wonderful perspective to the reader by
    talking about his own experiences with such things, including seeing
    auras, spoonbending, the astral plane and so forth.
    
    Cindy

    Re. .1 
    
    The same type of thing has happened to me on ocassion. I once had a two
    day period where I was really "psychic". I went to a frined of mine's
    office, and told her so. She said, "OK, what did I have for dinner last
    night?" I said, "It doen't work that way" and immediatly added "soup
    and crackers with cheese."  Her mouth dropped, and then she asked "what
    kind of soup?" to which I replied "minestrone".
       She was totally flabbergasted, and said that she hadn't had
    minestrone soup in years and had been in the store the evening before
    and decided she didn't want to cook, so she picked up a can of
    minestrone and some crackers and cheese for dinner.
    
    My telepathic power is not always so strong, my husband and I and my
    mother and I have strong telepathic communication, but I'm not sure if
    this is from knowing each other so well, but some days, it's like a
    window opens and I can "read" a lot of what other people are thinking
    or are going to say.
    
    I'd love to find out how to develop this, I agree that it's probably a
    lost sense rather than something extraordinary.
    
    
    Marilyn

    
    I had an experience the other day at Pizza Hut (cosmic, eh? :-).
    
    After we all had ordered our stuff I left to use the restroom.  While
    there I "imagined" a conversation between our waiter and one of the
    other workers.  The other worker was saying "Oh, just give them this
    order of breadsticks that (some other folks) didn't want."  I then
    "imagined" that our breadsticks would arrive first - though we had 
    been specifically told otherwise.
    
    I promptly forgot all about these mental musings and went back to the
    table where we began talking, etc.
    
    The next thing I knew, the waiter was standing there with one order of
    breadsticks (we had ordered two) and said that the rest of the stuff 
    would come later.  
    
    Of course, when I told my friends what I had "imagined" they just 
    looked at me like I was nuts! :-)  
    
    guy

    Mike, your reply stimulated my feelings as well.  As Carole stated she
    too experienced similar happenings that evoked a childlike delight.  I
    too get that emotion whenever I have a psychic experience.  And I
    believe that we are evolving into an acceptance of and practicing of
    our latent skills.
    
    In retrospect of that day's experience of hearing the name Wallach, I
    think perhaps the two men that were trying to think of the name of the
    person from their pasts were transmitting to each other the name even
    though they consciously couldn't and I happened to be fine tuned that
    day and picked up the name Wallach.  It was a matter of transmission
    and receiving.  What confuses me is what was going on in my head/body,
    was it something I ate????? that made my antenna work so well.  If only
    I knew that then I could do it at will.  I believe our brain has the
    ability to communicate on many levels and telepathy is only one way. 
    It was an accurate day for me and I felt a little weird afterwards when
    it continued further with my husband and again picking up
    words/numbers.  It's exciting to me and happens a lot but I must admit
    that I practice being able to hear things/see things.  I use my mind in
    this way which is a normal occurence for me, I just don't think
    anything of it until I get an experience that seems out of the ordinary
    for me.  I think we all know or should admit that things aren't always
    as they appear.  Sometimes there unexplainable at the time but we all
    know what goes on in our own heads, don't we?  I carry on many
    conversations with my head and think I've trained an area in my brain
    to be receptive to many paranormal things.  I direct my brain to be
    quiet so that it can hear.  I sort of shut off the internal static you
    could say.  I agree that man is capable of the telepathic communication
    avenue, he just doesn't think he's capable so it sits there waiting to
    be developed.  It's frigtening and exciting to be sure.  I'm always
    experimenting with my conscious mind and the unconscious mind is always
    experimenting with me.
    
    What are you waiting for?   Practice and it develops your innate skill
    towards using another form of communication.  We are more than meets
    the eye.
    
    Jo-Ann.......

    
    (warning - not much factual data behind this one)
    
    I have often mused that we humans have a genetic predisposition toward
    telepathic ability.  That those humans with less ability come from
    lineages where the telepathic 'gene' was been bred out - e.g. - people
    descended from areas where 'witches' were burned, cut out of
    society, etc.  And that those of us who have the ability easily
    within reach, are descended from those humans who remained on the
    fringe of society - e.g. gypsies, etc.  I derived the idea from
    a sampling of 1 (me) whose predecessors (part of them anyway) came from
    south eastern Austria where at the time there was a high concetration
    of gypsy folk.
    
    Idle musings.
    
    alison
    

    
    alison...
    
    you may have something there...I'm also part gypsy (3rd generation
    Bohemian) and I've had 3 instances in the past two months of
    some sort of precognitive (?) thought...two out of the three were
    verified within the next two days...if only it could be controlled...
    
    To the Gypsies that remain...
    Chris

    
    Hi Chris,
    
    Please tell me - what is a Bohemian?  I've been wondering this for
    several years now.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Cindy

    
    Perhaps the solar flares that are showering us this year are activating
    the latent psychic ability in all of us.
    
    What fun!  Its great, isn't it? :-)
    
    Mary

    I am the one who started this whole thing.  I am of Greek heritage and
    grew up in a family where many members were very psychic.  Perhaps
    there's something there about it being genetic.  I most likely
    inherited my (skills) from my Grecian ancestors.  I've had psychic
    happenings as far back to age 9 and I'm 30 + that now.
    
    Jo-Ann....

    
    Hi Cindy,
    
    The way it was explained to me was that a long time ago there
    was a country in Europe called Bohemia which after a war was 
    taken over by Czechoslovakia...this may or may not be true...
    if you look at a map of Czechoslavakia, you'll see that a large
    percentage of this country is what is called the Bohemian Forest.
    I'm sure someone else could give you a more detailed background...
    It's not something I tend to openly admit as some older people
    still tend to have a negative attitude of gypsies...my father-in-law,
    after being told my heritage told his wife to hide the silver 8^)
    
    Basically, that's it in a nutshell...
    
    Chris

RE: .11
    
    Lennice,
    
    Nothing you have said eliminates "nurture" from consideration, it only
    eliminates one specific, direct, factor from the possible environmental
    factors which might cause heightened psi ability -- direct statements
    to the effect of "I'm psychic and I think it would be great if you
    were psychic too", or direct training in psi enhancing techniques
    identified as such.
    
    It does not eliminate less direct nurturing, such as fostering specific
    attitudes which happen to be psi conducive, or behaviors (e.g., openly
    discussing dreams) which might incidently improve psi functioning.  It
    also does not eliminate more physical rather than social, environmental
    factors such as eating specific foods at a particular age which just
    happens to contain a large amount of some substance which promotes the
    development of psi (no -- I do not know of any such substance, but that
    doesn't mean it doesn't exist).
    
    Remember -- in "nurture vs nature" the word "nurture" refers to
    anything in the environment -- including the prenatal environment --
    which varies from individual to individual.
    
    					Topher

    re .8
    
    In the broadest sense, a Bohemian is someone who lives
    an esoteric, possibly avant garde, lifestyle.  The Beats of
    the '50 were frequently referred to as "Bohemian".
    
    Richard

    .0
    
    To answer your question:  I have had similar occurances, though
    so infrequently and unpredictably I've never thought much of them.
    
    You may have some extrasensory sensitivity.
    
    If you do consider it a gift to be used wisely.
    
    Richard

    re: .8, .14
    
         Just to clear that up a little more...
    
         In the 50's, I'd hear about the Beatniks (usually meant
    people who lived in N.Y.C., particularly Greenwich Village (sp?))
    and when I first asked to have that explained to me, the reply
    was usually to describe a beatnik as a "Bohemian."  In the 
    60's, whenever people were asked to define a "Hippy", the answer
    was usually to describe them using the term "beatnik."  "They're
    sort of like beatnik, man, you know?"  There is nothing that
    has transpired in the past two decades, to my knowledge, that
    has replaced the term hippy, although that seems to be a generally
    archaic or passe' term.  Yuppie is hardly what a hippy, beatnik
    or bohemian person is.  Laid back, counter-culture, and the
    afore-mentioned avant garde are all applicable descriptors, I 
    believe.
    
    Frederick
    

    Experiencing telepathic communication from time to time my feeling is
    that it is a latent ability that *every* person has, and as Carole
    mentioned is part of our heritage as human beings.
    
    I feel that it occurs more subconsciously in western society because it
    tends to be pooh-poohed by the vast majority of people.  If we were
    living in a more "aboriginal" or so-called "uncivilized" culture, 
    however, we find that telepathy is not only an acceptable form of
    communication, but also tends to be the "norm" for these folks.
    
    Our increasing dependence and value of "technology" has in some ways, I
    feel, divorced us from some of our more latent abilities, such as
    telepathy.  But what is interesting is that as more and more people
    desire to re-connect with the earth again, to explore (seriously) their 
    own spiritual roots and the interconnectedness of *all* life, telepathy 
    and other latent abilities seem to be on the rise individually, and of
    course, collectively.  Hmmm.... the "hundredth monkey" syndrome?!
    
    Perhaps I am making associations here that are not relevant.  
    
    But.....I genuinely doubt that.  :-))
    
    karen.* 

    I've had several experiences and have written about them in this file 
    before.  I entered the following experience here already, but 
    didn't get very much response.  
    
    About 6 yrs. ago while sitting at work, I had this vision of a girl 
    (she was on the 2nd floor, almost directly above me) vomitting in her 
    wastebasket.  This vision had flashed quickly in my mind.  I thought it 
    was extremely odd and shrugged it off.  A few days later, I was talking 
    to this girl's mother who also worked on the 2nd floor.  She told me that 
    her daughter, a few days prior, had vomitted in her wastebasket, while at 
    her desk.  It seems she was under a lot of pressure at work and was 
    quite nervous etc.  I could barely believe my ears and wondered if I 
    heard her correctly.  Its possible I was picking up signals from her 
    earlier that day when I had passed by her in the hallway.  She may have 
    seemed nervous that day, I'm not sure.  
    
    I haven't had an experience that vivid since.  At times I feel I might
    be psychic and other times not.  But when things do happen, I do
    try to pay closer attention and 'listen' to what they could mean. 
    For example, last December while watching a television program, a 
    particular last name kept coming up in my mind.  I then shrugged it off 
    not giving it much more thought.  The very next day I had gone on an 
    exploratory interview.  During the interview, I was told about a 
    particular job that might be of interest.  After discussing the job, 
    I became interested enough to request an interview with the hiring 
    manager.  Well, it turned out that the hiring manager's last name was 
    the name I had been thinking about the previous night.  It then became 
    apparent to me that this was some sort of sign and that I shouldn't just 
    shrug it off.  Well, I interviewed for the job and was hired.  And it has 
    been a great job..the best I've ever had in DEC.  I'm glad I payed
    attention to this signal.  I realize now that I shouldn't just shrug
    these things off so quickly and should really try to listen to what 
    they could mean.
      
    Donna