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Telepathy and abilities of the Mind
(By Sam)(ael)

To start off, I should list my qualification for teaching on such a subject. Though I have not been very vocal about it, I have long been able to sense quite a bit through the force and perhaps through some talent at deductive reasoning. I have strong emapthetic abilities which also aid in these skills. I have had them for a long time so I have also learned to make use of them though I will admit that much still escapes me. These powers are natural to me. Governed by feeling, like a person reaching for something in the dark until they find it. Despite the mismatched nature of the science however these abilities have served me well and been consistent enough to allow me to have full confidence in their actuality.

At the age of eleven I became a split. A schizophrenic. Usually Schizophrenia manifests in a minor fracture (from ten and above personalities fracturing from the main central personality) of a massive fracture (these manifest over a thousand and result from the worst traumas people face). Additionally if a person does not merge themselves back into a whole by the age of fifty, they tend to die. This is a shaky leg of the scientific understanding but research has been done on schizophrenia that has proven that Schizophrenics start feeling the need to become whole again as they near the age and have the certain feeling that bad things will happen if they do not. This research can be found in 'The holographic universe' which was a good read. Suffice it to say many strange things are possible. Some personalities kill each other, others need only be understood, some just exist. Some people are aware of these personalities and others are not aware at all. Some personalities can take control at will while others only surface as a voice in the head with purely unique knowlege and ideas. Defining who that person's core personality can be an impossible task. Sometimes the whole is buries away somewhere hiding, sometimes the whole is mostly in charge, sometimes the whole is so split apart that many pieces must be united in order to bring some semblance of the person who used to be back. In all cases however a Schizophrenic break is a Defense mechanism. Aparantly some of the pressures that a single person cannot handle can be handled if that person breaks into pieces and parcels out the problems. The art of healing Schizophrenia is as deep as each person in their entirety. There is no source book that could prepare you. My split was somewhat unique. I had only one split personality which only on a few occasions over the six or more years I was split was able to take over. This Dual split happens often in books but is actually far less common than the splits addressed above. As a further unique aspect it was a man convinced he had been reincarnated many many times (not as animals or anything in line with the usual reincarnation belief of some religions) but as a human each time attempting to save the world. Through him certain memory would drift between us flooding over the devide depending on the situation. though his memories were of no history I can trace from earth (and that with a large grasp on history) the skills proved to be very accurate. The Down side was that he was absolutely insane. The object in telling you this is because through this experience and others as I was forced to control my mind and battle another at times for control I learned a lot about what a mind is and how it works from a unique perspective. And the mind is the wonderland and nightmare in one. Not beyond your imagination, but on the contrary... Exactly as large, scary, wonderful, and strange as your imagination.
 * __The Nature of Minds__**:

I am not sure what you would call this 'inner world'. It is more than words and less than describable because of it's bredth and size. Let me explain why. Have you ever tried to explain something that other people just didn't get? Have you ever had a dream where reality shifted in a way where you literally could not describe what happened even if you had a year to do it? Have you ever noticed how your thoughts tend to flow a certain way and by a certain method, but another person thought so differently that it was like learning a different language or trying to speak brail? Welcome to one small sections of the scope of your mind. Multiply it a million times a billion times for every thought and experience you ever had. Now multiply that a million million times for every understanding and perspective there is on the planet upon each thought, memory, experience, and idea. You are just getting started on what a single mind contains. This world is the scape upon which battles of the mind, understanding, learning, and every other mental and some emotional process functions. Welcome to the 4th dimension. It is contained between your eyes and behind you ears and you know less about it than you do about a dark room you have never visited. Here rules function... Only if you think so. Here a strong belief is as stronger and more stable than gravity, and a though appears. Here your will is magic commanding the landscape to be as you choose. Here is where I was forced to do battle with a madman.
 * __The Inner World__**:

When you engage in a struggle inside your own mind the game is fantastic. Remember, in your mind you can think yourself anywhere, you can think yourself invisible or into the shape of a Dog. You can make entire castles appear with a flick of the will and conjure up anything you can imagine. You can even fasten a small portion of your will into these constructs and send dragons and knights and aliens after your enemies. Problem is that they can think these things out of existence, change their orders, or conjur them up with equal ease. In a battle where thought is substance, and detailed thought is stronger substance a million battles might easily not decide who wins. Here belief is the sovereign power. Ten times as powerful as any thought. Belief can also restrict you as much as the opponent. Here your ability to shape your own beliefs, your ability to think, your ability to recal, and even your ability not to believe is infinite power. Once you can force your opponent to believe he or she is eternally trapped you win. Here you can also kill if you can trick them into thinking they are destroyed and put into oblivion. Now this world sounds fantastic. Remember. This is just what goes on in your own head. If you ever had another person in there trying to force you to do things you didn't want to, you would learn all about it quick.
 * __Battle on the inner World__**:

What I learned here allowed me to strangthen my mind to the point that I could begin to skim the topmost thoughts in other's minds and understand them almost as if I was in their own mind for a glimpse. From here on out this whole thing will start to sound more realistic, but you should understand that your mind is it's own little dimension. Inside your mind, if you stop being physical you can be anything. It is a perspective both terrifying and enlightening and a Journey that taught me what I am going to explain as best I can to you.

The process of 'reading thoughts' is actually very similar to thinking, I believe due to experience that the process is so similar that we may pick up other's thoughts without realizing it. Whenever I am able to do this I usually realize that the thoughts are not mine because they are things I never have done and they seem so real that they must be. Whenever I have investigated these occurences I have been startlingly right. I have been able to describe precise events and interestingly, sometimes I can pick op on memories that haven't happened yet. In one example I was driving when a corvette passed with a lady and a man in it. I immediately felt an old familiar memory (I say this to describe how I am feeling like this is an old memory of my own only I know it is not). Aparantly this memory was of the car, a beach house in the desert and a lot of memories, only it did not feel like it had happened already. I don't know how to describe some of these feelings, only when I searched for how long ago the memory had occured (after realizing it was not mine) I looked back and it didn't feel like past memories do. It was a rare but certain memory of the future much like Anakin's moment of prescience when he 'remembered' his pending defeat of Dooku in Revenge of the Sith. A rare future event that was certain at least at the time I recieved it.
 * __Telepathy, The ability to recieve and transmit thought__**:

Now this is a good example of recieving a memory from another person. How was it done? That time it was all on accident. I was not trying to probe any minds and I only realized what it was because it was such a strong experience. Most captured memories aren't that strong, but the stronger ones always come with feelings attached and you usually feel these feelings as if they were your own. This might be a result of my own Empathy but I put it forward for your evaluation.

Whenever I attempt to get memories I need only pay attention similar to using the force and wait for the memories to come while I focs on the person being probed. Be patient, do not try to will your way into their minds. This is a relaxation exercise. Simply by being aware of someone, by feeling out (something native americans describe as questing out with their spirit) to the target you will begin to recieve the stream of thought. You need only be sensitive and patient. The ability to clear your own mind will allow you to listen to other's much better and without much distraction.

Now remember that most people have undisciplined minds. This helps and it hurts. You see their minds will usually have a song running and random thoughts of bizzare nature with no value or coherancy. in order to sense the flow of their thoughts you will have to be able to sort out two sets of random thought. To sift through double the usual distractions for something a thousand times harder to find outside your own thoughts. Be patient and the stream of actual awareness and thought will become clearer. Memories and feelings will be the strongest things you will be able to sense to begin with. You will have to pay attention to yourself. When you begin to 'read' thoughts they will feel like your own. The subtle differences will let you know they are not yours. Each person has a flavor, each thought and memory will... Taste/Feel? Differently. You will have to experiment in order to understand for yourself the real depth of this trade.

Now sending thoughts out is not hard between people who practice picking up thoughts but sending thought out to others is a tall order. One excellent exercise is this: Think of a person who knows you already. remembering their face say over and over "call (your name)". This works better if it is someone that doesn't feel wierd calling you. If you want to test whether or not it was your thought suggesting they call you ask them why they called you. Usually they will say they just felt like it. As your mind grows more mature you will learn how to send complex messages in a single thought the way you suddenly know complex information in a dream. You will also learn to send pictures and memory. It is simply harder to do with the undisciplined. Also I would not suggest targeting a Jedi or a clearly spiritually powerful leader. The force or the spiritual energy as well as the discipline of their mind make them very hard to pierce. They can be extra sensitive to people they already know and trust, so people who trust you are more succeptible, but the people that are complete strangers will be very mentally and spiritually strong.

Remember that in order to pick up on thought and feeling from others, to recieve messages you must be aware. Aware of your thoughts, your surroundings, your spiritual/force energies and your feelings. As you pay more and closer attention you will become more sensitive and you will be able to pick up fainter things. This awareness also leads to visions and future awareness. It Is my opinion that the future is comprised of possibilities that are all available. you can sense many possabilities, but only as the future gets closer and our actions and choices make more of the possabilities vanish are we able to see what will really happen. This is why ALL force users can sense just a little ahead with great accuracy (Jedi reflexes) I submit my belief that they are seeing/Remembering future memories. I sumbmit that all things are one and nothing is seperate including time. I say that the future exists in the same space as the present and thus sensitivity can allow us to see the future.
 * __Awareness and The Future__**

I believe that all three of these help us to be more sensitive to thoughts feelings and the future. The more we have to measure against, the more we understand of man's tendencies, the more accurate we are. Sometimes I go places I have never been simply to strengthen my powers. I find that sometimes this even strengthens my force power.
 * __Wisdom, Experience, Perspective__**: