A correspondent — who shall remain anonymous for obvious reasons — provides us with an excellent example of well-developed delusionary obsession. He borrows from every crackpot source available, and I assure you that he is quite convinced of the reality of his notion. I also notice that he has not applied for the JREF million-dollar prize…
He writes me:
I can prove telepathy is real.
However, be wary as it is in use by intelligence agencies who use it to maintain external agents with whom there is no physical manifestation of communications contact, so they are not easily detected and need not use dead drop boxes or encrypted cell phones, etc., which can be exposed by investigative observation, while telepaths can only generally be detected by other telepaths and only as to information communicated, which is easily masked by encoding telepathic transmissions. BTW, the stories that same involves use of implanted microchips is a load of bulls--t.
FYI, It involves areas L17 and L18 of the brain (discovered by Lockheed) and only occurs in a certain number of people, others are not sensitive to it.
Meanwhile, the rest of so-called 'psychic' phenomenon and occultism, is largely a lot of hoowie... although some of it, fake or not, does provide leverage: by leveraging telepathy as a conduit to gaining influence or control over others.
Telepathy consists mainly of message transmission, remote observation (through the senses of the remote participant), muscle reading (causing muscle's controlling synapses to fire) and shared sensation.
In an unwitting or unstable person, a cacophany of these transmitted in a specific pattern can lead the individual unwitting receiver to either believe they are delusional, possessed, or can even drive them to engage in bizarre, violent or even murderous behavior, by deceiving them into believing the received transmissions are their own thoughts.
IE- Beware the purveyors... Stay well... Amazing Randi. I grew up admiring you and still do.
Enjoy your delusions, sir. Just don’t vote or have children. Please…