telepathy
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Telepathy is the purported ability to transmit thoughts or information directly from one person's mind to another without using conventional communication. Scientific efforts to demonstrate telepathy, such as the Ganzfeld experiments, have faced significant criticism due to difficulties in reproducing results and methodological limitations, making its existence unproven.
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- Origins of the concept
- Thought reading
- Case studies
- In parapsychology
- Types
- Zener cards
- Dream telepathy
- Ganzfeld experiment
- Twin telepathy
- Scientific reception
- Psychiatry
- Use in fiction
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|The Ganzfeld experiments that aimed to demonstrate telepathy have been criticized for lack of replication and poor controls.
Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference.