Research has revealed that telepathic information is carried by extremely low frequency (ELF) waves.
Just as sea salt is used to 'clear' crystals of accumulated vibrations (see "Exercise Using Quartz Crystals"), telepathic subjects in submarines often get muddled impressions in very deep seawater when trying to pick up target subjects miles away on dry land.
Telepathic ELF waves have very long wave lengths and can pass through almost anything except very deep seawater.
Of course, the Navy has succeeded in projecting electronic ELF waves through sea water with amplified generators, so it all depends on amplitude.
At least 50 - 75% of the idle thoughts coming into your mind are simply being picked up from other minds around you.
We are always sending and receiving impressions from other minds on a subtle level that coalesce and form many of our ideas and thought processes.
We just don’t know the source or even that it is happening.
We think we are the originators of all our ideas.
The trick is to tune that delicate thought receiver in your head and pick out the thoughts you want to receive.
That's a telepath.
Identical twins often find it easy to do this with each other because of their similar vibrational patterns, but how can you do it?
As an exercise, practice with a partner (preferably someone you know well) in a separate room.
Assume a comfortable, relaxed position and take a few deep breaths.
Affirm to yourself that you believe you are telepathically receptive.
Still your mind by visualizing a large blackboard or a giant snowbank.
Now look at a photograph of the person in the other room and visualize that person in your mind's eye.
Establishing this conscious awareness of the sender helps you to produce a resonant frequency and enhances telepathic reception.
Ask yourself, "What is this person saying to me?"
Frame your thoughts, and say to the photograph mentally, "Talk to me, talk to me."
Then await a reply.
After a while, you'll get a stirring inside your brain.
At first you might say it's just imagination, but don't.
If you dismiss your receptivity to idle imagination, you'll dismiss telepathy.
Let the sender transmit a verbal message that contains emotionally provocative words for better reception.
Also, let the sender experiment with sending emotional words in a foreign language (unknown to you) and see what happens.
Have the sender pulse out his message to you through rhythmic breathing (see "Exercise -- Rhythmic Breathing To Harmonize Body/Mind Processes") as he visual- izes your face in his mind's eye.
Rhythm has been shown to greatly assist telepathic abilities.
Pulsing the message in a steady beat facilitates the transmission process.
Slow pulsing strobes on closed eyes have proven helpful, but synchronizing your breathing with the beat of your heart is more natural.
If you use a metronome at 60 beats per minute, your heart will soon simulate that same relaxed rhythm and your brain wave cycle will slow to alpha in response.
Some people improve their reception by visualizing a mental body movement in seeking the target answer.
The receiver imagines he is skating in a slow, pulsing rhythm toward and around the sender.
If the sender is in the same room, a metronome beating at 60 strokes per minute can be heard by both sender and receiver.
The sender can then easily synchronize his rhythm as well.
He visualizes his mental body moving toward and around the receiver in exactly the same rhythm.
This rhythmic rapport greatly facilitates transmission and reception.
You might also visualize holding onto a giant, grandfather clock pendulum that is swaying back and forth to the beat of the metronome.
Hanging suspended in midair, you mentally approach your telepathic partner in a side to side rhythm.
In either case, feel the kinesthetic inner movement for maximum effect.
Next, both you and your partner listen to 5 distinctly different musical pieces.
Mentally without telling your partner, choose one of them for yourself.
Now sit facing each other and begin emanating a positive feeling to your partner to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
Now begin playing in your mind the musical piece you chose out of the 5 while maintaining your positive emotional transmission.
Did your partner succeed in picking up the musical sounds?
A side benefit to this exercise is that every time the transmitter hears that same musical piece in the future, the same generated emotion may be aroused! The next time you're talking to a friend, prearrange ahead of time that it is okay to interrupt each other by announcing telepathic impressions that the other feels he is receiving.
Be honest with each other and experiment with different methods.
One final note: Use telepathy to help people, and with practice in telepathic listening, you'll even discern messages in unknown languages as well (see "Exercise Understanding Any Spoken Language").