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The Gospel According to
Father Hardon:
TELEPATHY. The direct communication of ideas from one mind to another
without words, signs, gestures, or any other ordinary means of communicating
thought. Extensive data and years of psychical research indicate that such manner
of communicating knowledge does occur in exceptional cases or with exceptional
people. When verified, the phenomenon is purely natural and the use of telepathic
powers by one who possesses them cannot be called divination, nor does their
use pose any special moral problems. It should be judged by the general principles
applicable to any other human being's behavior.
It is altogether another question whether in a given case of reputed telepathy
any preternatural agency has been active. Instances of supposed communication
of thought without verbal or other sensory means are reported in the lives of
the saints. But the Church does not hold that such phenomena are positive signs
of a person's sanctity. (Etym. Greek tēle, at a distance + pathein,
to experience.)
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