Through observation the observer changes the observed

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In a nutshell, that would be a total nightmare!

I am very much tempted to rest my case here and thereby create the shortest ecotrain post ever.
Then I would like to unleash a lot of bots on it, to get shitloads in damages paid to me, for even having such a question put in front of me. Since you guys are not telepathic I have to tell you all those things and I am very happy that this procedure is still in place.
If you want somebody to know something about you, you tell them, if you don´t, you don´t, that´s called freedom!

Of course we would first need to define telepathy. What do we mean by that, how would that work?
Would we be like 24/7 radio stations, constantly transmitting our thoughts? To whom? To everybody, or could we choose when and whom we would address with our mental mobil phones? Is it a voluntary communication with a chosen partner, or is everybody an open book for everybody? Are you sending consciously or unconsciously? Or are you not sending at all but the others can hack into your thoughts at will?


Imagine you would not need to answer that most dreaded of all questions anymore:

“Do you love me?“

The other party would know already that you are just in it for the carnal fun, where would be the adventure in all of that? The games, the empty promises, the deceit, the aberrations and confusions, the trials and tribulations, the sudden shock when you realize, you have been taken for a ride.
If we were all telepathic, what would happen to the sweetest of all illusions, love?

Love, love, love

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If we were all telepathic, my first question would be
“Where´s the fucking switch? I want to put an end to all this noise!“

Frankly, I don´t even want to know what most people are thinking.
Can´t be much good anyway, or the world would be a better place.

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With the current power structure in the world, all kinds of tyrants would have a field day.
Just ask those people in Bahrain where the government used social media to crack down on dissidents. What if the secret police wouldn´t even need to go to Facebook anymore to know whom to arrest?
Mind control has always been some psychopaths´ wet dream, getting behind the last barriers of freedom, an individual´s thoughts.


A few years ago I read about how Victor Frankl survived the German concentration camps by envisioning himself being at university again giving lectures, how he was able to use this vision to overcome all obstacles and horrors, how this vision made him a survivor, how he became even an inspiration to some of his guards.
Don´t you think that telepathic Nazis would have tried to interfere with his visions? They knew already that they could do whatever they wanted to his body, and he had accepted that fact also, but retreated into his mind, so imagine the power they would have had, if they could have read his thoughts.

Maybe some people think that if everybody would be telepathic it would level the playing field, but I think bad people would still hurt good people, because that´s their nature.

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Radiant Atman, fellow seeker of the Divine!

One of my memorable moments in India was when one member of our Yoga Vidya group asked Sri Karthikeyan, one of the wise old men of Sivananda ashram, Rishikesh, about past lives. She told him that she would be interested to know about her past lives.
He just smiled and said: “Yes, yes, you would like to have been a princess in one of your past lives, right? We can´t even handle this life of ours, this life is already too much sometimes. What´s the use of knowing something about some past life?“
I think the same about other people´s thoughts. We can´t even handle our own thoughts, our monkey mind, and yet we would love to know other people´s thoughts?
Come on, get a life!
Spiritual traditions have always preached about the value of non-thinking, of no-mind, to get some peace of mind through meditation and then it would be good if everybody was telepathic?

Now I can tell you that I have certain, let´s call them clairvoyant, abilities, or less dramatic, hunches, where I sometimes know what will happen in the future. But I never tell anybody about those things, because I think that by telling other people I might change the outcome of my visions, and since I am not a happy-go-lucky kid, my visions are usually more on the dark side and more of an unpleasant nature, more pessimistic than optimistic, so people would probably become upset if I told them some stuff, like that I see them failing before they even started. Also if I told them, they might blame me for their failure after it happened, claiming that I did some voodoo, spread some negative energy, you know, all this New Age BS.
Sometimes I think I should store my prophecies somewhere with a time stamp and then I could dig it up after some event and rub it in, but this would then just serve my ego, and people would also hate me for it and it would cause them even more suffering.

What about all those social media snowflakes constantly whining about getting their feelings hurt by “hate speech“, all those SJWs constantly trying to control what people are allowed to write and say, wouldn´t they then not also want to control what people are allowed to think?

The horror and the beauty of the human existence is having to deal with uncertainty, never knowing which sabertooth is around the next corner. To be ok with, to embrace this uncertainty is greatness, to fight against uncertainty with stuff like wishing we were telepathic is the sign of a small mind.
If you understand that this uncertainty is the price of freedom, who in his right mind would then wish for being able to know the thoughts of others?
The possibility of secrecy is the prerequisite for transparency, if you cannot have secrets you then can also not choose to become transparent, if you cannot lie, you cannot choose truth.

Hari Om Tat Sat

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