TELEPATHY. The word telepathy has been coined to express the power of one mind to communicate with another directly, that is to say, without the aid of the ordinary organs of sense. Telepathy is not necessarily a religion, but it is of vast religious significance. It re-establishes the importance of prayer (q.v.), re-enforces the value of worship, and gives new meanings to old creeds. It establishes communication between sympa thetic minds among mortals; it renders possible real com munion between a divinely disposed human mind and the divine mind itself. The efficacy of mental and spiritual healing is largely due to telepathy. A healthy mind can impart healing to a mind that is sick. Thom son Jay Hudson maintains that " the power of telepathic communication is as thoroughly established as any fact in nature." This is due to the work of the London Society for Psychical Research. Telepathy is the normal means of communication between subjective minds. " The reason of the apparent rarity of its manifestation is that it requires exceptional conditions to bring its results above the threshold of consciousness. There is every reason to believe that the souls, or subjective minds, of men can and do habitually hold communion with one another when not the remotest perception of the fact is communicated to the objective intelligence. It
may be that such communion is not general among men; but it is certain that it is held between those who, from any cause, are en rapport. The facts recorded by the Society for Psychical Research demonstrate that proposi tion. Thus, near relatives are oftenest found to be in communion, as is shown by the comparative frequency of telepathic communications between relatives, giving warning of sickness or of death. Next in frequency are communications between intimate friends " (T. J. Hud son). It would seem that " the subjective minds of those who are deeply interested in one another are in habitual communion, especially when the personal interest or wel fare of either agent or percipient is at stake." In any case, " it is certain that telepathic communication can be established at will by the conscious effort of one or both of the parties, even between strangers." Albert B. Olston thinks " telesthesia " would be a better term than " telepathy." See Albert B. Olston, Mind Power, 190G; T. J. Hudson, Psychic Phenomena; and cp. Prentice Mulford, The Gift of the Spirit, 1908 (second edition).