The 3 Types of Telepathy

by Colleen Mauro

In experiments dating back to the nineteenth century, scientists have validated two types of telepathy: instinctual, or feeling-based, telepathy and mental, or mind-to-mind, telepathy. According to the Ageless Wisdom teachings, there is also another, higher type of telepathy called soul-to-soul, or spiritual telepathy.

Instinctual Telepathy

Instinctual telepathy is the lowest type of telepathy. We share this type of telepathy with the animal kingdom, and it is still a common mode of communication in indigenous cultures. Instinctual telepathy utilizes the third energy center or chakra. Located in the solar plexus area, this chakra is the center of instinct and emotion. In this type of telepathy, one person registers the feelings or needs of another at a distance. The most common examples of instinctive telepathy occur between people with strong emotional bonds—parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers, and best friends.

Mental Telepathy

True mental telepathy, or thought transference, is mind-to-mind telepathy. Unlike trance channeling—a type of mediumship in which a disembodied entity uses a channel’s body to communicate a message—telepathic contact is made between two fully conscious, focused minds. Two examples of this type of telepathic communication can be found in the work of Helena Blavatsky and Alice Bailey.

In the past two centuries, the books of Blavatsky and Bailey have introduced the Ageless Wisdom teachings to the general public. Both women were said to have functioned as an amanuensis, or “one who takes dictation,” for a group of Tibetan masters living in the Himalayas. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, was thought to have been an advanced initiate of the mystery teachings. Her books include Isis Unveiled, published in 1877, and The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, published in 1888. The Secret Doctrine, a two-volume set on the evolution of man and the cosmos, influenced both esotericists and scientists. One admirer was Albert Einstein, who reportedly kept a copy of The Secret Doctrine on his desk. Alice Bailey’s work with the Tibetan master Djwal Khul began in 1919, when she suddenly heard a “voice” within asking for her cooperation in the writing of a series of books. After some reluctance, she agreed. According to Bailey, in the beginning she simply listened and wrote down the dictated words as they were “dropped into my brain, one by one.” Over time, as their minds became attuned, she was able to directly register and write down the thoughts and ideas of the Tibetan master. Over a thirty-year period, they produced a total of nineteen books on consciousness and evolution. It was Bailey who introduced the term new age into the popular culture.

Spiritual Telepathy

Spiritual telepathy is the highest type of telepathy. This type of telepathy becomes possible only when we’ve created a link between our brain, mind, and soul. When we align the brain, mind and soul, we have the ability to serve as intermediaries between the physical and the spiritual worlds. The Masters who guide the evolution of our planet cannot directly affect life on earth. Instead, they look for those with a direct line of communication between the soul and the brain. Divine ideas and wisdom can then be stepped down and “impressed” upon our brains. Once the information is anchored on earth, it is dispersed into thought currents that register on the general public. The flood of intuition books in the 1990s and the current interest in the higher functions of the mind are good examples of many minds registering the same impulse at the same time. At times, ideas are also given to specific individuals. Alice Bailey uses the birth of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations, as an example. According to Bailey, the idea of an international organization devoted to world peace was stepped down from the higher planes until it registered in the brain of Colonel Edward House, an advisor and confidant to Woodrow Wilson. House and President Wilson were so close that Wilson once declared, “Mr. House is my second personality. . . . His thoughts and mine are one.” Wilson, who is often mistakenly credited with the idea, asked House to draft the constitution for the League in 1918. Our bridge to the soul is built through the practice of creative meditation. Try this meditation to start building your bridge to the soul.

Creative Meditation for Telepathy

1. Give yourself fifteen minutes of uninterrupted quiet time. Calm yourself by closing your eyes and following your breath, in and out, for a count of ten.

2. When you are ready, use your creative imagination to lift your consciousness to a focal point outside and above your head. See this as the rational mind, now still and receptive. Project a line of light upwards to the soul center, six inches above your head. See it as a brilliant sun, a radiant source of energy.

3. Visualize this line of light reaching even higher, toward the higher, or intuitive, mind. Take a moment to hold this lighted alignment. Pause for a moment as you experience the light and energy of your soul. Then, holding the mind steady in the light, meditate for ten to fifteen minutes on this sentence: In silence, I hear the voice of my soul.

4. Examine the words first with the rational mind. Carry your thought as far as you can in analysis and analogy as you seek to penetrate the inner meaning. 5. To end your meditation, visualize a pure white light pouring down from your soul, illuminating your mind, calming your emotions, and invigorating your physical body. As you project your attention upward day after day, you will anchor small threads of energy that will eventually, thread by thread, form a bridge to the subtle worlds. Like Christopher Columbus, Magellan and other explorers, you will discover a new world—a world once accessible only to mystics, seers and saints.

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About the Author

This material was adapted by permission of Quest Books, the imprint of The Theosophical Publishing House The meditation was adapted and used by permission from Lucius Trust. Colleen Mauro can be reached spiritualtelepathy.net.