mind reading

Can you read minds? Do you have a feeling that you know what someone is really thinking even when they aren’t saying it? Have you ignored your inside voice and listened to what was being said- only to discover you were misled? Have you listened to your intuition and found it to be more accurate than what you are supposed to trust? Have you ever known the “grapevine” to be quicker than traditional chain of command?

This “grapevine” of information transmitting from your brain to mine or others- is real.

Perhaps, it’s more real than what we formally recognize with words.

MRIs of the Brain are taking us to the edge and back by physical evidence on a metaphysical plane.

“It is mind reading, said Alan S. Cowen, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley who co-authored the study with professor Marvin M. Chun from Yale and Brice A. Kuhl from New York University.

‘You can even imagine, way down the road, a witness to a crime might want to come in and reconstruct a suspect’s face.’- Alan S. Cowen, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley

The study says it is the first to try to reconstruct faces from thoughts.”

“Mindsight” or “empathic accuracy” is the seemingly magical ability to map someone’s mental terrain from their words, emotions and body language. Those on the autism spectrum or those afflicted with psychotic disorders struggle mightily to read minds. And even the most socially intelligent are easily thrown off, because we’ve evolved to deceive others, and, if we’re especially invested in someone, to deceive ourselves.

Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities. Performances may appear to include telepathy, clairvoyance, divination, precognition, psychokinesis, mediumship, mind control, memory feats and rapid mathematics. Hypnosis may also be used as a stage tool. Mentalists are sometimes referred to as psychic entertainers. Like the Evasons, they perform and entertain in large venues to crowds of strangers.

What about your pet?

Can you read their minds? Do you ever think you know what they are thinking? Come on, who hasn’t talked to their dog and “nailed” what was on their mind? Want to go for a walk? Oh yeah, you got it! Want to eat? Yep. Got to go out? hmmm alright  Ready for bed? sure  Like watching those birds? Do you get the picture? We are all watching others as we interact and probably have places in our brains that are connecting in ways we don’t understand.

In 200 years, there will be no need for language, if science continues to connect the neurons and convince us that we can read minds!

That reminds me of Dr. Dolittle.:)

Seems that I always am reminded of an old musical or song. I didn’t realize that this was a book written in 1920 about a doctor who could talk to animals in their own language. Eddie Murphy did a fun contemporary version. Wonder what the book is like.