Sending Telepathic Communication
Most people don’t actually need to learn how to send telepathic communication—it tends to come naturally. In fact, it’s often more difficult to stop sending telepathic messages or to block your thoughts entirely. The following example is both intriguing and educational.
MythBusters: A Surprising Experiment
Many of you are familiar with the show MythBusters, a science-based entertainment series where a team of special effects experts and engineers put popular myths, legends, movie scenes, internet videos, and old wives’ tales to the test using experiments and engineering.
In Season 4, Episode 20, the team explored a fascinating myth: that plants can perceive human thoughts and respond in measurable ways—specifically through lie detector sensors. Remarkably, in the clip from that episode, Tory—who had no telepathic training or experience—was able to send messages to a plant with noticeable results.
Let’s take a look at that clip.
Tory, who had no telepathic training, was still able to send thoughts to a plant—demonstrating that telepathic transmission doesn’t require formal instruction. Similarly, on the Telepathy Tapes podcast, we often hear from non-verbal autistic individuals who can read the thoughts of strangers, even when those individuals have no training in telepathy.
The truth is, you don’t need to be trained to send telepathic thoughts—you do it naturally and constantly. What you do need training in is how to receive telepathic communication.
Receiving Telepathic Communication
Recall my story from Lesson 4, where I received a telepathic message three times but assumed it came from my own mind. This is common. Most people aren’t familiar with the subtle energetic differences between their own inner voice and the voice of another. Like I initially couldn’t distinguish the voice of God from my own thoughts, many people don’t yet recognize the tone, energy, “spiritual voice,” or the subtle feeling that differentiates their mind’s voice from that of someone else.
Over the years, I’ve found that one of the most critical skills for developing telepathy is learning to distinguish what originates from you versus what is being received from an external source. In fact, some of my students have developed telepathic ability through this technique alone. Let me walk you through how I began to recognize the difference.
Recognizing When You Are Receiving
The first step is becoming aware of the difference between when you are generating your own thoughts and when someone else is communicating with you mentally.
Think back to the story I shared as a young adult. I believed I was simply thinking, “I need to stop messing around while driving.” Only later—after being told firmly that those thoughts weren’t my own—did I realize I had received that message.
This confusion is common. In fact, you’ve likely experienced telepathic communication before but mistook it for your own internal thoughts—just like I did. It reminds me of that scene in the movie Hook, where Smee suggests an idea to Captain Hook, who then claims the idea as his own. That scene illustrates the foundational challenge in developing telepathic skill.
The First Essential Lesson: Differentiating Thought Origins
The first key to becoming telepathically aware is learning to distinguish between your own thoughts and those that come from others. At first, the difference can feel incredibly subtle. But once pointed out, the contrast becomes clear—and often impossible to ignore.
There are two primary indicators:
- The Mental Process Difference: “Speaking Mode” vs. “Listening Mode”
- The Sound or Energy of the Spiritual Voice
Speaking Mode vs Listening Mode
There’s a noticeable difference in mental process, energy, personality, and internal experience between speaking and listening. This is true whether we are using verbal language, sign language, or telepathy.
When you’re speaking, you:
- First, decide what you want to say or communicate. You form the thought.
- Second, formulate the words and sentences that will adequately express the thoughts.
- Third, send the though outward either verbally with your mouth, typed in writing, or telepathically.
When you’re listening, you:
- First, receive the fully formed thought, words or impressions as if they popped into your head all at once.
- Second, you attempt to understand and interprit the thought into meaning. Because it isn’t your thought, you have to figure out what is being communicated. Sometimes, the meaning isn’t immediately clear or obvious. This is a certain sign that it was not your thought!
- Third, ask clearifying questions to gain understanding.
- Fourth, once you understand the communication, you decide what to do with it. Do you agree with it? How does it apply? Does it motivate change? Do you learn from it? All of these questions indicate that it was not your thought.
Notice how the processes are opposite.
- Is your effort focused on creating the thought or understanding a fully created thought?
- Creating a thought = Your thought
- Understanding a fully formed thought = Someone else’s thought
- Are you forming the words and sentences or decifering the words and sentences?
- Forming the words and sentences = Your thought
- Decifering the words and sentences = Someone else’s thought
- Do you have questions about the thought or follow-up questions?
- No = It is likely your thought
- Yes = It is not likely your thought
This reverse process is the first step in recognizing telepathic input. When you understand the mental and energetic difference between speaking and listening, you begin to identify which thoughts are yours and which are not.
A common barrier is a habit known as “forcing the conversation”—where a person mentally plays both sides, expecting or fabricating the response. This blocks real reception. If you’re putting mental effort into crafting what the other person might say or feel, you’re not listening—you’re still speaking. Instead, cultivate a mindset of curious observation and practice staying in listening mode.
The Sound or Energy of the Spiritual Voice
The second key is subtler, but just as important: becoming aware of the unique “spiritual voice” or energetic signature of the person communicating with you.
Initially, all internal voices may seem like your own. But each person—yourself included—has a distinct spiritual voice. This doesn’t mean an audible voice, but rather an energetic feeling or signature. Some even associate it with a color, texture, or scent.
The first step is learning to recognize your own spiritual voice—how you sound inside your mind. The better you know your internal voice, the easier it becomes to spot when a thought or impression doesn’t match. That’s often your second clue that it came from someone else.
Begin Your Practice
Download the handout, “Understanding Speaking Mode vs. Listening Mode“.
Understanding Speaking Mode vs. Listening Mode.pdf
Use it to practice and build awareness. Then, throughout your day, observe these patterns in your verbal conversations. Notice how it feels to speak versus listen. The same patterns exist in telepathy.
When you become deeply familiar with your own mental processes and energy, you’ll start to notice thoughts that appear suddenly, unexpectedly, or with a different energetic texture. These are not your own.
Engaging in Two-Way Telepathic Communication
When you realize someone is communicating with you telepathically, don’t be afraid to respond. Engage in a two-way conversation. Ask who they are, and why they are interested in you. Many people find this moment odd—or even surreal—but once experienced, it’s undeniable.