Have you ever thought about a friend just a moment before the phone rang? Then, when you picked the phone up, it was the same friend you 
had just thought about! Is this a coincidence, or could it, perhaps, be a form of communication? Some scientists believe this phenomenon to be a form of communication called telepathy. In telepathy, there is direct transference of thought from one person to another, without using normal sensory channels. The term telepathy was coined by Fredric W.H. Myers, in 1822, from Greek words tele and patheia. ‘Tele’ means ‘remote’ and ‘patheia’ means ‘to be affected by’. The field which studies certain types of paranormal phenomena such as telepathy is called parapsychology. They believe that telepathy is a type of communication, which we haven’t completely explained yet. They are studying various reports about telepathy. But a technique, which shows statistically significant evidence of telepathy on every occasion, has yet to be discovered. This lack of accurate and reliable evidence has led sceptics to argue that there is no scientific basis for the existence of telepathy at all. In short, there is no consensus about telepathy. Para psychologists argue that some instances of telepathy are real. Sceptics say that instances of what seem to be telepathy are explained as the result of fraud or self-delusion.
