What's the difference in ESP & Mental Telepathy?

Question

I was going to answer a question on here about Mental Telepathy..then realized I wasn't sure what the difference was. So if there's a difference..please explain it. Thanks!

Answer 1

Deenie, people can't put thoughts into your head- not by telepathy anyway!

You must live in a scary world!

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Well, if you think they're your own thoughts how do you know that  they are not your own thoughts and that they were put there by someone else?

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You might like to read this about false memory - there is nothing paranormal about it though.

http://skepdic.com/falsememory.html

Answer 2

Ive always been under the impression that ESP referred to the reading of another beings mind...while telepathy referred moving objects

Answer 3

TELEPATHY

Term coined by Frederic Myers to refer to the paranormal acquisition of information concerning the thoughts, feelings or activity of another conscious being; the word has superseded earlier expressions such as “thought-transference.” See also General Extrasensory Perception. [From the Greek ele, “far away,” + pathein, “to have suffered, been affected by something”]

EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION (ESP)

The acquisition of information about, or response to, an external event, object or influence (mental or physical; past, present or future) otherwise than through any of the known sensory channels; used by J. B. Rhine to embrace such phenomena as telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition; there is some difference of opinion as whether the term ought to be attributed to Rhine, or to Gustav Pagenstecher or Rudolph Tischner, who were using the German equivalent aussersinnliche Wahrehmung as early as the 1920s. [From the Latin extra, “outside of,” + sensory]  

The more you know....

Psi

Answer 4

Telepathy is categories as ESP just another ability under ESP.

Answer 5

None really.  ESP stands for extra sensory perception, a paranormal ability, so it covers mental telepathy (although mental telepathy would also involve extra sensory *projection*)

Answer 6

ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception) could be applied to any sense outside the typical five: sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. For example: If a human had the ability to sense magnetic fields.

Mental Telepathy would only involve the ability communicate thoughts, feelings etc. directly from mind to mind.

Answer 7

I can't say it any better than JeanneC did. ESP is a broad, generalized term that encompasses anything outside the normal range of senses. While Telepathy is the ability to hear other's thoughts.

Answer 8

I always thought that extra sensory perception was defined as "having the power to perceive things that are not present to the senses".  Mental telepathy has been defined as "having the ability to communicate or causation by mental processes".

My interpretation of these definitions is that if you are a 'receiver' of ESP then you probably work alone as a clairvoyant or medium or have a sixth sense that can tune into the thoughts of others.  If you practice mental telepathy you can 'receive' but you can also 'transmit' and communicate your thoughts to others.

Just my theory, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong :)