I go to the telepathy panel, which is being run by Alison, Rachel, and Nik Whitehead. We hear all sorts of interesting perspectives, although I confess to being pretty sceptical about the whole thing. Rachel's readings are wonderful, and Alison asks whether what we think is psychic power is really intuition (my own belief).
This sounds like a great topic. (Came home in the middle of the day sick again, can you tell? Don't worry folks, at this point it's just allergies, but to a debilitating extent.) What do you mean by intuition? I have had what appear to me to be convincing psychic experiences that could not be explained by what I call intuition. Most specifically not with telepathy but precognition, but I have also had a few apparently telepathic encounters. If it wasn't telepathy, then two people who had not met shared a similiar imaginary experience at the same time, then met a few months later only to get into a discussion and calculate they had shared both had a sensation of touching a mind at the same time, allowing for a difference in time zones, three thousand miles apart. This may be explained by coincidence, or mental activity transcending time, but I cannot explain it as intuition as I know the term. Other experiments, where I have asked my telepathy partner, over the internet, to share what I am looking at or touching without me sending a written description merely asking what she thinks it is, could be intuition. However, once she decribed the smell of a candle which I had lost the label of and hadn't been able to place the scent myself until she said it. :) (I know this sort of incident isn't likely to change anyone's opinion on 'psychic' phenomina, because I could be making all this up.) I am extrememly interested in theories related to telepathy, because I am not entirely sure what I think of it in spite of my own experiences.