Which is good. I mean it’s the evolution of humanity, of our way of understanding what our role is in the universe. Psi is just a tiny piece of it. I mean. Probably it's a big piece, because it presents something new about the nature of the mind, and that's important. But that's not the end of it.
One of the things I'm doing now when I give a talk on the topic is, at the very beginning. I try to expand the scope of what I mean by psi. Because most people have in mind, that we are talking about telepathy. But some people are thinking big deal, is already been studied for a hundred years. And why is anybody even interested anymore? And then other people are saying well, this is all nonsense. I don't even need to listen to it. But to expand the concept of what we're dealing with here makes it a little bit more meaningful to everyone. Psi is part of a spectrum. It's a spectrum of the nature of mind that we’re just beginning to grasp. Imagine a graph. And on the left side of the graph, we're dealing with things that are commonly repeated and mundane. On the right side of the graph. We're talking about things that are rare and profound, and profoundly important for everyone as individuals. And as society. And this is part of the smooth spectrum. So on the left side we are talking about things like the feeling of being stared at; we are talking about pre-cognitive dreams; maybe even déjà vu - very common, very mundane, controversial from a scientific perspective, but so common in human experience that that is what we call psychic.
Somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, are prophecy; slightly longer-term things which turned out to be true and are meaningful. So in the middle of the spectrum, we have things that are less common. But more meaningful. Like all sections of the Bible prophecy. At the far end of the spectrum, we start having to really interest of, which includes creative insight, both in music and intentions and in science. Einstein was asked where do you get your ideas? And his answer was intuition. It comes from the mind. It didn't come from little logical steps based upon inference and deduction, it came from imagination and intuition. Lots of inventors have magically gotten an entire invention downloaded into their head. They don't know where it comes from. But if they're a good inventor, they will be able to turn it into a real thing. So that's part of the spectrum.
Further out, you have religious epiphany that start great world religions. And further still. You have mystical union, which is the underlying power, the real insight that you can use to drive these beliefs. So what's the difference then between mystical insight and telepathy? My response is, fundamentally, that there is no difference. But they both point to the nature of the fabric of reality. A certain type of fabric of reality is necessary for both of those things to work. So the only reason why one would be considered Monday and in the other profound, is because virtually everybody can at some point experience something like telepathy - knowing who's calling on the other end of the telephone. But in principle, that is kind of a glimpse of the same sort of mystical insight that spun out the world religions. That's why people, when they have such an experience, they have a moment of awe. The same awe, not quite as strong or as long, as the awe that created the great religions.
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