Beyond Supernature by Lyall Watson

Author:Lyall Watson [Watson, Lyall]
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

It was during that night that Hinchliffe and his co-pilot died in a crash. This experience is typical of many in which the need is clear. The information is important and meaningful, and seems to be aimed at someone in particular - even if there is little that the recipient can do. The second account is similar and though less dramatic, is even more convincing because it suggests the existence of a biological connection at an unconscious level.

James Wilson was a student at Cambridge at the time and in the best of health. Except that one evening he suddenly felt extremely ill and started to tremble. He tried to ignore the feeling, but it grew so severe that he became convinced that he was dying. He went down to the rooms of a friend, who was alarmed at his appearance and produced a bottle of whisky. After three hours, the feeling passed and Wilson felt well enough to go off to bed. He didn't hear until the next day that his brother had died that evening 75 miles away in Lincolnshire.294

Both anecdotes involve the transfer of information between people who enjoy a close relationship, but happen to be separated. Normal channels of communication are blocked, but a message somehow gets through. It is sparked by impending danger and imminent death and it jumps a spatial barrier by descending first to older less conscious levels with wider contacts. It succeeds in much the same way, perhaps, as mystic messages from the right brain get through to the left - by making use of an emotional catapult in the limbic system.

If we describe this mystery simply as "information shared without use of the normal senses", we can avoid the term telepathy, which implies conscious awareness of the receipt of such a signal.

James Wilson didn't know what was happening to him. It frightened him. He was in much the same position as a cat being willed by its hidden owner to take a certain path through a maze, or a dog reacting to another observer's awareness of a concealed object, or a single-celled protozoan moving to an area selected by someone at the other end of a microscope tube. All these situations have been shown to produce results at variance with chance, and they combine to suggest that there is some way in which living things can make contact across barriers impervious to the usual senses. The contact is wide, but it is easiest and most meaningful between individuals of the same species, in which it represents a powerful source of social cohesion.

The pioneer primatologist Wolfgang Kohler once said that "a solitary chimpanzee is no chimpanzee."215 The same is clearly true of human beings, who go to pieces rather rapidly in solitary confinement. But it seems that, in a very real sense, we are never completely alone. There are strange tendrils that reach Out, apparently quite independent of time and space, to touch us all, giving us a common experience of reality.

These are, I believe, the influences of what I have called sama.

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