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“Once, when the World-Honoured One in ancient times was upon Vulture Peak, he held up a flower before the assembly of monks. At this all were silent. The Venerable Kashyapa alone broke into a smile. The World-Honoured One said, “I have the all-pervading Eye of the True Dharma, the Secret Heart of Incomparable Nirvana, the True Aspect of Formless Form. It does not rely on letters and is transmitted outside the sutras. I now hand it on to Mahakashyapa.”

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Following on from this morning’s dream post I have done a brief search at Espacenet using the key word “Telepathy”. It returned ~ 350 results most of which were nothing to do with the so-called psychic phenomenon. There were “Remote Viewing Amplifiers”, divining rods and pendulums. There were games for measuring ESP and methods for recording spiritualistic contacts. There were claims for psychotropic drugs and concentrating healing energies. There were UK, USA, Chinese, Russian and Korean filings. First pass suggests that few or none went all the way to grant.

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Mind to mind transfer is a key part of Zen hagiography and a corner stone of some martial arts. Many “scientific” ESP studies have used cards which are very boring and easily forgotten. Who cares about squares, and wavey lines? Not me. They were bound to fail.

Telepathic interference in so called quantum technologies would be a seismic disruptive technology. Quantum hacking and denial of service would change the landscape. There could be a telepathy arms race.

How might you do it? Well meditate extensively every life for twenty or more lifetimes…

It is not the kind of thing to pitch to a VC as an enabling technology. Where is my ROI?

The idea could be the bones for a sci-fi book, Quantum Computing enabled powerful tech bros undone by geezers with bald heads and saffron robes.

The notion has appealed and I’ll probably struggle to get it out of my head, just like a Rick Astley song…

“Never gonna give you up…”