Twin telepathy

Another scientist-author, Danah Zohar, actually uses a hypothetical pair of identical twins in her book The Quantum Self (1990) to illustrate the principle of nonlocality in action. In her imaginary experiment, a man is pushed downstairs in London and breaks a leg, while his twin thousands of miles away also falls and breaks a leg although nobody has pushed him.

This is just what they actually do. I have collected several examples of twins who did break limbs at exactly the same time, some of them hundreds of miles apart. Non-local behaviour has been proved to occur by not only real experiments, as Gribbin noted, but also by real people - specifically identical twins.

It was also, I believe, proved to occur by both the Powles and Dove twins. This was not a controlled scientific experiment, to be sure, but it should at the very least be considered a very promising pilot experiment, of a kind anybody who can get hold of a polygraph operator and a pair of twins can easily repeat. It won't take long and it needn't cost much.

It won't work every time. The twins need to answer yes to four questions:
1 Are you absolutely identical?
2 Do you still feel a close bond with your twin? (Not all of them do).
3 Are you an extravert and not an introvert? (This is easily calculated in a standard psychological test).
4 Do you think you have already experienced telepathy with your twin?

There are three especially telepathy-prone groups - mothers and newborn babies, dogs and their owners, and identical twins. Of these, it is the twins who pick up the signal at full strength most often, provided that they are in the right states of mind and they send out the right kind of message.

To find out more, read the book of which Rupert Sheldrake, author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home (1999) has said "For many years I have been looking in vain for authoritative research on this intriguing subject. At last I have found it in this book."

The book, which in Colin Wilson's opinion "will obviously become a classic of psychical research" is Twin Telepathy - The Psychic Connection by Guy Lyon Playfair, and is available to order here at 8.99.