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I would like to address the issue of whether studying telepathy would be a worthwhile pursuit if not a large percentage of the population can do it or even would be capable of repeated demonstrated use of it.
Not a large percentage of the population can do open heart surgery nor can they even with all the training in the world play guitar as well as Jimmy Hendrix did - but that doesn't mean that the talent is not without it's uses and merits. The understanding of various psy gifts as some call them - is important to properly help those with them develop into all they can be for themselves and for society.
Imagine the difficulties if you will of trying to determine if one is dealing with schizophrenic patient or blossoming "medium". Talk about screw up if you accidently confused each for the other.
At one point people actually debated whether the world was flat or round - and people would say what does it matter - why do these weird scientific minds challenge the religious authority of the Pope to make a case for something that won't be useful to anyone really - but the truth was there was use to us all - in that the understanding of such things led to other things that helped out lives today.
Telepathy if it exist supposes that we are not just bundles of DNA that evolved out of some muck. Behind the great batter of telepathy that I assure you will be heating up fiercely in the next three years - is the question of whether man has a soul and what prayer might be.