This similarity might explain how some people have come up with the idea of telepathy.

Psychiatrists and clinical psychologists believe and empirical findings support the idea that people with schizotypal personality disorder are particularly likely to believe in telepathy.

These results, if accepted, would corroborate the idea of telepathy.

Early stage performers didn ’ t detach too much from the idea of a fluid, and they said that they were influencing their subjects by means of telepathy and magnetism even though in the electrobiological form they knew and affirmed that much was due to imagination.

Asimov's science-fictional mentor, John W. Campbell, was fascinated by the idea of telepathy, and as the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, he was able to ensure that his fascination was reflected in the stories his writers wrote and his magazine printed.

The idea of mediumship being explained by telepathy was later merged into the " super-ESP " hypothesis of mediumship which is currently advocated by some parapsychologists.

It explores the personal implications of uncontrolled telepathy, social responsibility, and the idea of evolutionary, biological evil, while, as usual, expounds on Spider's own political and social views.

Sakharov also proposed the idea of induced gravity as an alternative theory of quantum gravity.

The disintegration and weakness of Russia induced an idea of " Grand Finland " among the more nationalistic factions of both the right and left ; a part of the Red faction had plans concerning the same areas ( Heimosodat ).

He suggested the idea, worked out the important principles and many of the details, and induced the Congress to approve them.

In many cases, the woman will find the idea of carrying the dead fetus emotionally traumatizing and will elect to be induced.

In the UK, the idea of induced traffic was used as a grounds for protests against government policy of road construction in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, until it became accepted as a given by the government as a result of their own SACTRA ( Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment ) study of 1994.

After a visit to western Germany where Goerdeler was horrified by the damage caused by Anglo – American bombing, in July 1943 Goerderler wrote a letter to Field Marshal Günther von Kluge that read as: The idea fostered by the High Military authorities that the devastation in the West was not so bad and that after a few days, during which they ' gathered up their chattels from among the ruins ', the workers return to work, induced me to look at the devastation for myself.

The idea was to see whether monkeys could be induced to use limbs they could not feel.

The prospect of delivering many thousands of these to the Germans induced the French to adopt the idea and plan to create light tank " Type 67 " armoured divisions, for which the AMX-13 / 105 was specially designed.

" No mean feat ... driving at almost twice today's maximum ( UK ) speed limit into a steep turn, assaulted by the g-force induced by 30 degree banking twice every minute, using Forties technology, leaf spring suspension and narrow crossply tyres ... Johnson remarked that the car felt so good it could have gone on for another week, an off-the-cuff comment that sowed the seed for another idea.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

Were any of us interested enough in the idea to do it for her, by proxy so to speak??

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

It wants to interest builders and oil companies in the idea of including its facility in their new home projects, by financing and installing the storage, piping and meters, and leasing these for 15 years, with renewal options, to a strong oil company.

A work so broad, even when it is directed by a leading idea and informed by a moral vision, must necessarily `` fail ''.

Shaw could also give the flyer a pretty good idea of area visibility by a visual check of the mountains to be seen from his station.

Some idea of the competence of the women is indicated in the contribution made by them during the past 25 years that totals $840,000.

If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator.

This is well evidenced by the Quietist doctrines carried over in Zen: the idea of the inward turning of thought, the enjoinder to put aside desires and perturbations so that a return to purity, peace, and stillness -- a union with the Infinite, with the Tao -- could be effected.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

It made him pretty hot under the collar, after the idea Miss Sis had given him, to be told by Miss Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs. Robards and the children.

Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip Spencer's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated.

" However, as Stocking notes, Tylor mainly concerned himself with describing and mapping the distribution of particular elements of culture, rather than with the larger function, and he generally seemed to assume a Victorian idea of progress rather than the idea of non-directional, multilineal cultural development proposed by later anthropologists.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

The idea of feudalism was unknown and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the Medieval Period.

At first it was hypothesized that the line might be due to an unknown element, which was named nebulium — a similar idea had led to the discovery of helium through analysis of the Sun's spectrum in 1868.

The plasma could be a coronal cloud of a central object or a transient plasma, where the energy source is unknown, but could be related to the idea of a close binary.

This idea was researched extensively by Mitchell and his colleagues, who in 1981 were able to show that PIP < sub > 2 </ sub > is hydrolyzed into DAG and IP < sub > 3 </ sub > by a then unknown phosphodiesterase.

The synthesis as it exists now has extended the scope of the Darwinian idea of natural selection to include subsequent scientific discoveries and concepts unknown to Darwin, such as DNA and genetics, which allow rigorous, in many cases mathematical, analyses of phenomena such as kin selection, altruism, and speciation.

* The plot idea of astronauts thinking they had crashed on an unknown planet, only to discover that in fact they had been on Earth all along, would be adapted by Rod Serling in his work on the initial screenplay of Planet of The Apes.

He was the first to propose the idea that an unknown particle involved in the experiments of Irène Curie and Frédéric Joliot should not only be neutral, but have a mass about the same as the proton ; this particle is the neutron.

The idea was to help members of the future elite understand the problems of British society ; this was especially important at a time when class divisions were much stronger, social mobility was minimal, and the living conditions of the poor were completely unknown to many members of the upper class.

The use of dihedral had been worked out by Cayley, although at the time Cayleys work was largely unknown, and Pénaud had arrived at the idea independently.

The precise date on which he set events in motion is unknown, but it is likely that he first had the idea early in 1604.

At first it was hypothesized that the line might be due to an unknown element, which was named Nebulium — a similar idea had led to the discovery of helium through analysis of the Sun's spectrum in 1868.

The idea that protoplasm is divisible into a ground substance called " cytoplasm " and a structural body called the cell nucleus reflects the more primitive knowledge of cell structure that preceded the development of electron microscopy, when it seemed that cytoplasm was a homogeneous fluid and the existence of most sub-cellular compartments, or how cells maintain their shape, was unknown.

The general idea is to prove a result for a dynamic equation where the domain of the unknown function is a so-called time scale ( also known as a time-set ), which may be an arbitrary closed subset of the reals.

The idea of leaving their homeland and comfortable life at the court for the grasslands of the far and unknown north was abhorrent to most of the young women, but Wang Zhaojun accepted.

His profile states that he is twenty-eight, though whether or not this is literal or in " dog years " is unknown ( though the latter idea is supported by the fact that twenty-eight literal years is, though not impossible to reach, quite old for a dog ).

The idea of " free will " as a universal human right was virtually unknown in biblical times.

The idea of a distinct religious system or denomination at the turn of the 16th century was unknown, because there was only one acknowledged Christian church.

This idea had been postulated many years before, however, the mechanism was quite unknown.

Goodhart came up with the idea of producing an essay-based monthly general interest magazine — a form then unknown in Britain — while covering German reunification as Bonn correspondent for the FT.

Exists in the form of a brief outline / sales pitch by Goldstein and Whiton, but it is unknown whether the idea progressed to scripting stages.

Among the problems with Power ’ s idea is the difficulty of sailors finding San Francisco Bay from the ocean ( it was first discovered by land and the first sea attempts to then locate the Bay failed ), the lack of continuous foggy weather, the multitudes of good harbors, and the extreme dangers of entering such a bay on an unknown basis.

He was attracted to the idea of traveling to the last mysterious portions of Asia and filling in the gaps by mapping an area completely unknown in Europe.

Oz is mostly a peaceful land and the idea of subversion is largely unknown to its people.