Identical Twins ESP and Genetics.
It's stories and research about identical twins that swing it for me.
Tales of the amazing similarities in the lives of
monozygotic, or identical twins, especially of pairs separated at birth, are well known and have often featured in the FT, as well as in research crucial to
the nature, or nurture debate.
Pairs who married partners with the same name, suffered the same illnesses, chose similiar careers, had similiar accidents, etc. Scientists, like , whose work on the inheritability of I.Q was later discredited,
Cyril Burt and
Professor Thomas Bouchard , have used case studies of identical twins to put forward the case for genetic inheritabilty of such factors.
Using similiar evidence the case has also been made for
Astrology and
ESP. I don't know enough about the astrology arguement, to comment. But, if it wasn't for the fact that science has no conclusive tests for, or evidence of,
Extra Sensory Perception and that the official position, or paradigm is that ESP does not exist, then wouldn't it be a more reasonable explanation for twins (unaware of each others existence), both marrying people with the same first name, or both becoming house painters, or whatever?
Thinking about it recently, I began to wonder if telepathy was all that was going on. Is there some deeper level of reality that connects us all and shows itself most strongly with identical twins. Are the bodies, brains and, yes, even the DNA of these twins so similiar that on some
quantum level they resonate like the tines of a tuning fork, even though they may be seperated by considerable physical distances?
Perhaps, for people who aren't identical twins, `ESP' works best when participants are emotionally involved? An
emotional bond seems to act as a catalyst, especially when linked to some emotional situation.
I wonder, do we sometimes see, illuminated by seemingly flukey bursts of, apparent extra sensory perception and intuition, like flashes of lightning in the dark, a hidden landscape. That of the real connections and bonds between us and our universe? Do they always make logical sense? Do dreams? Does our subconscious?