Is there a 'special connection' between twins? Can they read each
other's minds? Are they telepathic? These questions are often
asked, but have never been convincingly answered until now. The
author became interested in the subject when he was given vivid
first-hand testimony of how a man whose twin brother had been shot
dead had reacted several miles away at the exact time. This
prompted him to embark on a thorough search of the literature and
collect accounts of similar examples of apparent telepathy, some
dating back to the 18th century, to question numerous twins
regarding their own experiences, to compile a substantial file of
case histories, and eventually to help set up properly controlled
scientific experiments in which telepathy could be seen to take
place on a polygraph chart, two of which have now been published in
peer-reviewed journals. As he makes clear in this ground-breaking
book, the first ever to explore the 'special twin connection' in
detail, the answer is simple: some twins are telepathy-prone and
some, probably the majority, are not. How can this be, you might
wonder? Aren't all identical twins supposed to be identical in all
respects? They are not. The fact is that, as Orwell might have put
it, some twins are more identical than others. What seems to make
the difference is exactly when division of the fertilized zygote
(egg) takes place. This can take place almost immediately, or up to
twelve days later. Without going into detail here, what this means
is that 'late splitters' develop extremely close bonds after birth,
bonds that can last a lifetime, whereas 'early splitters' become
more independent, and regard their twins just like an ordinary
brother or sister. Sure enough, when experiments were carried out
in London and Copenhagen, on each occasion it was a late-splitting
pair who showed the clearest evidence for telepathy on their
polygraph charts. The often heard critical complaint that here is
no repeatable experiment for any kind of psychic effect is no
longer true. This new revised and updated edition contains the most
comprehensive survey yet written on the history of research into
twin telepathy. The author explains why experiments have generally
been unsuccessful in the past, and why those that he helped design
have been consistently successful, and point the way ahead for
future researchers. He also explains that a better understanding of
the special twin connection is of more than academic interest,
especially to parents, some of whom already know that it can save
lives and has already done so. Earlier editions of this book were
well received by such authorities as psychologist Stanley Krippner,
a former president of the Parapsychological Association, for whom
it 'reads like an intriguing detective story', and Rupert
Sheldrake, who has contributed a Foreword in which he states: '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'.
Colin Wilson, in his Introduction predicts that the book 'will
obviously become a classic of psychical research.'
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