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created: 2025-07-23
updated: 2026-10-09
title: Mind-to-Mind Telepathy
tags:
  - concept
  - psi
  - telepathy
description: Mind-to-mind telepathy refers to the direct mental communication of thoughts, feelings, or ideas between individuals.
category: "Psi Phenomenon"
summary: "Mind-to-mind telepathy is the direct mental communication of thoughts or feelings between individuals without conventional sensory channels, a subset of telepathy that was a core focus of Cold War parapsychology research programs."
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[[Mind-to-Mind Telepathy]] refers to the direct mental communication of thoughts, feelings, or ideas between individuals without the use of conventional sensory channels. It is a form of [[Telepathy]] and a subject of study within [[Parapsychology]].[^1]

[[Edgar Mitchell]], the Apollo 14 astronaut, conducted a secret mind-to-mind telepathy experiment during his Moon voyage. He acted as the sender, while a Swedish-born psychic named [[Olaf Johnson]] served as the receiver on Earth.[^1] [[Annie Jacobsen]] wrote that the results were statistically close to chance.[^1] Mitchell said in a 1997 NASA oral history that "the a priori results were that chance could have produced our results one out of 3,000 experiments," that a post hoc analysis gave "one out of 13,000 experiments," and that the results showed psi-missing.[^2]

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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
[^2]: Edgar D. Mitchell, oral history interview by Sheree Scarborough, assisted by Paul Rollins, Houston, September 3, 1997, NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project, pp. 12-32 to 12-34. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/nasa/EDM_9-3-97.pdf