Yes, it does sound twisted that way... I probably shouldnt have said that, since the real point of the thread is to explore thoughts about the benefits or detractors of telepathy...
I biased it, and that was my bad...
I suppose I imagined a scenario of a possible benefit with telepathy fixing things... but I do not know that it would.
However, I would like to think that people could learn to manage and adapt to telepathy, and use it in a constructive, rational way.
Could we learn to be a rational telepathic society? I don't know...
One thing is certain- if people hold onto the autonomy of the mind for fear of sharing and recieving too much noise, then we may never accept growth toward a telepathic mind.
We reject it before we even give it a chance.
With that mindset, I doubt society will become telepathic... and I wonder if that could also be our downfall?
The single most prevalent theme in contact reports is telepathic communication, so it would appear that if any of those cases are true, then telepathy is a feature of most if not all of the more advanced civilizations out there.
That raises and interesting question about the practical application of telepathy: is it like verbal communication where you can consciously choose what to send to others, or is it by nature an all-or-nothing proposition? If it's the former, then telepathy would seem to be a modest advancement over verbal communication, because people could send and receive visual imagery in addition to words and probably even feelings, directly to others. I don't know what the transmission fidelity would be like, but if it could be essentially perfect, then imagine how things might change in the world if we could have the personal experiences of others transmitted through a few people to reach us from halfway around the world. We could experience for ourselves, for example, the horrors that our nation routinely inflicts on others in distant nations.
But if telepathy is an all-or-nothing proposition, then that could handily explain why alien beings generally avoid contact with us, because the average human mind is an insane asylum. Nearly every one of us has flashes of imagery involving our worst fears, and savagely violent impulses, and base animal impulses, flickering through our thoughts at random moments of the day - witnessing that from the outside would be a jarring and deeply unpleasant experience; worse than listening to the mad ravings of a complete schizophrenic.
That's the "normal" state of human consciousness all around the globe today. It's a kind of half-awake condition, where our thoughts are basically a loosely guided series of dream fragments. We have just enough control over the process to function in our daily lives.
But the great avatars of history were in a fully awakened state, which is accessible to pretty much everyone, but nobody bothers to look into. In the fully awakened state, there is no mad chatter and chaos in the mind: the mind remains silent until called upon to formulate a sentence, or to visualize a solution to a problem, or whatever is needed - it's a tool that's used deliberately, rather than a broken dream machine spewing random thoughts and memories and fears and desires out endlessly all day long.
I suspect that our visitors may well be in that awakened state of consciousness, which only our avatars and aspiring mystics have known first-hand. And if that's true, then telepathy would be an entirely different experience between them - as it would be for us, if most of us were fully awake.