– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011)
After such literary studies, Myers suggests that, as far as such subliminal uprushes or impossible authorizations are intellectual, they also tend to be telaesthetic, that is, they bring “direct knowledge of facts of the universe outside the range of any specialized organ or of any planetary view”. Telaesthesia was yet another Greek coinage of Myers. The term referred to the mind’s ability to access information at a distance without any receiving or sending mind on the other end. He preferred it to the more common French term, clairvoyance, because the latter implies the organ of sight, and perceptions at a distance are by no means always visual. It is also important to note that, although telaesthesia is clearly related to telepathy, they are not the same thing. Telepathy requires another human being, whereas telaesthesia does not. Unlike telaesthesia, moreover, telepathy implies, as its Greek root suggests, a powerful emotional connection.
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