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GOTAMA RETURNS
Miss Buddha — 43
Chapter Forty-Three — Pasadena
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One thing about telepathy is that the word itself is misleading, for the secret to the concept is that it involves no distance.
Tele, at heart, means distant, or remote. Pathy grew from pathos and means feeling, so telepathy, as commonly understood, is to feel (or communicate, mentally) across a distance, which conjures the image of transmission and reception between two points a distance apart. That is the misleading part, for the key to telepathy is the utter lack of distance.
Some have described telepathy as the spiritual sharing of the same room — an other-worldly, or un-worldly room that everyone on some level occupies at all times, though few are aware of this.
This room is impossibly vast — it has outgrown space itself — and encompasses the Physical as well as any other Universe you’d care to conceive; still, when two (or more) beings commune in this sphere, it is as if only those are present. It is then a co-existence of sorts, a co-being where thoughts are plainly visible, where feelings are plainly feel-able, where all is wholly shareable.
When Ruth entered this sacred room and whispered Melissa’s name just before dawn, Melissa…
