How do clairvoyants know things??

By what physical process is telepathy possible?

If there isn't a part of the human body capable of doing it, then is isn't physical possible. Just like flight, or lazer eyes, or turning invisible.

If you're suggesting that telepathy is possible due to a part of our physiology that we don't yet understand, how can you claim that the same doesn't hold true for flying?

Because it happens to me all the time

No, you chose to interpret things as telepathy all the time.

Couple of strange experiences of mine include driving along and all of a sudden strong thoughts of my nana came into my head. This was just as 11am news came on radio. A couple of hours later my dad called me to say Nana had died at 11am ( call from care home and she hadn't been ill)

Another one was when I was pregnant with my eldest. I had a dream I went into a room with 2 on the door and there was a baby with lots of dark hair on scales weighing 6lb 10.

My daughter was born in delivery room 2, shock of dark hair and weighed 6lb 10

Very strange

This is classic confirmation bias except for what you describe with your daughter which is simply you being very attuned to each others cues and tells which many parents will share with their children.

You don’t remember all the times you’ve texted your mum and she hasn’t been texting you simultaneously or the times you’ve had a tune in your head and your DH hasn’t sung it, - this latter phenomenon is probably often triggered by that song having been on in the background very recently but neither of you were consciously aware of it.

Before their first significant bereavement people will have walked past white feathers countless times without registering them but those who believe in it as a sign or who are told to watch out for them will suddenly see them “everywhere”. Much more prosaically when I was thinking about possible first cars for DD we’d similarly start seeing the models we were thinking about at that moment everywhere having not noticed many before. Obviously there was nothing supernatural about it nor had hundreds of thousands of people bought Fiat 500s overnight; it’s just we only register things our brain views as significant or we’d be constantly overwhelmed with information.

Confirmation bias. We think of our partners or mums or a significant person a lot. Sometimes those thought coincide with a phone call. We remember those times . We forget the times they don’t.

Reminded me of this 😂

I've had tarot reading once. She fed me a lot of generic cues which I didn't pick up and got visibly more annoyed as it went on when she wasn't getting the feedback she needed.

Eg 'an older man who's an important guiding figure in your life'- well most 30 something women will have a dad, grandfather, father in-law, uncle etc.
As it happens my grandad is dead and my father is absent from my life. When she kept pressing about this man I told her this, and she pivoted to ah I can see you had a traumatic childhood. Clearly riffing off of the absent father...actually my childhood was perfectly fine!
Then it was someone from the past has re-entered your life recently, no, well they will soon, or they might be thinking about you and you're unaware and so on.

Pure and simple guesswork and looking for clues to inform their next move from whatever reaction they get.

At the end she told me it had been a difficult reading because I was 'withholding', if she had innate abilities she shouldn't have needed my input so that's as good as an admission of cold reading to me.

You can see Derren Brown doing cold readings on YouTube. He tells the astonished subject that it’s a technique, not psychic ability.

Though he does also have a story about a reading that he had, that he can’t explain

Boy or girl is 50/50, and guessing that a woman in her fertile years is pregnant, while insensitive, is hardly evidence of precognition. I’ve certainly had that once without it being true, and a slim friend who has a rounded stomach says she was tired of telling people telling her she was carrying a boy/girl that she wasn’t pregnant, just had a stomach that looked as if she was. Not only was she not pregnant at the time the6 assured her she was carrying a boy or girl, she’s never been pregnant, and is happily childfree at 50.

Here are some quite common examples of silent communication between people who share a very close relationship. I’m not going to call it telepathy. I can be texting my mum and she will be texting me at the exact same time. I can be listening to a song in my head and my Dp will start singing it. My dd and I seem to have always had a special, silent communication where we know exactly what the other is thinking, needs or wants. I know that other people experience things like this. It could be intuition in some respects but when it’s something like a song, colour, number or shape .. what is it then? I think that studies on this are ongoing. It does seem to be a recognised phenomenan.

But also she knows you’re never going to see her again! If she turns out to be wrong you simply forget about it. If she turns out to be right you take that as proof that it’s all true. Whichever way it goes, she keeps the money you paid her.

This is really interesting. When I was pregnant with my first (I was in my early twenties), and working a volunteer student job, an elderly woman in the place looked at me, grabbed my hands, held them and said my dear you are carrying a boy. I chuckled and said I can’t be (was on the pill and had only seen my boyfriend once in the last month as he was in the army. Turns out she was right. Weird. She said she saw it on my face!

I will give you some examples another day but just v tired today as been in A&E with my poorly mum overnight so need some rest at mo x

I'm not a scientist....I can't explain how ......but it happens to me all the time....I will give some examples another time but v tired today - I've been with my poor mum in casualty overnight so need some rest now x

Because it happens to me all the time....

Of course it’s physically impossible!

And whilst I generally would argue that the burden of proof is on those making extraordinary claims, not on those debunking, I’ll explain:

There is no known mechanism in physics or biology for direct brain-to-brain communication.

Signals transmitted from the brain would need to obey physical laws, such as the inverse-square law (fading with distance), yet telepathy is claimed to work regardless of distance.

While the brain generates weak electromagnetic signals, these are too faint to be detected far from the skull, never mind transmit thoughts to another person.

Decades of studies have failed to provide consistent, replicable evidence for mental telepathy.

ETA: so can you please explain how you think telepathy is physically possible?

Interesting! How is telepathy physically possible, please?

It's so not the same thing.
It's physically impossible to fly but telepathy is not physically impossible

It's exactly the same thing. It's claiming an ability/gift that you don't have, and that there's zero evidence that anyone else has, or has ever had. It's literally the same thing.

I don't need to convince you of anything, nor you me

Genuinely, I would love to be convinced of something so incredible. Show me the proof and I'm in!

That's not the same thing....you cannot compare. It's fine. We don't have to agree. I don't need to convince you of anything, nor you me :)

I know that people can't fly, breathe underwater or shoot laser beams from their eyes. When evidence to the contrary appears, I'll know otherwise.

I will reiterate...you don't actuallyknow anything

You've not found any evidence of a god either, you just believe in one. So how can you say that one exists and the other doesn't?

No reason to lie

There are plenty of extremely obvious reasons that someone might lie about being able to interact with the dead.

and most definitely wasn’t seriously mentally unwell. What a weird judgement to make!

It's a binary choice, one or the other.

If people experience the world differently from you, are they automatically liars or ‘seriously mentally unwell’?

No. But claiming supernatural abilities that you know you don't have, because they don't exist, is a lie. Believing you can see 'spirits' which aren't there, because they also don't exist, is the behavior of someone who is unwell. That's experiencing the world differently.

"She used to know who was next to pass away because she would see the spirits of their relatives who had already passed surround their bed in the hour before they passed themselves"

That isn't experiencing the world differently though, it's not nice at all to pretend that.

Someone saying they see spirits floating around someone about to die is sick in the head or plain nasty.