Because of this emotional component the eminent Cambridge philosopher C.D. Broad prefers to speak of 'telepathic transfer'. Douglas Dean of the Newark college of Engineering showed by experiment that when a long list of names of persons were transmitted to a subject the names selected from the telephone book produced little physiological response but when the name had emotional significance e.g. a wife, mother or child, there was a change in the subjects' blood volume indicating an emotional response. Often the subject was not conscious of receiving a message and was not able to recall the name transmitted. This indicated that we all are, in fact, physiologically reacting to other people's thoughts. This concept which seems acceptable to most theosophists is described in the Loom of Creation .
Man exists and interacts over several levels.
A simple example of these interactions is telepathic communication. In 'the Mental Body' by Powell the literal meaning of telepathy is defined as 'feeling at a distance' but the general usage of the word is defined as the transference of an image, thought or feeling, from one person to another by non-physical means. It is explained that for 1 and 3 the thought is not sent through the brain but direct to receiver at the same level of consciousness. But she clearly identifies instinctual telepathy in which the method of communication is focussed in the emotional feeling body and works through the solar-plexus centre. Theosophists will recognise this as the lower psychism carried over from our animal past which is used by some mediums and psychics.