Letter from Sheldrake on December 18, 2006

“Dear Zaquie,

Thanks for being ready to continue these tests. If they do indeed continue to work better with people who know each other well, this would suggest that as well as the sense of being stared at there is a telepathic component as well. The situation in the tests would then be quite different from that in real life, where it often works with strangers. But also the emotions are different. With friends the emotions are presumably ones of friendship and co-operation. With strangers, there maybe ones of threat and fear. But of course it’s not possible to explore that in an experiment!

Best wishes Rupert.”