I've been asking myself what telepathy really is. Thought transference from mind to mind, or energy transference from energy field to energy field? I expected the first, but after some reading I understand that there is much more to telepathy than thought alone.

The following book "Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle" gives a detailed explanation of how telepathy works. How the chakras and the subtle bodies are involved, and that there are different forms of telepathy. Here are a few -shortened- quotes:

• Telepathic work from solar plexus to solar plexus. With this we have already dealt. This is closely connected with feeling, and little or no thought is involved; it concerns emotions. It is carried on instinctively and below the diaphragm.
  
  
• Telepathic work from mind to mind. This is beginning to be possible, and many more people are capable of this kind of communication than is now realized. People today do not know whence various mental impressions come, and this greatly enhances the complexity of life at this time and increases the mental problem of thousands.
  
  
• Telepathic work from heart to heart. This type of impression is the sublimation of the "feeling" response registered earlier upon the ladder of evolution in the solar plexus. It concerns only group impressions, and is the basis of the condition spoken of in the Bible in connection with the greatest Sensitive humanity has ever produced, the Christ.
  
  
• Telepathic work from soul to soul. This is, for humanity, the highest possible type of work. When a man can begin, as a soul, to respond to other souls and their impacts and impressions, then he is rapidly becoming ready for the processes which lead to initiation.