Hi
I am not very confident in any of this as it is only based on my own experiences, I have not read nor have not read about spirits being able to read or minds, our very thoughts.
When I was a ghost from a past life in the 1920's, I can not remember reading people's thoughts, even those that I was very close to in life. I do not think I had the ability. I could of course see in their face and body expression and depending on the situation what they could have thought but that is not the same as me knowing what they thought.
Now I do not know if you are referring to spirits that has crossed over and that they have this ability. Perhaps they do ? If so it would be interesting to know how does one know that a spirit can read one's thoughts ? How would this work ?
I have yet another life where I was a ghost and where I do not think I was trapped. I was still kind of busy watching over loved ones, and well, not so loved ones, and I can honestly say that I could not read an ex's thoughts. I was just as surprised as the person he was attacking at one point. If I now could have read his thoughts I would have not been so surprised.
But who knows ? Maybe I was a not so good spirit who lacked this ability to read thoughts. It would be fun to know, though, if anyone here remembers being a spirit and being able to read other people's thoughts
What I remember having from the life in the 1950's was a mental connection with someone who I later learn viewed me as his soulmate, his "better half" as he put it (nah...don't think I deserved that, though) in a psychiatrist's office long after our break up, and extracts from his session was quite recently published. As much as different things had happened in our lives and we had extremely little contact with one another, and had new loves, it was as if this mental connection we had still stood no matter what. It was terrible for us both. I had a secret depression at the time, and he had anger management problems which had led him to the psychiatrist's office. He could not turn off his feelings of being so worried about me. Said of all his friends, I was the only one he worried about. (friends, and friends -- we saw each other very few minutes at a time, standing far apart as I would inform him of something. But we had promised to separate as friends, so I don't know if that is what he meant by it). He said he would give everything he had meaning then his new found success, money, if it could only make him stop worrying and for me to be happy. So he could not turn it off. I could not turn my mental connection with him off either.
When he died, he quickly became more and more famed. I have read an old article where an interview took place with a medium who claimed that his spirit had difficult to release itself to the upper realms because of all the emotions, thoughts, the growing number of fans had, that it sort of worked as some kind of energy, if I now understand it right.
I do think thoughts have power and if you have a mental connection with someone you can impact each other, forth and back, in life but perhaps in death too. That is as far as I feel I can go with my thoughts on this subject.
I do think that spirits on the other side way's of communicating is telepathic.
One time I had a dream where I "screamed" someone's name, calling out, again and again and at the same time I was looking and found, that someone. That someone was in real life in a coma, arranged by the doctors to help keep her alive as organ after organ started to fail on her, she was in a fragile state. This would happen several times in my dreams that I would remember that I would talk to her. I would tell her about what was going on with her and what the next plan was. Then when she improved they took her out of her coma and when I met her she hugged me real tight and thanked me for having visited her where it now was she had been. I had promised myself not to say anything because frankly I thought this was only dreams I had had, and of course having been worried about her I likely must have dreamed about her. If this is true then we must have used telepathic ways to communicate. So then I would say that spirits do know each other's thoughts and communicate through thoughts. Still I can't say a spirit can read a human brain's thoughts.
I wonder too in my own case that why I get re-lived traumas, of the person that my past life self had a mental connection with, if it is coming from me -- or perhaps even him. Our situation was that we got into an argument when he learn I was pregnant (by him), when it ended with him telling me I was on my own then. I held him to his words. I took distance from him. When he called I could not take his calls. I was very hurt, but I had a mask on as if to say to him I took it light, everything was fine, it was my way of protecting myself. I did not know what we were, or if we were anything anymore. It was such a terrible mess, and me being pregnant, and not married with him made it most likely 10 times worse. My plan was to somehow take care of this alone and not pressure him into marriage. At the time I was so hurt, but I still had some dignity in me and I did not want marriage to him because I was convinced from before that his first priority was his beloved career out in Hollywood, and his freedom and that I loved him more and there was nothing either of us could do about it. I honestly don't know what priority I nor the baby to come had with him and I was not gonna stick around to find that out either. At the time we could not really work it out. I lost the baby too. At least I told him that so he too could close the door on the past, as he had asked before "but what about the baby?".
When he realized he was really loosing me it was as if he woke up too late, and he started to try to break in the doors. This is what I often get emotional scenes from, him trying to reach me but he can't get all the way and we're loosing each other. At the time being because of my mental state a parent had a psychiatrist on me and I knew one step in the wrong direction (being reconciled with the ex) would mean they would take complete charge over me, and the baby I still carried in secret. So even if he one time showed up and try to make me leave the house, to go with him, after our break up, with intense looking eyes, and his hand reaching out to me, I stood frozen and the parent stood in between, threatening to call important people, and the police. I don't know if he realized to full capacity the jam I was in at the time. I was worried about him too, what could be done to him. To me everything already felt too late. I had no choice.
So anyways, with me these are scenes that often shows up. I don't know if I imagine the feeling of him out of my own remembrance or if it is still him, somehow, but if it is I can't explain that either.
When I studied his life and work by close ones published afterwards, in recent times, I can tell he caught on too late, he had regrets and he tried to get me back, but he couldn't. What he did get in return was the fame, the success, the one thing he had put before me, us, in the past so he did not loose me over nothing. There was one time I got in the hospital and he called and said he had a terrible feeling something had happened to me and then he got the news. As we were talking he was trying to cheer me up so he made a joke and I had to tell him not to make a joke because it could hurt my situation I was in (I had to be completely still). I remember how a perfect gentleman he was on the phone with me, completely unselfish and adapting to my words. It was kind of him to do that. So perhaps that is the mental connection too, when one feels that the other is in danger ?
/Jaimie