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Finding no good explanation, I made up a plausible story:

At a roundtable gathering of Minoan elders and young 'techies' the techies proposed that
people far in the future would know theri songs and stories if they were put into the new
writing technology. The elders responded with dismay, saying, "You want to do what?-
reduce our songs and stories to chicken scratches on clay? Where's the music, the
feeling, the color and rhythm? Impossible! Your new-fangled technology is totally
inadequate to the task!" And so, they defeated the young techies' proposal.

Consider that this could be actually be a plausible explanation for why other ancient cultures also restricted writing at first simply to accounting, later for law, and only lastly for literature.

Now, fast forward to today, when we who are now the elders are dismayed at what the young are doing to written language as they 'wreck' spelling and grammar, reducing the language to cryptic texting and silly symbols from flowers to devils, called 'emoticons.'

But wait, aren't those emoticon symbols that mushroomed from a simple happy face to a big alphabet of other symbols just what my hypothetical Minoan elders found lacking in the technology of writing? Aren't emoticons the first alphabet for feelings in all human history? And aren't they given great weight by stripping down the verbiage to give them prominence? It seems to me the Minoan elders, were they witness today, might find themselves persuaded that written language has at last become adequate to the task they denied it.

My interest in evolution makes me pay attention to this new development because the resonance between texters set up by emoticons permits feelings or emotions to be instantly transmitted across any distance. Anger or joy, jealousy or laughter is transmitted by the tap of a finger and felt instantly by the recipient in empathy. Once connected in this way, a bridge is built for the flow of more complex information by direct mind-to-mind and heart-to-heart transmission that includes the sharing of thoughts as well as feelings. I like to call this communion to distinguish it from overt communication by expression, gesture, or spoken and written word.  

A successful businesswoman friend who perceives on levels beyond the physical and reads the minds and emotions of people, animals and plants, has long told me that such direct transmission of information will come back into the contemporary human world soon. One day, my Minoan story clicked together with my new experience of the emoticon alphabet, giving me this plausible hypothesis of how it could happen, aside from the relatively few children born with this natural ability.

Working with and learning from indigenous people in the Americas has made me well aware that such telepathic communion was commonplace in many indigenous cultures and possibly even universal in our deep human past. The book Amazon Beaming, for example, reports the contemporary experience of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre with the Mayoruna people of the Amazon, from whom he learned such communion as it was practiced by the entire tribe.

More and more school teachers are reporting that children do group projects without talking, yet quite obviously understand each other. That the phenomenon is becoming widespread is attested to by many TV and websites by and about such children. What thrills me most about this trend is that if all humanity became telepathic, we could no longer keep secrets from each other and without deception, everything about our world would change-I believe for the better!