by Derrick A Jasper

Created on: January 02, 2011

The Nineteenth Amendment in August, 1920, granted women the right to vote. Slavery was officially abolished in the United States in 1865 (by the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Millions laughed at the idea of space travel yet we landed on the moon. Now for the million dollar question: Can we read minds?

Science has not yet disproved we are unable to read minds. They are working hard on the proof we can. Our brains have unlimited power. Take prayer for example, prayer has produced healing or the healing the prayer. We may all be scoffing today and praying tomorrow our neighbor can not hear are true thoughts.

Deep binding relationships can bring reading ones mind to the forefront. Not just finishing sentence's but really seeing what your partner is thinking in your own head. This is a frightening aspect of the unlimited power of our brains. All though we may not know the full implications, we can begin to see how mind reading would be hazardous to life.

Military intelligence would be at a loss to prevent secrets from getting out. The world as we know it would no longer be safe sexually for any one. Our egos and pride would be devastated if we could all read each others minds.

Good thing for us we are only beginning to tap this power. And hopefully we will loose some of our fears about mind reading before we start locking up all those who now say they can perform this feat.

Mothers and fathers would be hard pressed to discipline any child who had the ability to read your mind. By the time the kid acted on his or her thoughts maybe you would be ahead of them or maybe you would be in the dark. Children have often been the ones to find and break our illusions long before we see the possibilities.

Sitting at the dinner table may become so uncomfortable when Father is thinking, "I wish she would put that fork down and stop eating so much look at how fat she is." Or mother thinking, "If he was better looking the girls would be all over him but that dam acne is killing his chances at normalcy." Or even, Grandmother, "I wish they would stop asking me for money I feel like a bank they continually make a withdraw and give me nothing in return."

There are so many secret thoughts we have. Our minds are really our last refuge of privacy when everyone is watching and listening to everything we do. At work we are monitored through computers phones and cameras. Then we go from traffic light to traffic light with more cameras at every stop along the way. Then we enter the home sanctuary to find our computers glowering at us and waiting for us to take our trail of virus' and tracking cookies along with us through cyberspace.

Reading minds is real I am thank-full we have not honed in this skill yet. Even more thankful that the traffic court judge didn't know what I was really thinking.

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