Telepathy is not the ability to "read" someones mind, it is the ability to communicate mental thoughts and to receive mental thoughts silently and with complete understanding.
Under the radar, I have been tested many times by the type of people identified in your referenced article but they were under the impression that a telepath has the ability to read someones mind. That is not how it works. Telepathy is just like speaking but you use your mind, not your mouth. It takes two people to communicate telepathecally, one to send and one to receive.
When I am in large crowds, I receive messages from some people, but I am sure that they are unaware that they are transmitting their thoughts. Much of what I have received has been gibberish but occasionally I receive coherent thought. Fitz, I believe that what you have experienced may have been telepathy. I would encourage you to work with whomever you may have these experiences.
Someday, in the future, all mankind will be telepathic and the world will never be the same. But if you want to see real changes to man's society, wait till they discover time travel.
How can you wait until they discover time travel? If it exists at any time past, present, or future then it exists in all times. If someone builds a time machine in the year 3010, then they could give the technology to any period in time. Time travel is not time dependent, IMO.
Possibly ---it can feel that way but I couldn't rule out that subconscious memories work in that kind of example when it's family members or friends ---there could have been something significant on a particular day that you mostly forgot. It used to seem my horse could read my mind --- one time I was thinking about turning on a certain road but then decided I'd just go home ---but the horse turned on that road as if she had read my mind but I've read that what seems like telepathy in horses is only that they're very sensitive to certain cues like shift in body weight or things the rider isn't aware they are doing that communicate their ideas to the horse.
Excellent! So go collect your million dollars.
Did you speak a foreign language or no language?