Kything ... since you asked

Kything is derived from the Old English kythe, cýðe; a word known from both The Vespasian Psalter (c.825) and the West Saxon Gospels (c.1025). Meaning "to announce, proclaim, declare, tell, to make known in words, to manifest, to make visible", it survived as the Scottish dialect word kythe.

Christian author Madeleine L'Engle used the word kythe to describe a fictional type of communication, in a sense like telepathy. L'Engle reportedly discovered the term in "an old Scottish dictionary" belonging to her grandfather.

 In L'Engle's books kything is a sort of wordless, mind-to-mind communication in which one person almost becomes another, seeing through that person's eyes and feeling through that person's senses. In such a frame of mind, the two people intuitively know the meaning of what the other is telling them, without need for words or pictures. The idea may be based on the concept of Oneness, which states that all that exists, is one in its source and end. Apparently, recollection and assertion of that concept puts a person "in Kythe" with that which they are concentrating on.

I first heard of kything back in 1984-1985 when I was studying in St. Louis. Fr. Louis Savary and Patricia H. Berne gave a workshop on methods of prayer, and they mentioned kything. They published a book about it a few years later: Kything: The Art of Spiritual Presence.

I must admit that I was then and remain still rather skeptical. But if cell phones and snowy owls fail, I will have to resort to something!