Booth: All right, what I want you to do is take off your glasses, shake out your hair, and say, "Mr. Booth, do you know what the penalty is for an overdue book?" Brennan: Why? Booth: ...Never mind.
—Bones
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a more detailed account of telepathy among Ainur (lesser deities)
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Mindspeech
Mercedes Lackey
frequency
Firebird Trilogy
Larry Niven's Known Space
One of the Hitchhiker's Guide entries references an entire planet of beings who were cursed with telepathy. Everyone on there entire planet could hear every thought in every other mind on the planet, whether they wanted to or not — which quickly threatened to drive them bonkers from information overload and/or sheer boredom
Jessica: You have no idea how hard it is, being a woman looking the way I do. Eddie: Yeah, well... You have no idea how hard it is, being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.
— Who Framed Roger Rabbit