More thoughts on the Cauliflower Robbery

Following up on the prior post, I think the imagery of the cauliflower robbery is a useful reminder about the power of the mind. Or maybe it is just a well written peace of fiction? If you take the story as truth, it posits that there are some people that have fine tuned their thoughts to such an extent, largely through meditation, that they can control the thoughts of others.
The idea is that through meditation, you can obtain a faculty to read people's thoughts and even manipulate their beha...