American Alchemy with Jesse Michels - Harvard Scientist: "These Kids Are Telepathic!” [Telepathy Tapes Documentary]
Episode Date: January 8, 2025Join Jesse Michels as he explores the extraordinary world of telepathy with Ky Dickens (www.thetelepathytapes.com) and neuroscientist Dr. Diane Powell. In this insightful episode of American Alchemy, ...they delve into the remarkable telepathic abilities observed in non-speaking autistic individuals, discussing groundbreaking experiments, scientific rigor, and the profound implications for understanding communication, consciousness, and human connection. Thank you to MyHeritage for sponsoring this video. Start your 14-day free trial today using the link https://bit.ly/JesseMichels_MH SUPPORT THE TELEPATHY TAPES BELOW Listen: https://tinyurl.com/spotifytelepathytapes Website: https://thetelepathytapes.com Donate: https://tinyurl.com/donatetelepathytapes JOIN OUR NEW WHOP (Community + Group Calls With Jesse) ➤ https://whop.com/jessemichels/ Become a Member of American Alchemy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuG2KzrIMe3qoNcuDVpwnXw/join INSTAGRAM ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichels TWITTER ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmerican EMAIL/BOOKINGS ➤ usa.alchemy@gmail.com Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 06:10 - Meeting Dr. Diana Powell 07:53 - Studying Telepathy 10:42 - Autistic Children 13:02 - Ky’s Research (Mia’s Story) 15:24 - Converting Skeptics 20:41 - Akhil's Story 25:52 - ASHA 28:32 - Houston’s Story 34:12 - “The Hill” 38:15 - Josiah’s Story 44:41 - John Paul’s Story 53:48 - The New Paradigm 01:03:40 - Amelia’s Story 01:11:11 - The Goal of Telepathy Tapes 01:13:52 - Method of Transmission 01:17:26 - Testing Non-Speakers 01:21:35 - Transmission Theory 01:28:20 - Andrija Puharich’s Research 01:30:00 - Scalar Physics 01:34:39 - Extended Electrodynamics 01:36:08 - Caudate Putamen 01:39:34 - DSM / Medical Diagnosis 01:44:05 - Love is Essential 01:54:50 - Destigmatization 01:57:54 - Fiction As Reality 01:59:20 - Protecting Researchers 02:01:20 - John Mack 02:06:10 - End of Current Paradigm 02:07:56 - Support Telepathy Tapes #science #telepathy #telepathytapes #research #consciousness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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So I'm going to give you a number.
We'd blindfold and then show her mother a random number generator, a random picture generator.
The kid will say, I'm writing your mind.
And then they do a few little experiments.
We did various tests, and she was right every time.
Their kids can see things that they simply can't.
Her answer is 100% accurate.
What is the second number?
Oh, my God.
We think of as woo-woo or this airy-fairy stuff, but it's true.
Autistic individuals have these nests.
incredible abilities. The science behind this, this is so much bigger than our knee-jerk reactions of truth.
We have everyone on the crew, just come and write a word down, okay?
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You've just done an amazing job of documenting these autistic, in many cases, nonverbal
children who,
display telepathic powers, which I can't believe I'm even saying, but you show that this is, you know,
occurring in statistically significant ways.
Can you have a picture?
Am I looking at now?
Yes, you say it?
Sun.
Okay, what is this?
Oh, sir.
I'll say, I'm not even looking at him.
Yeah.
You have a Harvard-trained neuroscientist, Dr. Diane Powell, who are doing the studies.
But you also, you know, seem eminently, you know,
normal and not, you know, insanely woo-woo.
I needed to believe it was happening.
And so I asked Diane, you know, can we, can I do my own test where I bring the cues and pick the house?
I didn't want her to be a factor in it.
So I wanted to control the test.
I don't want Dr. Powell to bring this stuff.
I don't want families to bring this stuff.
I just want to be like the layer for the skeptics where it's like, you know, get this all I was on.
I'm not even going to open it until the day.
And she said yes, and I said, I'd like it to be a family we haven't tested yet, that you've never met.
I just wanted to clear out any of the possible factors that could influence this.
That's kind of how it began.
We brought this young girl, Mia, up from Mexico.
You know, most of the family didn't even speak English, only her aunt Sophia did.
And I rented a house in Glendale, California.
And we took all the mirrors down and all the TVs down and put cameras every which way and started the process of testing her.
And with a divider that would go between her and her mother, we'd blind.
Mindfold, Mia, and then show her mother a random number generator, a random picture generator.
I brought flashcards, colored balls.
We did various tests.
And she was right every time.
The tests were remarkable.
I mean, just hearing her say without fail, what's.
in her mother's mind.
It's just, I don't know, it's so amazing.
And then hearing the earnestness of her parents as well,
where it's like these people clearly are not lying.
They're not grifting, you know.
There's no ulterior motive here.
You can write a word too.
You can write a word.
So, if you'll just seize the back of my hand.
Okay, I'm just kind of grab one.
Actually, that's too easy.
Hold on.
That goes with what we just looked at.
Oh, that's good one.
Tell me when is ready.
Okay.
You see this?
Yeah, what do you want?
Um...
Okay.
Ekele, what's in my mind?
What's the picture about?
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It's so awesome, O'Keele.
That's so awesome.
Ready? And three. Yeah. Yeah. Good job.
Good job. Here we go.
You're doing so good. And...
And...
I think that, you know, with the telepity tapes,
One of the things that I realized in terms of, instead of me just writing up all these cases,
you know, and that being yet another thing that's in the scientific literature,
that people need to hear what I hear because I'm not just collecting data.
I'm assessing, you know, the tone of voice, you know, the content of what's said.
You can, you really, there's so much information there that's not like, you know, mathematical data.
But there's so much information that you're getting from actually listening to,
these families and listening to the people who see this stuff, you know, for the first time,
or listening to their struggles with, how do I make sense of this? Because that's, that's, that's
really what I'm, the kind of contact I get all the time from these families is, I, you know, I don't
know what to make of this. And they're relieved that their child isn't the only one. So, I mean,
I'm a documentary filmmaker by trade, and I've created five feature films.
But I will tell you, I felt bashful when I started working on something that had to do with
telepathy.
I mean, my dad, I remember saying something along the lines of like your hard earned career
and reputation are going to be, you know, scattered to the wind.
It felt hard to talk about to people, to clients.
You know, I also direct commercials and stuff.
And my mother-in-law is, you know, at the time I started making it was,
lives on a sheep farm in rural Minnesota.
And just all these people were like, oh, has Kai kind of gone off the deep end here?
And that's why, to me, it was like just the word telepathy, you can't reduce it to factor fiction.
Let's go look at the stories of these people, the science behind this.
This is so much bigger than our knee-jerk reactions of truth.
I just spoke to Dr. Diane Powell.
In fact, we've been in touch for like a year, year and a half or something.
And I've always found her just to be this amazing woman.
And she's just an impressive combination of extremely open-minded, but also extremely rigorous.
Yeah.
And so did you, how did you get in touch with her?
Did you, you heard her on a podcast?
Is that right?
It unfolded by me hearing her on a podcast about her research that she'd been doing.
Today, I'm here with Diane Powell, and we will be focusing on her research on some autistic savants with telepathic abilities.
And I thought that was fascinating and I wanted to get on the phone and learn more and went out to visit her.
And, you know, one of the first things I, you know, asked of her was, can you pull up some emails and obviously not share names, but like tell me some of the things that people are saying when they write to you.
And that was a very convincing first step for me to witness is that, you know, this wasn't just something she was talking about or she studied in a few one-offs.
I mean, her email box was filled of parents reaching out.
saying, I'm finding that my child read my thoughts.
It seems impossible.
We've tested it at home.
I have no framework for this.
Can you explain what is happening?
And it was a confusion and a wonderment and sometimes a desperate, desperation coming from
these parents to understand what was going on.
And they don't know each other.
They are very siloed.
And that was the first moment where I thought, okay, there's something very big here.
So how does one go from a traditional academic background to studying on
children who have high extra sensory perception abilities.
I learned about autism and savants back in 1986 because I met Oliver Sacks then.
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One of the books he wrote was Awakenings about people that had Parkinson's and were given
El Dopa for the first time. And all of a sudden they went from being like frozen statues to suddenly,
you know, moving, and there was a movie made about that.
And he was somebody that would study these quirky sort of syndromes
that told you something about the brain.
One of the case reports were about these twins who were institutionalized,
who were autistic, who played a game in which they would say prime numbers
back and forth to one another, and they'd be consecutive prime numbers,
they would be six digits long, and there's no algorithm.
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For so many of these families,
they are told by the doctors when their child is born
and is diagnosed with, you know, non-speaking,
often severe autism,
that they won't comprehend the world around them.
They'll never be able to communicate.
They probably won't process information beyond that
of a toddler. And so parents are taken, you know, all hope is taken away. And they go through
this journey often not even trying to reach their child because they've been told by all the
quote unquote experts that their kid isn't in there. And what I found really early on were two
families, both me and another girl, Amelia, who appears in episode seven, that when the parents
were homeschooling with COVID and they had to spend off like tons of time with their child,
all of a sudden their child started spelling on iPads doing things they weren't ever doing in school.
Yeah.
And that's what happened with Mia.
And then when she started communicating at one point, then she started having a diary.
And in her diary, she said, I can read my parents' minds.
She wrote her diary that she can read everybody's mind.
But you have to believe in her for her to do it.
Well, I thought, well, that's impossible.
So her mom asked a few questions.
Like what, you know, what am I thinking of right now?
And, you know, Mia spelled purple umbrella or something.
or her dad wrote a picture and what I draw a picture of and she wrote dog.
And that was correct.
So then they started doing more tests and taking books off the wall, opening to a page on the book.
A page of the book.
And what am I reading?
And she would spell it out.
What am I looking at in the book?
And she'd spell it out.
And that's when they started doing blindfolded popsicle tests with her where they'd have piles and she'd put popsicle sticks.
So they took a bunch of videos of this stuff, sent it to Diane, sent it to me to kind of pre-vette it.
And it was absolutely unbelievable.
And they were as concerned and confused as any parent would be.
Yeah, to the point, you know, they were deeply Catholic.
They live in Monterey, Mexico.
And they were worried what our neighbor's going to feel.
Is this evil?
Is this, you know, there's all these funny things that get put on telepathy, not what I've learned through making this as what the non-speakers would say is this is a spiritual gift from God.
That is, I think, what every single one would say.
And us, you know, humans in the 3D world trying to map it out for so long have been like, this is the work of something dark.
And it couldn't be, that couldn't be further from the truth.
Agreed.
And so you, she's sending you videos.
And you say, I want to see this for myself.
And so you put them up at a place in Glendale and you have completely controlled experimental conditions to remove all confounding variables.
And so tell me if I'm getting this right.
So Mia is, you know, sitting next to her mother, and her mother is looking, and Mia's totally blindfolded, and then her mother is looking at a completely random, large assortment of images or numbers.
So it would be extremely low probability if you were to get it right just in one instance, is that correct?
Yeah.
And if you were to get it right, you know, over 10 or 20 instances, the quote unquote, P value is what you would call it in science.
gets to infantimally low.
Is that somewhat right?
Yeah, and I just want to say something really quick.
You know, Dr. Powell wants to do these really scientific airtight tests with Faraday cages
and, you know, get this as tight as can be.
And we're hoping to do that in the film that has been intentional along.
These tests, I was kind of creating.
So it was as concrete as I could make it with like the limited finances and stuff.
But I would say, yes, I think that anyone there would say that we went through every measure.
I bought even a brand new iPad to make sure.
it couldn't be influenced. I downloaded all the random number generators on set. So we video
that happening. We took down all, like I said, TV mirrors, anything reflective. And yeah,
like we were really, we went through pains to make sure that there was a divider when Mia was shown a
number and that she was blindfolded. And then we would take the blindfold off, remove the
partition. And as far as the numbers, I think we started off small, like three numbers. And then we did
four numbers. And then we did five numbers and it would generate five, two, seven, six, three or
whatever. And then she would write it five, two, seven, six three. And it's like, it's like she
would never miss, you know, and we did flashcards, some random word generators. We would put
colored balls inside of a, you know, a can or something. And she'd tell us what color it was. We
did popsicle stick tests, which was beyond telepathy because no one's sending information then.
It's like there's a bunch of popsicle sticks. And she had a, her mom would
hand her random ones to put in a pile and she could see them through a
perfect blindfold yeah which you had your skeptical colleague michael test yeah like i cannot
see anything through this blindfold yeah and that was important to me i mean michael's a very
dear friend and he's my dp in a lot of my work but he he approached this very skeptically yeah i mean
more so than even you know like me and and and so i had him test that blindfold you know and i mean
Michael certainly had his mind blown. You can't see this stuff and not have your world view
change forever. I mean, I wouldn't do it as a skeptic. I'm generally a skeptic in my life for most
things. But to seeing this, I can't, it's hard for me to think it's hard for me to believe this
is authentic. I'm looking at everything. I'm watching her. I'm watching the bomb. I'm watching
I'm watching everything. And for me and my perspective, it's real.
Michael and any, I think, reasonable listener would say, unless there's some bizarre Morse code
that is developed in a way that's extremely high throughput and you can somehow, you know,
based on like pokes or something, you know, abstract that out to semantic concepts like,
oh, you're looking at a grapefruit on this iPad or something.
Quickly, the null hypothesis becomes more fantastical than this child is displace.
displaying extremely high rates of telepathy.
Yeah.
And I think that's important for listeners who haven't listened to the show, your listeners,
is that, you know, so kind of where, even where I left off with Mia, you know,
so often these parents are told their kids can't learn, which is completely not true.
The non-speakers are brilliant individuals inside of there who just cannot control their body.
It's a behavior issue, not an intelligence one.
So what's learning to spell is meaning learning to control your body.
it's a gross motor skill to point to letters, whereas talking is a fine motor skill. And that's
why pointing to letters with a letter board is often a way that unleashes their communication skills.
However, because it creates, you have to create new neural pathways to do that, often it takes,
and often, this is really important, a lot of non-speakers don't know where their bodies are,
they don't feel them. I've talked to so many parents who said their children didn't even know
they had bodies or didn't know they had fingers. And they didn't get that until they started communicating,
right? So to help them spell it off and requires touch in the beginning. And then you sort of
start to lighten the touch or move the touch until there's no touch. And in the podcast, I use the
metaphor of what my dad taught me how to ride a bike. I needed his whole body on me, you know,
helping me. And then it was like less body, less touch, less touch until finally I was
riding the bike. And with Mia, you know, we went out to dinner that before. Every time we were on
Zoom, her mom would have to touch her shoulder or her head to communicate. It was just what she needed.
just the slightest touch to help her, helped her.
And now her mom is telling me she can do it without it.
And that's how most of these kids are.
Some will always need touch, but most will graduate to a point where they don't need it once they're, they have more body control.
They feel more sense of where they are.
So Mia, when she was doing these tests, had to have one slight touch on her, either her shoulder, her head.
And the idea that like some Morse code was going through there to someone who can't feel their body is ridiculous.
And when I brought that up to Michael, I mean, you could just hear his disdain and his laugh of like, that's impossible.
Right.
That is grasping us.
And he came in pretty skeptical.
He came in very skeptical.
Yeah.
But you can look at the test.
It's not like there's something happening in the finger.
I mean, how could you ever convey a number or a random, like you said, an abstract word through Morse code on a.
It's impossible.
But I think it's a great first example because she's beyond earnest.
and then the stats on what she's producing are just remarkable.
And then you actually go on to control for that variable as far as touch,
which I think is honestly going the extra mile.
Again, maybe even unnecessary,
but to the extreme skeptic in the audience should satisfy them.
And I think it's important to note, too, that Dr. Powell got into this
because she actually saw there was initially some data around autistic children
displaying high clairvoyance or telepathy.
and studies even prior to her.
And so there is a body of worry.
Psychical studies have been going on since the 1870s,
the Society of Psychical Research.
You had, you know, Frederick Myers, you had William James.
Yeah.
This is a long history.
Yeah, and there was a man named Bernie Rindlin who first kind of came up with this idea
that maybe, not telepathy, but ESP gifts should be a savant skill.
and he was noticing it in the autistic population,
the severely autistic non-speaking population.
And so I think Dr. Diane was like, okay,
there's something to build off of here.
And just, again, to talk about Diane,
when after those tests with Mia, I was, I mean, really shaken.
And she's like, they don't count Kai in terms of science,
in terms of the rigorous science that we need to prove this
because she was being touched.
So it can never be touched.
And it was like, okay, that's unfair.
But, I mean, to these poor children and these poor families,
you know, I didn't mean want Mia's family to.
hear that. They were so wanting, you know, just to be part of this validating process. But then the next
episode, we go to a young man named Akiel who lives in New Jersey, who can do the telepathy with his mom across
the room. Okay, what is this? Ha? Oh, sir. I'll say it. You see, I'm not even looking at him. Yeah.
I'm just going to put it in the way. And then, uh, uh, fix it, fix it, focus.
Fix her?
And then he.
Genius.
So Akiel is, he's one of the children that I had tested before meeting Kai.
And I met him actually through his mom contacting me after seeing me being Topor.
And she's Indian.
And she, you know, she's like, saw Deepak Topra interview me and said, you know,
this is talking about somebody like, just like my son.
And so she, she contacted me.
And I went out and tested her son.
And then later invited, you know, Deepak Chopra to come see it.
And he was so blown away.
How can you tell what these words and numbers are?
Because you're not seeing them directly.
Huh?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mind knows how to show my mom.
Nah.
Huh?
Ma.
I.
And?
D.
My mind knows how to show my mom's mind.
My mind knows how to show my mom's mind.
It's quite amazing.
Akeel's mother, Manisha, kept telling me, look, this isn't just telepathy.
This is a shared consciousness.
There's some sort of merging that goes on.
And she was saying things which I couldn't quite understand yet in my process, which was she felt, you know, he often will maybe use my hardware or my neurology.
Then I thought, oh, what?
You know, just really wanting to understand.
And so she kept showing me when I was doing little tests like, okay, and actually I love this because I had the crew write a bunch of random words.
And I downloaded a random number generator on the spot again, random word generator.
we did all this stuff with Akiel.
And Manisha was kind of like, come on, this is like kid stuff.
Like, let me show you really what this is.
And so after I was sat aside with, I mean, we must have done 100 tests that day,
she was like, okay, now you write a word.
So I wrote a word and he'd start saying it verbally.
He can kind of communicate through words or he'd start spelling it.
And she'd be like, now cross it out and start writing another one.
And in the midst of crossing it out, the second is crossed out and you start even thinking
about the next one.
start writing the next one. And that's where she's like, do you see what I mean? I'm not even
having time to send him this thought of we crossed out car. Now it's, I don't remember what it was,
piano or something. The second that the next word was starting to be written, he would know.
One day I was watching a movie of an athlete whose leg was amputed and he got into special Olympics.
And I went upstairs to tell Achille, Akhil, I want to tell you, come, come, look, I want to show you the story.
You see how people overcome their difficulties and challenges.
He said, yes, I know he doesn't have a leg and he is an Olympics.
Because he was watching the show or something.
Because I was watching and he was upstairs.
So those thoughts can get transferred.
So she's like, is this a signal of consciousness that we're both sharing?
Is he stepping into my own consciousness or what is that?
And I don't think there is an answer for that yet,
except for that is a widespread thing that the parents are.
talking about.
I and, yes, you got it.
Spelling and the ability to communicate.
A lot of people might be watching this and saying, you keep saying nonverbal.
How do they communicate at all?
Yeah.
So I think the telepathy and the spiritual gifts, I don't know exactly, but I will say I think
it's a mark of being a non-speaker.
I don't think it has as much to do with autism as it does non-speaking autism.
And with the non-speakers, you know, again, so often the doctors, the doctors, the, the
educators have had it wrong, thinking they're not in there.
They are.
They're intellectually as solid as you and me.
Just can't control their bodies.
And because they can't create words, which is a fine motor skill, it's pointing to letters, which is, you know, there's different techniques for that.
It started with facilitated communication that merged into, you know, turned into something called rapid prompting method.
Now there's spelling to communicate.
There's different forms of this, of different processes to learn to point to letters.
And you do have to learn to be a communication partner.
and that's really important.
But I found that the colloquial word for all of it is spelling.
That's a good umbrella word to talk about all forms of pointing to letters to communicate.
And that can be independently on an iPad or with a letterboard.
And absurdly, there is some controversy around this format of communication.
What is AHA and why do they have anything, you know, bad to say about spelling and RPM and some of these other techniques?
You know, Asha is the American speech language pathologist. It's the board that gives people accreditation to work with language and speech. And Asha says that spelling is not a valid form of communication. They've called it pseudoscience. It is the most frustrating thing to these parents and to the non-speakers. I mean, I can't think of a bigger human rights violation than saying, like, you cannot have the means to communicate.
in your classroom in a workplace, in a social setting.
But when I was doing a deep dive into this, this is fascinating.
That sign language, it took like 150 years for that to be accepted.
Is that true?
Even in the 70s, you weren't, it was not encouraged to be, to do have sign language in school.
You had, the people who were hard of hearing or deaf were told that they had to learn to
read lips or have like, you know, kind of speakers on their ears, hearing aids.
Sign language was not accepted.
Louis Braille, who was a young boy who kind of, you know, maybe a preteen when he invented Braille,
he was at the first school for the deaf in France at the time.
And this was interesting.
In France and all over the world at the time, I'm sorry, blind.
The blind community was seen as not in there, not smart, all the same thing that's not some speakers going through.
So when Louis Braille was at the first school for the blind in France, he kind of like enhances this old
military kind of coding. And he came up with this idea for Braille. And when a new headmaster came
into the school, he was like, this is pseudoscience. This isn't real. He locked away all the Braille
books. You can't learn this way. And the kids were like, no, this is really great. And they were
doing it, you know, in private. But the authorities didn't want Braille to become a thing.
And when the kids first tested, you know, showed the authorities, look, I will punch out these
letters and this one will read it. And they kind of prove that Braille is working. People in the
in watching that where it's like it's a magic trick it's a joke they obviously practice this in
advance yeah and so i was reading this the history of louis braille and thinking this is exactly what
the non-speakers are going through so it makes you wonder why why have we always the the reigning
you know uh communication class has such strict views and restrictions over how someone else can
communicate two two two yeah good four four the question that i asked
him was, how did you learn all of this? Do you have really good hearing? And he said, I'm special. And I said,
oh, of course, you're special. And he said, I can hear thoughts. And I said, bullshit. I questioned him.
And I said, are you sure you're telling the truth? And he said to me, you don't get the kind of gifts
that I have if you lie. So then I asked him a question in my head without speaking. And he answered
the question that I had asked him in my head. Then I brought my son and his friend up to witness it.
And I had told the young man that was his friend, I said, get a thought in your head and sit there
and don't think anything but that. And Houston spelled out what that young man was thinking.
Then I called my daughter and she didn't believe me. She said, no, he can't, Mom. I said,
like, send me something. So she had her husband tell her something,
to text. She texted it to me. He never saw the text and he spelled out what was on the text.
I think the Houston story is incredibly powerful because it's so much later. His mother is,
she's amazing and finds RPM at when he's 21 or so. Or what's the exact story there?
Yeah. So, you know, Katie was a single mom of five, you know, no help from her ex-husband,
a pretty brutal guy. And I can't tell you how much, how beautiful a human being Katie is, you know, but fighting against the world at every turn. It was really difficult because Houston had the way his autism was expressing himself. I mean, he was biting through his hands, like down to the muscle at times. He was smearing feces on the wall, you know, and Katie could not get through to him, didn't know how to help him. And it was years of just a lot.
of hardship and trauma and she's working full-time and not getting child support. And it was through,
I think, what she would definitely describe as a series of miracles of people putting spelling in her
path. And she would initially thought, well, you don't know because Houston's probably much
more different than your child. I'm watching your child sit here calmly in spelling. And Houston,
he's a different level of autism. Well, that's not true at all. You know, I think she pretty much
had given up hope on Houston. It took me a very long time to give up hope. A part of me breaks
inside to give up.
She tried everything. Nothing was getting through to him.
And I think it was the day before Thanksgiving when Houston was about 18.
Katie had come home from working at multiple jobs.
It was like shaking. She was so tired on the sofa.
And Houston came and sat down and put his hand on her.
And he said, mama.
And I was shocked because I had never, ever heard my son say my name.
He was 17.
And I opened my eyes and he was looking directly into my eyes, which he had
also never done. And he said, I love you. And that moment for her was a miracle. And she's like,
wait, he's telling me something. He is in there or he's knowing how I'm feeling. And so then there was
a few examples of spelling that came into her path. And then eventually she decided to try it.
Houston, at first, when you're learning to spell, it's, it doesn't come quickly. Like often you're
pointing to like a board that has six letters, so it's bigger and more spaced out. And then maybe you're
answering a question, is it this or is it that? And they call it getting open on the boards when
you first start communicating your own thoughts. And for Houston, I believe that happened when he was
about 21. And then it was amazing because she learned he has rich, rich knowledge of American history.
He loves American history. Rich knowledge of so much. And I mean, Houston's knowledge is phenomenal.
And what I've learned from Katie Houston's story has been paradigm shifting throughout. But, you know,
even just little things.
Like, I never understood why people thought, like, crystals and rocks had magic in them.
To me, I was like, this is a cute thing we do as humans.
And I couldn't dismiss it, but I just didn't get it.
I didn't believe that.
And Katie certainly did not either.
And then one day after, like, a, you know, massage or something, Katie brought home a bunch of, like, a bag of rocks and crystals,
they were behind, like, her bedroom door, her bathroom door.
And Houston comes home and, like, knocks through all doors and finds the rocks and crystals.
Houston started shouting, stones, stone, stones.
And he wouldn't stop.
And so I just was like, here, take them.
I mean, I didn't know what to do with him.
Anyway, I went into his room a little bit later,
and he had lined these three stones up on his bedside table on the very edge,
and he was lying on the very edge of his bed as close as he could get to these stones.
He felt all the energy coming from them,
and he could name which each one was and felt the frequency of each.
And he started spelling.
When you're autistic, you're a magnet for all energy, good and bad.
These stones have good energy.
I need more good energy.
And, you know, Katie has other stories of coming home and buying, like, crystals for a,
I think it was her son-in-law hiding, like, dice for dungeons and dragons or something.
And, like, Houston, like, came home from school and found those because he could, like, hear that more feel the energy.
And stuff like that made me realize, okay, so if I dismissed telopathy and that's real,
and I dismissed the power of crystals and that's real.
What else have we dismissed that we think of this woo-woo or, you know, this airy-fairy stuff?
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So he lives in Atlanta, right?
And there's kind of a cohort in Atlanta.
Do you want to talk about Houston's friends and where they hang out?
Yeah.
And I want to say I think these cohorts are everywhere.
It was just, you know, through Katie and Houston, I was led into this Atlanta cohort, you know, but there's cohorts everywhere.
So that's – but one of the most beautiful, unbelievable things that first it started with Akeel, and that's apparent in episode two where he says, he said every non-speaker has this gift.
And I kind of thought, wow, well, that's quite a statement, you know.
But then I went to go meet Katie in Houston, and that's in episode three.
and Houston repeats that. Every non-speaker has this gift and revealed that he, and Houston's the one that coined this term, this talk on the hill, which was this telepathic chat room where non-speakers can tune in and communicate with each other. And that was hard to believe. And then, you know, Katie's like, well, you need to meet my dear friend Libby and her son John Paul. John Paul goes on the hill and we went to their house and John Paul went on the hill and it was really cool. He went into his room and he put a bunch of pillows on his head.
And Livy, who's just like such a dear, again, like beautiful human being was just like this is what he does.
After school, he'll do this.
And he says he's on the hill.
And I've learned about now that he's communicating with the ladder board.
And he's really formed relationships there.
And she's like, in fact, like there was a young man.
His name is Zahari.
And he was born blind in an orphanage and was adopted, you know, later in life and whatever.
But Zahari's mom was bringing Zahari to Georgia.
He'd never met John Paul.
but when Zahari walked into the house, he's like, hey, John Paul, they had this whole relationship,
and they said it had been built on the hill.
And so, and I say this in the series, it took me a long time to form my opinion or understanding of the hill.
And I don't want to say a belief in it, but like, like, maybe it was a belief in it.
It was just so hard to believe, you know.
And then there's so many people from disparate places talking about the hill.
One was a minister.
I met at a megachurch.
I didn't meet him in person, but I talked to on the phone, and his name is Joe.
And he was saying that some of his kids in his youth group were talking about the Hill.
He runs like a special needs youth group.
And they'd set them up with like other non-speakers and other places and the kids would talk about the Hill.
You know, and then I met a teacher in Chicago and her kids were talking about the Hill.
And it's just phenomenal.
And then Arthur Golden, who's a dear advisor and, and, and.
has been such a help on this whole project as well, and he's got a non-speaking son, Ben
Golden, and they live in a very ultra-Orthodox community in Israel.
They have their own hill.
Wow.
And I've heard of hills in Arizona, Florida, so I don't think there's just one.
Yeah.
And that's one thing I want to understand, and I will seek that question with the non-speaker
advisory board and further in the film, is the hill just this part of this collective consciousness
where we can all hang out?
Is it like a separate place that you can go to?
to share ideas, how many hills are there?
Or is it just all one hill, but you just find each other?
Like if you go to party, you're at different parts of the room, you know, but you're in the same place?
Have you and Dr. Powell done any tests when it comes to information transmission remotely on this kind of hill?
Well, that's what we want to do.
So we're kind of coming up with our list of dream tests for the film project.
And her storyline in the film, I want to culminate with these tests, right?
And one will be the telepathic, you know, message sending in a controlled way behind partitions and with blindfolds.
And the other would be having two or three non-speakers in different locations to communicate together via the hill and try to validate what each is coming back with and saying.
What you just said about Houston kind of just reminded me of this amazing story that you tell of Josiah.
Do you want to tell this story?
Josiah and Max Davis.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's incredible.
Yeah, and he's got a book Josiah's Fire, so that's another really good one.
But Max Davis is an author, and Josiah's mom started working on a book.
So this is like, just pocket Max Davis for a second.
So Josiah's mom, when Josiah started spelling, was absolutely floored by the amount of spiritual messages he was saying.
His first ever independent sentence was the most mother.
I'm blowing miraculous thing because he had not spelled anything beyond three to five letter words.
So what was his first sentence?
God is a good gift giver.
He was saying that, you know, he was communicating with the king with angels.
He said he was going to heaven.
How do you know that?
And he spells A-U, and I'm thinking he's going to spell autism or something, he goes on to spell A-U-N-T-I-E.
Auntie told an angel to tell me.
Auntie was my great aunt, and she died at age 89.
Josiah, as far as I know, had never heard us talk of Auntie.
He wouldn't have known Auntie.
He wouldn't have seen pictures of Auntie.
How did he know Auntie?
He knew things about a past relative, Auntie, that, you know, and was communicating for Auntie.
And this was just unbelievable.
And when...
And they had never told them about Auntie, right?
No.
Uh-uh.
No.
So, again, it was just unbelievable messages that there's no way Josiah should.
know. And I think at the time he's seven or eight. And, you know, again, the parents are not taking
this as face value. They're often trying to figure out this mystery as well and trying to prove it
and validate it and like, what are they talking about? And here's a picture and who's this,
you know, that type of stuff. So, and again, before the telepathy tapes came out, I think that
many of these parents were living in their own silo thinking they were unique in this experience.
So she talked to Josiah's spelling communication teacher and said, you know, he's talking about
going to heaven and seeing angels and communicating with spirits who passed. And the teacher was
like, that's his special interest, you know, go on, you know, and the mom, you know, Tani was thinking,
this is not a special interest. This is something very big. So she writes a book to put this out
there. Is there anyone else out there experiencing this? And of course, she's flooded with people saying,
yes, this is our story. Well, anyway, in the very precursor of writing this book, she was working
with a, you know, kind of a ghost writer. And she's on the call with the ghostwriter one day.
And the writer, you know, said something about another author she was working with Max Davis.
and Josiah comes home for school later on that day,
and he starts spelling something very profound about somebody.
I have no clue who he's even talking about.
And then all of a sudden, he uses this phrase that links back to the conversation
that I was having earlier with Cheryl about this guy, Max.
He writes all this stuff about Max, like, he is a major novel writer.
He doesn't write like a major novel writer.
He doesn't write like other people do.
He was talking about how his house was popping, popping, popping.
And then he says, are you a barn man, Max?
Like there's animals or there's a farm by you.
Well, the writer goes and tells Max, and Max is really weirded out because the things are on point.
It was about what was happening in his house, like this popping noise and he was building a house.
It was about being close to animals and like, does he live on a farm or is there a barn nearby?
And it turns out that, you know, yes, there is like a barn right next to his property with tons of animals on it.
I'm thinking this lady's looney.
She's trying to get something from me.
It actually made her cry because I'm a skeptic.
So that's how it began.
It bothers Max because he's going, how does this person know this?
Because they were building a new house and it was popping, popping, popping.
They were using the nail guns.
It goes to a motel and it's like, you know, you love your motel time or something.
He takes a nap.
It's like a nap is nice.
Yeah.
And then it's something about the, like his chapter was the fruit of something.
So the first story there was this understanding.
So Tani writes it to Max.
Max is totally weird out.
I think she's on Google chat.
You know, I mean, Google Earth looking at this.
And then the next one is Josiah says, you know, Max went into the woods and was praying
last night. And that was like really freaked out Max. And then it's he started to believe. And then the
next one was this message from Josiah when Max went to go right at this private motel on the beach,
on the thing of the Gulf of Mexico, where he does this. He makes a mixtape and he listens to the
mix and stuff. And Josiah wrote something about your music is being banded together. You love your
sacred time at the motel. That's right. And Max by this point is like, oh my gosh. And then another time
he's behind on a deadline for a book he's writing.
He stays home.
He takes a nap and he begged his wife to miss all the appointments for the day and to work with him.
And anyway, he takes a nap.
He stays up really late and he gets this entire chapter called First Fruits Out.
That's right.
And then Josiah writes the next day.
You know, I hope your nap was nice.
Your hands were like night braille on, you know, something like that.
Like the spirit of night braille on your fingertips kept you through the night.
And you got, I hope, first fruits, some things.
Like, he knew all the facts.
And I don't have the quote in front of me.
so I'm butchering what he said.
But the point is he knew about the nap.
He knew about the name of the chapter.
Without Max having any communication.
No, no.
You know, and Josiah was a pretty young, you know, he was a boy at the time.
Yeah.
And so, no, like these things were happening privately with Max.
No one knew.
And then Josiah knew.
And, you know, well, beautiful part of the story that I didn't put into the podcast,
just because there's some length.
You have to edit some stuff.
But, you know, Max went to go visit Josiah at some point.
And I think he was a little, you know, like it was a good awakening for him because Josiah, like, didn't want to come up his room.
You know, he was having difficulty regulating.
He was having a very hard time spelling that day.
He was probably excited.
But Max really had this realization of how difficult it is to control often, you know, your body as a non-speaker.
I want to talk about John Paul, who befriends.
Houston and I think is the most moving part of this whole story. He's this gentle giant. Do you want to
talk about John Paul? J.P. Yeah. I mean, John Paul, he was such a presence, you know,
gigantic, like six, eight. I think when I met John Paul, he was 14 or 15. And yeah, he was like a younger
brother to Houston, you know. John Paul made a lot of loud noises, you know, he was just as big.
guy. He loved putting stuff in his head and like dropping it off. And, you know, it's just funny.
I mean, he was, ah, gosh. And so, and John Paul's mother just loves him so unconditionally.
And it was so beautiful to be in their home because John Paul would often strip off his clothes and just appear.
And I think so many of us when we're going through the world are constantly apologizing for other people.
And, you know, Hugh and Libby just never, just embraced John Paul. Like, there he is. John Paul put on your clothes.
you know, this is our house.
You're just getting used to that.
Like, I loved it because there was just this like unbelievable joy wrapped of like,
I just accept him.
I love him for exactly who he is.
And I looked at Libby and I was like, gosh, I want,
and all of these parents actually just like,
they're such a great template of how to love your children.
Yeah.
Because so many of us don't love our kids unconditionally.
But I think all these parents do in a different way than most of us can imagine.
And I don't know if I should say what happens to John Paul on this because I don't know
if I should, I want people to watch.
Yes.
Well, which episode?
It's a nine.
Nine.
The kind of like, I would say my finale, like how I concluded the story was with episode
nine.
And that has deeply to do with John Paul.
And I think through John Paul, for me, that was proof of afterlife.
Yes.
In the most profound, beautiful way.
And my dad, who was a huge skeptic walking into this, called me yesterday.
And he's like, I am walking through a cemetery with a whole new take on this.
He's like, I'm not feeling sad.
I'm just so aware that, like, people survive.
And that was after I listened to episode nine.
And I thought, wow, dad, okay, good.
If I got to you, then maybe we'll get to other people.
And so I don't want to explain exactly what happens with John Paul,
but it might be obvious from what I'm saying that he has quite a message for all of us at the end.
Everybody go listen to it because I was crying on a plane.
I was listening to it.
It was just so profound and moving, and it'll make anybody, yeah, question, you know, our conception of life and reality.
And, yeah, just go listen to it.
So John Paul has a girlfriend, and they have this beautiful bond.
And it's almost like, you know, if you watch Love on the Spectrum, either, that's so refreshing because it's this like just there's no BS.
There's no deception, no gamesmanship between these relationships.
I feel like John Paul and Lily and these nonverbal kids take it to the next level where they say
that their kind of telepathic bond increases, their love for each other.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, can you imagine like sharing everything about one another telepathically?
And I remember asking Libby once because she said, you know, they go on dates or I'll pick
them up here and they'll go on a date.
And I said, what was that look like?
And she's like, well, often they'll be on different floors of that.
house and but they're communicating they're doing something and then when and then when they leave john
paul would be like that was the best day ever and and and i thought that was just so sweet i mean they
he adores lily lily adores john paul i mean their love was real and it was enhanced deeply by
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JP, you know, is this amazing character.
He's sort of larger than life, and he's also a very, you know, big kid who's described in the telepathy tapes.
And he has a girlfriend named Lily.
And he seems like this just very sweet, loving character.
And he's friends with this other guy named Houston, and they all meet up on the hill.
Can you talk a little bit about JP?
Because I find his story to be possibly the most touching,
just from a personal perspective.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I mean, yeah, he was larger in life.
I think he was like six foot eight.
And he liked, there was this game he liked to play where he loved to, you know, like I drink a lot of water, you know.
And I had, you know, he loves to grab your, he'd love to grab your bottle of water and put it on his head and then drop it on you.
So anyway, so he, you know, he was a character.
and he had twin brother,
who not an identical twin brother,
brother's neurotypical.
And his mother is a speech language therapist.
Wow.
Who, you know, was basically told,
I mean, this is like what she's doing,
what's doing with her son is like forbidden, you know?
It's like, you know,
because, you know, the people that Ashah,
you know, the speech therapist association,
basically says that, you know, spelling is, you know, an RPM, you know, these different methods that
use, you know, pointing to letters as a, you know, considered a form of communication that, you know,
that it's not recognized. Why is that, it's so absurd. Why is it not recognized? I'm the wrong
person to ask. I mean, I could, it's political. Yeah, it's, I mean, if a kid is being, is able to point at letters
and spell something out, why is that not seen as a valid form of communication,
especially if cogent sentences are coming out on the other side of that?
You know, it really, it really surprised me that it really is, that that's controversial.
And, I mean, it really saddens me, too.
Of course. Yeah, you're kind of putting a child back in a cage of isolation without these techniques.
Yeah, yeah. And, but yes, it's really,
If you were to go to the internet, you know, look up, you know, spelling to communicate,
look at what, you know, it says in Wikipedia or whatever, and you'll say that, you know,
something along the lines that it's pseudoscience, you know, you'll see those kinds of remarks,
you know, that it's attacked.
And so it's like, wow, if they're going to, and this is part of why I also have been doing
my own thing without being as public about it, you know.
until more recently, is that it's like, boy, if they're going to attack that even.
That's crazy.
Then, you know, boy, what are they going to think about the rest of all this?
Right, the actual telepathic communication.
Yeah, if they're going to attack just the communication ability.
I mean, I just don't understand how you can dispute something where somebody is clearly
expressing things that, like, means something in reality and serve, you know, certain objectives,
whether it's like, I'm thirsty, get me water, or, you know, whatever.
The second that that becomes like this, you know,
clearly adaptive, useful form of communication,
how do you write that off?
Especially when you're talking about a kid who is silenced otherwise
as far as their ability to interface with the real world
or with our real world.
You know, like that, it's just, it seems inhumane.
Well, it does.
And so, and one of the problems is that some of the people
who've been the most against the idea of telepathy coming out have been people who are part of
the spelling community.
And so it's one of those things where you'll never, you know, whoever it is, you'll never,
you'll never make progress in advocating for your rights if people are able to divide you.
So anyway, but so John Paul, though, you know, good friends.
with Houston. And, you know, and the two of them have this telepathic communication with one
another. They, they live in Atlanta, and John Powell has a girlfriend, you know, named Lily,
you know. And so, and seeing the love that these kids have towards their parents and that their
parents have towards them is incredibly, you know, touch, you know, it just touches.
your heart. It's amazing. And it's coming across in the podcast. You can only imagine how it comes
across in, you know, when you've got, you know, the whole, you know, experience of it, you know,
not just hearing the voices. I think, you know, like a governor that you would place on an engine.
I feel like a governor has been placed on reality. And like that's coming off. Yeah.
And I think what you get in its place is it's almost like a hydra situation.
you cut off one head, you get five others, or a Cambrian explosion of ideas and possibilities.
And so I think people assume that, you know, when you get into a new paradigm or something,
like one thing changes. But no, I mean, everything changes. And this makes total sense.
I mean, it's fascinating to see how energetically sensitive these kids are in Houston being a great example.
Doesn't he go to like Stone Mountain or something as well, which he loves because of the, the energy.
there?
Yeah, yeah.
And we hiked up Stone Mountain when we were in Atlanta.
Even Dr. Powell came with.
Like, we all hiked up Stone Mountain and Houston gets the top of Stone Mountain and it's just
so free.
And you can feel like he's feeling all this energy, which made me think this non-speakers
center that we create maybe should go on top of a mountain, you know.
But, no, he feels so much.
And I think what most of the parents would say and the non-speakers would say as well is
that it has to do with them being less tied to their body.
They're less bound to the physical world than us.
And so they're more open to the things that I think are natural.
They're not supernatural.
They're what surround us, but they have an easier access to it.
I couldn't agree more.
And it's funny, in virtual reality and in lucid dreaming,
which you could think of as its own sort of weird simulation,
seeing your hands is this really important test for your ability to embody in the bound simulation.
And so they often feel a little disembodied or like they don't, they're not quite, you know, sensing their own bodies.
Yeah.
And I think the normal, you know, conventional view is, oh, that's handicapped.
But in fact, there's a filtering or a reduction going on and a greater understanding when you are embodied and when you are in the simulation.
And so being able to dip outside of that simulation is a profound, amazing skill.
Yeah.
And if you look at the.
history of humanity, there's a great book called The Immortality Key by this guy, Brian Murrescu,
and he talks about these mystery rituals that everybody would, you know, undergo.
And it's sort of the temporary paralysis of the physical body in order to, you know,
reach your primordial spirit and know that there is something more here.
Yeah.
And it feels like these kids know that in a way that is so much more like, like, you know,
you know, real true knowledge, no sense, if you will, than like the average person kind of walking
around. And that brings up this book, which you were so nice to give in. And I'm just so honored to
have. And this is Katie and Houston. And it's the book of heaven. And they signed it for me,
which was so sweet of them. And it really feels like they have a conviction and metaphysics that we just
relegate to mythology. We just, we call these things sort of myths that, you know,
maybe that you go to church or you go to synagogue or whatever and you, you know, or a
mosque and you go through the motions or whatever. You don't really believe that there's something
there. They know that there's something there. Yeah. Yeah. And I would say that's true of
everyone who's working in an intimate way with a non-speaker, at least that I've met. I can't,
obviously, I have a huge broad-bush, but every single person I've met with and hundreds and hundreds
of people emailing now with their stories is that to work intimately with a non-speaker is to be
able to beautifully see the worlds that can access the realms they can access, which me saying
something like that two years ago would have made me laugh out loud that I'd be on an interview
talking about realms.
They can access realms that we can't access.
They can see beings that we can't, whether, you know, I think some will call them
divine beings, some will call them light beings, some will call them angels.
And certainly spirits of those who have passed.
That is often as common or comes before the telepathy knowledge.
And all of that stuff was, of course, paradigm shattering.
I mean, I'm a nonfiction documentary filmmaker.
That was absolutely what is happening.
You know, there was like a lot of shots of whiskey along the way.
Lots of books just, okay, now I have to read and read and read and read to really understand this more.
And it's real. It's real. It is happening. And what's so beautiful is you can't, that's why, like, if someone now I talk about this, I was so bashful, like I said in the beginning, talking about this. And now if I'm talking about it and someone's skeptical or doesn't believe it, I'm just kind of like, oh, you're just like a flat earther, you know, you're stuck in the old paradigm, bless your heart, you know. And I really do feel that way.
I mean, once there's so, some people living right now that see how much more there is.
And I love that the non-speakers, these unbelievable people who've been dismissed and marginalized and cast aside are our guides in this.
And I think that's the most beautiful thing.
And because their message is one of love and one of unity.
Yes.
And it's so beautiful to me because it comes back to if we look into antiquity of a lot of our religions and faiths.
all of that comes back to love and unity.
And again, like you said, you kind of just like go to church, you go to synagogue, you go to, you know, mosque and you're like, oh, love and like how many people actually believe in love and unity or practice it in some way.
You know, and at the end of the day, that's all that I've heard the spellers want to talk about is love and unity.
And even this was really profound, and I'm still getting to grips with this.
So often they'd say, you know, it's not just your thoughts we hear.
it's your feelings that we feel.
Absolutely.
And all the feelings that you put out to the world are being received and made manifest.
Yeah.
And one speller, and this is going to be in episode 10 even said, if you don't know what your feelings are and you can't process them, like often we're doing that work for you.
And that disregulates us.
I don't care what you're feeling.
You need to know what you're feeling.
Because if you know what you're feeling, you can regulate it and actualize it and calm yourself.
And if you think about that, if they're feeling, hearing our thoughts, many of these non-speakers, as they say, but also feeling our feelings.
I mean, of course that would disregulate a human being.
Totally.
And this so comports with, I mean, like, Gabor Mante's work.
We're like, you know, basically anybody would intuit as far as like a parent, you know, a kid relationship where you do immediately just absorb.
your parents' energy.
Yeah.
And it's fascinating to hear that explicitly articulated because I think anybody listening will
latently kind of know that.
Like you are kind of embodying a lot of your earliest experiences.
And you can kind of synthesize this scientifically with like the Harlow Monkey Test or whatever
where, you know, if the mother isn't present and there isn't that, you know, the necessary
kind of tactile kinesthetic, you know, touch, you know, that can have.
profoundly bad effects.
Yeah.
And so it just sounds like they're on another level of sensitivity to this.
And it makes sense, right, because our communication, you know, it's prosaic to say
that most human communication is a 95% sublinguistic body language or whatever.
And there's probably opportunity cost in the language itself.
Yeah.
And language allows for deception.
It allows for myth making and all sorts of confusion.
And if you're just cutting that out.
Yep.
And you're going straight to the source.
Yeah.
That feels like the true language.
The final thing I'll say is there's, there are apparently nonverbal tribes in the Amazon.
Are you aware of this?
Yeah.
And they experience very similar things.
And they even call it the ancient language where they beam information to each other.
And sometimes they'll have language on top of that.
But they'll go back to the ancient language.
And that's like the low latency, real communication.
Yeah.
In the show, the telepathy tapes, there's a young man, Asher, who was a verbal autist.
He had words.
And he eventually decided not to use them because they were cumbersome and difficult.
And so many will say, like, we'll actually write about letters, like our obsession with using letters and, like, words.
And they are dishonest.
How many times when someone says, how are you?
Would you answer that completely dishonestly?
I mean, like 80% of the time, you know?
And so it's like if you can just, Kyle, who's a wonderful man and an, um, and an, um,
a non-speaker in England, like at some point conveyed that, or maybe his mother did,
that if you say the word, you know, Thanksgiving or Christmas or something to someone,
you say a word.
But if Kyle sends that message to you telepathically, you receive the smells and the feelings
and the music and the love and the family and the taste of the food and the decorations,
you receive all of it.
It's a knowing, like you said, a complete knowing.
And when I've talked to the non-speakers about like what, you know, again, I'm going
through episode 10 right now, which is what they want us to do with this knowledge.
I mean, so many of them are like, if you guys could all kind of get to this telepathic place,
that'd be great.
It really evolve us.
And, you know, I think we are all capable of it because there's glimpses where we've had it, right?
Where you know someone is sick and you, or you're thinking about someone right before they call.
We know it's there.
Who is Amelia?
So she's this little girl who lives in Wisconsin, whose mother contacted me.
and she had taken her daughter to the, you know, the Trefford Center there, you know,
because that's where Daryl Treffert, who was, you know, the person who was consultant on Rain Man.
I mean, you know, that's where he was, and that's what his center.
And so I'd take her daughter there to be evaluated because she has all of these different abilities,
you know, knowing different languages, you know, and she's in addition to,
being telepathic with her mother.
And she's one of the girls who said that she related to a unicorn.
And she, you know, wrote this story about how she was, you know,
she called it an ugly horse, you know, that people thought wasn't smart, you know,
and said that, you know, that she was a unicorn.
Oh, man.
And then she's probably talking about her self-perception based on what other people.
people sort of think of her when in fact she is this beautiful,
amazing unicorn.
Yeah, she's this beautiful, amazing child.
And yet at the time she wrote that poem,
her self-esteem was affected because she perceives what other people's impressions are about her.
I mean, you know,
that's the downside of being so psychic is that you are injured,
even when people aren't saying anything by virtue.
of them thinking things about you.
That's so amazing.
Yeah, because you know their conception of you
without even that needing to be articulated.
Exactly.
So people can think, oh, well, I treat,
you know, people who are disabled, you know,
with respect or this or that.
But they're just thinking of their outword behavior
and they don't realize that these children
pick up on what you, you know,
really think tell us about amelia because i find her to be fascinating and maybe among the most
conventionally regarded as just academically gifted of all of these examples yeah i mean amelia's
little still she's 10 you know and and i i love all these moms so i'm going to say this about
every single mom but you know i love her mom mora and and she felt really um familiar to me because
you know, I'm from the Midwest. I only moved from Chicago to Los Angeles about six years ago. And, you know, they're a Midwestern, you know, they're located in the Midwest. And her mom, Amelia's mom works in copywriting and ad agency in the dad's former military. You know, they just felt like very like, yes. Like I understand you very much. You feel like my brothers and sisters and friends from high school. And, you know, when Mara was kind of first starting to understand that Amelia was in there, again, it was related to COVID. She was the home with COVID. She saw, I mean, not with COVID. They were home during COVID.
homeschooling and she discovered that Amelia was in there and could spell and then that she could read
her mind and then that she was seeing stuff that Amora the mother couldn't see she could see
spirits and ghosts and then she started saying that she knew other languages and she could
identify hieroglyphics and new Hebrew and Portuguese and Spanish and so remarkable yeah allie showed
Amelia some Hebrew and Amelia read it and translated it so alie showed her again today and amelia typed
out what it meant. I said, but who taught you Hebrew? And she typed the rabbi. Then I asked if there was
anything else she could read. She wrote Hiro. I said hieroglyphics. And she wrote, yes, pictures.
So Allie pulled up a few letters and we showed them to Amelia and she knew what letters they were
written in hieroglyphics. And they were ones that they hadn't looked up the meaning of yet. They
just pulled them up and identified them after. Ali asked her if she saw these letters before,
if it was the first time and she wrote first time. I asked her who told her about hieroglyphics.
and she said the god told and hieroglyphics part i know like that if if anything shows that there's
another epistemic pathway way of knowing than just like reading a book like the kind of inductive
like it's going to take like two years to like learn yeah baseline Spanish or whatever amelia's the
perfect example well and one thing i love about amelia and mora and i i mean all the parents get this we
all understand the layers of skeptics that are going to be out there and how you need to prove it by
or validate it at least by having other people witness it and what's beautiful in all these stories
many many many many people witness it what i love in amelia's case is the school her teachers
her therapists the principal all witnesses all have experienced this all know it and it wasn't the
mother mora there when she was talking about hieroglyphics it was her you know i think it was like
her spelling therapist and her babysitter or something i don't remember the exact people in the room right at this
moment, but it was two people. And they know about the mind reading. So they're being very careful.
Like, okay, show her hieroglyphic image that we don't know what it is because otherwise she'll pluck it
from her mind instead of just proving that she knows it. And these are the gymnastics that the families
and the teachers. And now I am also doing with the kids, I don't want to say the kids, the non-speakers,
is often it's like, wait, do they know that? Are they picking up from my mind? So you've got to clear
your mind or not know what you're showing them. So they did that with hieroglyphics. And sure enough,
she would say what each one was and then they'd look it up and it was what she said it was.
So how do you make sense of that unless there's more going on?
There's definitely more going on.
She attributes it to the gods at times, teaching her or God, or God, teaching her.
Or rabbi.
She's talked about a rabbi coming.
She's talked about God.
She said an angel has taken her to see God.
She said gods once or twice.
And in one point, I think she talked about the Dalai Lama as well.
So just this beautiful, you know, like group of traditional spiritual leaders and prophets, if you will.
I need to get into that classroom.
That's the best group of teachers.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like I said, she's not the only one that will say those messages.
And again, like the first time, you know, Amelia said it.
I mean, Mora and I, her mom and I would like be zooming and talking on the phone a lot.
And we'd be like, what does that mean?
Like, do you think she meant that?
Or what?
I mean, just we're both trying to process it too.
Yeah.
And what's so beautiful about, Mora is she was saying.
She's like, you know, I don't go to church that often.
I didn't take amelia to church.
It's not like she's getting this from us, you know, or the synagogue or, you know, a Buddhist temple.
It's like, where was this coming from?
Yeah.
I can imagine this whole experience of the telepathy tapes coming out is cathartic for you.
because you've probably spent a lot of your career trying to get off home plate as far as scientific
consensus even taking this seriously. And now there's just, you know, all these different avenues
you can explore as far as the implications and getting deeper as far as, you know, causal mechanisms
for how this stuff works. Whereas before it was probably just like, hey guys, this is real.
Like, look over here. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's amazing. And I want to,
make something very clear as well for the audience.
We're practically anonymizing these kids and families who are just using first names.
There's no 15 seconds of fame motive here.
None of them have been paid.
Is that right?
Of course not.
No.
So it's like, and then you have in Amelia's case, like her Spanish teacher is like, yeah, I don't know what to say.
She knows more Spanish than my kids.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, it's just remarkable.
Yeah.
And yeah, I just, I do think it's important for the average.
listener to just know that there is no incentive whatsoever being provided for these kids.
It's really about allowing their voices to be heard.
Yeah.
I mean, I think the families and I have a few deeply shared goals.
And I mean, I have these goals because they do, right?
One is for the world to presume competence.
You see a non-speaker, you can say hi to them.
And it can be in your mind, too.
Hey, I know you're in there, like great shoes, whatever.
It doesn't matter.
Just treat them as you with someone else, you know?
presume competence, let's validate spelling and get into schools. This is not pseudoscience. It's complicated. There's a beautiful, I think, spiritual element to it. I think that when you understand what the non-speakers are capable of and they might dip into our neurology or they might even use their parents' eyes, that stuff does make spelling complex and fascinating and interesting. It doesn't mean it should be disregarded. It means we have to meet them spellers where they're at and let them communicate. And I think the third is the paradigm shift is that we are not
acting as we should be as human beings. We need to be meeting each other with love and acceptance
and unity and those aren't just silly words. And I think what I have learned from them is to
understand that your consciousness survives death and our thoughts and our feelings become
manifest in this world. And if we can control those things, how much will change the earth in which
we're living. We are fully audited at all times by whatever communication modality we're talking about
right now. If we were to really not just, you know, clean up our room, make our bed, but like look
inside. Yeah. I think everybody would say they have work to do. And I think that would make us a lot
more compassionate and forgiving when it comes to other people because everybody's got stuff they've got
they've got to work through. And it's so interesting and ironic that we call many of these.
kids, you know, disabled or different than when, in fact, on that dimension, which is probably the
most important dimension, they're, like, way more advanced than all of us.
Right. No, we have the disability.
That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's so amazing. And it brings up all sorts of questions that
you kind of discuss in episode one and two as well as, like, how is this happening?
What is the method of transmission? And this is, we should caveat all speculative. We don't know.
What we do know is that this is happening in a statistically significant way needs to be taken seriously by science.
But it's interesting.
I have a good friend actually who was at the Princeton Parapsychology Lab.
Cool.
And he would always use the term remote perception instead of remote viewing.
And I'd always be like, what are you talking about?
Remote.
Like, why is that like a distinction at all?
Yeah.
And I do notice in both Mia and Akiel's case, they have a particular connection.
with one of the parents where it's almost this low latency mind meld.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, do you want to speak to that?
Yeah, I do.
You know, because I, again, like, as important as the studies are for skeptics and stuff
like that, the stuff that really moved me to the point of completely cracking up in
my paradigm, was hearing what the parents would talk about.
So one of the things that Manisha talked about was, look, this isn't, again, just sending
information.
I could be watching a movie upstairs and he could be, or downstairs, and he could be in a whole
another room of the house, you know, playing on his iPad, can't hear anything. And I could come back up
and he'll tell me exactly what happened in this movie. Or she said, or I could be reading a book
and you read books silently to yourself. And she would ask a keel later a question about what
she'd just read in the book and he could answer correctly. Like, where does this character live?
And he'd write, you know, San Diego or whatever. And or she'd say, you know, I could be a
at school, he'd be at school and I'd go run errands and I'd come home.
He'd come home from school and he'd say, you know, how was Target?
How was Walmart?
Why didn't you get the chocolate at Trader Joe's or whatever?
So he would know exactly what she did.
And so that's where it becomes more than just telepathy.
It's some sort of beautiful merging.
And I just can't emphasize enough that for these parents who have been, had their hope
shattered, were told that they would never connect with their child.
their child wasn't in there, beyond learning that they're in there, that they're intelligent,
that the greatest gift is that their connection is so much more profound than any of us could ever
imagine.
Totally.
And I think the greatest loss for so many people when they're, when they have a child with autism,
is this fear, will I ever have this, like, loving, sweet bond with my child?
And yeah.
Like the contrary.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it almost feels like an extreme version or at the limit version of just a general connection that, you know, kids have with their parents often.
Yeah.
Like Rupert Cheldrake, who is very well displayed in the telepathy tapes and who's a friend of mine and an amazing scientist, he talks about, you know, kids knowing when their parents are near and this sort of mind meld connection.
occurring in statistically significant ways.
I think a lot of the issue in the past with parapsychology is often the effects are weak.
And so what I think is so fascinating about the telepathy tapes is you have Dr. Diane Powell saying
this is often usually 90% plus hit rates.
That's really hard to argue with it.
It kind of shatters, you know, any skeptic kind of coming in.
And yeah, I find that fascinating.
And I think because of this, we might see a really cool kind of epistemological paradigm shift.
Yeah.
I think that's been my goal the whole time, you know, is to shift the paradigm.
But this is one of, I sometimes look at the paradox here as a beautiful paradox.
And the paradox is that testing non-speaking individuals that have a very difficult time controlling their bodies.
And, you know, often are experiencing, you know, high-level.
of autumn somewhere you might not want to be out of your comfort zone and it's hard to travel
and noise can be tricky. And so the idea of taking a non-speaking individual and throwing
him in a Faraday cage and like, do your thing is different than someone else. And Dr.
Paul and I have had so many conversations about this, which is how do we create a comfortable
loving situation to test this that is completely airtight but where it won't be
bright lights and overwhelming inputs and new inputs where they'll feel safe and secure enough.
And so when we've talked about trying to fundraise for this next phase of research that will be in the film,
I was like, we got to, like, if we go to UVA, great, but like can we put down carpets and
and bring in crystals and candles and sofas and things, their blankets and everything that makes
them feel safe because it's, you know, and there is, then the paradox I'm getting to is when
you talk to the non-speakers, they don't get why you need the proof. This is just, this is
this beautiful gift I have. This is what this is is. And why do you need your instruments to know
it exists? And I love that because it's like, I don't need instruments to know it exists. I don't
think any of the parents or anyone in this world, the teachers are so many teachers and therapists.
No one needs instruments. You see it because we are instruments, right? Human beings are. We are
showing you what we can do as human beings. And I think there's this darling again, like,
materialist view of like, but we must measure it.
And we must, blah, blah, blah.
And fine, I think we'll do it.
And I think we're going to find the right pairs and get them in the right situation to
give that proof.
But I hope with this podcast, we can realize the proof is often in just the person sitting
across from you, you know?
Absolutely.
And I think in many ways, we were talking about this earlier.
We have more to learn from them than they from us.
Like they are, they've moved on.
They're in the next sort of paradigm.
And they're sort of bringing us along with them.
And I think if we apply this materialist view of like,
we must immediately instrumentalize the part we can isolate into a technology.
And like they are, you know, part of the instruments.
That is a horrible way to look at this.
Yeah.
And so I'm totally with you.
And to the extent we can get you the resources you need to build this sort of institute
that maybe even as a first thing allows them to just feel heard and happy
and like have a community.
And then incidentally, you know, we can we can learn more about the world as a result.
That would be a beautiful kind of goal.
Yeah.
Just go listen to it.
Yeah.
And, you know, in episode 9-2, there's a neurotypical woman who has a head injury
that is able to touch the space that non-speakers can touch.
And I think that's, we see that often.
There's a choir, it's avant syndrome, right?
Where someone has a horrible head injury and can suddenly play music, do math, see math everywhere.
paint, sculpts.
I mean, there's really unbelievable things that have happened with severe head injuries.
How can neuroscience explain that?
And it reliably did it.
And then there's all these other cases that are like that where people would all of a sudden be a mathematical genius or a musical genius.
In fact, that's part of the vector of how Dr. Diane Powell got into this, right?
These savant like people like Kim Peek and Rain Man where clearly whatever learning is going on there.
belies some sort of form of cognition or consciousness that, again, is not this kind of multi-year
like inductive learning process. You're just sort of downloading vast swaths of information.
Well, and it's interesting to me that often it's emotional or physical trauma that can open you
up to these gifts and to these other worldly abilities. Like, let's think about that for a second.
But then, yeah, as far as one thing Dr. Powell said to me early on when I was really trying to understand
consciousness and how this all works, you know, and especially with the head injuries and
savant skills that come with that. You know, she's like, I think of it as like, if your brain is
like your smartphone, right? And like every smartphone had different apps on it, but your smartphone,
it can maybe turn on, but it won't be like animated and like come to life without a signal coming
from somewhere else. And, and that made a lot of sense to me. And, and, you know, some people will say,
well, why then if you have a head injury, won't you be able to talk anymore? You won't be able to
this. And I think it's the same thing. If you think of like a piano and a piano player,
right? Like to make music, like a piano needs a person. It needs a consciousness to, you know,
imbue it with this beautiful, you know, artistic, you know, you know, fervor that comes out
of it. The piano has to have a piano player. The piano player has to have the piano. It's like
our consciousness in our mind or our soul. Yeah. Yeah. Our soul and our body. Yeah.
It made me think that, you know, that where does information even reside?
You know, when you have somebody like Kim Peek, a lot of people thought he was autistic.
He actually had hydrocephalus.
And so he was born with this defect in his ability to process the cerebral spinal fluid.
And so there was pressure that built up in his head.
And that's why he had a larger head than normal.
And his head's always tilted like this because it was so heavy.
He could barely hold it up.
And in addition to having this big area where his, in the center of his brain where it's just cerebral spinal fluid,
his skull bones are slightly separated from one another.
But most importantly, he has no corpus callosum.
And that's the bundle of fibers that connect the left and the right hemisphere.
And so he was somebody who had a very, he didn't have all of the connections that we think of,
a brain is having. And yet here he was somebody who could recite word for word, backwards and forwards,
12,000 books. And that's just part of what he could do. Right. And so it's like, where does that
information reside? You know, and I thought, you know, this, this model that neuroscience had
doesn't make sense for memory because it's, it's really, it works fine for something like, you know,
some of the models within neuroscience work fine.
Like, you know, like, oh, you know, if you hit my knee, you know, there's this knee-jerk reflex.
And I can explain that, you know, using, you know, my understanding of how the nervous system works.
Very simple.
But something like memory, we're still trying to figure that out.
I'm a big fan of this transmission theory of consciousness.
So like William James, Aldous Huxley, they would say the mind is probably more like a radio than like it's just like locally producing.
consciousness. And if you have a radio and it's, say it's playing Pivaldi's four seasons or something,
you could take out the capacitor or the battery or mess with the antenna and it would stop playing
the music. And you could say, oh, those parts, that hardware is responsible for the music.
But in fact, you would have to understand, you know, electromagnetism to know that it's tapping
into a frequency that's playing this beautiful music. I think it's the same with brain injuries
where, yeah, you mess with Broca's area and speech gets,
shut down or you mess with Wernicke's area and reading comprehension, you know, whatever,
occipital lobe for vision. But how that's all binding together and playing the beautiful music,
the Vivaldi's four season of like everyday life is just irreducible. Yeah. And it's,
we're probably tapping into something. While researching radio waves one night, I stumbled across
this amazing story. I had some dental work to be done. You know, they put in temporary fillings.
This is beloved starlet, Lucille Ball, sharing a story.
from around the time of World War II,
when she had to get several temporary fillings
put in the upper and lower parts of her mouth.
All of a sudden, I heard music,
and I looked down to turn off my radio, and it wasn't on.
I turned around and looked to see if there's anyone behind me,
and the music was getting louder and louder and louder,
and I realized it was in my mouth.
So the next day, I mentioned it at the studio to Buster Keaton.
And he said, what street were you on?
Moore Park, and I said, yes.
He said, you went by the radio station.
You picked it up.
Will you got any fillings?
I said, yes.
He said, you picked it up on your teeth.
You have these stories like, do you want to tell the Lucille Ball story?
Do you know what I'm thinking of?
Oh, you're talking about with her tooth?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, actually, I had a patient like that.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, they talk about it, you know, in the telepathy tapes,
but I had a patient, you know, 25, 30 years, almost 30 years ago
who had, you know, a filling.
and she was, you know, getting, you know, radio signals off of it.
And I knew, already knew about that as a psychiatrist,
because I was always looking for explanations for why people have these different phenomena.
I already knew there was a case report about that.
And so rather than hearing this woman say whatever, it's just I,
and thinking, oh, you know, let me give you your anti-sacotic,
I thought, you know, I read about that.
So, and then when she had the filling, you know, taken out, you know, it went away.
And she, yeah, that's amazing.
And I think Andrei Pujaric had a similar case where he found some guy who was like working in some metal sawmill or something and a bunch of, you know, metallic or got in his teeth.
And he was hearing, it's a concept called bone induction.
Right.
And he was hearing things inside of his head.
I mean, wasn't crazy.
It was just literally, it points towards this.
transmission theory of consciousness, the fact that you're able to tap into a radio signal
through your teeth, and then that somehow becomes, you know, something you listen to. It's interesting,
too. I wonder if that dovetails at all with the alien abduction phenomena because I was just
with an experiencer named Mario Woods who was at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, which is a, you know,
nuclear base. And, you know, he had acute clearance, and he was guarding these ICBMs and, you know,
It was a pretty serious, hardcore job, and he got abducted by aliens, and he was checked by a medical doctor afterwards, and they checked his teeth.
So that always kind of struck me as like, I don't know.
Is there something going on there?
What do you make of Andre Poverich and his program in upstate New York, where he took all these kids who seemed to have high telepathic, sigh powers, and they would just channel.
and they would talk about the nine
and they would say all sorts of really interesting
ontological, cosmological things
about how the universe works
and it's hard to say
whether any of this stuff was true.
But I mean, I think your research
should at least make us re-look at that research
and say, you know, maybe there was some truth to that.
And where do you think, you know, that research went?
Because Poo-Ritch is this odd character
he was at Northwestern, and he was kind of tied in with, you know, M.K. Ultra, like, you know,
CIA brainwashing stuff. And so, yeah, I guess where do you think that all went? Because there
seems to be this big gap between that and, like, now we're experiencing this resurgence. And I think
you have very indifferent intentions than he did. And then the people around him did. But, yeah,
what do you make of all that research? Oh, you know, I'd like to, you'd love to,
know more about it. I mean, I, you know, in the sense that, I mean, I've looked into some of this
stuff, you know, but, I mean, a lot of it, I mean, who knows it, you know, wasn't he funded,
at least in part by the CIA? Yes, you were. Yeah. And so, you know, I don't think that it's,
like, accessible, you know, information. And, you know, I've heard him talk about things like
scalar waves. Yeah. Yeah. And extremely low frequency. Yeah. Yeah. Are you familiar with the
scalar physics and stuff? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. What do you think about that? I think it's a very interesting
idea, you know. I mean, and there's a physicist in Germany who calls himself, I think it's Constantine
Mile. Yeah, who calls himself like the modern Tesla, you know, and I've looked into his stuff.
What do you think of his stuff? I'm fascinated by this. Yeah, yeah. Wait, a little context for the audience.
So scalar physics is this idea that if you actually more faithfully adhere to the original 21 Maxwell's equations and in kind of classical electrodynamics, not the condensed vector calculus equations of Oliver Heaviside who followed up after Maxwell, that that allows for the existence of this new scalar field where you can get electric and magnetic potentials, or sorry, where you can get scalar and vector potentials, or sorry, where you can get scalar and vector potentials.
without traditional magnetic and electric fields present.
And in this scalar field, you get all sorts of exotic wave types
outside of your normal transverse herzian wave.
And one of the wave types is called heliacoidal waves.
And that seems to match up with, you know, like double helical DNA.
And so Constantine Mile is studying these sort of scalar waves
in the context of like botany and stuff
where he'll like make flowers grow in beautiful ways
using these scalar longitudinal heliacoidal waves.
I'm fascinated by it.
We're going to have to schedule another time to talk.
We're going to have to go over there.
I think you and I could talk for a long time.
It's not a lot of things.
We definitely could.
Yeah, we could definitely talk about it.
Yeah.
But I really think that, I mean, it makes sense to me
that scalar waves could be involved.
And there is more than one instance, okay,
where you have in physics.
Yes.
And this is the kind of thing, my brother and I, who's a physicist,
have talked about a lot, and other friends of mine who are physicists,
you know, where what they do is they just, they treat something as though it's null.
They treat it as though it doesn't exist because it simplifies their formula.
And, you know, and the main thing that they're looking at, you know,
like it works okay.
Okay, so it works okay to just treat it as OATO, it's zero, and they just drop it off, okay?
And I think that one of those things is, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the scalar wave component, you know, of, you know, of electromagnetism.
Yeah.
And, and, I mean, the original equations, you know, were, I mean, there were far more of them, you know, there was far more complexity there.
And it's just like, you know, we don't need this, we don't need that, we'll just give you this, you know.
It's amazing.
And a similar thing for, you know, the experiment that was proposed to prove that ether didn't exist.
Yes.
And Michaelson Morley experiment in 1890.
Yes.
And Beverly Rubik, who's a biophysicist, and Harry Jabs, who's a physicist,
they looked at that data and they wrote a paper basically saying, well, wait a minute.
there actually was an effect.
And how large an effect were you expecting?
And this is actually in the magnitude that we would expect.
So it's like some effect there is an effect.
Yes.
And it's also the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
So even if there wasn't an effect, you can't definitively disprove the ether.
And then if you read this, I think it's 1921 or two paper, you know, special relativity
was supposed to negate the ether.
And then Einstein writes later in his career, he says, actually, general relativity is totally
compatible with an ether.
And then if you look at quantum electrodynamics, which is really the tip of the spear of
modern science, you know, with Feynman and stuff, we have vacuum energy.
You have energy everywhere.
So it's like, the ether is back.
Yes, it is.
It sure is.
The ether is back.
And so, and I think scalar waves are, you know, are making a comeback, too.
I think so as well.
Yeah.
And so I think it's an exciting time for science.
Yes.
Because it's like we're rediscovering what had been discovered,
but we're now ready to actually, you know, move forward with it.
I agree.
And I think Tesla discovered it.
I think another guy named Thomas Townsend Brown discovered it.
And I think it often involves kind of high voltages across short distances.
and when I speak to some pretty deep government people,
they often say, you know, there's a there there
when it comes to extended electrodynamics.
There's a guy named Lee Hively who publishes on it.
There's an anonymous Navy scientist
that showed up in one of my documentaries
that talks about extended electrodynamics.
And it's just this thing that continuously comes back.
And I initially cataloged it as low probability
and maybe hard to detect.
But I'm learning more and more about it
and from very credible people to the point where I somewhat high conviction that there's
something there.
And yeah, to your point about the equations, the Lorentz equation, you know, the vector
and scalar potentials were just set to zero out of pure expediency.
And then you have things like the Beaumernoff effect where it seems like they're, you know,
even without a magnetic field present, their potentials present.
And so this is sort of explained away by the electromagnetic force.
potential, but that's a very poor explanation. And I think the, not only is the jury still out,
I think it's going to move towards this extended model very, very soon. And I'm excited about it.
I mean, there obviously may be dangerous, still use implications, but hopefully it unlocks,
you know, really good stuff as well. Do you know that Codate nucleus and Patamen?
Oh, yeah, I know about that. Yeah. That's a part of the brain that I find fascinating,
because a friend of mine named Gary Nolan at Stanford, is a microbiologist.
He studies this area of the brain, the more neuronally dense it is, the more kind of
executive functioning somebody seems to display. But by executive functioning, it's really just
kind of what we would call psychic intuition. And in fact, I think there's a study where
you hook up somebody's brain to an fMRI and they're playing the game of go. And when they make a
quote unquote brilliant move, which is a move that doesn't make any sense in the context of,
you know, the game and where it's at, but it makes a,
sense in the context of an endpoint that they almost have to psychically know about, that part of the
brain lights up. And apparently when a person takes eboga, that part of the brain lights up, which,
you know, people seem to get, you know, have these sort of visionary experiences. This is this
kind of psychedelic African tree bark that's been ingested for thousands of years. And so, you know,
I think, I wonder if that part of the brain is somehow part and parcel to this different epistemological
pathway that is immediate download based or something.
I don't know.
Yeah, well, it'll be interesting to see.
I mean, as I said, I really think that the ventricles and the, the cilia that, you know,
line them, you know, the cilia containing cells that line them are huge, you know,
a huge component of this whole mind, okay?
But what you also need to know,
most people won't know this because they don't know neuroanatomy,
is that the condate and the butamint are real close to the ventricles.
Okay, so imagine it as being that, you know,
this is, you know, like the sensory section,
and the condate and the potamon are then the processors of that sensory.
You see what I'm saying?
It's like...
Yeah, it's right next to the receptors.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
So it's like kind of the first, like, encoder of the information.
Exactly.
That's amazing.
Yeah, that's my own theory.
Nobody else has said that.
All right.
You caught it here.
You heard it here first.
Yeah.
That's really exciting.
Yeah, we should be studying that more.
I mean, I'd be curious because you can literally do MRIs on people that seem to have more paranormal
experiences seem to be more, quote, unquote, psychic or have predictive accuracy in these
sort of controlled experiments, and they're more neuronally dense in that area. And it's often,
it runs through families and seems to be hereditary. And so I wonder if some of these kids took these
MRIs if they would have more neuronally dense caudate nucleus and potamins.
Yeah, well, we do know that there definitely are studies that show differences in the
condates of autistics.
Interesting.
Okay, so you already know that.
I didn't realize that.
That's amazing.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah, and the same thing for people
who are schizophrenic,
and so that, you know,
a lot of what we label schizophrenic,
you know, might be, you know,
something else,
because I know that that's kind of the training
of psychiatrists is to label somebody
as schizophrenic if they report a lot of these
phenomena.
Yeah.
I don't really believe in the DSM.
I don't either.
Yeah.
You just put somebody
in a box and you slap a label on the thing and it sort of creates this learned helplessness
of like, okay, now treat it biochemically with a thing instead of like, what does that mean?
Why do you have that?
And could it be adaptive in certain ways?
And then could it also be, you know, could you overcome it in other ways?
And it's way more pliable than just like this, you have this thing.
Like, go away.
You're not normal.
Yeah, I just always sound, I mean, the DSM, you know, is really primarily a tool.
that is used by attorneys and health insurance companies for their purposes.
Health insurance companies use it as a tool to say, okay, for that diagnosis, what
treatments are we going to authorize that someone can have?
And for lawyers, it's, you know, for those diagnoses, what kind of punitive, you know,
compensator damages can we, you know, ask for?
Yeah, you know, so it's strictly a created as a description.
It's not a description of the truth.
It's a description of clinical syndromes that it's changed like three times in my career.
Yeah.
It's a description of them that then is used for those purposes, but we shouldn't be locked into it as thinking that it's describing reality.
And it's symptomatic, superficial. It's often, like, behavioral superficial, maybe one step better is it superficial, but it's like a thing the body seems to be, like it's like a, you could say a fever, right? But then you're slapping, you know, you're saying this person has this disease or this issue or whatever, but like a million things could cause a fever, you know? And so like even the biological stuff is completely overdetermined. And you need to actually splice out what are the underlying causal factors of this stuff. And so, yeah, I hope we.
I hope we end up with a new model that's better.
Absolutely.
And that was, I mean, where I trained at Johns Hopkins,
we were taught to really look for various different causes of a syndrome.
We knew it was a syndrome that could have multiple different causes.
And so we would look for it.
Well, a lot of syndromes have biological causes.
And if you treat their, you know, they've got too much calcium.
Okay.
If you treat their hypercalcemia, okay, then.
XYZ symptoms go away.
Right.
Okay.
Or hypothyroidism or hypothyroid.
You know, there's a number of conditions that are caused by medical things.
So that's why we train in medicine first, you know, and to look for those.
Sometimes it's psychosocial, okay?
So we want to have a good psychosocial history and understand psychology, understand sociology.
Maybe that's the problem.
Maybe it's a really, you know, family dynamics are a problem.
Sometimes, you know, it's that you'll hear somebody say something and it's really a spiritual crisis for them.
Yeah.
You know, because, and maybe they've experienced some devastating, you know, experience.
And so what I discovered, though, early on is that because I was taking histories from people and trying to think, you know, okay, asking them about everything, everything from their physical well-being to, you know, their, you know,
what kind of thoughts they had, what kind of feelings they had, etc.
I, you know, I would listen to their stories and trying to think of, you know,
okay, where's the intervention going to be?
Is it that I need to intervene in terms of, you know, a medical condition or, you know,
refer them for psychotherapy or do psychotherapy myself?
And I'd listen to these stories and some of the stories that were the wildest stories
that you would think, oh my gosh, I'd later.
to find out we're true. And so sometimes, you know, the thing that you think, oh, well, you know,
maybe this is a sign of psychosis or somebody who's, you know, a pathological liar or whatever,
you know, you go, no, there's actually another possibility, and that is that this is the truth.
And it's just that you yourself have not ever experienced anything like it, but it doesn't mean that
it's not the truth. Hopefully, by enabling these kids with these communication methods,
we could allow them to come out more.
Do you feel like they want us to know their abilities?
Because that almost feels like a part of your mission is letting the world know that these
are not only humans, they're extraordinary humans.
And do you feel like they also have this drive to be known?
For sure.
I mean, I would not be doing this if it wasn't for that, you know?
And I think deeply, I think they want us to know ourselves as much as they want us to know and appreciate and see them and to validate them.
But it's been lovely or validating for me to hear how many non-speakers are so excited about the telepathy tapes.
I'll get little text messages of parents showing me them listening or listening over and over and, you know, feeling for the first time maybe by some seen, validated, heard.
And not often their parents know, but now the parents have a way to say,
I'm setting this to Aunt Judy.
I'm saying this to Grandpa and maybe he'll believe me now.
So I think the fact that in their own circles, they're getting the respect that they deserve finally.
Yes.
The validation that what they're talking about is absolutely real, absolutely critical to all of us, you know.
And I, for every speller that I've had contact with, they're very, very excited.
And I think have foreseen this time as being.
a part of where we're all headed. And I think they would say that this is all part of a,
of a, I mean, there's many parts of it, but a step forward in our own human evolution to
get back to who we really are. How can we better tap into this paradigm individually, just
ourselves? Because I don't know, there's like the, you know, intellectual version of it.
Which one of the kids like puts on a hat and like downloads like F. Scott Fitzgerald?
old novels. That's Houston. That's Houston. It's so remarkable. So there's like that, there's that
element and then there's just the love and unity element, which is probably most important.
Yeah. How do we effectively, you know, listen to the telepathy tapes and come away with the right
takeaways and operationalize this in our own lives? Yeah. I mean, you know, the work of Julia
Mossbridge, and I think she'll talk about love being like essential to sigh abilities.
It is. Yeah. And it is. And I think part of.
The unconditional love you see from the parents, their non-speaking children and teachers,
they're non-speaking students, but also from the non-speakers to these individuals being so
often, hopefully, being patient and giving and loving and sacrificing to try to take care of them,
you know, in a very difficult body often. And that is a situation surrounded with love and sacrifice.
And it is within that situation where these beautiful things, these beautiful gifts manifest,
most easily. And even if you think about your own life, right, where you might have had a moment
of seeing a dead, I'm sorry, I love one right before they pass or knowing something is like
really wrong with someone that you care for. It's because you love them usually, right? And it's usually
in a moment of like fear for them or their life or their well-being. So I think a lot of these things
come back to love. But we know it's part of us because the Vikings talked about it. Like,
the Celtics did. The Native Americans did. You know, I mean, all of this stuff is part and
parcel of being a human being, I think, are reliance on language and our cloudiness around
materialism, having for the past, you know, three, 400 years believe that the only things that
are real are what you can measure and observe, that has harmed us. It's taken us away from who
we are because I think if you were to go back in time and ask people about telepathy, it wouldn't
be like you need to go prove that. That's just part of the human experience. It would just be like
asking someone to go prove love. Well, how do you do that, you know?
Right. And I think about Dr. Ian Stevenson from the University of Virginia, he was studying past lives and children. And when he went to India and he was like, I'm trying to prove past lives, they're like, well, why are you trying to prove that? We all I know it's real. You know, and so I think that's, you know, I'm not making a comment on reincarnation. I'm just saying, like, I think that's the same idea is that we're trying to prove something that is just part of our being. It's not paranormal. It's normal. It's just part of our being. It's just super normal. Yeah. It's a, it's, it's, it's. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,
It's so interesting. Yeah, it's like with the whole UFO disclosure conversation, you go to South America or something, and they're like, yeah, we talk to star people all the time. We have, you know, rituals that involve them. And but it's like, but we're going to be the one that our government is going to disclose this. There's going to be a file and we're going to sort of let it out. And that same friend I mentioned prior who, you know, studied at the Princeton Parasicology lab for decades, who I just, in my mind, beyond reproach, just a really good.
person and beyond rigorous as well and one of the smartest people I know would say that you know
you take these random event generators that was his like staple experiment and so you're tying you know
this one zero output to something that's you know conventionally thought of as random and quantum
mechanics so you know radioactive isotope decay or something like that which with a known statistical
distribution over a long enough time scale you expect there to be the same amount of ones and
zeros because it's a perfect digital coin flip, you know, within a standard deviation. And there's
a real effect that your mind can have on the output. And the dirty little secret that like,
he's like, yeah, you know, this is well known in REG, random event generator circles. Yeah.
Is that your heart centeredness is somehow commensurate with your ability to affect the output
on the random event generator. And so, yeah, if that isn't like a,
new religious movement. I don't know what is. You know, it's really this amazing thing where it's
like, you know, your mandate is to go within and if there are any kind of impure intentions to
fix that, because that is literally your, it's also your kind of ability to render the material
world in a way. It's so interesting. Yeah. And I don't know if I talked about this in the series or not,
But, you know, for the teachers who were able to build a two-way telepathic link with their students, which is a phenomenon in and of itself, teachers, hearing their students back.
So two-way telepathy.
I mean, right there, that proves that we can do this.
Again, I don't know if the non-speakers just being in that loving, supportive space with them helps turn it on or what.
But for a lot of these cases that the students often, like their first words will be tune into my heart.
that's the first thing Asher said to Jess was like tune into my heart and I love that it's it's not
saying think about my heart saying tune you know I think of that frequency that tune into my heart
yeah and so you know I don't have like a like a rule book like you know manual on how to do that
but I just think if you sit there and think about someone you love yeah and concentrate on what you're
grateful for and that person yeah and how your life has changed because of that person and what
they represent. You can feel someone even if they're not speaking to you, right?
I think it's good there's no rule book. I think it's good that you have to audit what's going
inside of you. And it's this kind of messy thing that really involves your personal growth and
evolution as a person. Yeah. And yeah, it's funny in the like UFO world, a lot of people
are like, what do you know or whatever? You know, it's not like, it's like, you know, I think it's an
awareness. And I think these kids are on a whole other level with their awareness. It's not like a file you can give somebody.
Right. You know, it's not this semantic body of information. And that comes through auditing the self and through
personal growth. And that's, you know, something you can't short circuit. No. I'm smiling because I just
thought about something that too, you know, in terms of this tuning into something, you also have to give
yourself space to validate that like maybe an idea or thought or an image isn't coming from
your own mind.
Yes.
And that had never occurred to me until three nights ago.
Think about this.
I've been working on this for almost four years.
Like three nights ago, I woke up with this extreme vision of something that had to be in the
film.
And it had to be with, it had to do with like finding a real metaphorical hill and bringing
as many non-speakers there together and making it beautiful.
And like, it's really like spiritual place.
And Houston was like very prominent in this.
dream. And so I woke up in the morning and I said, I wrote Katie and I said, does Houston send me
images at night about the movie? Can you ask him if he just did that? And she wrote back and she
asked Houston and said yes, I do set Kai images. And here I was thinking I'm having this idea
about the film. Well, maybe it wasn't my idea. Maybe it was Houston's idea. I think it probably
was. And he was trying to convey something to me. And I didn't, for so long, I've just been taking it as,
oh, okay, here's this idea. I had in the middle of the night when, you know, you're the most,
like open to this stuff. Yes. And that, again, was like shifted my paradigm entirely because I thought,
oh my goodness, has this been happening all along? And how many parents is that happening to?
Well, non-speakers are wonderful individuals with beautiful personalities and these incredible capabilities,
but they do require help and care and sacrifice from those around them. And it's often a 24,
is a 24-hour seven sacrifice and act of love. And so, um, so I think,
think if there's anything that comes out of this, I really hope people start to just help the parents,
give them the resources they need. And that will help the non-speakers very much as well,
but also giving the non-speakers resources and help and friendship. Like, I loved going to a bar
with Houston, and Houston just had a beer. You know, we're all seeing the table and Dr. Powell was there
and Dr. Jeff Tarrant, like, this was one of the nights we were filming, and Houston just had his
like Budweiser and was like, you know, typing along. And I remember thinking on the table, I wish I was
I lived in Atlanta and I could do this all the time with Houston. Like I love watching football or whatever.
And yes, I mean, just like all of us, you want a loving relationship. You want friends.
I hope people aren't afraid to befriend non-speakers. It will take more care and sacrifice and time,
but you can have a very fruitful, beautiful relationship. Yes. And so that's what I hope. I hope their
lives become so much more expansive with community and love and friendship. I love that. I think that is going to happen.
And how can we effectively steer it in that direction?
Well, I was thinking about this a lot because one of the things Katie talked about, which broke my heart, was how for so many parents with non-speakers who have a hard time controlling their body and might be stimming and making noises, how hard it was just to even go out in social situations, to go to a bar, to be on an airplane, to go to a movie.
Because the way she said it was, you know, we're always worried about affecting, like, the normal people and, you know, or their children being afraid of me.
my child. And so we have to go and how socially isolating that can be. Katie, who's an evangelical
Christian and, you know, her faith means everything to her, said it was hard to go to church. Even at church,
they'd be like, oh, make him good quiet. Like, you know, can you just go to this room instead? And like,
how awful, right? So I think the first thing we can do is just have some like grace and compassion
and welcome non-speakers into our spaces. And I said this in an interview recently, and I'm sure
maybe it sounded trite and silly, but I actually meant it, is like, if you own a bar,
if you have a restaurant, like have a night where it's like non-speakers welcome, like,
you know, like autism night, like come and hang out and allies too, friends too, you know,
at a skating rink.
I mean, I don't know, whatever small business you have, whatever it is at the elementary
school where my kids go, you know, myself and a few other parents have made it really an effort
at every event to have a safe room for people on the spectrum or with sensitivities where they can
go and be part of this event but not be bombarded by what might feel uncomfortable. So we can all do
something in our own world to make society easier for non-speakers and their families to go out
and participate in. Right there would be huge. I totally agree. And I hope that is a call to action
that is heard widely. And I think it's in the best interest of these people to open up.
as well because you have so much to learn. Yeah. And so, yeah, I hope, I hope, you know,
be on the forefront of this. Yeah. And like, I thought about this the other night, just one point
is like most of my non-speaking friends and relationships are scattered around the country.
And I was thinking the other day, I'm like, I wish I knew that at least, you know, a few non-speakers
in Burbank where I live. Yeah. So I could go walk in Griffith Park with them once a week. Give the parent a break,
you know, just come on and swim in my pool. I know, I know you love water, you know. Like, like,
Yeah.
Like, come.
Like, let's hang out and chill because even in my, in everyday life, I don't have the people I'm talking to all over the country every day, but not the person right in my midst that I just want to go hike with and walk on the block with and hold their hand and say, we got you.
You know, and like, that break for the mom is so huge or the dad.
Yeah.
And also so good for the spellers to get out with other people and so good for all of us.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a beautiful community of individuals that I hope more people get to know and love and appreciate.
I hope so too.
I think they have so much to teach us.
Have you ever read the book Childhood's End by any chance by Arthur C. Clarke.
No.
It's very interesting because kids start to develop telepathic, clairvoyant powers.
It talks about this sort of like non-human intelligence that is.
is kind of this mental sheath all over the world.
Yeah.
Who knows if that part is, you know, true.
But the bridge to this sort of, you know, other world
are these kids that start to develop this clairvoyant power.
And they're kind of the ambassadors for humanity.
Oh, wow.
And I just, yeah.
So I just, I find that.
So Arthur C. Clark's is a very interesting character to me where he's like,
there's something about that guy and Stanley Kubrick and some of these other guys
where it's like you're tapped into some sort of like you're imagining some pre-reality that it's going to kind of manifest.
Yeah.
So.
Well, I think one thing I've learned is from what a lot of the non-speakers will say is that what we create on earth really matters.
It's a total.
Yeah.
And those creative ideas are coming to us often from somewhere else.
And so I started, once I started getting into this world reading fiction in a whole new way and often being like, whoa, like wherever this is coming from is might be an insight or a key into.
our greater reality, and all the stuff is being funneled through creators and writers,
and I love that.
Yes, I think that's the case.
Yeah.
And on the scientific front, Dr. Diane Powell's medical license was revoked, is that right?
Yeah.
Can we, how do we make sure that her and people like her are protected,
especially when they like her have the best of intentions?
And I think similar to you, empowering these kids so they can study this stuff.
and, you know, teach it to the rest of us and even bring it into this, our scientific paradigm.
Mm-hmm.
What happened to Dr. Powell was awful, you know, when she wrote her book, the ESP Enigma,
she had her medical license revoked because she was talking about ESP,
and she had to go through psychological testing to get her license back.
So demeaning.
It's ridiculous.
When they read the book, they realized it was extremely sound science, of course.
I mean, she's a brilliant, you know, scientist and researcher.
And then she was fine, not only in the state where she was practicing, Oregon, she was fine in California where she wasn't even practicing.
But she, you know, I think she had a medical license there.
And it traumatized her.
She'll say that.
It traumatized her.
And of course, like, you don't want to have income taken away from you.
You don't want to have, I mean, I can't imagine if I made a documentary and someone slapped me with fines.
Right.
What?
Yeah.
And it shouldn't be happening to scientists either.
And Dr.
Rupert Sheldricks certainly talks about.
this. Like, scientists should have a freedom of inquiry, just like journalists, just like
creators should. By asking a question or presenting a hypothesis, you shouldn't be fined
and intimidated and have your credentials revoked and tainted. And I don't know how to fix that.
I just hope awareness will. I hope even just this podcast going out there kind of lets people think
for themselves when they see that a scientist has had their name tainted. That like, huh,
is that a materialist paradigm, which is this belief that like everything has to be measured and, you know, it's all like concrete what we understand and see, is this a materialist paradigm that's, that's keeping these scientists in check? Did they really do anything wrong? So we all just need to start asking that question. Yeah. And we also have to ask, you know, yeah, to the materialists out there, if this is all quackery, why revoke her license? Why are you threatened at all? Let her continue to do her studies, you know, they're not going anywhere because it's all fake or whatever. So it's, it's
shows an insecurity. The fact that you have to censor, you know, means there's maybe even a part of you that thinks that this is real.
Right. And it's funny. So I was just with her. I didn't realize this. She's such a fascinating person. She has this kind of analogous life with John Mack.
Like where she was friends with John Mack, who was at Harvard, similar situation where traditionally kind of pedigreed guy, head of the Harvard Psychiatry Department, you know, very serious background.
And towards the end of his life starts to study all of these people who are earnestly coming to him saying, you know, we've had all these, you know, alien abduction experiences.
Yeah.
And he was persecuted by Harvard.
There was a trial there.
Yeah.
And so he dies.
He gets hit by a car very tragically in London.
And she goes to his memorial.
And I guess all the people at the memorial are like, Dr. Powell, you have to take on Dr. John Mack's legacy.
see, this is really important.
And I think she ends up running his institute.
I think it's called Gem or something.
And then she buys this house, which serendipitously kind of comes into view for her in Oregon.
And the house's birthday, when it was built, was the same birthday as John Mack or something.
And so it's a very interesting kind of synchronicity.
Gosh, I'm so like just in awe right now that you're bringing this up.
Because on the car right over here, I was talking to my producer, Jen, and she said,
She was talking about the UFO, just like the world, how often it's interviews and it's a lot of the science.
And everyone's looking at the science and the experiencers.
I mean, not experience.
The disclosure and the technology and XYZ.
And I said I didn't really understand the whole world until I read John Mack's book.
And I understood what all these experiences were talking about.
And it made my heart and my body like ache and hurt and swell and confused.
and I bought in.
Then I was like awakened to it because I understood what people were experiencing.
Yes. Yes.
You know, and anyway, we were talking about that in a way here that like the gifts of like John Mack bringing these experiences not just you don't have to, I mean, I can't speak for everyone.
From my point of view, you don't have to prove everything with instruments and data.
Yes.
And look at these hundreds of people having the same experience all over the world.
That's what John Mack did.
Yes.
For Uphology, I think.
Oh, he totally did.
and he's, I think, a part of this paradigm shift.
There's an amazing conversation he had with Terrence McKenna,
who's also one of these paradigm shifters.
He's sort of a, call him a fungal philosopher,
you know, really just in mushrooms and, you know,
new paradigms and consciousness and just an amazing guy.
And he and John Mack are speaking, and John Mack,
you know, McKenna is actually playing the role of this kind of,
like, funny provocateur where he's asking these questions to Mac,
but they're kind of leading questions that he knows the answer to,
and you can see it on his face.
And he's like, you know, what's going to happen to the Western paradigm or something?
And John Mack says, oh, it's going to burst open,
and we're all going to realize that the Western paradigm is incredibly myopic and closed.
If you want to shatter the Western mental structures,
the Western minds, so to speak, which is now permeating the whole earth
in its materialist dualistic philosophy,
the way you do it is you take something,
that's supposed to be in the spirit world,
because even in the West,
we can make allowance for the spirit world,
and we can study through mythology,
for religion, through imagination, through poetry.
But the one unforgivable sin to the Western mind
is when something that should be in the spirit world
transgresses and shows up in the physical world.
And I think what he's getting at is this idea
that the observer observed dichotomy is going to break down,
this idea that the observer observed dichotomy is going to break down.
This idea that the idea that
there's an impartiality, this distance between me as this like perfect instrument of observation
and what I'm seeing is going to collapse.
Yeah.
And these kids are just the perfect example of that where they can sense people's energies
and this sort of just extremely precocious way and what you're feeling matters.
And that really, I mean, the name of my show is American Alchemy as well.
and that the alchemical process is changing the outer world through the inner.
And I wonder if we're at the end of this.
You know, John Mack was friends with Thomas Coon, who, you know, wrote the structure of scientific revolutions.
And he was like, you got to look into this because Thomas Coon knew that, you know, at the end of a paradigm shift, or sorry, at the end of a paradigm, a current paradigm, you have a law of marginal returns, declining marginal returns, where you're just, you know,
kind of dotting the eye and crossing the T on like your final theory.
And then it all just kind of blows up.
And you see it happening right now with string theory and physics where you have people like
Leonard Suskin the top of the field who are getting interviewed and they're like,
oh, we haven't really discovered much.
Like I give her, you know, B plus or whatever.
And then you have all this stuff that's coming out and it's like kind of undeniable.
Yeah.
And academia, I think, is going to be laid bare as kind of playing catch up on this stuff.
because they have to play these reputational optics games.
Yeah.
I see it with high profile friends of mine who are like in academia.
They have like more of a reputation.
I'm like this rag tag former VC or whatever.
I'm like, this is real.
Like so obvious.
And they're like, okay, like send me the paper and I'll read it.
And they're like, well, if the New York Times reports on it, then I'll take it seriously.
Like just look at the data.
You know, think for yourself.
Think for yourself for sure.
And that's what I would say to anyone listening who's just like, I don't know what to believe.
I don't want to make of this.
Approach everything with open-minded skepticism.
because if you're just a closed-minded skeptic, you're dogmatic.
You're just like a fundamental religious person who won't listen to anything else or you might be exactly what you are against in a lot of ways.
And being an open-hearted skeptic doesn't mean you don't ask questions.
It doesn't mean you don't explore the truth, but you need to be open that the truth might be very different than what you think it is.
And I think that's what I encourage people to do, be open-minded skeptics and your world will be blown.
I love it.
How can we help you and how can we?
help these kids?
You know, I'm in the process of raising money for the film, and I'm having some wonderful
conversations, and I'm hoping we'll have funding together, you know, by next year.
I mean, that's my goal.
And so, you know, I will keep people up to date on that.
I would honestly say the best thing people can do right now is just share this help
with the tapes with their friends and family and teachers and just to help with this paradigm
shift.
All I want is for people to hear this message.
And as far as the non-speakers go, advocate for spelling, write to Asha, talk to your school district, write a letter.
You know, ABA therapy is not the solution.
I think every parent will say that.
I mean, spelling has been a miracle worker.
We have to get spelling into schools, ASAP, and universities.
Well, this has been an absolute honor, Dr. Powell, and I hope that everybody understands how, you know, earnest and rigorous you are in your work.
and I think it's an absolute atrocity
that your medical license was revoked at one point, right?
Yeah.
Just for looking into this stuff.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, thank you for giving us your time
and excited to make something cool out of this.
Yeah, thank you very much.
It's been a pleasure.
Go listen to the telepathy tapes
and let's de-stigmatize spelling immediately
and allow these kids to get heard
and let's get you some no-strings-attached money
for whatever you want to do creatively around this in the future.
And thank you, Kai. This was amazing.
Thank you so much for having me.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
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