On Purpose with Jay Shetty - Telepathy Tapes Creator Ky Dickens Reveals Shocking NEW Evidence on the Link Between Telepathy and Non-Speakers with Autism
Episode Date: March 3, 2025Do you think telepathy is real? Have you heard of non-speaking kids using telepathy? What if non-speaking individuals with autism could communicate through telepathy — and science is starting to... prove it? In this episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty, award-winning filmmaker Ky Dickens takes us on a groundbreaking journey, where non-speaking individuals discover they can communicate telepathically. Ky shares powerful stories of families uncovering untapped abilities in their loved ones, challenging traditional communication methods. As science begins to validate these experiences, the potential for a new, wordless form of connection unfolds. Ky and Jay explore the intersection of science and spirituality, and why unlocking our own intuition may be more possible than we think. Don’t miss this episode! In this interview, you'll learn: How to Develop Your Intuition and Deepen Consciousness How to Communicate Telepathically with Non-Speaking Individuals How to Support and Empower Non-Speaking Individuals with Autism How to Create a More Inclusive World for People with Autism How to Explore the Science of Telepathy and Consciousness How to Embrace the Unknown and Shift Your Perception of Reality By challenging our assumptions, we free ourselves from limiting beliefs and make space for new possibilities. With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty Join over 750,000 people to receive my most transformative wisdom directly in your inbox every single week with my free newsletter. Subscribe here. Join Jay for his first ever, On Purpose Live Tour! Tickets are on sale now. Hope to see you there! What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 01:55 The Social Justice Documentary Filmmaker 06:08 Testing the Theory of Telepathy 08:30 The Limitations of Autism 10:32 What is Apraxia? 11:52 Listening to a Non-Speaking Child 13:29 How Does Telepathy Works? 17:32 How Materialism Has Dictated Our Consciousness 19:41 Remote Viewing Using Psy Abilities 26:19 Telepathic Links Based on Love 29:02 Savant Skills: Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) 33:09 All Truth Goes Through Three Stages 35:26 Consciousness Sharing is More than Telepathy 40:35 Finding Your Life's Purpose 45:00 Science is Catching Up with Spirituality 49:57 Resistance Against Positive Change 51:40 Telepathy is Real 55:16 How Telepathy Works in Animals 57:47 Communication is Basic Human Right 01:03:12 Daily Magic of Telepathy 01:05:04 The Mental Telegraphy 01:06:58 Telepathic Dreams and Lucid Dreaming 01:08:36 Telepathic Conversations 01:11:15 Connection Through the Hill 01:14:15 Apraxia: The Mind and Body Disconnect 01:16:55 Exploration of the Consciousness 01:20:26 Ethical Approach to Studying Non-Speakers 01:25:39 Lessons From The Telepathy Tapes Episode Resources: Ky Dickens | Website Ky Dickens | X Ky Dickens | Instagram Ky Dickens | LinkedIn Ky Dickens | IMDB The Telepathy TapesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It was remarkable to be in that room and see someone reading someone else's mind over and
over and over again.
When you see it you can't unsee it.
One of the best remote viewers was the Burbank police chief.
CIA was in his office and saw that he had like marked
on the map where submarines were.
Well, that's alarming.
Have you listened to the telepathy tapes?
Non-speaking children on the autism spectrum
are able to read the minds of people.
It is mind blowing.
Have you heard of the telepathy tapes?
I hope that you go listen to these tapes.
If you want to watch a mind blowing documentary,
you need to see this.
Kai is the host of a new podcast series
called the telepathy tapes.
Please welcome Kai Dickens.
How would you describe or explain
what telepathy actually means?
Telepathy historically is reading someone's mind.
You know exactly what they're thinking.
That's what I thought this was at first.
Parents started saying right away,
this isn't just sheer telepathy.
We think we might be sharing a consciousness
with no languages that they've never learned.
Well, how is that possible?
Or tell the future and can accurately predict
something is going to happen.
The amount of messages parents were telling me
that they were receiving from the other side
through their child was wild.
I think we are working with consciousness
coming in from somewhere else.
What have you found in your research
looking at animals and telepathy?
That is a beautiful element to this.
There are mental fields around certain animals.
As you can ask you about the connection
between dreams and telepathy,
has there been any connection there?
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Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose.
The place you come to become happier, healthier and more healed.
Today's guest is someone that I'm really excited to talk about.
These are the themes, the ideas that I really want on purpose community to get
exposed to their conversations that I believe we should be having need to be
having as humanity. And they push us forward. They challenge us.
They maybe make us feel uncomfortable,
but they propel our thinking forward.
And today's guest is none other than Kai Dickens, an award-winning acclaimed
filmmaker and podcast host known for diving into complex social issues to
spark change.
Kai is the host of The Telepathy Tapes, which is a new podcast going absolutely
viral. If you don't know about it, I don't know where you've been.
Kai digs into the incredible abilities of non-speaking individuals with autism,
uncovering mind-blowing stories of telepathy
beyond different dimensions.
The series invites viewers to challenge their ways
and rethink what communication really means
and what the human mind is truly capable of.
Please welcome to On Purpose, Kai Dickens.
Kai, thank you so much for being here.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah, it's so nice to meet you and I want to dive straight in and the question I want to ask Kai,
before we get into it is, who were you before you dove into the telepathy tapes? Before you
dove into this work, tell me a bit about who you were, what you believed, what you valued,
and what your system of thinking was.
I was a social justice filmmaker.
So I was working on documentaries that were really diving
into complex social issues, right, to drive change.
So whether that was healthcare access or paid family leave,
affordability and access, just things like this
that were not in the spiritual realm at all.
And I've always been very curious.
I've always been a seeker.
I've always had a deeply spiritual side of myself
that was a bit gun shy around organized religion
because I've also seen the pain that's caused.
But I was just plowing forward with doc films
that I was trying to make a difference around.
And the telepathy tapes entering that world
and being immersed in the lives of non-speakers
for the past three and a half years
has completely altered me, every fiber of me.
And it's made me see the world entirely differently.
Can you tell us how you first discovered it?
Because like you said, your work was somewhat different
to what this is now.
And I want to know how it first came across your table.
So as a documentary filmmaker,
what often happens is before you even get funding for a project,
you might be working and researching and immersed in this world for two, I mean, for months, if not years, right?
And so you have to really love what you're looking at.
And right in between, after my last film, I had just moved to California,
was trying to figure out what I was going to do next,
and then I lost two very good friends in the prime of their lives.
Like the type of people that, you know, they lost,
they left kids behind, just unbelievable people.
And I had a friend stop by to bring flowers
and she's not deeply religious.
She's just very well read.
And I would say she's spiritual.
And she said to me, you know, they're just right here.
And I'm like, what do you mean they're just right here?
And she's like, they're just right here.
And I thought, how can you say that with such conviction?
And she said, you just start reading.
If you start reading, you'll see that all the material
is out there around where we're going,
what we're doing, what this all means.
A lot of research has been done.
She knew I had kind of had a science mind.
And she goes, so just start looking.
So I made a commitment at that moment.
Okay, I don't know what I'm doing next for my next project,
which I thought was going to be a film at the time,
but whatever it is, I want to answer these big questions. I don't want it to be doing next for my next project, which I thought was gonna be a film at the time, but whatever it is, I wanna answer these big questions.
I don't want it to be about social issues
in America anymore.
I want it to be about human issues
and why we're here and what we're doing
and what this all means.
Because I was trying to figure out where are my friends.
And I started diving into books about animal consciousness,
plant communication, Ian Stevenson's work
around reincarnation and children,
and was reading everything I could get my hands on, and that also included listening to some podcasts.
And there's one I loved called The Cosmos and You.
And they did an interview with Dr. Diane Hennessy Powell, who was a neuroscientist,
Johns Hopkins educated, she worked at Harvard, who had been studying widespread claims of telepathy in non-speakers with autism.
And something hit me like a lightning bolt.
And I always feel, I deeply believe
that if something is intended for you, it won't miss you.
And in that moment, I just thought,
this is whatever is here, this is it.
This has the answer.
And I think part of it too was my brother's
eye functioning on the spectrum. And the thing that I it too was my brother's high functioning on the spectrum.
And the thing that I know, just my own experience with autism is this sense of telling the truth.
You know, there's not a lot of jockeying for ego-driven purposes.
There tends to be a deep truth-telling, which is one of the most beautiful things I think about autism in some respects.
And so I felt the messengers in this case are the most trustworthy and unassuming.
So that kind of led me down this path.
Had you always felt that way about all your projects before as well?
That there was always this very clear...
I think most of my films that are self-driven,
you know, there's some that are work for hire,
someone just has you direct it.
But the ones that I generate tend to be deeply personal,
deeply specific, I'm trying to answer or heal something.
But there were two films that I've made where I remember,
or projects where I would actually start praying through it.
Like, if I'm going to die, just please let me get to the finish line of this,
because I'm intended to do this.
If I don't make it, then it just feels so big.
And this was one of those, there was two in my life,
and the first was my first film, Fish Out of Water, and this one.
Wow. To describe for someone who doesn't know anything about this,
how would you describe or explain what telepathy actually means?
Telepathy historically is, right, reading someone's mind.
You know exactly what they're thinking.
So, or you could hear their thoughts as though someone was speaking it.
And that's what I thought this was at first.
And I thought there could be a scientific explanation around the,
you know, when often a sight is muted, other senses heightened. And in this case, it feels a lot
deeper. And in fact, a lot of the parents are saying right away, this isn't just sheer telepathy.
We think we might be sharing our consciousness or there's some sort of merging going on. It
feels deeper and much more complex than simple mind reading. Wow. And is it mind reading, they're feeling everything from, as I've heard and seen of like
numbers and places and letters, or is it also emotions and feelings and what are we seeing
that spectrum be? Yeah. And I think, you know, again, it depends on the individual, but from a
lot of the non-speakers I've met, I'd say the gifts could be varied.
There are some parents who will say,
my child will know exactly what I'm doing during the day,
when they're at school.
They'll know what I'm thinking, where I went,
who I met with.
And what is that?
That's not telepathy, that's something bigger, right?
There's some parents who say,
if I, one of my favorite stories is one of the non-speakers,
once he started communicating,
knew all the things there was to know about Harry Potter
or different books.
And the parents thought, how?
And this individual said, I read them through my sister's mind
when she was reading them.
And so just really fascinating things.
Is that mind reading or is it like fully?
And then there's been teachers who say,
my students have said that they can see through my eyes
or hear through my ears.
And it feels as though they might be using my neurology in some way
because their neurology is unreliable.
It's helpful and grounding to utilize mine.
And so I'm just telling you what other people have told me
and the reports are varied and wide.
But something I've heard from many teachers in particular or parents
is that sometimes the thought will occur and it's like,
well, where did that thought even generate?
Which makes you wonder, is consciousness coming
from a different place and we're tapping into it together?
The parents and teachers who are in this world,
they just have so many questions.
Like, what is this?
Because it does feel bigger than typical,
I'm reading your mind telepathy.
So wait, did you reach out to Dr. Powell?
How did that go?
Okay, so yeah, I reached out to Dr. Powell
and I said, look, I'm a filmmaker,
I'm very interested in what you've been uncovering.
I'd love to get to know you.
We did a few Zoom calls and then I flew up to meet her.
And it was wonderful because one of the first things I did is I wanted to see like,
what's the scope of this?
And I asked if she wouldn't mind reading some emails off from parents.
And of course, you know, hip a lot, she can't show me the names,
but I saw in her inbox like the folder of so many emails from parents. And I thought, good grief, Hippola, she can't show me the names, but I saw in her inbox, like the folder of so many emails from parents.
And I thought, good grief, this is like really big.
And she started reading some of the emails.
And of course, I think anyone walking into this has a healthy dose of skepticism.
I mean, telepathy seems like a superpower in the Spider-Man movie.
It doesn't feel real. And so, but these parents, one after the other, were saying,
look, I didn't believe my wife and I tested this myself
and I'm a doctor, so I couldn't fathom this,
but this is real, this is happening.
And so many emails from people like that.
It's not that they were baked in believing,
they were coming to Dr. Powell
with their own questions around how is this possible?
Can someone answer this for me?
And they were coming in from all over the world.
At that point, I realized that like,
the only place these people had
right now was Dr. Powell's inbox that most of them hadn't ever met each other. And it
felt like the strings weren't being tied together yet, you know, and Dr. Powell has her own
practice like she's a researcher and scientists that just felt like this is so much bigger
than honestly either of us and certainly the families. And then I started meeting some
of the families Dr. Powell introduced me to a a few and I wanted to find one that she'd never met before, never tested,
to test myself. So same thing, like it's hard to believe. And I wanted to not, to pick the place.
I wanted to bring my own cues, set it up, make sure that we covered anything reflective so that
we could test this and see if it bears out. And it was remarkable to be in that room
and see someone reading someone else's mind
over and over and over again,
to the point within like an hour where you're like,
this is not boring, but just like it became,
okay, she can do it, cool.
Like, let's try this, let's try this.
You know, just kept kind of pushing the envelope
and this young girl Mia could read her mom's mind,
anything we showed her mom, she could tell you.
You know, and then I met more families and more families and kept seeing it over
and over and over again to the point where now I'm like, well, that's self-evident.
And I think the parents are there too.
It's not, they're like, we don't need anyone to prove this is happening.
We need to know why this is happening.
That's their question.
Yeah.
How are these parents discovering it in the first place?
What was their, what was their process? I think the, to me it's like the most beautiful part of the story.
It's really based in love.
I mean, for so many of these parents,
they have children that are diagnosed with something
that is often like very hope stealing in terms of the diagnosis.
And I think often there's doctors telling them
your child will never be competent,
won't learn beyond a certain level.
They might not connect with you., won't learn beyond a certain level, they might not connect
with you, they won't ever speak.
And I don't think these parents are given much hope.
And to love someone without getting a lot of physical or verbal feedback around like,
I love you, thank you back is very difficult.
So it's the ultimate sacrifice these parents are making.
And so many of them have been told, again, their child will never speak. And somewhere along the line, most of them,
people at least that we've featured,
have discovered spelling to communicate,
which is a method for non-speakers to communicate
by pointing to letters, and that's a gross motor skill,
whereas talking is a fine motor skill.
So if you can't talk, it's okay if you can point.
Often these parents would see this and think,
that's not my kid, because my kid is still
banging their head against the wall
or maybe even smearing feces,
just really difficult behaviors.
And these parents were thinking,
there's no way it's my kid.
Often like the deepest leap of hope,
not wanting to have your heart broken again,
these parents would try,
bring their child to learn to spell.
And it's often time consuming and such sacrifice
and such practice and their child got there.
And there's a point which is called getting open
on the board where you're not just answering
a yes or no question or filling in the blank,
where you start driving the conversation yourself.
And when these children became open,
pretty soon thereafter,
they started saying things about being able to read minds
or knowing what their parent is thinking.
And of course, when you first hear that, there's kind of that like,
oh, wait, what, really?
And what happened in most of these cases is the parents would do some tests
and do their own experiments and then end up with a ton of questions,
search about this on the internet.
Up until now, there's nothing about it out there.
And usually they would find Dr. Powell.
Did Dr. Powell ever explain why this specifically existed for non-speakers?
No, but I think what a lot of parents believe,
and I think teachers too, is that most of the non-speakers that we're featuring have apraxia,
which is where your mind and body are not connected.
So if you have apraxia and can't control your behaviors, that doesn't get you very far.
Because that's a big thing I want people to take away, is like, this is not about autism.
I never talk about it as being about autism.
It's about apraxia and not being connected to your body.
That's the thing that's missing.
And in fact, a lot of parents are like, I don't think my kid has autism.
We have this big wide tent of how we diagnose this.
And people say it's autism.
But no, it's apraxia.
And that's the mind-bio-disconnect.
So a lot of it is like the diagnosis could be totally wrong too.
And that's when I realized, okay, this isn't just like a telepathy thing.
This isn't about a biological heightened sense.
It felt to me, and this is where I landed,
is that this is a spiritual gift
and there's a bouquet of them that for some reason,
the non-speaking individuals with apraxia,
the mind-body disconnect seem easier to tap into.
Then during COVID, they had to self-teach their children
at home, and then they were shocked
at how much their kid knew.
But no one ever spent the time to,
because a lot of the teachers might not have thought
these people are in there either.
So COVID was a huge motivator for a lot of these changes
when parents saw my kid is in there, and they can spell.
Has there been any examples of any parents who weren't communicating with their non-speakers
and then maybe through your work or Dr. Power's work,
kind of become aware of this and then try to experiment and experience
where they didn't realize that their non-speaking child could talk to them in this way by spelling?
For sure. I mean, we've had our inbox has been the most delightfully joyful thing because so many
of the emails we're getting is our people being like, I did not ever think my child
could spell.
I didn't think they're in there.
And then I heard these other stories of parents who felt the same way.
And now I'm getting my child to spell.
But the best ones are, I mean, they're not the best ones.
They're all the best.
But another really fun thing that we're getting are videos from parents saying,
my child is spelling, I never thought in a million years
they were telepathic, so then I started doing tests.
And we tested with four numbers,
and here's the video, they could do it.
And here's nine numbers, and they could do it.
And here's 22 numbers, and they could do it.
And so those are really fun,
that parents are suddenly doing telepathy tests
with their kids.
And then the other thing that's really beautiful
is there's parents who, having listened
to the telepathy tapes, I think their children realize, okay, my parent is open to this.
Just like you, you're not going to go talk about something to someone if you think they're
going to judge you or be scared of you or whatever.
So what we're hearing a lot on the ground from parents and teachers is that because
they listened, the non-speaking student or nephew or child in their life suddenly feels
safe saying,
hey, I can do this too, or here's what's up,
or here's all of me, let me invite you in.
And they've said that the world has just expanded
in this beautiful way, knowing that that like,
it's a safe space now to be fully who you are,
which includes those gifts for some non-speakers.
Up until now, what kind of responses
have those questions met?
I don't know if science has like fully done all the research.
They haven't done any research on this really yet to my, I mean, that's not true.
There's been telepathy research and psi research and precognition research that's
been happening for a long time, which is pretty conclusive.
And however, the, the gifts of the non-speakers, I think this is a new, a new frontier for
science.
And that's one of the ethical things
that I think everyone needs to consider greatly is like,
how do we research this?
Because what I have found,
and if you think of like a Jane Goodall, right?
Like the way she did science is she'd go spend time
for months, you know, with the chimps
until she finally observed what their life was really like
because she immersed herself in it, right?
And it's like, if you're gonna go watch
a beautiful lightning bug sinking up in nature,
you wouldn't bring them into a lab.
You'd go and watch and immerse.
And my plea is that scientists will take off their lab coats,
pick up a letter board, learn how to do this,
immerse themselves with a non-speaker,
and they will see and experience and can ask the questions.
Because I think the non-speakers have a lot to offer and they can talk about
this themselves, what's going on.
But I've been hearing a lot of chatter online about like, put them in a
Faraday cage and put them in two separate rooms and do this.
And it's like, I don't know if that's going to be the most beautiful, helpful,
empowering way to research this.
I do appreciate your insight on immersive observation.
Especially I like your analogy of thinking about it as if you're
watching something in nature and you have to see it in its own space
and its own habitat and its own environment where it naturally
functions and isn't put into this space.
And I've always felt and known that there's so much more that we're
capable of that we don't know.
How do we draw the difference and distinction between this and intuition and some of the
other things that we may be more familiar with as a society?
How is this so different?
I don't think it is different and I think that all of these things which you know I
have learned are called psi abilities, PSI, I think come from the same place. And in the telepathy tapes
in episode six, we really look at the science and how our world has been understood. And
everything is this framework of what we call materialism, this idea that what's real is
what can be observed and measured. And materialism has dictated our thinking for centuries.
And most of materialism is right.
I don't think it's wrong.
We shouldn't throw away our textbooks entirely.
However, at the very tippy top of, you know,
after you have physiology and biology and psychology
and all the things that make up our material world,
at the tippy top right now, we have consciousness
and no one knows where it comes from and why it's there.
And what I think the theory that many people before me have put forth and then I believe it,
so I put this forth in the telepathy tapes, is that consciousness isn't at the top of the
pyramid of our world. It's at the bottom. It's fundamental. It comes first. I mean, everything
in this office was a thought first. None of it was real and then the thought came after.
And so if you think about it that way and that consciousness is fundamental,
then telepathy, psi abilities, precognition, mediumship,
all these things that seem like, woo, a little wooby-wooby,
all make sense.
Because our truest truth is non-physical.
How do you define consciousness in that context?
It is the foundation.
Consciousness came first.
And the whole physical world came after.
It's not that the physical world came first and consciousness came after.
And if we just invert the triangle, keep everything else the same in the materialist world, just
put the consciousness from the top to the bottom, then we can explain all of this.
And if anyone was out there is like, I want to look into this more, you can look into remote viewing.
That's one of the most easy to validate, Sai abilities, which is being able to see
something at a location where you're not.
And the CIA used that for years.
We know that that's been declassified.
You know?
What do you mean?
Tell me a bit more about that.
Well, I'm less aware.
This is one of the books I read in like trying to understand all of this is there's a
great book by an author named Annie Jacobson.
It's called Phenomena.
And what it was about was the declassified papers
from the CIA about their project Grill Flame
and project Stargate programs,
which was really active in the seventies and into the eighties
where they were using remote viewing
and because the Russians were.
And what that was is they found that some people
were extremely good at, if you
could give them a line of longitude and a line of latitude, they could sit at the Stanford Research
Institute in California and tell you, draw a picture of what was there. No way. Yeah. And it's
fascinating. And so they did a bunch of research around this and how this is possible. And they
would put some of the best remote viewers under the ocean in a submarine to
be like, okay, well, we know waves can't penetrate that deep of water.
So what is this skill?
Is it still possible underwater?
Because telephone signals aren't, right?
Cellphone signals aren't.
Most signals can't go through water.
And these remote viewers were significantly accurate, like statistically
so that they could still find targets when underwater. And there's been so much released
on that program. Yeah. And I think the one of the best remote viewers was I believe a
Burbank police chief and someone FBI CIA was in his office and saw that he had like marked
on the map where submarines were.
Well, that's alarming. How does this guy know where the submarines were?
And he was like, I could just see them.
And he became one of the best remote viewers in the program.
And they did some of these quote unquote telepathy tapes,
these telepathy tests with another man named Yuri Geller.
They would have him draw what was in a closed box.
And he was pretty accurate.
And so, if people want to read that book, like that's a great gateway into this,
that shows something is happening.
Something is real.
And this program went on for a long time.
And they say it's expired.
I think it's probably still going on in the United States government.
But that was remote viewing and using psychic abilities.
Are there any other programs or things you've come across like that,
that are used in the modern world in a less spiritual space or?
For sure, Russia, China, the United States have been looking into these
psi abilities as very real elements.
And of course they're trying to use it for warfare and spying.
I know that there's a lot of people who will teach remote viewing and map dousing,
where you try to go figure out where something
might be located on a map.
And some people are really good at that.
It could be like the ancient, whatever, aqueduct is here.
And they can help you find it.
And like, these are things that have map dousing
has gone on for thousands of years,
where people will know what's underground.
How?
I don't understand how.
But it's a real thing.
I did not understand how remote viewing could work.
And so I went to a workshop one day because I thought,
I wonder if I could learn this.
And this was kind of like right in the heart of like me trying to understand everything.
And I was just immersing into anything I could.
And so I went to like a workshop where they try to teach you how to do this.
And I was with one of my close friends.
And they said, okay, we're going to do a remote viewing experiment.
We're about to pull a slide up and you all have to draw what's on the slide.
And I was like, a slide?
Like that's not even like in the physical world that we can like maybe see.
How is that going to work?
And so all these, everyone's trying to clear their mind and people after 10 minutes or whatever,
I look at some of the drawings
and it looks like people were drawing
like these big circles and stuff.
And what I was getting in my head was like,
draw a tree and like a little bit of water
and the word green and a bird and a sun.
And my drawing looks so rudimentary,
like something a four-year-old would draw.
And then all of a sudden they show what it was.
And it was a peacock.
And I'm like, okay, so I had bird and green,
but I don't think that counts.
And then my friend turns over her paper
and on her paper was a tree and a sun.
She wrote the word green.
She had water.
We had the same picture.
I have a picture out on my phone.
And that's when I'm like, okay,
I don't know what's going on here for a remote viewing
of her and I just crossed paths.
And there was like real telepathy.
Like we sunk up.
Whatever signal it was, her and I had the same drawing.
And that's when I was like,
this whole thing is really mysterious.
And I finally understood what the parents were talking about
because I was like, did we both tune into the same signal?
Or were we sharing and influencing each other?
What was that?
But that was an astounding moment for me
that made me believe in things like remote viewing.
Have you and your friend ever tried doing that again?
No, I should ask her.
Yeah.
That would be really fascinating to sit down again and...
Yeah.
It would really be awesome to try that again.
And for me the biggest shock was,
again I thought, okay we're studying telepathy,
we can do these telepathy tests,
we can prove it or, you know, validate it.
I guess there's no proof in science, but validate it.
And that's what I thought it was.
But then when I was immersed with so many wonderful human beings and families, the thing
that I started seeing and that they start talking about quite quickly, especially the
non-speakers is, no, this is bigger than just telepathy.
So many individuals can also know languages that they've never learned.
Well, how is that possible?
Or tell the future and can accurately predict
something is gonna happen.
And sure, that could be coincidental or maybe it's not.
Or had information about something they'd never learned,
be it math or science or even spiritual information.
And so many others were talking about
seeing beyond the grave, like knowing people
and bringing messages through.
And that was totally disorienting for me,
because that was all new.
I didn't think any of that stuff was possible.
Individuals talking about rocks that had powers.
I mean, I came into that being like, wait, what?
Yeah, it's one of those things, isn't it,
where it's so hard in our material world
to give space for invisible thinking.
Because like you said, everything that we look at is so visibly measured, visibly real.
That's how we function as a society.
Then almost when these ideas start to seep in, it starts to become very challenging.
And certain ideas have found their place in the Western world.
When you look at things like astrology.
And so coming from an Eastern background, astrologers who have incredible abilities
rarely exist anymore. But those that in India had these abilities, like you've seen the
Western version of astrology evolve and it exists in some capacity in our world. But
you find most of these ideas kind of fall by the wayside
and don't really have a version or like a lot of astrology
can be and is get labeled as woo-woo or just made up
or meant to make people feel safe.
What was it that gave you so much trust
when you were doing these tests yourself
that gave you a sense of confidence from being someone
who in your own words you felt, well, it's not that you came from a spiritual background
or this is what you're open to.
And all of a sudden you're like, no, I believe this.
Like, what did you see?
What did you experience that you were like, no, no, this is legitimate?
Yeah.
And I think the most important thing for anyone walking into this world
is forget about the telepathy, forget about all that stuff, like meet the people.
And when you're talking to parents in particular
who are stretched thin, they have so many
just daily challenges with working,
just helping their children,
but actually battling for their children every day
to get the education they need, the supports they need,
the care they need.
And for these parents who have so much love
and so much sacrifice sacrifice and yet there's
this other dimension of what the heck is going on and their sincerity of just like we know
this is happening can you just help us understand why when you start hearing that from parent
after parent after parent who don't know each other it's pretty clear there's not a mass
conspiracy going on and so meeting the parents parents, I mean, they truly are the biggest,
they're the love warriors on this earth right now.
And then meeting the non-speakers with just such honesty
around what's going on, there's no,
for them this is just life, here, I'm gonna talk about this,
I'm gonna share this, I'm gonna talk about this.
And that became convincing.
And then, so I think I walked in trusting the parents,
trusting the non-speakers,
believing that they were telling the truth.
And then I think when you are coming from it,
from a place of belief and trust,
it's so much more likely for these things to unfold.
A lot of, I think, not just me,
but scientists would say like,
love is the basis of a lot of these psi abilities.
If anyone ever has had this moment
where something went wrong,
it's because you love that person, you felt deeply,
something happened to that person.
We have accounts of that from all over the world in history.
Or you're thinking about someone you care deeply about
and the phone rings and it's them.
I mean, these links are, I think, based in love.
And they're not that rare.
We've all had that phone telepathy.
And I just want to say this really quick too,
because I think that belief as a measure
of being able to experience and see some of this stuff,
there is space for that in science.
We have the placebo effect.
That's part and parcel of every major medical study,
because it's real.
Belief and believing in something
helps and changes the outcomes.
I think if you were to walk in with the non-speakers
and think, I don't believe this is possible,
there's no telepathy getting it, I don't think you're going to see much. But
I think when you're like, I trust you, I trust what you're saying is true, I think people
are much more likely to be themselves and show their full self. And telepathy is part
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What did you see when you spoke to Dr. Powell?
Like, what did she see from a scientific point of view
that convinced her that this was real?
What research had she found that made it feel
so legitimate to her as well?
You know, I was so impressed with Dr. Powell.
I mean, she's a real thoughtful scientist in this regard
and she was studying savant syndrome at first.
And savant syndrome is really interesting.
And I mean, her big thesis is ESP should be considered
a savant skill, because science as a whole
legitimizes savant so that you might know a language
or music or math without being taught or exposed to it.
And that's pretty wild.
How does that happen if you haven't taught it?
And so ESP is in the same realm, right?
Like you know something you shouldn't know.
Because how?
How would you know the future?
How can you know someone's thoughts?
So...
Sorry, could you tell us what ESP is?
Oh, ESP is an extra sensory perception.
So a sense of knowing something without your five senses.
So she was studying savant skills.
And what was fascinating is some of the parents
who had a quote unquote savant,
which is a troubling word in of itself
for a few reasons we can talk about later.
But like we're saying,
actually I don't know if they're savant.
I thought they were because I thought
they had every book on my bookshelf memorized,
but then I'm learning no,
I think they can see through my eyes
or I think they're reading my mind.
And she heard that enough times
that she started studying that.
And lo and behold, in the studies she did, she was seeing what I saw,
which was, this bears out.
Unfortunately, because so many of our scientific institutions
are rooted in materialism and the journals and such,
it's really hard to publish papers on this,
to get grants to do the research around it, to publish a book on it.
And when she published a book and was on her book tour,
suddenly the board said, we're taking your license away because we think you must, there must be something
wrong with you. And she had a petition, she had to go through psychological testing to
prove that she was of sound mind. And then she begged them to look at the book and they
realized, oh, this is sound science and she's sound. Okay, you can have your license back
and you can do this. But the trauma is done because you've had to pay
a lot of fees, it hurts your reputation, it comes up on Google. And so I think for a lot of the
scientists who are on the cutting edge of this too, they've been harmed because for me, I believe
that at the baseline for science, you should have a freedom of inquiry. You should be able to ask a
question and see where it leads. And as a society, we need to ask ourselves, well, what is going on?
If you can't ask a question?
Because people are afraid of the answer. I mean, that's troubling. And it's also limiting, because as humans, this is really exciting, that there is a very real non-physical world.
And I think that's what everyone actually cares about. At the end of the day, like, don't we care
if that's that that has implications for where we're going and why we're here
Yeah, yeah, so dr. Powell she saw the truth of it
but she also ran hard into the the deeply skeptical materialist society and
Science world what kept her going. I mean, I think the same thing. I mean she laid low for a while after that
You know and then she actually retired
right before the telepathy tapes came out.
She's like, I don't want to be fined again.
I don't want to deal with all this.
And she was ready, but she was like, this is not worth it.
So I think what kept her going is kind of the same thing
that when I hit upload on that first episode,
I was like, I might destroy my entire reputation
as a documentarian, as a human being.
I don't know what people are gonna think,
but like, this is true.
And this truth is worth it.
And I think Dr. Powell underwent that.
When you see it, you can't unsee it.
When you're in the room and you experience it,
you can't un-experience it.
And when you meet these families so full of love
and truth and earnestness that are just like,
someone tell us why, no one is listening,
you kind of want to carry the burden for them.
You shoulder it for them, because you're like,
you aren't crazy, you're telling the truth,
like someone does need to listen.
And I think Dr. Powell felt that urgency of like,
I will carry your torch, and then I met all of them,
and I was like, I will also carry your torch.
And now I think there's a lot of listeners
carrying the torch, which is beautiful.
Yeah, definitely.
There are so many people that I've been speaking to
about it with since I've been listening.
And the conversations that it's starting are actually the most exciting part for me.
I think the curiosity that it's sparking in people.
I was trying to think about actually when else in society,
when have we had that kind of resistance to something?
Like I don't know if you've looked back and I'm sure with your research mind,
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Because that in one sense is outside of our visible world, to some degree,
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it's become normalized because Elon Musk or whoever will talk about these things
publicly so often.
Have you looked at any other times with things like this?
Oh, for sure.
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You know, and there's that quote,
"'All truth goes through three stages.
"'First it's ridiculed, then it's violently opposed,
"'and then it's accepted as self-evident.'"
And I feel like that's one of these moments.
And you know, there's when Mendel first said
that genes cause disease. I mean, that was like a these moments. And you know, there's, when Mendel first said that genes cause disease,
I mean, that was like a big moment where people were laughing at that.
That seemed silly, like little things would go into you and make you sick.
And now it's self-evident, you know.
It's a flat earth.
Like, people believed the earth was flat for a really long time.
And then it wasn't.
But people like clung to that.
I mean, there's still so few others.
There's still few flat earthers left.
But I think about the materialist science of now,
and I'm like, I wonder if in a hundred years,
they're going to, clinging to materialism,
it's, they're going to look like the flat-earthers, you know?
But even when the Wright brothers first launched their plane,
people didn't believe it.
They didn't believe it unless they saw it.
They had to go on a tour and fly their little plane all over
for people to believe it.
So it's not, I think this happens with any big leap,
whether it's in science, in spirituality, or whatever it is.
And this is just, this is the blowback, the anger,
the confusion, the trying to find like, you know,
the character assassination is going to come
from anyone carrying the thing.
That's happened throughout history.
That it's just part and parcel when you bring in big news.
I think.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
And I almost think that it's at like a perfect synchronicity
with all of our developments in AI.
Like, you know, we're at this precipice where it's like,
AI is the new frontier at a very basic level.
Everyone's now using chat GPT,
and then we're looking at what singularity could look like.
And we're looking at the tech horizon of all of this advancement.
And it only makes sense to me that at the same time we need this other side.
That we're also seeing these advancements in our spiritual understanding
and our spiritual exploration.
And I wanted to ask you, so far with Dr. Powell's work and what you've seen,
what has been conclusively defined or when people are asking the question,
why is this happening?
What do we know, if anything right now, of why it's happening?
I don't think we know yet.
Right.
And I think it's because there's been such a lack of funding.
I mean, that was one of the hopes with the celebrity tapes was to get Dr. Powell some funding.
And she's gotten funding now, which is great.
And, you know, I know she wants to look at some MRI scans and some QEG scans.
And that's important because she's looking at it from the brain stuff,
which is what a neuroscientist should be doing.
And I'm interested in doing really good telepathy tests that are visual for film.
And so many scientists have been reaching out, which has been beautiful,
since this has come forward being like, I want to work on an experiment or a research. And so I'm trying to get on board with our team,
non-speaking science advisor to kind of help
and then do a round table with a bunch of the scientists
who all have big ideas,
bring some of the non-speakers in
and have a conversation about like,
what can we test?
What should we test?
What would be helpful?
What are the limitations?
And kind of go from there.
Why do you think it's so important?
What do you think?
I'm intrigued to know what you think it would unlock for us
by discovering the answer behind this.
What do you see?
Well, again, I think it's more than just telepathy.
Yes, agreed, yeah.
And there's a teacher who has been at this
longer than Dr. Powell or me in Wisconsin,
who will constantly say,
I think there's a sharing of consciousness.
I think there's a linking.
And that's a curious question,
because if that's the case,
that means that consciousness is coming from somewhere else
and that we like can beam into it.
I mean, I don't know.
Like if you think of our body as a television set, right?
That will animate and all the stuff,
but that's, it's like we don't carry the signal.
The signal is coming from somewhere else.
That's one view of consciousness.
Like that is one possibility.
And I think the non-speaking telepathy pairing
that happens with a teacher or a parent,
if we could test through a QEG and figure out,
is the message coming in, like,
is the brain lighting up at the same time in the same place?
We might be able to learn something.
I'm not a scientist, so I want other people
to carry the torch and figure out the experiments.
And I hope to create for the film,
like we're gonna make some spaces where non-speakers
and researchers and scientists can talk about it.
And then I hope the science just goes forth
in a comfortable way for everyone.
My biggest concern, of course, is exploitation
of non-speaking individuals and their families.
Like it has to be in a way that feels really safe
and good for them.
And some families want answers.
Some are just like, we know this is happening.
This is great.
This has changed our lives.
Everyone has to volunteer and do what's comfortable for them.
But I just, my goal is to get this out there.
And so that people would listen to the parents
and hopefully believe them.
Yeah, when you started doing the tests,
I remember you saying that you were seeing like a 95% success rate,
which is extremely high.
What were you seeing in the 5% that was inaccurate or incomplete?
Yeah, and I'm smiling when you said that,
because like I said 95% because it just felt like the more science-y thing to say.
Like it was actually pretty much like 100,
but like when I talk about the 5%, it's because they're spelling to communicate.
So sometimes if like they were,
if pony was the thing that was on the flash card,
maybe they spelled like PP, it hit twice, O and Y.
Or something like that where it's like,
can we count it?
We won't count it because there was a P hit twice.
So we would discount it.
Again, I'm not a scientist, but in like my human mind,
I was like, that counted.
So there is that element where it's like,
they wrote the thing, it would be a tactical error like that.
Yeah, right. Oh wow.
So it was literally things like spelling basically.
It was like, yeah.
Yeah, or a double tap, etc.
A double tap.
Yeah.
Yeah, it'd be a double tap.
I remember when we were doing one telepathy experiment,
there was a production assistant that was like walking around with Doritos. And then every time they entered the room with the Doritos, it's like the test would get disrupted. I remember when we were doing one telepathy experiment,
And like the sciency part was like, okay, we can't count bicycle
because the whole world wasn't spelled.
But like the human being in me was like,
she just wrote bicycle.
And then Doritos came in the room.
And what about some of them that could see colors
and letters or numbers?
Where was that coming from?
Yeah, I mean, so there's something called synesthesia.
And that is synesthesia, right?
You see colors, different senses get tied
to different things.
With non-speaking individuals,
it's really beautiful and interesting.
And again, like broad brush here, but some of the people I was talking with,
like one girl says that she sees the colors around each letter.
So she doesn't have to see the letter board because she's pointing to a color.
So that's pretty cool.
A lot of non-speaking individuals say they see auras, not just around people,
but around plants and cut flowers.
And they'll see the aura drifting off as the cut flowers dying around rocks.
And again, it wouldn't be just one individual, it would be many saying these things.
So at a certain point you're like, okay, things have auras and there's colors.
And that tells you how if someone's good or bad or angry or whatever, you know what I mean?
It was just beautiful the amount of information that was so articulate and so profound that was being shared across the board.
You've dedicated three and a half years to this now, right?
Do you feel like it feels like your purpose?
It's become something that's so, I mean, to dedicate three and a half years is a long, long, long, long time.
And the telepathy tapes you launched fairly recently, like just around the holidays or whatever,
and to see the incredible success they've had.
But it's been so much study and time.
I want to know your emotions and feelings throughout this three and a half years
and then whether it feels like your purpose now.
Yeah, I mean, no, I think everything in my life has led to this.
I think everything has.
And it is fully my purpose for being here.
And I'm so humbled. Like Like what a wonderful, wonderful purpose.
And I don't know if purpose is given to us from somewhere else
or if it creates your purpose,
but like my favorite book is Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.
And one of the beautiful takeaways in that book, right,
is like the meaning of life is whatever gives your life meaning.
And nothing ever to come across my path outside of the people I love,
like my, you know, spouse and kids.
But beyond that, like nothing has given me more meaning than this.
To me, it's answering and picking through the most complex important questions.
So what a humbling, beautiful gift to just have fallen into this beautiful world.
What meaning has it spoken to you for you?
So what questions has it answered for you?
Or what questions has it made you ask that you find it so meaningful for us to know?
You know, for me it was really appealing of the onion.
And first it was seeing the telepathy over and over and over again.
And being like, okay, I don't need to ask that question.
That's fully happening.
And then I almost felt like the parents would let me in on things as they thought I was ready.
So even hearing and understanding that Houston,
one of the individuals in telepathy tapes,
understands that feels rocks so deeply.
And that was something that I always just shrugged off.
Okay, so telepathy is real and rocks truly give off
energy and frequency.
What else have I dismissed that's real?
So I started finding that things that I just shoved away
as like, that's impossible, this is fake,
or these are charlatans or frauds, you know.
I started coming to terms with everything I'd ever
just ignored or dismissed in life and reevaluating it.
So telepathy, like, yes, okay.
Rocks, crystals, now I'm like,
okay, I have crystal things on my wrist.
It's like, yes, those have a powerful thing. And then non-speakers talking about the other side.
I mean, that was something that came up a lot.
In fact, that often is the first thing before telepathy,
is this person's here, auntie has this message for you.
You know, this person is telling me not that you tell whoever
in India not to buy this land because that land has a bad well on it.
And I mean, just the amount of messages parents were telling me that you tell whoever in India not to buy this land because that land has a bad well on it.
I mean, just the amount of messages parents were telling me
that they were receiving from the other side through their child was wild.
That was relevant to the parents' lives.
That was so relevant that would bear out that there's no way their child would know.
So then it started making me think,
okay, we don't go away,
we're here,
consciousness survives. I think all
of it was a cognitive dissonance of now I fully believe that psi abilities are
real, that consciousness survives death, that we are all intimately connected,
that love is the baseline for everything and I think I see the non-speakers as my
teacher not the other way around. I mean they are all of our teachers if people
just take the time to listen
and meet them where they're at.
And I think what they would say is,
love is the most important thing.
We have it all wrong.
We're all connected.
It is bigger than any of us.
And that these spiritual gifts are in us all.
Yeah.
I mean, the Eastern traditions describe consciousness
to have three qualities.
Asat, Chittin, Ananda, which mean full of knowledge,
which makes sense to what you're saying now,
eternal, endless, and full of bliss, love.
And so when you're saying that,
even through your discovery that potentially consciousness,
the idea that there's greater consciousness
where there's knowledge or messages being inferred, that comes from that full of knowledge.
The idea that you're saying consciousness doesn't die, you used a word there, I forgot it,
but this idea that it's continuous and that continues to exist is the eternal part.
And then, like you said, it's founded on love as the full of bliss.
And so, those qualities actually seem to match very coherently with the Eastern spiritual traditions of understanding what consciousness actually is.
I've always been excited about science catching up with spirituality.
And so I love when science can prove the value in spirituality and beliefs or practices that have happened for hundreds or thousands of years. Yeah.
And I've seen it happen with mindfulness and meditation where,
Yes.
you know, these practices have been around for thousands of years and today,
mindfulness and meditation are no longer woo-woo and made up.
When meditation was first being studied, it was kind of ridiculed as being woo-woo.
Even when I first started practicing it, like I first started practicing meditation around 2007.
And if you talked about meditation to someone in 2007,
they didn't really think it was that valuable
or they thought it was just made up.
Or if you told someone that breath work
was a way of calming yourself down
or reducing negative thoughts or anxiety,
people would have laughed at you.
And so I've seen it happen with a few things
and I've always been excited
by when science has been able to have the language, the tools, the vocabulary
to talk about these ideas.
I was just back at the monastery that I used to live at in India this January.
And I had some of my most powerful meditation experiences nearly 20 years
after I first started meditating.
And it's hard to explain, like it's hard to put into words and, you know, you can
often feel, and I'm sure, you know, the nonverbal children, they probably feel as
well, like how little they can even, you know, through the written word, actually
explain what they're experiencing or what they're going through.
And we can all identify with emotions and feelings like that.
Even if we don't believe, know, trust what's going on.
I think we've all had experiences where like,
I have no idea how to explain this,
or I have no idea how to put this into words.
I've always wanted that marriage
between science and spirituality,
where science will actually look to spirituality
for what to look into.
Me and Andrew Huberman, who's been on the show a few times,
will always talk about a lot of the practices he suggests and recommends,
like starting off your day looking at sunlight,
which kicks off our circadian rhythm and keeps everything in harmony and balance.
Surya Namaskar, which translated as sun salutations,
is an ancient practice of looking at the sun when you wake up first thing in the morning
and how that was the way to get your body invigorated.
And so, you see these similarities in these ancient practices
that people have done for thousands of years.
They may not have said,
oh, it's about the circadian rhythm and, you know,
they didn't talk about it like that.
But they were these beautiful practices in every tradition
that existed because of their value to the human body,
the human mind and the human spirit.
It's beautiful and it's all correct.
I think you're right.
And I think science is catching up to some of this stuff.
Because when you look back on things like telepathy,
if you go to most native groups of people
that are still around and thriving,
I think they would say, yeah, duh.
You know, the sense of being stared at is real.
Like often, like remote viewing to know where the hunt is, is real.
These are things that were part and parcel of survival for individuals.
And like we feel removed from it,
but it doesn't mean that it hasn't always been there.
Yeah, exactly.
And while there are naturally, as always,
people who have exploited or lied or pretended or whatever in these traditions,
naturally, as there are in everywhere, science included and everywhere else,
it's almost like those people exist because the real thing exists.
Because there's someone who can do it for real and then someone's trying to do something with it.
Exactly. But that's usually how it works. You only get, this is
a terrible example, but that's when my mind's going, you only get fake Gucci handbags because
there's real ones. And that's the idea with research. You only get fake something when
the real thing has been existed or experienced. And then you make the fake version because
you don't know how the real one exists.
Absolutely. And I think you take something that probably has the most amount of quote-unquote charlatans
and the most amount of skepticism, like mediums, right?
However, like the Windbridge Institute, Forever Family Foundation,
there are groups out there that will like double, triple blind test individuals to be like,
these are the people we've tested, we've tested, we've tested, we've...
They don't even know who's the sitter versus blank, blank, blank.
And they come up with a list.
You know, like 15% of people they tested were the real deal
according to these tests.
So I think that's what's a good reminder for people too,
is if you look into a lot of this stuff,
some of the people, there are organizations and institutions out there
looking at the science, trying to vet the best from the best.
And you can do it.
Like if you spend the time to do the research,
you can figure out if it's real and who's the real deal.
Why is our resistance so deep?
Like why are we so stuck in our ways
when it comes to these ideas?
And the same is probably true for scientific
and technological advancement too.
I think, you know, I recently spoke to Bill Gates
and he was talking about the idea that computers
would exist in every home was just bizarre.
Like people were like, that's ridiculous.
Like no one's going to have a personal computer
in their home, what's the need?
Right, that was the opinion that people had.
So I don't think it's,
I actually don't think it's just spiritually.
I think any form of innovation meets that kind of resistance.
Where does that come from?
Why is it that we're so resistant?
What have you seen from human behavior and people you've come across?
For sure, people are resistant to change, right?
We like our status quo, it feels safe.
We like feeling safe.
But I think when it comes to sociabilities, usually it's so vulnerable, right?
To think that someone could know your mind or connect with the other side or tell your future.
I mean, to be had when it comes to something so personal,
so vulnerable is like the worst thing ever.
It's like telling a secret
and have someone stabbing you in the back.
It's just to lay bare your soul
and trust that someone's actually being a good steward
of like your deepest secrets or connections and then lying
about it and profiting off it. I mean, there's like nothing grosser. Profiting off of vulnerability
and trust is just the worst. And so I think that's why people are really skeptical. They
want to make sure that this stuff, which is good, like we, people shouldn't be profiting
off of people's vulnerability, but I think these skills are real,
and I think most of them probably can do it.
Have you felt that spending more time with the children,
the families and everything,
are these abilities that those of us that are mere mortals and normal
can develop and build and grow,
or are they things that are reserved for specifically the non-verbal speakers?
No, I think that everyone probably has these in us to a certain degree,
just like some people are excellent at basketball and some people can barely shoot a basket.
So I think that it depends on the individual.
Like telepathy seems so remarkably hard.
How do you read someone's thoughts?
But I will say the thing that it was the hardest episode for me to put into the world,
because it felt so unbelievable, but I knew it to be true because I witnessed it,
was that there was a huge amount of teachers, like a lot of teachers,
who were saying that after working with especially usually one student that they were really close to,
they were able to start hearing them back.
So the telepathy started going two ways.
And when I first heard that I was shocked.
And I was shocked that it wasn't a parent's.
I mean, it has, some parents have said this has happened to them.
But a lot of teachers were like, I will hear their voice in my head.
I can hear their full sentences.
I can hear what they're thinking and what they're about to spell.
And it goes the same way.
And so some of these teachers have told me it's so powerful now that we can sit next to each other
and have a non-verbal educational period.
And I'll ask questions and they'll write
or they'll ask questions and then I hear it back
and there's no, they don't even have to spell.
And when I first heard this, I thought, what?
Like, can that be?
And then I heard it again and then again and then again
from people who don't know each other.
And then I heard a woman who was a teacher on a podcast
reporting this and she thought she was the only person
that said ever happened to in the world.
And I remember reaching out and I'm like, no, no, no, no, you're not alone.
Like, I know it seems like a miracle, but this is not, you know, how has that happened?
And I don't know, but I wonder, can certain people help us turn it on or like rip off
the block in our brain?
And I don't know if the non-speaking individuals these teachers were working with help them
get there or if you just clear your mind and you're in the space with someone in such a beautiful,
special way that we can all do it.
Yeah. I mean, I often wonder also whether science will ever be able to measure
a lot of these experiences and phenomena in a way that makes sense to everyone.
I often wonder that whether some of these things are just the way they are.
And like you said, because our scientific tools have been built I often wondered that whether some of these things are just the way they are.
And like you said, because our scientific tools have been built to measure that which is material and seen.
How can we measure something with a tool that's meant to measure something that's unseen anyway?
The most beautiful comment I heard from a non-speaking individual about that was they were like,
well, why are you all trying to measure telepathy with your instruments?
Was the exact wording and I was like, well to prove it and they were like, well, why aren't you trying to prove love in a lab?
That is the most special and strongest power.
It will cause people to jump into a
choppy ocean or to pick up the car with such adrenaline if their child is trapped. Like love is the greatest superpower.
That's the biggest superpower. Why aren't you trying to measure that in a lab? And I was like, I guess, I don't know why.
I don't know why we're not measuring love. Has love been measured? But that was the equivalent
in their mind of like what us trying to measure telepathy. This person was like, this is just part
and parcel of this like love connection communication, almost survival, right? If you can't speak,
can't communicate like beyond spelling, it can be a lifeline. And I just thought that was so
beautiful because there are certain things that you just accept
and telepathy might be hard for some people to accept,
but if you're living it and breathing it,
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What have you found in your research looking at animals and telepathy?
Yeah, that is a beautiful element to this, I think.
And to me, it really helped me believe everything more.
I think that there are mental fields around certain animals.
We see this in schools of fish.
How are they turning at the exact same time, right?
And certain like murmurs of birds
who basically have like the same mind.
And there is this idea of like,
are they all kind of connected to a greater mental field
of consciousness that is helping control their movements.
Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist from Cambridge,
talks a lot about this.
And he's written books and done incredible research
on animals, pets, knowing when their owners are coming home.
And they'll put cameras around and page someone to the office.
So it's always they're coming home at a different time in a different car from a different place.
And they have cameras and see that the dog will go stand by the door and in some cases
cats and if there's a flat tire, something happens or this person gets called back into
the office, the dog will go back and sit down.
And then the second their owner's heading home again, they come back up.
So there seems to be this telepathic link there.
And one of my favorite stories that we share in the telepathy tapes has to do with elephants.
And there was a conservationist who was trying to get some rowdy elephants into an animal preserve.
And after a good amount of time,
this man's name was Lawrence Anthony.
He really worked to get the elephants' trust.
He made their safe space.
It was a huge amount of land.
And he hadn't been, I think, in touch
or seen these elephants much in the last few years
of his life, and then one day he died.
Well, the elephants all kind of gathered
and walked to his house from where they were,
and they all kind of show up right around the same time.
And they stayed for a few days, morning.
And it was remarkable for his widow, because the question is, how did these elephants know
to go and do their morning ritual?
Wow.
How?
And the story doesn't end there.
Every year on the anniversary of his death, and this went on for a few years,
the elephants would leave what they were doing
and go to his house and pay their respects.
Only on that day.
On that day.
It took them a while to get there.
They had to walk a few days to get there.
But yes, they knew exactly when he died the first time.
And then they would pay their respects thereafter
for a few years on the day of his death.
And so to me, it's like, if you have a hard time grasping telepathy in humans,
look at the animals because we're pretty closely related, you know?
And, um, and there's just some beautiful treasures of stories of this telepathic
link expressing itself in nature.
One thing that really stood out to me was, I think you said that the American Speech-Language Hearing Association
says that spelling is not a valid form of communication,
and they call it a pseudoscience.
And I was like, so that's interesting as well.
Why is it considered that way?
There is a history here for sure.
And I think the first thing that kind of made the stigma around spelling
really take hold was with facilitated communication.
Where facilitated communication was the first, oh my gosh, the individuals are spelling that people thought were locked inside and could never spell.
And that required like touch. And the use of touch became problematic, I think especially with some people who weren't trained. because some awful court cases erupted from consent that wasn't given,
horrible things that happened through this form of spelling.
So then spelling evolved into rapid prompting method
and spelling to communicate,
and now the speller's method where no touch at all.
I mean, you cannot touch, it's like a tenet of that.
And when you sit in the room with a speller,
it's really remarkable to watch, you know,
because they're not being touched, they're spelling, it's clear they're pointing directly to where they want speller, it's really remarkable to watch, you know, because they're not being touched, they're spelling,
it's clear they're pointing directly to where they want to go.
It's not like a struggle.
The parent is certainly not going like this, you know,
often it's completely like rooted.
So it's really difficult that that stigma exists
because these individuals are having to prove constantly,
I'm in here, my words are mine, I authored them,
and that's really hard.
But I will say that this is not a new thing.
Sign language took over a 100 years to become accepted.
Even in the 60s, 70s.
Yeah, walk me through that. I didn't know that.
I learned that through listening.
Like 150 years sign language took to be accepted.
What were the steps? Do you know?
I mean, I think people were saying it wasn't real language.
There's no grammatical structure.
The rallying cry was that anyone who is deaf
should learn to read lips and try to speak.
Basically fit into our world.
We are not going to allow this language to take place.
Same thing happened with Braille.
Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille,
kind of modified this language where you could use dots to communicate.
And it was considered, it was outlawed.
They weren't allowed to use it in school where he was going to school.
When they finally did a big test to prove
that like one person who was blind
was gonna spell something
and another person was gonna read it
because the kids were using it like quietly
even though it was like outlawed in the school.
And when they did that big test with viewers
and people to watch,
the first big claim was they're cheating.
They practiced in advance
to pretend what they were gonna write.
It seemed outlandish that you could read dots with your finger and spell by poking holes
into something.
And so Braille went through the same dilemma.
And so I think like this control of how we use language, who's allowed to use it, and
if it's valid is not new.
But it's really unfortunate because that is a human right to communicate,
to say what you want for dinner.
I mean, the most basic things.
And if anyone out there is critiquing this without seeing a speller in action,
I just think it's like a crime because you're trying to steal a voice from another living human being.
It's really mean.
Yeah. I mean, what do the skeptics think is going on in those homes?
There's a lot around the tests around spelling, right?
To prove it's like efficacy have really changed throughout the years.
So at first it's like, okay, no touch.
Well, okay, there's no touch.
Now sit further apart.
Okay, sit further apart. That's working.
Then it's like the parent shouldn't look at the board.
Okay, well, we won't look at the board.
Then it's like then can the parent leave the room?
Well, there's something fascinating, which is why I think it's really important at the board, okay, well we won't look at the board.
There's certainly many spellers I've talked to who say like, I need a person nearby, a trusted communication partner.
And I don't know if it's the physiology is grounding them.
I don't know if it is that it's helpful to use their eyes.
I have no idea what it is.
But there's this beautiful kind of meshing that happens,
especially in the earlier parts of the journey,
that are a bit inexplicable.
And if you try to test it, it's going to be like,
how do you explain that? And I don't know, but it takes two people
to do sign language, you know, you can't do it alone.
And so if this partner, and it doesn't always have to,
often people have many partners, right?
There might be some communication partners at school
and at work and with a parent,
but if that partner is needed to be somewhere
in the space to ground you, why does it matter?
I mean, why does it actually matter?
If they're typing on their own with their finger,
new thoughts, self-diagnosing,
talking about things other people don't know about,
I mean, it's clear they're in there
and they're communicating their thoughts.
Why it is that someone might need to be in the room
to help them do it,
that's a science question that I can't answer.
I think it has to do with physiology.
I think it has to do with energy. I think it has to do with energy.
It might have to do with like using someone else's like frequency to help you just stabilize.
I have no way or integrate with your body.
I don't know what it is.
I don't think anyone knows, but people are asking the wrong questions because they're
trying to test, test, test, test this and not looking at like, well, why is that link
needed to make spelling work?
But certainly the individuals are typing their own thoughts,
often self diagnosing their own care,
spelling things that the spelling partner
might not know about.
It's fascinating.
What's been your, if you had to pick a couple
of favorite stories or experiences that have really stayed
with your relationships you've built
with some of the parents and families
and non-speaking individuals that stand out to you
that you shared on telepathy tapes.
Every day is a bit of a, it's a beautiful thing.
And I think about even now that we have a film team
working on this, that they are starting
to send their stories.
Like my producer just wrote the other day
and she's like, I just met this mom.
And then her daughter walked in the room
and knew my name and where I lived
and what my child's name was.
And like, why hadn't said any of that?
And how did she know that?
And I was like, exactly, it's welcome.
You know, welcome to the party.
And it's fun.
And like one of my favorite memories
was once there was a mom that was trying
to get a hold of me and I was busy on like phone calls and I wasn't able to answer. once there was a mom
to get lunch and stuff like that where it's like, oh my goodness, are they remote viewing me sometimes?
Which is fine.
So it's like bits of magic every day.
Yeah, I'm not claiming to have any telepathic abilities,
but I have this habit of whenever I think of someone,
I always message them, even if I don't need anything
or want anything.
And 99% of the time when I think of someone,
I don't want anything or need something.
So I'll just message them and say,
hey, I'm thinking of you and sending love, I'm here for you. And 99% of the time when I think of someone, I don't want anything or need something. So I'll just message them and say, hey, I'm thinking of you and sending love, I'm here for you.
And 99% of the time, someone will message me back and say,
I was just thinking about you.
Or I really need to try now, whatever it may be.
Now, whatever that is, I always love the magic of being able to send that message,
whether it is met with a positive response or not.
And it's just a beautiful thing to try.
And I think, I just love that your work is making us more curious and opening us up to
these ideas because that to me is the part of us that's missing when it comes to spiritual
innovation.
You know, Mark Twain talked about, he called it mental telegraphy.
And this was his observation that often you would write a letter to someone you hadn't
thought about in five, seven years.
And then the day that you postmarked it, you'd receive a letter seven days later, whatever it was, postmarked the same day from that person on the other side of the globe.
So it's like you both had the physical male proof of when you sent the letter.
And Mark Swain marveled in that, as one should. And Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Jungle, beautiful writer.
as one should. And Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Jungle, I mean, you know, beautiful writer. And one of his books that he wrote after he had like gone through his life was called Mental Radio,
where him and his wife did a bunch of telepathy tests together and they documented how accurate
they were. And I love the opening to that book by Upton Sinclair, because he's like, this would be
the type of thing that should be dismissed or you should, you know, is held with such high skepticism.
But what he said is, after I've experienced it, I know this to be true.
And I loved his words.
He wasn't like, I think this is true.
It was, I know this is true.
So this has all been around.
Yeah.
What about, I was actually going to ask you about the connection
between dreams and telepathy.
Has there been any connection there?
Have you come across anything between those two?
Well, I mean, I think for people who are deeply interested in that, we have an
episode on that, which is episode eight of the telepathy tapes, which I do
encourage people to listen to in order.
But there was one mom in England and I wanted to, we have a spelling episode,
all about spelling and that's episode eight, where we go into the issues around
spelling. But I thought one of the best non-speakers to highlight in that
episode would be someone who never learned to spell.
but I thought one of the best non-speakers to highlight in that episode would be someone who never learned to spell.
Him and his mom have a telepathic link together, but it's formed in their dreams,
where he brings her into a lucid dreaming state. The first time it ever happened, I love this story,
he was younger. I think he was maybe like 11 or so, came to her in a dream and
she thought she was dreaming and then he gave her an ace of spades and did this whole thing like look through the ace of spades and she like woke up into
a lucid dream and then he started talking and telling her all this stuff and remember
this in the morning and they're going to tell you I need antibiotics but I need probiotics
and blah blah blah blah.
So she woke up in the morning and thought oh I just had a dream and he was talking and
didn't think anything of it and then he went and saw her the next morning grabbed an ace
of spades from a deck in another room and like showed
it, did what he did in the dream. And that's when she realized, oh my goodness, he came
to my, in my dream and was talking there. And that's how they have deep conversations
and they actually started writing music together that way. She didn't know he was a musician
until he was starting music therapy late in his life. I mean, in his twenties. Once she
discovered that he started coming to her in dreams
and being like, this is a melody or these are the lyrics
you need to write this down.
And now he's, I mean, he's pretty well respected musician in England.
Wow.
And it's all through dreams.
It's incredible.
And one of the things that I came across listening that I wanted to know more about is
John Paul and Lily and that connection.
Can you explain that to the audience who may not have heard it yet?
Yeah. I mean, there's a non-speaker
featured in the Shelf with These Tapes.
His name is John Paul.
He's episode four.
He's episode four, and he's ginormous.
I mean, he's almost, he's like almost seven feet tall.
He's a huge individual.
And he had a girlfriend named Lily.
They would letterboard, but they would often say
when they were letterboarding,
it was for everyone's benefit around them,
that most of their relationship was telepathic.
And John Paul's mother used to say it was really funny
because they would go on dates at her house
and they'd be on different floors and she'd be like,
are they even hanging out?
What is this?
And then she would leave and John Paul would be like,
that was so great.
We had so many awesome conversations then,
because a lot of it was happening mind to mind
and it was just a beautiful part of it.
And the parents would kind of marvel at, like, sometimes
in the exact second, they each would come down and say,
I want to go see John Paul, I want to go see Lily.
We'd text, and the text would come in from each other,
right, at the same time.
And that's when the parents were like,
they're talking to each other from where they're, what?
How is this happening?
It was telepathy.
So yeah, I mean, and you know, John Paul loved Lily so much and Lily loves John Paul.
I mean, they really wanted to get married.
And I think it's such an important, beautiful element of this.
And I think it's important for everyone to understand
is like a non-speaking individual is still an individual
with their high school interests and, you know,
hobbies and desires and bands they like and clothes they like
and things they want and relationships they want.
I mean, I think the spiritual gifts is just a part of it.
It's just a part of it.
Like, I don't think it's healthy to look at these individuals as oracles or, you know.
They're human beings that just are more tapped into this.
Yeah, right, right.
And I think that's a really important point that you made there.
It's like, we all have different gifts and abilities and it's just,
I think if you start to think that this person is gifted beyond that, that can get quite messy, I assume.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In any way, for any reason.
For sure. You know, I mean, Lily likes biking and go-karting and John Paul loved poetry and swimming and manatees.
And like Mia from episode one wants to be a writer, she wants to go to Japan. Like the most important thing is to know any individual,
what makes them tick, what their interests are,
what they want to do with their lives.
I mean, like these are the questions we all should be
entitled to answer for ourselves and every non-speaking
individual and I just want people to like remember this
as an individual that should be met in that way.
And this is, these gifts, if they appear in such an
individual is beautiful and cool, but they appear in such an individual,
is beautiful and cool, but it's not, it doesn't define them.
Can you explain the hill?
Well, this was something that didn't form for me
as like a valid thing immediately.
There was a few non-speakers in Atlanta
that said that they connect on the hill telepathically
and that it's a chat room, basically,
a telepathic chat room where you can tune in.
And Houston was the name, who named it, he actually named it the chat on the basically, a telepathic chat room where you can tune in. And Houston was the name who named it.
He actually named it the chat on the hill,
the talk on the hill.
And then his good friend, John Paul, said that he goes there
and he would put pillows on his head to block out stuff.
And then his girlfriend, Lily, said she goes there
and that a lot of people congregate there
and that there's more than one hill.
So I had a hard time wrapping my head around that.
And at first I'm like, okay, it's an Atlanta thing.
Like the individuals in Atlanta are doing this.
Where I really, talk about a two by four,
like there's been a few moments.
And for one, for me was when I had just met
this new teacher in Chicago.
She had no idea about telepathy at all.
She had reached out to Dr. Powell
because her students were talking about ghosts
and seeing ghosts and knowing things.
And it totally weirded her out.
Like it was just weird.
So she asked me to call with me and Dr. Powell.
She's explaining this.
I did a follow-up call with her
once she saw that the Tz'lepith is happening.
And then she said, and you would not believe it.
Like some of the kids are saying
they go to this place called the Hill.
And on the Hill, they can learn this and learn that.
And I thought, what?
And then fully third person was this minister
from like a mega church in Arizona.
I met him, he was very nervous to talk about this.
He was writing his own book.
He thought this was only in his congregation that he,
you know, again, it was a miracle
that he alone was privy to.
I met him and then he was telling me a story
about how one of his students would just met
with another non-speaker from another church
in another state.
And he's like, and they were talking about the weirdest thing
when they were getting off the phone, they started spelling to each other,
meet me at the Hill.
And he's like, do you know what that is?
And I think I was stunned because now here's someone in Minnesota
talking about Arizona, Chicago, and Atlanta.
So after I had to go through a lot of Hill references to believe it myself,
and now there's no doubt in my mind.
That's, I can't wait to learn more about that.
Yeah, it's cool. It's very frustrating, I think for a lot of non-speakers, because you want to do there's no doubt in my mind. I can't wait to learn more about that.
Yeah, it's cool.
It's very frustrating, I think, for a lot of non-speakers,
because you want to do something and your body totally betrays you.
You might want to enter a room and instead you're leaving it.
And the only time it seems like they're able to really gather
and communicate their true thoughts is through spelling.
That mind-body disconnect taught me a lot, because for instance,
Akhil, who we feature in episode two, he didn't know where his body was.
And for a lot of people who need to be touched
when they first learn spelling,
it's because they don't know where their body is.
Akhil didn't know he had fingers.
He had to be massaged over and over.
I remember Houston, when he first was spelling,
he said he needed heavy boots
so he knew where the ground was.
And so you can imagine,
if you don't feel connected to your body,
to the point where you don't even think you have one,
you're living in the mental world that consciousness is fundamental.
That makes even more sense now.
I think it's less about non-speaking.
People, I don't think it has much to do with autism at all.
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Yeah, that is completely...
Yeah, that makes so much more sense.
When I was looking at studies on monks' brains,
they found that when monks were doing the deepest meditations,
if they put their hand on a hot plate, which most of us would touch and immediately take our hand back,
that they were able to keep their hand on it because they're disconnected from the physical experience.
So it didn't feel hot to them at all, because they were so removed from their physical state.
And those studies have been proven and shown.
And just that idea of being so deep in meditation
that you didn't feel heat.
And I think people, it's really interesting to think about Eastern traditions.
There's a beautiful statement by C.S. Lewis that says,
you don't have a soul, you are the soul and you have a body.
And going to your consciousness point, that idea that
because we live as if we are the body,
Eastern traditions would argue that
therefore we only know what the body knows, we only know our limits
based on physicality.
But for those of us that know we're not the body and that we're consciousness,
so much more is accessible.
And that's where your point around belief system
and value system and everything else come in that,
oh, wait a minute, I'm not actually just limited by this.
Right. Absolutely.
And I think that like when we understand that,
and apraxia and the mind-body disconnect,
and that can help inform a lot of the confusion around spelling.
You know, because certainly, if you don't know where your body is, disconnect and that can help inform a lot of the confusion on spelling and you know because
certainly if you don't know where your body is when you're learning it helps to touch and that's
why when people throw facilitate communication out because you're being touched it's like no if
that's working for someone and they need pressure the whole time to know where their hand is put
pressure on their hand so they can spell yeah awesome cool like let's assist people to get to
their best selves and their whole,
you know, but yeah, the mind body disconnect, the not knowing where your body is because non-speakers
say that over and over and over and over again, that they're not living in their body. They don't
feel their body. They don't have control over their body. And so, so then what is the reality? It's
not the body reality. It's a different reality. And this is what we're all tuning into this
different reality that they're able to talk about as messengers because of a plight, honestly. I think most of them feel
very frustrated about the inability to control their body, but the gifts that come along
with it. And John Paul, when he said, I think Libby once asked him, like, you know, what
about, what do you love most about yourself? And he was like, everything, you know? So
I do think like that experience of not being tethered to your body can be beautiful.
It's just different from what we're seeing.
We're seeing a body that's having a very difficult time managing in the world.
But their experience is not bodily to the same degree.
Yeah.
I was speaking to one of my friends the other day and he was, he's very deep into AI
and he was explaining to me that if you looked at an extremely, extremely below average individual in terms of IQ, Einstein was only 2.4 more times intelligent than that person.
And then if you look at AI, we can't even comprehend how intelligent AI is because AI is
going to be, is already a hundred times more intelligent than that, million times more
intelligent, could be expansively 10 million times more intelligent than that, million times more intelligent, could be expansively 10 million times more intelligent
than Einstein, which is bizarre to even experience.
And imagine, because how could someone be more intelligent
and have a better IQ than Einstein?
And it's just really interesting when you look at it
from that dimension that I think we're already with AI
experiencing something quite remarkable and quite beyond.
Like it's quite phenomenal that we kind of take it as something that's,
to some degree, becoming normalized.
When it's really not that normal that there are going to be,
and just because we see it as computers and tech,
but being able to understand us, being able to know our needs,
being able to know what we want to hear.
I've read so many articles with people now using AI as their therapist
and everything else and feeling so understood.
Yes.
And, but that's the same kind of curiosity and openness we have to have over here.
Yes.
Of just being open to marvel at these incredible abilities.
I don't know if that resonates or am I getting it wrong?
I mean, no, I think it's fascinating.
I mean, I think we can attach so much
of our personal needs onto anything.
You know what I mean?
And AI is just, all of this is converging at the same time.
And that's what's most interesting is like AI
and like what that's making us question about consciousness.
I think even like psychedelics and people's embrace
of how that can help with mental health and
explorations of consciousness and the
trials they're doing where people feel like they are certain there's more, you know, and that's happening with this exposure of what the non-speakers are
hoping to I think teach us
alongside
Sudden interest and validation on UAP like it seems like it's all converging at once
Yes
And we're just like in the water of it right now sudden interest and validation on UAP. Like it seems like it's all converging at once. Yes.
And we're just like in the water of it right now.
Like I don't even think we realize
how significant this moment is for humans in consciousness.
It's a cool time to be alive.
Yeah. How do we make sure that it's not made quiet
and put down?
Cause I imagine that that's, you know,
a natural thing that's happened in the past as well.
Yeah, that it's been, it's back down and just.
Yeah. Because it's seen as scary.
It's, or people are like,
oh, this is bad, or it's, you know, whatever.
But how do we make sure that we keep asking these questions?
I think social media has changed everything,
because I think the scaffolding of control
was always very powerful before,
because it's like someone had the ability to silence you
and no one would know that happened.
Like you could be just quieted
and not be able to get your truth out and they'd steal your
camera and it was done.
But I feel like, or there'd just be a mass discrediting of someone.
What's happening now with social media is you can get out a truth very quickly and find
other people who agree and concur and thumb up it. And it's much more difficult to make someone seem bonkers,
especially when there's a lot of people validating a truth.
If scientists and others in the community are open
to wanting to go and be with the non-speakers
and be a part of this, how do we do,
and how does the general public do it in a way
that isn't disrespectful, isn't,
because I can imagine that testing and things could be exhausting for these individuals,
they're humans, we're kind of...
You know, this whole process is somewhat invasive of...
Yeah, I mean, I get very nervous about that.
And I feel like scientists and researchers, it's like,
you have your questions, but like, just let's pause for a second.
You know, and one of the things that we've been talking about
and trying to start a foundation for and put like profits that come in from the film
or anything or donations to this foundation
that maybe could try to open up centers
in different states or cities where non-speakers can go
and learn to spell for free in an affordable way
and have physical therapy
and parents can have respite care
where they can bring their child here
and they know they'll be well taken care of
and the non-speakers can have their physical,
mental and spiritual needs met.
And then, then, only then, it's like,
if there's an interest that one individual is like,
I do want to study whales,
then maybe like through these centers,
a scientist who's a marine biologist could apply
and they have to learn how to spell
and they have to like really get vetted
and be on the level of the non-speakers.
And then there could be like a way that maybe
where they pay the non-speaker to work with them.
And so that way it's equitable
and it's all centered on the non-speaker
and really working to fit into their world
instead of asking them to be a square peg fitting
into like the round hole of our world.
And so I think we just have to approach it differently.
The thing that makes me sick is the idea of someone being like,
I want to test on speakers and do this and do that.
Like, that is gross.
And I can't imagine.
I don't think many families would.
I mean, some very science-minded people might,
but I know one of individuals that is in our project
really wants to learn plant medicine.
How awesome.
But let's find a scientist who deeply cares
and just doesn't want to like ask questions
and cut and run, like pay the individual, you know,
bring them into the fold, help with their education,
you know, so there's a way to do it ethically
and we just have to get there first.
How does that feel after three and a half years of work?
I'm sure like finally sharing it with the world
and receiving those emails yourself
and what's that experience been like?
I think the worst outcome for me,
which would have been really awful,
would have been like if we were getting emails
being like, this isn't true, this isn't true.
But the opposite has happened,
where it's so many parents who are like,
I always thought this was, you know,
my wife didn't believe me or husband didn't believe me
or blank, blank, blank.
And now like we're having open conversations
and we're sending it to the nieces and nephews
and uncles and aunts and like, that's really cool.
And it's just so beautiful.
I mean, it's beautiful because I think people
are finding community.
And my biggest concern always is for people to live
like a transparent whole life.
Like don't compartmentalize, don't lie in secret.
Just be all of you.
And I think for non-speaking individuals,
they are able to now be all of themselves,
because so many more people are willing and able to see them and receive them.
And that is beautiful. There's nothing that can compare to that.
And how has it impacted your personal, spiritual and consciousness journey of understanding yourself on a deeper level?
I mean, I believe all sorts of things I didn't three and a half years ago.
I certainly believe that consciousness survives.
I actually think consciousness is not local.
I don't believe our body creates it.
I mean, I think we help and assist in that,
and our memories and all those things work together,
but I think we are working with consciousness coming in from somewhere else.
I certainly believe in things like precognition
and psi abilities and even mediumship abilities,
stuff like that that I didn't, that I dismissed before.
Yeah, I mean, I'm forever changed, you know?
And it's cool, like I have young kids
and it's cool watching how they're growing up
with these things.
I mean, they hear about it all the time.
They're hearing the Zoom calls.
And it's just part of their life.
Like I saw my daughter playing Barbies the other day
and they were, and this was actually a few years back when I was still working on it. And they were divvying up like, and it's just part of their life. Like I saw my daughter playing Barbies the other day
and this was actually a few years back
when I was still working on it.
And they were divvying up like,
okay, your Barbies are doing this
and this is the identity of your Barbies.
My daughter goes, and my two Barbies are non-speakers.
And then her friend is like, well, how are they going to talk?
And she's like, through telepathy.
And I was just like, oh my gosh, that's great.
You know, just watching it,
like being part and parcel of,
you know, their world is cool.
What's the wildest thought of yours they read when you didn't know?
I mean, it was an embarrassing thought and I had no idea the extent
and I'm not even going to say what it was,
but we were sitting at a table and it was after a long day of shooting.
Dr. Powell was there, we had another neuroscientist there,
I think Katie was there, Houston was there.
And I remember, I don't was there, Houston was there.
And I remember, I don't remember exactly what the thought was,
but it was enough that it was like an embarrassing silly thing.
And all of a sudden the second I thought it, Houston like laughed
and like spit out his beer practically.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, he heard my thought.
And that was where I was like, wow, okay,
like when we were doing the telepathy test, it's one thing,
but when you experience it over like a beer
and you realize someone heard your thought and like laughed.
That was like, I'm like, okay, I got to like clean it out again, clear it out.
Gosh.
Kai, is there anything that I didn't ask you that you really wanted to share
or something that's on your heart or mind that you didn't get to speak on that you would like to share?
The final episode of the telepathy tapes, I gave the floor to non-speakers from all over the world.
And I think the best lessons are in there.
And like one thing that I think about all the time
is one of the non-speakers said that kindness
is the best way to evolve.
And so I just want people to think about that.
And when people are very afraid about,
one thing you didn't ask about was like
the fear about reading thoughts.
And I had to think about that a lot over the past few years
that why does that so scary to people?
And I think it's scary because people don't maybe like the thoughts in their head
or it's too, you know, they'd feel too exposed.
But if we are capable of this and we're being called maybe to like get to a place
where this is a communication we're all capable of,
then we're first called to like clean our own thoughts a little bit.
And that's easy to control, how you think about people, how you think about yourself,
how you think about the world around you, the choices you're making.
And if you are conscious about those thoughts all the time and making them pure
and loving, it's not scary if someone's reading them, you know?
So I think that like, I love that that kindness is the best way to evolve.
Cause some non-speakers are saying, hey, we are all capable of this.
This is where we're going to go.
We all have to do that hard work of like becoming more loving, kind individuals first.
Do you think it's possible that we will become capable or have the opportunity to become capable to communicate that way?
Many non-speakers I've met have said that we are capable of that.
And again, I trust their insights more than I trust my own.
I do think we're all capable of it.
I've seen it turned on in teachers.
I think it's all possible.
And I think for those, it's scary to take a look inside,
let that be a mirror, you know?
And it's a beautiful thing,
because one non-speaker, and then I know we'll end,
but like one non-speaker once said that,
look, if you say the word Thanksgiving,
you've said the word Thanksgiving,
but if I telepathically send it,
you're given the football game on
and your uncle pulling up and sleeping in your childhood bed
and the smells and like your favorite candy
and seeing this person and the smell of your mom's hair
and like all the whole thing.
And it's an experience that is so immensely beautiful
and there's no sarcasm and there's no withholding
and there's no exaggerating.
It's all just the pure.
And to me it's like, wow, what would happen
if we were all living that way?
So if we do get to a space where more of us
are telepathically communicating,
I think it's going to be good for humanity, not bad.
If you knew what someone was thinking,
how would you speak differently too?
I think that's the other side.
One side is being able to read
and maybe someone cleaning their thoughts.
But if I could see what you were thinking, how would I speak to you differently?
How would I look at you differently?
How would I connect with you differently?
It would transform, hopefully, how we'd take care of each other as well.
It does, totally.
And I've learned that just being around non-speakers, making sure, like in my thoughts, it's like, okay, like they're being read.
So just make sure they're... And then so the whole day, you're empty, actually, it's like you're
meditating in a way like my keep my thoughts really empty. And I actually find even like,
directing you it's with them is easier to do that, like you just empty out. And you
feel better than they feel great. At the end of the day, you're living in the moment, because
most of our thoughts are what just happened or what's in the future. And when you're just
empty, you're like totally present.
And so that's the gift where I'm always like being
with non-speakers aware of my thoughts
and just trying to have none.
That's beautiful.
It's a beautiful way to live.
That's really beautiful, yeah.
That's beautiful, Kai.
It has been so fascinating talking to you, honestly.
I think the work that you're doing is so inspiring.
And truly, there's been very little that I think we've had to be curious about for a long time when it comes to this space.
And I really feel like you've brought something to the fore that we can all be spiritually curious about.
And the questions that you're asking are so intriguing to me,
then questions that I believe we all should be looking
for the answers.
I think for a long time,
we've thought about physical questions,
like how do we make the body stronger
and how do we sleep better?
And those are really important questions.
I stand by that.
We do that a lot on this show,
but similarly, I think we're all asking questions
of like, why do we exist and why am I here?
And, you know, do I really understand the abilities
that I have? And especially you know, do I really understand the abilities that I have?
And, and especially for those that have been seen as, like you said, that they're
not in there to realize that there is a purpose, there is a value, there is a
gift, there is, of course there is already, but inherently, but there's so
much more that we don't know.
And so, I'm so grateful for your time and energy, not just today, but for the
last three and a half years of you dedicating your life to this purpose and
for sharing it with me so openly and graciously with me and my audience. And I'm sure everyone,
if they're not already listening to the telepathy tips, which I'm sure they are,
will go back and listen or will listen for the first time and help pass it on.
Thank you.
How much can people support or connect if they want to be a part of this work with you
and encourage you or even want to write to you?
How can they get in touch or how can they follow along?
Yeah, I mean, we are on all the social media at the Telepathy Tapes.
I would encourage people though, my biggest ask is please like just presume competence
if you see a non-speaker, if you meet a non-speaker, if you meet a non-speaker,
if you work with non-speakers, they're in there.
They're human beings.
Help them get on boards, learn to spell.
And if you are interested in getting engaged
with non-speakers, you could become a spelling
to communicate partner by going to S2C,
or spelling to communicate, or a spellers method.
Like just go look into this,
because we need more spellers.
I mean, that's the biggest ask is just that everyone starts
assisting them and meeting them and presuming competence.
That's everything to me.
I hope we can stay in touch
and I can ask you more questions here,
updates and continue this conversation offline as well.
I feel like there's so many great spiritual conversations
to be had and shared.
And I can't wait to see where this works goes.
So here as a supporter and cheerleader and look forward to learning lots more.
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Thank you for having me on.
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