All You Need is Love - thoughts on the Telepathy Tapes
I recently came across what’s become a viral phenomenon, the podcast seen by over ten million people called The Telepathy Tapes. The basic story is this - autistic, non-speaking people, mostly younger, have displayed, in their homes or in classrooms, the ability to read minds.
Ky Dickens, the creator of the podcast, says that the autistic people that have been tested don’t define the phenomena so much as reading minds, but rather as a sharing of consciousness.
The episodes are incredibly mind-blowing. They describe a series of tests in which telepathy is proven over and over to nearly 100% accuracy by these autistic individuals. Right now, the podcast, being audio, can’t visually show the process of testing and the astonishing results - but numbers, often five digits, or words, hidden, were created by a digital random number or word creator, then “seen,” across the room, after being looked at by the sender, or parent, typed by the subject on a tablet or pointed to on an alphabet pad. A filmed documentary is now in the works, but there are a few videos on YouTube at this point, as jaw-dropping as the podcast descriptions are. Below is the podcast link, then two YouTube links.
The contrasting methods between accepted medical analysis and nurturing can clearly be seen in the case of these non-verbal autistic children. For decades they were viewed as damaged, wiring gone kaput, basically nobody home. This was the devastating conclusion dropped on you as a parent. The diagnosis was at best, well, there might somebody in there but you’re never going to find them. Anti-depressants and anti-psychotic drugs were, still are, regularly proscribed management.
Then we have the recent breakthrough of the spelling method, so called facilitated communication, which has been controversial, but is basically just guiding non-verbal autistic learners as to how to use a letter board or to type. Many become independent of the facilitation and can advance to type or point on their own. That’s when clear communication begins, when these non-verbal people start writing things to their parents like, “I can read your mind.” Or they tell them about The Hill. More about that later.
It’s best at this point that if you’re interested in this, or doubtful and want to see it in order to debunk it, go and listen to the podcasts, which will tell you more, and more convincingly, than I could ever do in a summarization. Bob Dylan asked in a song, “Have you ever done the opposite of what the experts say?” This is exactly what Ky Dickens and Dr. Powell have done. Which is ripped open the clinical, tightly bolted doors of scientific materialism.
Materialism in a scientific context means if you can’t objectively test it, it isn’t real. But that same definition is often discarded by science. They can’t test the reality of dark matter, but all physicists believe in it. Can’t see it, can’t get a jar full, but they know it’s there because of how things surrounding it are affected. We can’t see gravitational waves, we don’t know what causes gravitation, but we know stuff falls. So materialism as a valid scientific method is a thinly veiled hoax, of sorts. It’s valid when it serves sciences’ purpose, but as reality becomes more diaphanous, as we venture further into this mysterious quantum universe, then acceptable theories about the unseen are hastily constructed. Here’s our newest best guess theory.
Why not think there are fields of consciousness? Better yet, why not investigate it in new and creative ways? Why is it science believes it’s impossible to have consciousness outside of the brain, when there’s so many obvious examples of it to be seen? With consciousness as fundamental, the mysterious things being to make sense. Why does science do everything in its power to shoot down such findings?
The reason is, I believe, simply ego based. Separatism. Science likes its materialism, it’s clinical aspect, formulas written, papers incomprehensible to the general reader. This sets science apart from regular life. It’s been defined. History shows us that every scientific truth ever presented to the world has been, over time, either thrown out or updated. We’ve seen string theory come and go and it may be coming back again. The laboratory, defined in the largest sense, is a part of the scientific method, a rigorous and integral part, but not the whole. There are things outside of the laboratory that need to be explored. The holders of current ‘truth’, of course, defend those positions vigorously, because books and academic careers are built on such. Within science, there is fierce fighting for supremacy, and a lack of holistic collaboration within the field. Despite the protests to the contrary, factions of science demonstrate the enjoyment of their exclusivity in their positions as gatekeepers of the truth. Standing above the non-peer grouped rest.
Parapsychology researcher Rupert Sheldrake has done various testing about the nature of consciousness, for instance, how people absolutely know they’re being stared at from behind (if you’re a woman, I guarantee you will acknowledge you’ve experienced this), in dogs knowing when their people are on the way home. Twins who know things about the other, even if they’re separated by thousands of miles. Like dark matter, the presence of these phenomena are seen, but since they’re non-material, beyond the five senses, they’re dismissed as coincidence.
Skepticism has been the guiding dictum of the materialism rationale, elevated to our premier rational mode of thinking. In a world of con artists and charlatans, it has become useful, I admit. But let’s call skepticism exactly what it is. Skepticism is bias. Skepticism is going into something with a preconceived “Nope” as one’s uppermost thought. Skepticism is condemning someone as guilty before the trial. Examining data is different. Examining the data is science. Skepticism is disregarding the data, or casting a jaundiced eye, before examining it.
In The Telepathy Tapes, we have a growing collection of data that appears to upend all that science had previously accepted about the ability of the mind. The studies are admittedly done at homes, but under scrupulous conditions, and to anyone who believes it could be a gigantic con job coordinated by people of the autistic community, well, that very notion is scientifically preposterous, in what it would take to show how that could possibly work.
Of course, countless people throughout history have known of and accepted, under different names or descriptions, this shared consciousness and the boundless nature of the connected whole that is the universe. Shamans, saints, mystics, poets, philosophers. Watch a murmuration of birds, a school of fish, an ant colony, or think of The Beatles, who Mick Jagger called “the four headed monster.” By that he meant they thought and acted with one mind. It wasn’t that they were telepathic, but that singular unity of purpose, which showed such astounding results in the originality of their music, points to the salient underlying truth that the reason we’re here is to connect. Not to dictate from a throne, which will always fail, but to unite everyone in a common wealth.
I spoke about The Hill earlier. This is the big reveal, the mind-blowing fact. These kids meet. In a mental place they call The Hill, a psychic chat room, if you like, were they share thoughts, ideas, knowledge.
When asked about it by Ky Dickens, one of them told her that the place was protected by love, and they were powerful in that regard. If outsiders with bad intent were somehow able to come into The Hill, they could be dispatched.
Dickens said their description of love was this - Love is anything that unifies.
And so John Lennon, with his tortured heart, denied love as a child, who yearned for it so all through his life, was right.
All we need is love. Then the impossible isn’t.