The Telepathy Tapes
A couple of years ago I wrote an article about a woman named Jes who came to see me for acupuncture with the hope of trying to re-establish her psychic connection that she had formed with a severely autistic child. The story began many years ago when she was an English teacher for young non-verbal neural-divergent ‘autistic’ children. After sometime she realised that the kids were communicating with each other telepathically, and slowly they began to communicate with her psychically as well. There was one child in particular, Asher, with whom she formed a special bond with and over the years this telepathic link blossomed to such an extent that Asher was able to dictate a book to Jez from across the country. This has now been published as a book entitled – A Mind Beyond Words.
Since then this story has become a global sensation, thanks largely due to a podcast called The Telepathy Tapes. This is a series created by documentary film maker Ky Dickens. In this podcast Ky explores the possibilities of telepathy within the non-speaking community. She interviews many parents and carers of severely autistic children who have had a sense that their children may be communicating with them psychically or even reading their minds. Recent scientific advancements have meant that it is now possible for some of these children to ‘spell’, either with using a touch screen computer or something that they can control with their eye gaze. This has led to a novel situation where these non-verbal children are able to share their thoughts and the consequences of this have been staggering.
In the early episodes there are experiments where the child was put in a separate room from their mother (as the mother was usually the closest carer) and the mother was shown a four digit number. The child would then ‘spell’ out the number that they thought their mother was looking at. Some of the children tested were able to get this number correctly over twenty times in a row. This is odds of 10,000 to 1, each time, of getting right by chance alone. It wasn’t just numbers that were being communicated but also words, colours and even feelings.
As Ky continued her research she was contacted by many parents, across the States, and indeed across the world who thought they recognised these psychic traits in their own autistic children . The research grew and many more kids were tested and proven to be amazingly telepathic. It seems as though when one sense is restricted then another one can come to the foreground. However with further investigation telepathy was shown to be only the tip of the iceberg.
It turns out that many of these kids also have the ability to meet up somewhere ‘out there’ in a place that they call ‘The Hill’. This is some kind of astral meeting place where non-verbal people can connect, communicate and learn from one another. This may seem fanciful to the neural-typical mind but Ky’s research has shown that a child in the U.K was able to demonstrate specific knowledge of another autistic child in Texas. There really was no way of them getting this information other than by meeting up in some sort etheric realm.
Obviously the scientific community has been slow on the uptake and critique Ky’s methods on the ‘lack of a double-blind study’ reasoning. But maybe part of the reluctance in accepting the fact that these neural-divergent people have other senses lies in the fact of how poorly they have been treated by the medical system in the past. There is an unwillingness to accept that our western rational brain reasoning may not be the only way of thinking about the world. But we really don’t have time for the scientific paradigm to catch up, there are thousands of these kids out there now that need to be heard.
And the message that these non-verbal people are trying to convey and the one that they keep coming back to, is that in the end everything comes down to love and the way to communicate truly with one another is through the heart. At one point this year these Telepathy Tapes were the most listened to podcast in the world, so it seems that their message, is finally and thankfully getting out there.