KY DICKENS OF THE TELEPATHY TAPES

31 Dec 2025 · 1 h 8 min · 25 chapters

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In short

Kai Dickens discusses “telepathy tapes” and spelling-based communication for non-speaking autistic people, arguing that mind-reading/telepathic communication is real, measurable, and should be supported in schools as a human-rights issue. She frames autism experiences through her work as a documentary filmmaker and as an autism parent advocate.

Guest backgrounds

The main guest is an autism mother (describes her daughter “Carmela,” diagnosed with autism; nonverbal/limited communication; uses melatonin; experiences overwhelm tied to the mother’s emotions and world events). She also shares stories involving a non-speaker child in her community and her daughter’s communication progress. Kai is a documentary filmmaker with a long autism-inclusion background; she cites Dr. Powell’s research on non-speaking autistic individuals who claim to read minds.

Key claims

Telepathy and “authorship” can be tested via controlled message-passing/spelling tasks; spelling requires trained “communication regulation partners” (not untrained facilitators); facilitated communication failed due to bad practitioners; telepathy/spelling should be scientifically validated and legalized for school use.

Notable examples

Carmela “reads” the mother’s sadness (e.g., reacting to Gaza news); a grandfather makes a tincture for a “harassed” child; a non-speaker “diagnoses” and recommends Chinese herbs; a non-speaker describes a gorilla signing across rooms; a letterboard/spelling journey where compassion enables communication.

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Significance of Kai Dickens

0:45 to 1:59

The host shares the emotional importance of replaying the episode with Kai Dickens, emphasizing its relevance for parents of autistic children.

“and that like really needed, I really needed this for my soul.”

Hope and Validation

1:59 to 2:27

The host expresses the transformative impact of Kai's work on her life as an autism parent.

“And please go ahead and send this around to anybody that you think would benefit from it.”

Understanding Autism's Emotional Depth

2:27 to 4:24

Discussion on the emotional experiences of raising a nonverbal autistic child.

“I keep, oh, it's an honor to have you here because I can't, as an autism mom, like this has validated my daughter's existence, really.”

Telepathic Experiences and Spiritual Connections

4:24 to 6:39

Exploration of the child's connections to spirits and emotional depth related to world events.

“Really, you know, kind of like solidify.”

Experiences with ABA Therapy and Communication

6:39 to 8:34

Insights into the challenges and breakthroughs in communication for non-speaking autistic children.

“It's weird because this family doesn't know that their daughter, I mean, they don't obviously believe she's in there because they're not trying to help her get out through spelling or anything like that.”

Documentary Work and Personal Journeys

8:34 to 12:15

Kai discusses her background in documentary filmmaking and her journey into exploring consciousness.

“I mean, with emails, it's like thousands, you know.”

Belief in Authenticity and Consciousness

12:15 to 14:06

Examining the authenticity of non-speaking autistic individuals and their insights into consciousness.

“But I thought, whatever this is, it's going to be my next project.”

Navigating the Scary World for Children

14:06 to 15:15

Discussing the challenges of raising children in a complex world.

“honest people without an agenda and I think that's why it was like there whatever it is here it's here this is the golden egg to understanding this because you can trust the individuals delivering the message.”

Experiences with Non-Speaking Individuals

17:18 to 20:04

Insights into the lives of non-speaking individuals and their communication challenges.

“Have you ever looked in the mirror and not recognized yourself?”

The Heartbreaking Reality of Being Misunderstood

20:05 to 21:58

Exploring the emotional toll of misconceptions about non-speaking individuals.

“I can read you something beautiful because we were working on the film.”
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The Role of Parents and Caregivers

21:59 to 24:24

Celebrating the dedication and love of parents and caregivers of non-speaking children.

“I mean, truly, you have to have I mean, you seem to be like a very humble human being, but you're literally doing what you sought out to do.”

Challenges of Autism and Safety

24:25 to 27:48

Discussing the unique safety concerns and challenges faced by parents of autistic children.

“I mean, this was a big man that she had to take care of every day.”

Understanding Mind-Body Disconnect

27:49 to 28:00

Examining the mind-body disconnect in autistic individuals and its implications.

Understanding Child Behavior and Safety

28:00 to 29:05

Discusses the challenges parents face with children's unpredictable behavior.

Shocking Insights on Non-Speakers and Telepathy

30:45 to 39:16

Explores the fascinating experiences and skills of non-speaking individuals and the ongoing research in telepathy.

“Was there anything that was like truly, really shocking to you?”

Encounters with Houston and Symbolic Connections

39:16 to 42:00

Shares a personal story about connecting with a non-speaker and the symbolic meaning behind their communication.

“But it's important for folks to know that this is what we always do with communication that's different.”

Understanding Non-Speakers and Their Unique Talents

42:00 to 45:04

Explore how non-speaking individuals express their creativity and purpose.

“I was like, it's definitely not, I was like, this doesn't come down to movies.”

The Intersection of Autism, Telepathy, and Spirituality

48:58 to 54:26

Delve into the connections between autism, telepathy, and the afterlife.

“Like, it was completely dismissive of everyday struggles.”

Creative Downloads and the Nature of Ideas

54:26 to 56:00

Understand the concept of creative downloads and the origins of inspiration.

“Like it was like, oh, this house has a genius for music or, you know, and the genius might live in the well or the pond or whatever.”

The Concept of Idea Transfer

56:00 to 56:56

Learn about the belief that ideas can be transferred between creators.

“And like the genius for music is now touching their son.”

The Nature of Inspiration and Creativity

56:56 to 57:56

Explore how inspiration can feel fleeting and the mystical side of creativity.

The Intersection of Science and Spirituality

57:56 to 59:37

Discuss the relationship between materialism and spiritual experiences.

“know but but I think the quote-unquote big magic ideas where it feels like a lightning bolt coming from somewhere else, it feels very mystical and spiritual.”

Consciousness as the Foundation

59:37 to 1:01:25

Understand the argument that consciousness underlies all reality.

“And materialism, as we've kind of conducted our whole life, saying if it doesn't fit into this and you're not smart or media is silly if they cover it or academic, academia won't fund it because it's hogwash.”

Personal Journey into Telepathy

1:01:25 to 1:03:09

Hear about the host's shift from skepticism to belief in telepathy.

“I like what you said on Joe Rogan where you said, yes, this is a physical room, but the idea of the room was there first.”

Cultural Perspectives on ESP

1:03:09 to 1:06:06

Explore how various cultures have understood and accepted ESP and telepathy.

“You really are because if you had been that kind of person, like me, who talks to her medium once a week, you know, they'd be like, yeah, Pia's over there doing a thing.”
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0:00The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

0:14Hey guys, so happy new year. I get to once a year replay an episode that I think, you know, some of you might have missed. That's just really, really, really important to me instead of recording a new episode. And this Kai Dickens episode just means the world to me as a mother of an autistic child, as a person who has felt really lost in the last three years at times. and that like really needed, I really needed this for my soul. And it was such an honor to meet her. And what I really think is important that I want you to take out of this episode, no matter what you believe in, because I think this stuff can be like hard for people to comprehend, is that Kai is approaching everything that she's doing with the telepathy tapes from such a like genuine, but very data-driven perspective.

1:24She's not some crazy woo-woo woman. She's been making documentary films for a long time, and this just happened to be something that she stumbled upon. And this is purely data and research that she's working on. So if you are a skeptic or you need a little hope or you just want to learn what it's like to understand what many of our peers are going through with autism, especially like on a more severe level, like a nonverbal level, I encourage you to sit back and listen to this. It's just pure magic. And please go ahead and send this around to anybody that you think would benefit from it. I think we all can.

2:05So enjoy your new years. I'm sending you all so much love going into 2026. And I hope that there are many moments in this podcast that make you feel really warm and fuzzy inside and help like kickstart your new year with a little bit of hope and love.

2:27It is an honor. I keep, oh, it's an honor to have you here because I can't, as an autism mom, like this has validated my daughter's existence, really. I mean, in a way that I can't ever put into words. So good to hear. And I'm sure you get this all the time and it must be an overwhelming new part of your life. But I, when I heard the telepathy tapes for the first time and a friend of mine sent it to me, it was like over a year ago, with no context, he just said this podcast is life changing. I kept pulling over on the side of the road and just sobbing. I mean, and I kept, I, in this before many people, before had gone as wide as it is now, of course.

3:10And so I kept posting these stories on my Instagram crying. And I was like, you guys don't understand how seen I feel right now. Because if you're a mom of like a special needs child, there are things that they do that you sound crazy saying to other people. Yes. But they're happening in front of me. Yeah. And this validates what I'm going through on a daily basis. Yeah. Yeah. What are some of the things your daughter, how old is she now? And what are the things that we're valid? Okay. she is she's a happy girl in general she's just not you know she's very content with herself right so she's not constantly asking for anything she never asks for anything so she has a very joyful existence her sadness comes not from what's directly happening to her it's from a sadness from something else yeah it's something that i'm experiencing yeah or i mean like what's going on in Gaza.

4:06Like if I read about, you know, the fucking hundreds of thousands of children's being killed. Yeah. She understands it. Like when big world things happen, she's the day we got her autism diagnosis. I cried in front of her. It happened in front of her. And I knew that it was coming. Yeah. But I just think the label. Yeah. Really, you know, kind of like solidify. I had had this kind of hope. Oh, it'll you know, she'll just grow out of this thing that's happening. And it was a very real, you know, hearing how far behind she is, you know, all this stuff that autism parents go through in these like IEP meetings or any sort of meeting where they like sum up your child in data and it's just heartbreaking.

4:44It doesn't matter. But yeah. And she threw up that night. She wasn't sick. She was overwhelmed with sadness for my sadness. Yeah. And so we've had to learn to zip it in front of her. But now I'm like, I know she can hear what I'm thinking. Yeah. She plays with ghosts in her room all the time. Yeah. So outside of, you know melatonin being something we have to give her I have to cover her in oils which Houston's mom told me about yeah and they fucking work yeah it's really crazy if I forget like it she can't yeah it's like the portals open yeah it's really interesting I know it's just so funny because I'm working on an episode for season two right now about a little girl who's like overwhelmed by by overwhelmed spirits, I guess you can say.

5:31And her ABA therapist, who did not know how to tell me this. And she is a really, she's in our house every day and with us from nine to three. But she's very professional. And we're very like, not with her. And so she had a hard time telling us. But I was like, please. So her grandfather is tapped in and intuitive. intuitive and he told her that there's a little boy that won't leave Carmelo alone and he made a tincture to give to us to like put I rub on her temples at night to protect her from him it'd be interesting if the little boy was alive or not because I know and that's my next question and I didn't want to freak her out by asking that by the way because there's a again a little girl who's in season two and I was just with her this past week.

6:21And one of the people that has found like talking to her the most and requiring the most help is actually an older non-speaker that lives in the community but is locked inside. So she hasn't been taught to spell. She's bored. She's just so bored. It's awful. And so she's always know who it is or that's all you're able to find up. Yeah. They know the name. Like I know the name. Have you contacted the family? It's weird because this family doesn't know that their daughter, I mean, they don't obviously believe she's in there because they're not trying to help her get out through spelling or anything like that.

6:54So to say our little girl is saying that your daughter is telepathically communicating with her and following her around is pretty hard to believe. Like even for anyone out there who hasn't listened to the telepathy tapes, this is going to sound bonkers until you listen to it and it's widespread and it's universal and it's around the world and this is not a small group of people, right? So - Anyway, so for this mother, she's like, what do I do? Go up and say your daughter is lonely and sad and hanging out in our house and always with my daughter. Oh, my God. It's really tricky, you know, to do that.

7:25I think if you hadn't had like the number one listen to podcast, then it would be tricky. But I think at this point you are validated enough with what's happening. You could be like, hey, so I will do this thing and I'm created this community and at least put it out there to save this little girl. I mean, I guess I could do it. I think the mom feels like she needs to do it. Like, I think we never talk about me doing it because I don't know her. So that might be even the mom could just say through. Yeah, it might be less. The mom of this older daughter might feel less exposed if it was this other mom.

7:55Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, it's really tricky because this. Yeah. So so fascinating. So heartbreaking, quote unquote, not haunted, but like visited and often harassed by seemingly energies who have passed on as well as people who are here and lonely and need help and want to be let out of their shell, you know. So Carmela talks and we're figuring out we need to figure out the next like six months. But she I mean, yesterday she said ice cream, please. And so she's starting. Yeah. So so I don't we're we're starting to use boards because I was nervous that that would prohibit her from talking. But everyone's telling me it helps.

8:35Yeah. So that's kind of like our next step. Because so often once you start to get those language pathways and the motor pathways, some non-speakers will start to actually speak what they're spelling and in a few cases like I've seen individuals go on to speaking it doesn't happen that often but it can happen so how many people have you met how many of these kids have you been in contact with I mean it's like there's the emails there's the the dms and then there's the actual face-to-face meeting you know so I I would say like emails and phone calls and Zoom calls, like maybe a few hundred, you know.

9:10I mean, with emails, it's like thousands, you know. And then, but what I've, people I've actually met, maybe it's been like 50 families. It has to be overwhelming emotionally. I think it was at first now, and now it's just such a passion. It feels like just an integrated part of my life, you know. So how did this come to be? because I know that you I mean, obviously you've been making documentaries and you have long history, but the the desire to kind of explore what really is almost like this level of consciousness that really needs to be more openly spoken about, like how did this come to be?

9:48Yeah, I mean, I guess there's like a few backstories, you know, like growing up, my brother is a high functioning on the autism. I hate that actually word. I hate that word. But, you know, he's diagnosed with Asperger's. Like he was able to get through like university college, but it's always been really difficult because he's not under social cues. And, you know, he wasn't even diagnosed till later in life. He was just considered odd and temperamental and highly sensitive and, you know, socially inadequate. Like, I mean, now I've seen it so much with now that I know, you know, now that this part of my life, like adult friends of mine, And I'm like, you, you.

10:23Yeah, totally. Oh, here we go. Yeah. Yeah. Very interesting. So I've always kind of had a heart for, you know, I think the autism community. And then in high school, I started the inclusion program. Like I was very, I wanted to go into special education, actually. So I was always very called to the community. And like, I always wonder this because I have a son, like what his life will be like as a sibling of somebody with autism. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's really beautiful. It impacts you deeply. Well, it brings a level of empathy to you. That's why I think it's hard to interrupt, but I think it's so important to have these children in neurotypical environments as much as possible and to be in schools where they're because it only it's one in 19 in California.

11:05And so this is our society. This is our community. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So, yeah. And then when I started working in documentary filmmaking, it was always for inclusion of some sort. You know what I mean? I mean, every single thing has been like a social justice issue. And then I kind of went on my own journey because I we actually had two good friends die kind of in the prime of their life, like left behind children. And it was like right around COVID. And I kind of went through this like, what are we doing here? Like, what is all this? Like, does consciousness survive death? I had a friend come over and be like, yes, it does.

11:39And I was like, how can you say that? And she's not like a religious zealot. She was just like, well, if you just read and start looking and start asking the questions, like the answers will come and then you'll know for sure it does. And I thought, how can she say this with such certainty, especially because she's a very kind of deeply sensitive, not real intrusive human being. She said it so. So I kind of thought, you know, with documentaries, often you will work for years becoming an expert, at least I do, on a topic before you ever even get paid or it even gets funded. I thought if I'm going to spend years just researching, researching, I want to research this.

12:09Like, why are we here? What are we doing? What's the purpose of all this? And what's consciousness? And I had no idea where that would lead. But I thought, whatever this is, it's going to be my next project. And I mean, there's probably like a year or two of reading before I stumbled into, you know, hearing Dr. Powell, who's been studying non-speaking autistic individuals who have claimed to read minds, which she's, you know, tested. and the tests are unbelievably accurate, you know, 97 to 100%, you know, success rate when she's tested these individuals. And so instantly it was like a lightning bolt.

12:39I'm like, this is it. Like the answer's in here for some reason. And I think part of it too is, I think so often in this world where you talk about something like ESP or telepathy or anything beyond that, it's, there's a lot of charlatans in that. Like we know that there's fakes and there's cheats and there's liars. And I think anyone who's met anyone who is on who's on, you know, who is on the autistic spectrum or has Down syndrome. I mean, there's so many individuals out there that you can meet where these are the purest people. There's no agenda. There is no desire for money or fame or popularity.

13:16And for the non-speaking autistic individuals that Dr. Powell is working with, I mean, probably the most excluded from society. right where there's no desire or even thought you could have some big social life or social media presence my husband's from italy and we were just there for three weeks and we saw so many kids with disabilities out in public that's so cool and he said it broke my heart yeah he said i've never seen this being so socially accepted here because when i was growing up those people never they were never brought up yeah yeah much like this poor girl you're speaking about yeah i mean so basically what I kind of realized was that there's there's there's no reason for any of these individuals to be you know lying and and if you're going to bring something to the world that is life-altering and kind of like shatters the paradigm it's going to be most believed through the most authentic honest people without an agenda and I think that's why it was like there whatever it is here it's here this is the golden egg to understanding this because you can trust the individuals delivering the message.

14:22And especially when you start talking. That's such a beautiful way to put it, because that's where my heart breaks for my daughter is she's so pure. Yeah. And this is such a scary world. Yeah. And thinking of her being out in the world is the heart. That's the that's the hardest part. Yeah. Yeah. And I think especially when you talk about non-speaking individuals who I mean, it's a you know, so for people who don't know what spelling is, right, it's even though speech is a fine motor skill, so you might not be able to speak. You can learn to communicate by pointing to letters on a letter board or typing into a device like an iPad, and it takes a lot of motor control, and it takes so much motor control to write what you're going to write.

14:55It can often take like 15 minutes to write a sentence that no one's going to be writing a lie. It's just so unbelievable to think of for, I think, anyone who's met a non-speaker that the most unassuming, honest, authentic messengers brought this life-changing information into the world. So anyway, so that's why I was like, this is the thing. That's such a beautiful, sweet way to put it. Yeah.

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17:59It's true watching Houston and his mom. It's exhausting for both of them. like he you could see him we like he would be like oh in between sentences because it's it's a lot of focus for him i mean in communicating letter by letter yeah it's it's in the way that now katie does it so quickly i mean it's it's not easy no at all no yeah and houston is so fast and i think most of spellers i'm working with for the film at least and for the podcast are very fast But it takes time and practice for a lot of people just beginning their spelling journey. It can take a long time just to write yes or just to write whatever they're spelling.

18:41And it takes a lot of patience to be there, which is one of the reasons I think it works is because it takes such intention and patience and presence that it kind of pierces the apraxia, which is the mind-body disconnect. and and I think that's part of the point of it is like being fully present with someone with like just such love and intention and patience is kind of the special sauce how did you get connected with Dr. Powell I just wrote her I mean yeah so I heard her on this podcast and then I you know emailed her and we had a few zoom calls and the next thing I knew I was you know flying up there and I didn't know what to make of this yet like I knew it was something but the first thing I had her do is go through her emails.

19:21And I said, can you just show me your inbox so I can see how many people are writing you and what they're writing? And, you know, obviously respecting HIPAA violations and stuff like I can see the names, but shoot one after another after another email. Like, this sounds bonkers and I'm a doctor and I know this can't be possible, but my son is reading our minds. And this person from another place in the world, our son is reading our minds. We can pull a book off the shelf and our child can tell us exactly what we're looking at. I can watch a show in another room and my child can tell me what I'm watching.

19:46This would be so validating for these people who are probably very scared to say this to anybody yeah well and most of them were like i'm not even telling my husband i'm writing this or i can't talk to anyone in my community or i can't talk to the teacher so this inbox of dr powell's was just this place where people were putting these these things that they couldn't share anywhere else and well i think most people also assume if your child has you know these disabilities yeah you this is what broke my heart is you assume that their brains are the same and they're just not no that's such a fault and so the life of being what killed me is just all the generations before two of all these sweet, innocent people who've spent entire lives being completely dismissed.

20:29I can read you something beautiful because we were working on the film. Obviously, we're working on the film a lot right now. And to one of the non-speakers, I sent the question. I said, what was it like before you could spell? And she sent me her answer this morning. And it's beautiful because it's I mean, I can get it out. Thank you for the Kleenex. No, it is so it's just it's just like it's like why we do this. Right. Of course, now I can't find it. But here it's so beautiful. And I don't have to read the whole thing, but these do. OK, so my question to her was when you first started spelling, what did you most want your family to know?

21:06And she said, I wanted to show my family that despite what the world drilled into them about me, it was wrong. As if I was a ghost inside a body that no one could break into. the submission the truth was I could only be calmed with compassion I screamed my whole life to be seen but no one could hear me and even if they did by the discomfort of knowing I was still a human being my world was as bleak as it gets like a prisoner with no sos that anyone could understand I was never silent in fact I was ferociously loud once I learned how to purposely letterboard it was like being reborn people broke free from their lies and judgments of me I live in a world that is one on the precipice of embracing the millions of other survivors, which are people locked inside their bodies, who are future healers, innovators and guides.

21:50If only the world begins to listen with love, we can put an end to the wasted youths like mine and we can tell a new story by having the courage to finally honor ours. Isn't that beautiful? That's unbelievable. Yeah. That's heartbreaking. Yeah. But thank God for you. I mean, truly, you have to have I mean, you seem to be like a very humble human being, but you're literally doing what you sought out to do. And that must feel so satisfying as a human being. It feels very satisfying, but I do try to keep myself detached from it, you know, because it's like it's all about them. It's about this message.

22:27It's about this quest of getting these people a voice, you know, and there's so many people involved. You know, I just think about like there's been so many warriors on the front lines, these individuals, especially people working at the parents, teachers, parents and teachers. I mean, that's really like I think about the parents and for years, decades, sometimes parents have been saying, look at my child. I know they're in there. They can't seriously just be gone. Like even especially with the regression, regressive autism where they were there and then they just disappear. Like, how the heck does that happen?

22:59So the love and the patience and the devotion of parents is humbling. And the teachers, I mean, right. There's so many people who've been on the front lines of this. No, even just the team that my daughter has. Yeah. And the people that we work with. Yeah. And how the connection they all have to her. Yeah. I mean, she was in the autism program at UCLA for 10 weeks. And that last day of that program, I mean, everyone was sobbing. Her teachers were sobbing. You get so connected to these children because they don't have any of, I don't even know how to just what, all this stuff that unfortunately makes us so human.

23:34Yeah. They just don't have it. Yeah. So it's just this raw, beautiful interaction all the time. Yeah. And the ability to connect with them and to advocate for these children. I mean, I've had so many heartbreaking experiences advocating for her and people not wanting her in their schools or even top neurologists saying that there's nothing you could do for her. And this is just what it is. But there are so many times where I'm like, when she makes eye contact with you, it's like you're the only person in the world. Yeah. It's so powerful. And I know that she's in there and there's so many layers to this.

24:10And I also have heard a lot of parents get frustrated that there's a level of romanticism to autism, right? Where it's like, oh, she's going to find her thing and she's going to be so. But that doesn't mean that every single day isn't incredibly difficult. I mean, John Paul's mom. What an angel. Yeah, she's amazing. I mean, this was a big man that she had to take care of every day. And she told my mom that, I don't remember what the name was of it. It was a symptom of his autism that he was swallowing. Oh yeah, pica. Oh my God. She's like, we scanned his stomach. She's laughing. She was like, I'm laughing now about it, but he had nails and pennies and like, I mean.

24:57Keys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's a hard life. It's hard. And I think I love watching Libby, you know, I mean, she lost John Paul and he passed away, but. But Libby was really important. But what's really beautiful is that she had such a joy about him and just met him where he's at. And I think that's the most important thing is so the whole world is often trying to get these individuals to live in our world. And we can't. We need to live in theirs and enter theirs. And that's where the joy really pops out. And this idea of like shame or embarrassment, you can't have. And I love that because the first time we met Libby and like we were down there filming and John Paul like walks out naked.

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25:38And he's always walks out naked. Like even on Zoom calls with Libby prior to that, he'd just walk in naked. And, you know, there are some parents, I think that you would expect to jump up and be like, oh, my God, oh, my God, there's people here, put this on or whatever. And she just, you know, like if you're here, this is part of it. Get used to it. She's so cool and boisterous and loud and funny. But have you noticed that they're, it's almost like they're chosen to be the parents of certain parents. You can just see like God chose her to be John Paul's mom. Yeah. Or John Paul chose her. Yeah, totally.

26:12That must be fascinating too, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that the parents who are putting the hard work and love and presence and dedication every day to care for someone 24 seven. I mean, just think for parents who have a neurotypical child, how hard it is the first three years of life when you're helping with going to the bathroom and feeding and, you know, and running away and escaping and not knowing what they want because they're not talking yet. Like imagine that forever. Yeah. And so you can imagine the amount of devotion it takes. I know someone the other day was like, why is your daughter still in diapers?

26:45And I was like, I don't know when she's going to be out of them. Yeah. It might not ever be. And she can't tell. She has no clue about. Yeah. Her body can't feel it. Yeah. And so it was just this moment of like, I mean, you, I do think it's so important what you're doing just to give people a little bit of understanding. you know I can't let go of her hand in public. Yesterday we saw her unlatch the front door lock. Her ABA therapist came over and we just had the screen and the front door was open and she looked at her and said let's go play and then unlocked the door. And I was like oh my god.

27:23She'd never done that before. Now we're in a whole new world of we live on a busy street. Now she knows I have now I'm having a gate installed next week because the whole front area needs to be completely gated in with locks that are six feet tall so she can't reach them bike locks yeah she could get hit by a car in two seconds yeah and i think that's the truth is that like society has to have a lot more compassion for for autism parents because of eloping i mean and the individuals can't help it you know so many at least like in our podcast who we've been working with it's really about apraxia this mind-body disconnect where so often you can't control what your body is doing you want to stay and sit but you have your body walks away yeah she doesn't it's beyond her control yeah yeah you you know you're supposed to be with your parent or you want to be here but you run off or you see something exciting and and though you you you don't want to get hurt like your body just completely betrays your mind all the time and your intention and how tricky and so like elopement which is like running off running off is a real thing and it's terrifying and it's nothing you can control and your daughter can't either i wanted to get the leash but my husband was like we're not doing it and i was like no they're cute they have little backpacks and then she can have the thing and she's like you won't do it but it's interesting sometimes we'll just be like let's see where she goes and you could see her she maps areas so she'll kind of like she'll take off but then sometimes she'll come back and then she'll map and then that'll be her safe area and you'll just see her go to like five points over and over again that's interesting yeah she loves to map his own that's super interesting you know it's really cool that's very cool

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30:44You know, with all the individuals that you've spent time with. Was there anything that was like truly, really shocking to you? I mean, all of it's been shocking. I mean, I think the whole thing is shocking in a way, right? Because I mean, I don't think there's ever been a doubt in my mind that people whose physically body looks disabled or incapable or unruly is they're not in there. So that wasn't a shock to me. But I know it's a shock to a lot of people to see these individuals who seem like they can't control their body to communicate. So that's been interesting watching my crew experience that.

31:13But of course, like validating over and over that the mind reading is real and now what's been fun is we've been doing these science you know i mean we've been capturing an independent group of neuroscientists that are doing studies around the telepathy and authorship around spelling in different rooms different zip codes and it's borne out over and over and over again so knowing it's going to get like fully scientifically validated it's amazing you know and like i don't think any of the parents ever had a doubt the fear is okay how will these individuals do under pressure where they know that everything is hinging on this to validate their skills, right?

31:45I mean, so that's been really cool. But every bit of it is shocking. I mean, and I have not yet met a non-speaker who's not unbelievably beautiful and fascinating on the inside, you know, once they're allowed out. And yeah, I mean, it's just so interesting because it's so important to remember that they're human beings first, right? Who are age appropriate and have age appropriate with, you know, interest in that type of thing. But then, of course, there's this, the gifts that come along with at least many of the non-speakers I've met. And that could be telepathy. It could be speaking to the other side.

32:21It could be knowing languages. Yeah, the knowing languages is fascinating. Multiple languages sometimes. Music. Seeing math, auras around plants and animals. Yeah, being able to seemingly download all sorts of music. The Young Woman's Passage, who wrote that to me this morning, she can diagnose someone by looking at them. No. And then she's able to give you a medicinal remedy. And it's really fascinating because she knows all sorts of Chinese herbs and plants. And how old is she? She's 18, 19. Unbelievable. And her family had no idea. Like, how does she know this information? It's nothing that she's been taught.

33:00Yet she'll say to someone, you need to take a scragulist or whatever, some Chinese herb to help with bolstering their immune system. Or you should take this because you have a heart condition and you have high blood cholesterol. So it's just, it never stops being endlessly fascinating. And I think the most important thing for all of us right now is to figure out how to support these individuals, get spelling legalized, quote unquote, into every school. Yeah. Can you, I know you've talked about this before. Can you explain what that roadblock is because it's on it's heartbreaking to me that there's a roadblock there yeah and it's a human rights issue and it's awful and i think before i've been talking about that i just think it's really important for people to know that like sign language took like 150 years become valid it was a fight forever even up until braille the same yeah braille is really interesting too so even in the 1970s when people are like let's you know sign language sign language sign language there was this idea of like, no, people who are deaf should try to read lips and try to learn to talk, right?

34:04Try to be in our world, be in our world, do it our way. We can't participate in your way. So do it our way. And that was the run of course for a long time. Same thing with Braille, a young man named Louis Braille in France was the person who kind of like invented Braille. And he, there was the first school for the blind. At that time, people thought if you were blind, you weren't in there you were dumb you know same thing with a lot of deaf individuals so it's the same assumptions the same ignorant assumptions made by general society and it was working and people were like there's no way you can read with your finger and write with dots this is ridiculous and the kids weren't allowed to use it any braille books that they were using the school were kind of taken away and then at some point after a lot of like activism they were like okay let's test this And so, you know, Louis Braille and like one of his classmates, like one of them wrote a word and the other one like read it in front of a huge group of people.

34:57And then they're lying. They cheated. They can't possibly. This is exactly what you're going through. Yeah. Yeah. So it happened with sign language, happened with Braille. So then spelling, I think it was around the 90s. The first thing to come through was facilitated communication, where if you just gave someone a gentle touch and kind of let their body know where they were, help like regulate, that they would point and spell and spell things that often the communication partner had no idea. were able to answer questions that maybe the communication partner didn't know. There were some awful court cases around sexual abuse and stuff that came to be.

35:26Facilitated communication got thrown out. And I think it's due to these bad practitioners who really weren't trained to be a practitioner. You have to be a trained spelling regulation partner. So what happened? People said, okay, well, let's try to innovate spelling or pointing to letters to communicate without any touch because clearly that was the issue. And just to make a side note, that's really unfortunate because some individuals need touch. If you're going to communicate through touch and you're better off that way because energetically it's grounding or you can feel your body is, you should do it.

35:53So just even to back that up more, my daughter has no connection to her body. Yeah. She just started pointing. Yeah. But that it's very hard for her. Yeah. And so we put weights on her ankles and weights on her wrists. Yeah. So she has an awareness that of her limbs. Yeah. Because otherwise she's, she's, she feels like she's falling still. Like she has no vestibular input. Yeah. So that, you know, unless you know, that doesn't make sense. Right. Right. Exactly. So, yeah, it's just the more, you know, unfortunately. Exactly. So so so anyway, I got I feel sad about that because if someone needs to touch to be to communicate, let them be.

36:31This is ridiculous. Who's who's right is it to say that? But anyway, there's so many spellers now pointing to letter boards without any touch at all, any touch at all. And I think for some people, it's like confusing because, well, why does someone need to be trained to be a communication regular patient partner? Why can't anyone just sit down with a letter board? Well, it's pretty simple, right? I mean, you need to understand all the things you're talking about that they don't know sometimes where their body's in space or you have to reset or you have an ocular motor situation where you need the board right in front of your eyes.

36:57And it really is difficult to look down. You have to learn the motor pathways of pointing before and help someone coach someone. Nope, not there. Keep going. Often just tying the, OK, go get it. Go get it. Like your body needs a constant input. individuals are so individual. Right. Yeah. And so trained spelling partners can train, can spell with pretty much anyone. I mean, absolutely. But you have to be trained just like you would have to be trained to do sign language to someone. You can't just go do sign language. So that's what people need to realize. It's a regulation partner as much as it's a communication partner.

37:27So anyway, because of all of these, you know, the FC long history and this and this and this spelling has kind of been damned, you know, and then there were some really awful tests like, okay, let's do a blind message passing test where they put like a non-speaker in one room and like their parent in another room, show the parent something and the non-speaker something. And often they would come in, okay, what did you just see? And they'd write what the parent saw, which is actually validating telepathy. Right? It's really crazy. It's really interesting. So now what's been fascinating is the scientists who are trying to look at the telepathy, they're like, we should also figure out like, okay, let's get these individuals in different rooms to pass a message passing test or to do what to do what do what they need to do to prove that they're in there and it's all all that all that research is going to be coming out in the next year it's exciting unbelievable they've proven it over and over again and the telepathy test that we've been doing as well it also proves author authorship because we'll have a non-speaker or neurotypical person in a room far away not sharing a wall or anything like that often across the building from another non-speaker who's going to be communicating so anyway we'll show the a cue like let's say a video one of the examples was a video of a gorilla coco who learned sign language so this non-speaker watched a gorilla coco far across in another room this other non-speaker and the communication partner who had no idea what was just seen or whatever the non-speaker starts spelling out you know it's a hairy primate that is communicating with someone you know it's very creative and obviously explaining what he saw well that proves authorship as well as telepathy.

39:01So all of, I think non-speakers will have, they're going to be let out of their prisons. And I hope spelling becomes a legal reality very soon here and is required in schools and communication regulation partners are paid for by Medicaid and the state and the school board and all that stuff. But it's important for folks to know that this is what we always do with communication that's different. We fight it. We fight it. We fight it. Oh my God. unbelievable yeah I was so moved and honored to go to Maggie's house and for context you know Maggie's a friend of ours who I sent the podcast to her as soon as I finished it and she I mean she went through it in like 24 hours I mean she couldn't sleep you know texting just like so and you know she went on your website and saw that you guys were interested in the next step of doing a movie and and she screenshot your response to her and yeah it was just being in any way near a part of that has been like truly such an honor yeah and so when she messaged me and said everyone's gonna they're filming at my house and they're all gonna be here I mean I was so overwhelmed so overwhelmed and Houston's mom is Katie right yeah yeah and so and I and and so I met her you know spent time with everybody and and she was so you know what But you know what really, it broke my heart in a good way is to see how much Libby and Katie are so happy to have people listen to them.

40:29Yeah. And so, I mean, Katie's book is unbelievable. But like when they meet new people, they just tell story after story after story because you can tell it's been so many compounded years of being unheard as a parent. Yeah. And my mom is just like eating this up. You know, this is like my mom's always like, I know there's a higher consciousness. And I, you know, this is, we know we were really, it was hard for my husband who's raised, you know, in Italy and very Catholic. And these kind of woo-woo-y things can be, you know, the dark side for them. And it has just broken his heart open into a million pieces because now he's, you know, is experiencing this so much.

41:05Yeah. But I said to Katie, like, I selfishly really want Houston to communicate with Carmela. Like, just because I want to know her. Yeah. You know, like, I'm just dying to know her. and but I was like no pressure or anything and I feel so stupid that I even said that because I'm sure you get that all the time and whatever just wanted to be here and you know I think she wanted that for me too so then she called me over like a couple hours later I was like Houston said something about Carmela and he had said she's like me and she's a a queen looking for her reign I was like what does that mean I was like I don't know but I think but you know she needs to be watching lots of princess stuff and like give her crowns and all.

41:47And I was like, okay, really? Like no problem. So I got her a bunch of crowns and now every morning and they hang on her mirror. Every morning she looks in the mirror and she puts her crowns on. It's so cute. That is really cute. And I think it's probably much more symbolic than that. Well, of course. So I'm like, I'm like, I wonder what this means and what's this tied into what she has experienced before. You know, it was one sentence. I was like, it's definitely not, I was like, this doesn't come down to movies. No, this is a past life. This is a past experience. This could be symbolic of something else.

42:16Yeah. I mean, it's interesting because, you know, there's a lot and a lot of parents and SLP speech language pathologists and communication regulation partners would say this, that like a lot of non-speakers speak in this like almost old English that's often so beautiful and poetic that is so different that it's almost like deciphering it. And I've learned that the long way, the hard way, you know, that that I mean, my guest having read so many of Houston's writings, as he's probably talking about, like, she's a deep purpose. She is exactly. Yeah, she needs to find what her. Yeah. And she's like a queen of a certain domain.

42:49And it could be something almost invisible that you don't know. Like, it could be a metaphysical thing, too, but that she has a deep purpose here. And it's always felt like that about her, too, that there's this. it's like I also don't want to limit her by being like oh well these kids have a thing and so she just needs to find her thing and that's like the first thing people will ask me we're like was she really musical or is she really this and I'm like I don't you don't know I don't know and if she doesn't have a thing it doesn't mean she's less than either totally but there is something that will make her feel seen by other people yeah and she's four right she's a baby I mean like she might not know that thing until for 10 years 15 years whatever like kyle who's in the telepathy tapes he's a non-speaker and he's never even learned to communicate the mom doesn't need to because she's like he comes to me in dreams to communicate telepathically we communicate and she's like amazing but anyway just a really important part of that story is that she didn't even try music therapy with him until i think he was in his 20s and had no idea he could play an instrument well he could play piano really well he can sing and he's perfect pitch and not only that even though he cannot speak he can like almost download any song and start playing it and singing it.

44:02It's almost like he's this repertoire of just music and she doesn't know how. It's remarkable. And we were in England filming him and he put on a concert where he's singing and playing music and he cannot speak. And they didn't learn that until he was 20. You know, Houston didn't really start communicating via the letterboard until he was 18 or 20. You know, like John Paul, they figured out he's like a great poet when he was 14 or something. and to your point this idea that like everyone with autism needs to be some sort of savant it's completely unfair it's totally ridiculous it's not a thing you know but i think it is true that every single person with autism is an individual with unbelievable inherent worth it does come down to that it almost yeah thank you for saying that because it is this very interesting you know every every individual experience is extremely nuanced and it's very layered.

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48:57I remember a friend of mine saying to me after her diagnosis, oh, that's great. She's going to be so smart. And then just moved on. And I was like, holy shit. Yeah. Like, I can never unhear that from you. Yeah. Like, it was completely dismissive of everyday struggles. Right. And my fear of her being an adult without me on this. I was just like, I felt I was like, OK, noted, noted you as a person. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, her heart was probably coming from the right place. But yeah, it's dismissive of the realities of the day to day. Do these stories weigh on you emotionally? I think they have changed.

49:43I mean, I can't not work on this every day of my life right now. now. So in that regard, I don't feel hopeless. I feel more hope, I think, than there's ever been because there's so many people in acting to do stuff. And that's what's so cool. Like when we were in England, I met this man and he brought Beats, you know, the Beats by Dre to England. So I think he's pretty well connected. And he was just like, I'm going to try to get spelling into England and all of the UK. Like there's three spelling coaches here. And I'm going to, you know, so that was really cool. And it seems like it's being more well-received than that.

50:14Yeah. Right. Oh, sure. Sure. Like I met this woman and I don't I don't want to say who she is, but like her husband ran for president a few years ago in the primaries and you get too far. But she has an autistic child and was very, very excited to help. And she's been working behind the scenes and and really trying to get spelling affirmed. I mean, people are coming out of the woodwork being like, what can I do? What can I do? I know a lot of funders want to try to build like a non-speaking university, which I'm trying to get many of the parents to talk to these funders. I'm not believing. Try to do something like this.

50:43I know of a group of people who are trying to get spelling, a spelling curriculum that embraces the spiritual gifts. So whether that's the telepathy or mind reading or ESP or precognition or time travel or remote viewing or mediumship, all the things that non-speakers seem to do. Some of the spelling programs are like, do not talk about that. And the teachers are like, but my student wants to talk about that. Yeah, let's talk about that because it inherently it's there. And that's almost kind of what the genesis of your purpose in this was too, right? Like, why are we here? That inherently, obviously, becomes very spiritual.

51:19And I'm sure that you've come, I'm sure part of your work has been a lot of like near-death experience situations too, right? That's going to be the premiere of season two. It's going to be on near-death experiences. And that comes out October 15th. It comes out October 15th. Yeah, season two comes out October 15th. And we are looking into the afterlife. and can science, can we prove the afterlife and the existence of the soul? So if season one looked into telepathy and ESP, season two looks into like the afterlife and like what consciousness is. Can you share anything about that? Yeah, it's been a mind boggling ride.

51:53And it was, you know, it's always that thing where it's like, how do you keep amplifying this message? Like, where do you go from here? Right. And I feel like that is something that people, most people would be like, ugh, like, I'm stopping this conversation right now because that can't, that's not real. Yeah. Which part? Just that there is an afterlife or people having peeks into it and these like near-death things. I don't know why we're so, it's so been so obvious to me since I was little that this is a short run, that there's an afterlife, that we're all part of one thing. Well, I think, I mean, telepathy seems even harder to believe, I think, for a lot of people, right?

52:28Because it can feel like scary and it can be charged with like like you said like there can be like it on really unfair like religious connotations that come from like way back when well we used to burn people at the stake right right i mean so it's really like a right i mean well like even like with the spanish inquisition like they went out and tried to get rid of magical people you know like this idea of like second sight or being able to see or hear things that weren't around have always been there but the church wanted to be okay it's okay if it's done within the context of the church and then it's holy if it's the outside the church, then it's heresy.

53:03You know, if a holy man is X, Y, Z talking to their side or has this gift, you know, it should be like sanctified. But if a woman's doing it, it's witchcraft. I mean, it's just like totally unfair. But I think what's happened, I mean, with the millions and millions of people who've been listening to the Telfy Tapes and like tuning their hearts and opening their minds to this, I think it's left a lot of people, especially where it ends with John Paul's passing and kids knowing that he's still there and knowing it happened. And I mean, it just ends on death and kind of mediumship on the other side.

53:32So I felt like that was a perfect transition. Yeah. The thing that we were finding is our inbox. Yes, it's been flooded with so many parents of non-speakers and other people with autism saying me too, me too, me too, me too, me too. But the other was a lot of people that were going through grief, like really abstract grief and being like, this helped me so much. This helped me so much. And I don't fear death anymore. I don't believe there's an end and I actually have hope. And so we were like, wow, this is really interesting because those were the two biggest like email groups and then the third was like people saying like they had like a spiritual conversion or something all of stuff i was just like okay scientifically we're looking into telepathy and i think we're going to validate this is real but like it became bigger than that so season two it's through science and there's a lot of academics and there's a lot of experiences and experiencers and i don't think you can listen to season two and not then believe that consciousness in whatever form it is survives the body you know and that's a question we look into like does consciousness like is there an informational field just like black holes have an informational field they think where like anything goes back into it like leaves an informational like imprint is that like us like is a medium just talking to like or like downloading the information of this person's life from somewhere or like does a soul actually survive the body and so those are all the things we're looking into which it's going to be a really fun season yeah I was with a girlfriend at lunch yesterday and she's like I just was able to tell people that I get downloads and my work is down and she said it has not it's not me like I these are not my ideas these are downloads we're doing an episode on that too so we're doing an episode on creativity and I don't know if you know Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Big Magic and she's got this idea that well you know this theory that ideas have their own consciousness and will and they look to find a partner to make them manifest who's probably working hard and has a good attitude and and that what a beautiful thing yeah and looking for a partner to manifest yeah it's beautiful but if you talk to really break through creative ideas most people say it came to them it didn't come from them and for thousands of years that's what humans believe the idea of a muse was something that entered you from somewhere else and they honored it muse ik museum it was something the muse made right yeah and then even the idea of a genius like that that was never a person, it was something that lived in a house historically, right?

55:54Like it was like, oh, this house has a genius for music or, you know, and the genius might live in the well or the pond or whatever. And like the genius for music is now touching their son. Like it wasn't, I'm a genius. Like the Germans decided that I think in like the 1800s or something. Oh no, I was the genius. There's no genius coming to me. It's from me. That's funny. So we're looking into that by talking to like some creators and authors and writers and it's unbelievable. And there's some unbelievable stories of musicians who will hear a song well yeah but like even like in a more like modern sense like a musician who might hear a song and be like oh it's a great song but not write it down and then like months later they hear the same song on the radio or an author who like has a total idea for a book outlines it puts it aside might not read it or write it on time but then that whole book idea gets transferred to someone else no way so we're going through all that it's gonna be like it's transferred to someone so like whatever that idea is is just like who's my person yeah and i felt that and if it doesn't manifest with someone it'll go to someone else yeah so we're doing an episode on that in season two it's episode four and and that's happened to me where i will like i remember working on a film at one point and i was like okay this is a documentary about sally right like i was talking to her sister i was talking this i was talking about astronauts i felt so passionate this is my idea and then i got distracted or something happened and then I came back to the idea and I could feel it was stale I was like it left me it went somewhere else and I'm so certain of unbelievable and then like two months later I got the email like oh this person's making a documentary about Sally Ride and I was like huh okay cool it went it went it found its home but like I you can for me I can feel it when it's gone stale and has left it's weird that is fascinating because it's bigger than idea I think it's like it's like the whole energy of whatever is coming through that like through you I'll be made manifest and you can feel it taking often like if it's right all the things will line up therefore right after as well too it makes it easy if it's hard I mean some at Tom Waits is like we talk about this in that episode too how he's like some ideas are just like sipping through a straw some ideas is like pulling like scratching gum off the bottom of his desk you know but but I think the quote-unquote big magic ideas where it feels like a lightning bolt coming from somewhere else, it feels very mystical and spiritual.

58:08And it is, you know. I wonder what, I mean, we'll find out another, we'll find out when we've gone to the other side, but it's, it's like, it's almost like there's these conductors up there that are like, the world needs this right now. You know, it's like, and how that's, it's, it's just so, but this is, this is where hope, it's all just comes down to like hope and faith, right? Right. Like when we have these big tragedies, when somebody dies, when you go through grief, you're like, my dad died in front of me. Right. And I'm like, I'm God bless him. He was in his 70s. He had a full, beautiful life.

58:43But when somebody loses a spouse or when a child dies or these horrible tragedies, everything that happens every day, if we don't have any sort of hope or faith, there's no reason to keep going. I think that is true but I think like in our season two of the telepathy tapes I don't I think we'll show it doesn't just come down to hope and faith like it can be come down from like fact and evidence which is really cool like I think that if yeah I mean hope and faith helps you get through it and start to look at this stuff but I think what the world needs to know is that a lot of these big questions have been poked at and prodded at and scientifically tested in labs and and and And there have been QEG scans on people.

59:22And like we go through all of this in the next season. And what has typically happened because we live in a pure materialist paradigm, right? Which is, you know, this idea of that the only things that are real can be measured and observed are physical. That's not true. There is more than a material world. And materialism, as we've kind of conducted our whole life, saying if it doesn't fit into this and you're not smart or media is silly if they cover it or academic, academia won't fund it because it's hogwash. or woo-woo. There's so much there that the evidence has borne out and peer-reviewed in labs around the world, especially on ESP and telepathy, even mediumship.

1:00:00Like we go into that, like testing it and how do you test it, et cetera. How do you test it? Well, yeah, season two will tell you. But what's fascinating is that the data doesn't get debated. It's the person bringing it forward. You know, it'll be, oh, we're going to attack this person. This person must be crazy or they must be fraudulent or they must be this. And that's not fair. Why do you think we do that? I think it's based on materialism. I do. And I think hopefully we're starting to break that, you know, and many more scientists are having more post-materialist methodology, which, and that's not, it's not saying that you're throwing out chemistry and biology and physics and psychology and all that stuff.

1:00:38Multiple things to be true at once. And that's what I think people have a hard time with. Yeah. And those things are all true. I think the thing about materialism is it said that like the basis of everything was physical. And from there we had biology and physics and, you know, psychology and extraterrestrial. The tippy top was consciousness and we don't know where it comes from. We don't know what it is. We don't know why it's here. And that's pretty inconvenient, you know? Yeah, absolutely. But if I think a lot of post-materialist scientists and thinkers are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, all these other layers are true, physics, biology, this and that.

1:01:05But consciousness is the foundation of everything. Thoughts always came first. Consciousness came first and everything else came from it. And if that is the way of looking at the world, then things like ESP and survival of consciousness and telepathy and precognition makes total sense. It works because everything is thought and consciousness. I like what you said on Joe Rogan where you said, yes, this is a physical room, but the idea of the room was there first. Right. It's such a simple way to explain it. Right. I really think everything around us, this tree, the sofa, someone thought of it first.

1:01:40It was a thought before it came a thing. The only thing that's not true of is the actual earth we're standing on. But how do we know someone didn't think of that first? That could be God's thought. Right. So so but anything in our world was a thought first. How has what you were exploring alone in your room and reading before any of this came to be in your idea of consciousness, like has anything, has there been anything that's changed that along this journey or are you just like, like, this is all just so validating? I think it's all changed for me. I mean, I didn't I had never like ever once gone to see a medium or a psychic.

1:02:24I didn't believe rocks had powers. I certainly didn't believe in telepathy. Like none of that stuff. Like I didn't I was not. But woo-woo, I was very, I mean, I think I would say I was like a very scientific, skeptical person. I read all nonfiction. I loved reading like scientific journals and I, you know, Wired and like Net Geo. Like that was my non, like most people go to the beach with a like fun book and I would bring like a biography of, you know, like it was just, that was my life. And so looking into telepathy was totally off of my beaten path. Like I think anyone would, when they heard I was working on this, they're like, whoa, she's gone off the deep end.

1:02:58Like, this is totally what happened. Like, that's not her. And but it was really validating because I think I went through it in a way that was trying to be really cautious and skeptical. You're the perfect person to do this coming from her, by the way. You really are because if you had been that kind of person, like me, who talks to her medium once a week, you know, they'd be like, yeah, Pia's over there doing a thing. Yeah. But you also speak so eloquently on the podcast. You speak matter-of-factly and you speak with data and you speak in a way that makes it incredibly digestible. Like you truly are the perfect person to deliver the information.

1:03:37Thank you. Because there's a stoicness about you that allows it to be received very well. Yeah. Okay, cool. That's good to know. And I think that we're in season two. Like, you know, these are all things that I had previously dismissed. But once I've seen now the telepathy with my own eyes, now that other scientists are seeing it, testing it and validating it, It's like, and that's how I start season two. It's like, that just makes you sit up. Like if we're proving telepathy is real, then what else have we dismissed? And what else can we look into? Great question. And so that's kind of what we do start to look into is like, okay, well, can you test mediumship?

1:04:11Has there been QEGs on this? How do they compare to one another? Have they done triple blind tests on people? Like, how does it bear out? And, or like near-death experiences, like what do archeological records tell us what near-death experiences going back 5 ,000 years to like ancient Sumer and Egypt and Native America and Mayan communities. And like, are they all similar? And how do they track with them? Yes. Of course, there must be a common element. Of course. And so all of that is season two. It's going to be really, I think, exciting. And for me, that was validating because I feel like now after doing a deep dive, not a mini dive, like with experts and scientists and archaeologists and really informed people on the front lines of researching and understanding this stuff all over the world, I walked away from creating season two thinking okay we have a soul our consciousness survives death telepathy and esp and that type of thing are real and it's because consciousness is the foundation and by the way none of this is new if you go talk to native communities and even like i think tribes in different like we talk to people from the lakota nation we talk to people in columbia like elders from just we cover a lot of ground and when you start talking to a lot of these you know cultures or communities who've kept their beliefs ongoing for 5 ,000 years and haven't kind of fallen into like the Western way of doing things.

1:05:30None of this stuff is new. None of this is groundbreaking. This is part and parcel of survival. Yes, ESP and telepathy and commuting with ancestors and that type of thing. That is, duh, that's part of the human experience. We've just forgotten and we've ridiculed it and mocked it to think that if you dare talk about that, you're silly, you're uninformed, you're uneducated. And the truth is those people doing that are dogmatic fundamentalists who are uneducated, truly. They've put themselves in a cloak of scientism. And science is great, but not great if you just shut off every other question. And I think these beautiful parts of what make us truly human, which is a deep connection to what can't be seen.

1:06:09Oh, I mean, what a gift. Thank you so much. Of course. And God bless you for doing this. And I know how hard this is financially and your time. I mean, people who do this type of work, you know, nobody's paying you and you it's it's hard and you have to advocate and you have to raise money and you have to organize. I can't imagine the level of organization. I mean, even just the people that were at Maggie's house that day. I mean, what you're putting together is unbelievable and it's life changing. Thank you. Good for you, truly. And let's look forward to the film comes out next year, early next year.

1:06:42And season two comes out October 15th. Amazing. Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. Of course.

1:06:52And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes this week's episode of Everything is the Best. I hope you enjoyed it. Please rate, review, subscribe, all that stuff. Maybe leave a comment. Go ahead and follow me on Instagram at Pia Barancini. And I hope you have a fabulous, fabulous rest of your day. Love you. Ciao.

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I’m re-sharing one of my favorite episodes of Everything Is the Best, my conversation with Ky Dickens, because it still feels deeply important.

Ky is a filmmaker and truth-seeker, and we talk candidly about power, influence, intuition, and what happens when trust is misplaced. This episode matters to me not just as a woman, but as a mother to a daughter with autism. It reminds me how essential it is to protect vulnerability, to listen closely, and to stay grounded in truth while still holding onto hope.

This conversation stayed with me because it’s ultimately about clarity, agency, and believing yourself again. If you’re in a season of questioning, healing, or learning how to trust your inner voice, I hope this episode offers both perspective and hope.

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