The Telepathy Tapes

byKy Dickens

ScienceSocietyCultureDocumentary

The Telepathy Tapes is a podcast that explores the origins of consciousness and the unexplained abilities of ESP through science, verifiable experience, formal testing, and human story. In Season One, non-speaking individuals with autism reveal striking telepathic abilities that challenge everything we thought we knew about the mind. In Season Two, the lens widens to extraordinary experiences that invite us to rethink reality itself. From near death experiences to telepathic communication with animals, energy healing to plant intelligence, and the origins of creativity to sudden savant abilities -- each episode offers a rare glimpse into the vast terrain of consciousness be...

Episodes(40 episodes)

Season 2 - Episode 11

Mindsight: Seeing Without Eyes

In this finale to Season 2, we explore the phenomenon of “mind sight” - the ability some children and adults claim to develop that allows them to see while blindfolded, and in rare cases, even while blind. From a rural school in England to training programs in India and China, we meet teachers, skeptics, neuroscientists, and families who’ve witnessed the unexplainable ability that often leads to intuition beyond our comprehension. As always, we question what’s real, what’s possible, and whether consciousness might be more powerful and perceptive than we’ve ever imagined.To learn more about The In...

Published: Dec 29, 2025Duration: 1h 15m 4s

Season 2 - Episode 10

Cognitive Decline and Higher Consciousness

When memory fades and language falls silent, we assume connection is lost. But what if it isn’t?In this episode, we explore whether telepathy might offer a bridge to those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia. The journey begins with Rebecca, a close friend from Season 1, whose father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis collides unexpectedly with the earliest telepathy experiments that launched The Telepathy Tapes.As caregivers and families reach out with similar stories, we follow Rebecca into a deeply personal experience with Dan Goerke, a man who communicates with people’s “higher self” of people who can...

Published: Dec 22, 2025Duration: 1h 1m 10s

Season 2 - Episode 9

REWIND: Talk Tracks Ep. 6: Alzheimer's and Telepathy

Before we head into the final two episodes of Season 2, we’re revisiting episode six of Talk Tracks to bring Dan Goerke’s story back into focus and prepare you for the role it plays in what comes next. His experience communicating with his wife after she lost speech became a crucial clue in our exploration of consciousness and sets up the pivotal return to Dan in our final two episodes, out on Monday, December 22nd and December 29th.--Can we still connect with our loved ones when memory fades and language disappears? In this...

Published: Dec 19, 2025Duration: 25m 22s

Season 2 - Episode 9

REWIND: Talk Tracks Ep. 5: Consciousness Beyond The Body: When A Coma Projects A Ghost

Before we head into the final two episodes of Season 2, we’re revisiting episode five of Talk Tracks because it was one of the first to point toward a question that now sits at the center of where we’re going. It explores whether consciousness can remain active and aware even when communication breaks down, setting the stage for the final two episodes of the season, premiering on Monday, December 22nd and Monday, December 29th.--In this riveting episode of The Talk Tracks, we explore two astonishing stories that challenge our understanding of consciousness and t...

Published: Dec 17, 2025Duration: 33m 24s

Season 2 - Episode 9

Energy Healing Part 2: Consciousness at Work in the Body

Part 2 of our episodes on energy healing looks at a larger question at the center of this season: if healing involves more than biology alone, what type of communication is actually taking place between people. Scientists are beginning to measure shifts in physiology, coherence, and brain activity that suggest the body may respond to intention and connection in ways we have not fully understood. These patterns appear across many different settings, from controlled trials to personal accounts where people feel changes that cannot be traced to touch or suggestion. In this episode, we explore these ideas through real examples...

Published: Dec 10, 2025Duration: 46m 29s

Season 2 - Episode 8

PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Paul Stamets

We're sharing a special preview of an exclusive Backstage Pass Ask Me Anything with mycologist and author, Paul Stamets. Paul answers your most fascinating questions: from why different mushroom species affect our mood and anxiety, to how mycelial networks shape ecosystems, to whether psilocybin could enhance perception, creativity, or even telepathy. He also opens up about his own life practices, the experience that changed his relationship to fear, and how fungi may be guiding us toward a deeper understanding of the unseen world.To hear the full episode, and access all upcoming AMAs with Ky and our...

Published: Dec 5, 2025Duration: 5m 33s

Season 2 - Episode 8

Energy Healing Part 1: Consciousness at Work in the Body

In Part 1 of this two part exploration, we turn from the mind to the body and begin with a mystery that modern science has struggled to explain. Energy healing is one of the oldest medical traditions on Earth, yet it has long existed at the margins of Western understanding. The episode opens with a Cambridge-trained material scientist, Simon Duan, whose worldview shifts instantly when a Qigong practitioner in China removes his wisdom teeth pain-free - without anesthesia. His story leads us into the origins of ancient Chinese medicine, where psychic doctors once perceived organs with their mind’s eye an...

Published: Dec 3, 2025Duration: 44m 19s

Season 2 - Episode 7

Psychedelics and Accessing Consciousness

For millennia, humans have turned to psychedelic plants to expand perception and access realms beyond ordinary consciousness. This episode follows that lineage, from Indigenous ayahuasca ceremonies in the Amazon to the secret rituals of ancient Greece, revealing how these substances once served as powerful spiritual technologies. We begin with the extraordinary story of Don José Rubio, the Colombian elder who used ayahuasca visions to help locate four missing children in the jungle, and we hear from author Brian Muraresku, whose research suggests that the foundations of Western spirituality, like other belief systems around the globe, may have been influenced b...

Published: Nov 26, 2025Duration: 44m 48s

Season 2 - Episode 6

PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Alex Andersen

We're sharing a special preview of an exclusive Backstage Pass Ask Me Anything episode featuring Alex Andersen, the animal communicator from episode 5. Alex answers listener questions about how to tap into a telepathic relationship with your pet, how do animals think about philosophical questions, which animal makes Alex "starstruck" and so much more.To hear the full episode, and access all upcoming AMAs with Ky and our Season Two guests, subscribe to The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass. You’ll get ad-free episodes, bonus content, and access to our private Discord community. Visit www.thetelepathytapes.com to sign up...

Published: Nov 21, 2025Duration: 10m 0s

Season 2 - Episode 6

Plant Intelligence and Ancestral Wisdom

What if plants aren’t silent at all but communicating in ways we’ve simply forgotten how to hear? In this episode, we meet Nina, a non-speaking teen who says she’s been telepathically connected to plants since birth. She offers herbal remedies no one taught her, identifies health issues her family hasn’t shared, and describes plant communication as naturally as breathing. Her accuracy forces everyone around her to rethink what plants know and how they share it.We also hear from indigenous elders, herbalists and experts who say this isn’t new. Mycologist Paul Stamets explains h...

Published: Nov 19, 2025Duration: 50m 59s

Our First Black Friday Sale!

We’re excited to share that we’re having our first-ever Black Friday sale: enjoy 25% off your first six months of any Backstage Pass tier now through November 28th. The Backstage Pass includes ad-free episodes, full access to The Telepathy Tapes Test Library, AMA episodes with Ky and guests from our new seasons, our thriving Discord community, members-only merch, and so much more. Join the Backstage Pass here: https://thetelepathytapes.supercast.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Published: Nov 17, 2025Duration: 1m 2s

Season 2 - Episode 5

PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Dr. Jeremy Chapman

We’re sharing a special preview of an exclusive Backstage Pass AMA with Dr. Jeremy Chapman, child and adolescent psychiatrist and Medical Director of the SSM Health Treffert Center. In this conversation, he dives into your most thought-provoking questions — from how savants might collaborate with leading scientists, to what actually happens in the brain when “the veil” lifts and new forms of perception appear. To hear the full episode, and access all upcoming AMAs with Ky and our Season Two guests, subscribe to The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass. You’ll get ad-free episodes, bonus content, and access to our pri...

Published: Nov 14, 2025Duration: 6m 58s

Season 2 - Episode 5

Animal Telepathy & Consciousness

Animal communication moves from theory to lived experience. A non-speaking teen, Trevor, spells intimate details from his therapy horse, knowing about deaths, emotions, and conversations no one told him. Animal communicator Alex Anderson recounts the moment her own horse “spoke” to her for the first time, a shocking experience that launched her full-time work helping people understand the inner worlds of the animals they love. Danish National Team rider Emily Koenig works with communicator Ditte Young, whose insights from a pony lead to an unexpected arthritis diagnosis that changes Emily’s path in the sport. Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake shares...

Published: Nov 12, 2025Duration: 50m 51s

Season 2 - Episode 4

BONUS: Archipelago at the Treffert Center

In this bonus episode, we visit the Archipelago event held by the Treffert Center - the first and largest gathering of savants in the world. We meet two incredible born savants: Tony DuBlois, a completely blind musician who learned to play the piano at age two and now plays over 23 instruments. And Grant Marnier, an artist whose medium is also his muse - he crafts intricate paintings using recycled materials, most notably, puzzle pieces.Thank you to our Sponsors!Visit Quince.com/tapes for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Visit h...

Published: Nov 6, 2025Duration: 22m 1s

Season 2 - Episode 4

Savants: When Brilliance Drops In

Last week we wondered if ideas can be downloaded. This week, we ask if talent can be, too. We meet congenital, acquired, and sudden savants whose gifts in music, math, art, and memory appear without training. A psychiatrist’s lifelong work reframes savant syndrome as brilliance to understand, not a flaw to fix. A London artist renders city skylines from a single flyover. A man wakes from a head injury seeing moving geometry and piano compositions. A woman in crisis prays and begins drawing sacred forms with professional fluency that did not exist the night before. Alongside researchers, we ex...

Published: Nov 5, 2025Duration: 1h 0m 0s

Season 2 - Episode 3

PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Laura Lynn Jackson

We’re sharing a sneak preview of a subscriber exclusive episode featuring renowned medium, Laura Lynn Jackson, answering listeners' questions about her life as a medium, tips on how to hone your own "sixth sense", and - for the first time - she describes her journey with a nonspeaker to The Hill.To hear the full conversation, and access all upcoming AMA episodes with Ky and our Season Two guests, subscribe to The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass. You’ll also get ad-free episodes, bonus content, and access to our private community. Visit our website, www.thetelepathytapes.com, to s...

Published: Oct 31, 2025Duration: 5m 34s

Season 2 - Episode 3

The Consciousness of Creativity: Are Ideas Alive And Do They Choose Us?

The mystery of inspiration begs the question: is the universe conscious and using us to create a vision of it’s own? We turn to the mystery of inspiration. Bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love; Big Magic) offers a provocative idea: that creativity doesn’t come from us, but to us. Ideas, she argues, are conscious entities—knocking at the doors of our imagination, looking for human partners to bring them into the world. Legendary music producer and author of The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin echoes that sentiment, describing artists as “antennas” tuned to a universa...

Published: Oct 29, 2025Duration: 53m 27s

Season 2 - Episode 2

BONUS: Inside The Home Life Of Laura Lynn Jackson

In this bonus episode, we turn the lens toward Laura Lynne Jackson’s home life through conversations with her husband and three children. What began as a section in Episode Two became its own story: a rare, intimate glimpse into what it's like to grow up with a mother who is a medium.Thank you to our Sponsors!Visit Quince.com/tapes for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Visit happymammoth.com and use code TAPES for 15% off your entire first order today.Visit Progressive.com to see if you could...

Published: Oct 23, 2025Duration: 26m 3s

Season 2 - Episode 2

PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Ky Dickens

We’re sharing a sneak preview of a subscriber exclusive episode featuring Ky Dickens answering listeners’ most burning questions from Season One of The Telepathy Tapes—and offers a glimpse into what’s ahead in Season Two.To hear the full conversation, and access all upcoming AMA episodes with Ky and our Season Two guests, subscribe to The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass. You’ll also get ad-free episodes, bonus content, and access to our private community. Visit our website, www.thetelepathytapes.com, to sign up today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...

Published: Oct 23, 2025Duration: 12m 57s

Season 2 - Episode 2

Mediumship Under The Microscope

Mediumship has long been dismissed as fraud or fantasy but what happens when it’s put under the microscope? Often called the most profound form of telepathy, mediumship may find unexpected validation in the voice of a young nonspeaker. In this episode of The Telepathy Tapes, we step inside blind trials, EEG brain scans, and one child who hears both the living and the dead. From the rigor of the Forever Family Foundation’s certification tests to the neuroscience of Windbridge Research Center, and from the grief of parents seeking their children to a non-speakers spontaneous messages, we talk with...

Published: Oct 22, 2025Duration: 57m 2s