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The Telepathy Tapes
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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 Consciousness Cassettes, 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 beyond the brain.
Episodes
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S3E2: When Reincarnation Leaves a Paper Trail | The Reincarnation Records
Carol Bowman, a mother turned researcher of children’s past-life memories, begins with a question she can’t shake: if children are carrying memories from another life, could talking about them help them heal? When a frightened mother calls about her three-year-old son Blake, Carol gets a chance…
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S3E1: The Boy Who Remembered Dying | The Reincarnation Records
When five-year-old Chase Bowman developed an inexplicable terror of loud booming sounds, his mother, Carol, had no idea what was causing it. Then, sitting on her lap at their kitchen table, Chase began describing another life: a soldier on a battlefield, a gun with a bayonet, a wound to his…
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S2E54: When Caelum Came Back Part II | Talk Tracks
In Part Two of Caelum's story, we go deeper into the writings and experiences he has shared with his family since learning to communicate through facilitated communication.Joining Caelum's mother, Anne-Marie, is his brother Jacob, who has spent years communicating with Caelum and documenting his...
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S2E53: When Caelum Came Back Part I | Talk Tracks
At 17 months old, Caelum Miller suffered a near-fatal drowning that left him with a severe traumatic brain injury. Doctors told his family he would likely remain in a vegetative state for the rest of his life. But his parents refused to close the door on what might be possible.Years later, Caelum...
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S2E52: BONUS: The Wisdom of Connection with Dr. Zach Bush
In this bonus episode from our partner series The Telepathy Tapes: Now What?, Betsy and Libby sit down with Dr. Zach Bush for a conversation about one of the ideas at the heart of their experiences as parents: what if our children are perceiving the world in ways we have forgotten how to perceive...
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S2E51: Willow Smith on Creativity, Consciousness, and Music | Talk Tracks
Grammy-nominated artist Willow Smith joins Ky Dickens for a deeply personal conversation about music as medicine, dreams as creative portals, spirituality, and the mystery of human connection.Willow shares how a lifetime of curiosity - from sacred traditions and nature to science and…
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TRAILER: The Reincarnation Records (Telepathy Tapes Season 3)
The Telepathy Tapes returns October 7 with Season 3: The Reincarnation Records.If The Telepathy Tapes deconstructed what you believe about consciousness, The Reincarnation Records may shatter it.On October 7th, Ky Dickens takes on one of humanity’s oldest questions in a new podcast, The...
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S2E50: When Frontier Science Enters Mainstream Journals: Energy Healing Cancer Study Update | Talk Tracks
In Season 2 of The Consciousness Cassettes, Ky explored a groundbreaking study at MD Anderson Cancer Center examining energy healing, also known as biofield therapy, in pancreatic cancer cells and mice. Now, that research has officially been published.Ky returns to the study with integrative...
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S2E49: Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove: The World's only Parapsychology PhD | Talk Tracks
Can dreams and synchronicities be the Universe's way of leading you to become your best self? In this Talk Tracks episode, Ky sits down with researcher, author, and talk show host Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, the world's first and only PhD in Parapsychology.For fifty years Dr. Mishlove has hosted radio,...
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S2E48: Shared Death Experiences | Talk Tracks
What happens when someone seems to experience another person’s death from the inside?In this episode of The Talk Tracks, Ky explores the little-known phenomenon of shared death experiences - reports in which a loved one, caregiver, or even someone far away from the dying person describes seeing,...
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S2E47: Chani Nicholas: Astrology Beyond the Horoscope | Talk Tracks
Astrology is often reduced to sun signs and daily horoscopes, but its history and practice go far deeper.In this episode, Ky sits down with New York Times bestselling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas for a wide-ranging exploration of what astrology actually is, where it comes from, and how it...
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S2E46: PREVIEW: Awakening Your Intuition: How to Access Your Clairs
How do we learn to recognize and strengthen our intuition, and what might change if we were given language for it as children?In this preview of a Backstage Pass bonus episode, our Producer, Solina Kennedy, sits down with Jen Lansink and Kate Trotter, authors of Clair and Her Magical Friends, a...
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S2E46: The Languages of Intuition | Talk Tracks
What if intuition isn’t a rare gift, but a capacity we all possess in different ways?This week, Ky sits down with intuitive teacher Anna Naturalista, who says her own psychic experiences began in early childhood and were encouraged rather than dismissed by the family and spiritual traditions…
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S2E45: Casey Carter: The Teacher Who Started Hearing Her Student’s Thoughts | Talk Tracks
When neurodevelopmental teacher Casey Carter began working with a 12-year-old nonspeaking autistic student named Jed, she quickly realized there was far more happening beneath the surface than others could see. After helping him communicate through typing, Casey says she discovered that Jed could...
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S2E44: Is Spelling Really “Debunked”? An Advocate Responds | Talk Tracks
After The New York Times published an opinion piece arguing that spelling-based communication has been “debunked,” writer and communication-rights advocate David Kaufer joins Ky Dickens to examine the claims, and the evidence they leave out.David shares how spelling transformed the life of his...
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S2E43: Ibogaine Inquiries Part V: Before the Forest Is Gone
As global interest in ibogaine accelerates, the consequences are already being felt in Gabon.Wild Iboga is disappearing, prices are rising, and traditional practitioners are losing access to a plant that has shaped spiritual and communal life for generations. And beyond the forest, inexperienced...
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S2E42: Ibogaine Inquiries Part IV: Who Owns a Sacred Medicine?
For centuries, the people of Gabon protected iboga as a sacred medicine. Then a gift intended to help others changed everything.In this episode, we trace Iboga's remarkable journey from colonial France to New York City, where a young man named Howard Lotsof discovered its potential to interrupt...
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S2E41: Ibogaine Inquiries Part III: The Sacred Roots of Iboga
Long before ibogaine entered Western clinics and laboratories, the plant it comes from held a sacred place in Gabonese life. In Part III of Ibogaine Inquiries, we travel to Gabon to explore Bwiti, the spiritual tradition in which iboga is understood as a teacher, guide, and living…
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S2E40: Ibogaine Inquiries Part II: The Intelligence of the Medicine
People around the world describe remarkably similar experiences with ibogaine: encounters with ancestors, shared dreams, telepathic abilities, and moments that seem to transcend ordinary consciousness.Are these a coincidence, a hallucination, or something science has yet to explain?In this…
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S2E39: Ibogaine Inquiries Part I: Remember the Name
Why is everyone suddenly talking about ibogaine?After President Trump signed an executive order fast-tracking psychedelic research, a little-known plant medicine from Central Africa found itself at the center of a national conversation. Advocates call it a breakthrough for addiction, PTSD, and...
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S2E38: From Skeptic to Advocate: Becca Cramer Returns | Talk Tracks
In this episode of The Talk Tracks, Becca Cramer, a nuclear engineer, writer, and skeptic turned believer, returns to the studio to share what she has learned since her first investigation into The Telepathy Tapes. What began as an attempt to debunk the claims surrounding spelling and telepathy…
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S2E38: PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Dr. Christopher Kerr
In this special preview of a subscriber-exclusive Ask Me Anything, hospice physician and end-of-life researcher Dr. Christopher Kerr returns to answer listeners’ most burning questions about what happens as we die.Dr. Kerr shares what he has witnessed after decades at the bedside: why dying may…
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S2E37: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: What a Stroke Revealed About Consciousness | Talk Tracks
What happens when three-fourths of a neuroscientist’s brain goes offline, and what remains is not emptiness, but peace, connection, and love?Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist who spent her life studying the brain, until a massive stroke made her the subject of her own…
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S2E36: Soraya's Story Part Two | Talk Tracks
In part two of our conversation with Soraya and her parents, Tasha and Safi, the family shares the extraordinary spiritual experiences that emerged as Soraya's health declined.After years of searching for answers about her rare and progressive condition, Soraya began speaking about angels, soul...
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S2E35: Soraya's Story Part One | Talk Tracks
When Soraya was born, her parents knew something wasn’t right. What followed was years of medical uncertainty, countless specialists, and a diagnosis that never came. But alongside Soraya's physical challenges emerged something equally extraordinary: vivid experiences with the non-physical world,...
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S2E34: We Are Here to Learn From | Talk Tracks
In this episode of The Talk Tracks, Ky sits down with Gavin Schultz and his mother, Cindy, to explore Gavin’s journey as a differently verbal autistic man who began spelling to communicate at age nine through RPM.Before spelling, Cindy knew Gavin was bright, but she had no idea just how rich his...
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S2E33: Trapped Inside a Brilliant Mind | Talk Tracks
For decades, Dr. Robert Melillo has studied autism, brain development, and human cognition. In this conversation he shares his theories on why some non-speaking individuals may understand far more than they can physically express. Drawing on neuroscience, developmental psychology, and years of...
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S2E32: "Nice Mind Reading!" | Talk Tracks
For years, Betsy Flores searched for ways to better understand her daughter, Cianna. Along the way, she encountered moments that seemed impossible to explain - thoughts shared without words, uncanny knowing, and experiences that hinted at a deeper connection.Joined by autism advocate Manisha Lad,...
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S2E31: Peter and Laura Kane: A nonspeaker answers your questions | Talk Tracks
In this episode of Talk Tracks, Ky Dickens sits down with Peter, a nonspeaker who communicates through spelling, and his mother, Laura, to ask Peter questions submitted by our Backstage Pass listeners and hear the story of how spelling transformed their family.As Peter became an open speller, he...
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S2E30: The Story That Chose Her | Talk Tracks
Animation producer and first-time director Pilar Flynn shares the extraordinary story of a creative download that arrived during a meditation retreat beneath ancient redwoods. The experience was so specific, that it told her to adapt a beloved story by literary icon Isabel Allende, assemble a...
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S2E29: Unraveling Time Travel | Talk Tracks
Is time really linear or is consciousness capable of accessing information beyond the present moment?In this episode of The Talk Tracks, Ky Dickens explores the growing scientific and experiential evidence surrounding precognition, remote viewing, and altered states of consciousness.After hearing...
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S2E28: Dr. Mayim Bialik: Science, Skepticism and the Boundaries of Proof | Talk Tracks
In this episode of Talk Tracks, Ky Dickens sits down with neuroscientist, actor, and podcast host Dr. Mayim Bialik to explore the tension between science and skepticism.With a PhD in neuroscience and a career shaped by both scientific rigor and cultural storytelling, Mayim has explored the...
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S2E27: Unlearning Our Fear of Death
In this episode of Talk Tracks, Ky Dickens sits down with Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Lynette Wallworth, whose near-death experience at age nine reshaped her understanding of reality, belonging, and what it means to die.That experience set her on a lifelong journey that led her to Indigenous...
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S2E26: Rewired through Neuroplasticity: The Brain's Ability to Heal | Talk Tracks
In this episode of Talk Tracks, Ky Dickens sits down with Mo Pritzker, whose life was upended by chronic illness, leaving her bedridden for years without answers from conventional medicine.After being told there were no more options, Mo turned to neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire...
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S2E25: What We See Before We Die | Talk Tracks
In this episode of Talk Tracks, Ky Dickens sits down with hospice physician and researcher Dr. Christopher Kerr, whose groundbreaking work has documented the vivid, often life-affirming dreams and visions reported by patients in their final days.Drawing from studies involving over 1,500 patients,...
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S2E24: The Inventor of the Microprocessor Questions Reality | Talk Tracks
This week’s guest, Federico Faggin, helped invent the microprocessor - the technology that powers the modern world. By every measure, he had achieved success. And yet he felt something was missing.After a spontaneous and profound experience of consciousness, Federico began questioning everything…
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S2E23: It’s Never Too Late | Talk Tracks
What if communication can open at any age?In this episode of the Talk Tracks, Ky Dickens sits down with Betsy Hicks Russ and her son Joe, who began spelling in adulthood after decades of being underestimated. As communication opens, so does a new understanding of Joe’s inner life, his humor, his...
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S2E22: Signs from the Other Side | Talk Tracks
In this deeply moving episode, Ky sits down with writer Carla Kaufman Sloan, whose life changed forever after the sudden loss of her seven-year-old son, Calder.With no prior belief in an afterlife, Carla found herself pulled into a world she never expected through an evidential medium…
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S2E21: Elizabeth Gilbert on Letters from Love: Is love conscious and what does it want us to know? | Talk Tracks
What if love is not just something we feel, but a force that is actively working with us?Previously, in Season 2 Episode 3 of The Telepathy Tapes, we explored the consciousness of creativity and asked whether ideas are alive and if they choose us. In this episode of the Talk Tracks, we explore…
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S2E20: Unlocking Ryan | Talk Tracks
For most of his life, Ryan was treated as if he couldn’t understand the world around him. Unable to speak reliably due to apraxia, he spent years in special education classrooms where his intelligence was not honored.But his mother Mary always believed there was more inside.At age 23, Ryan began...
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S2E19: A Non-Speaker and A Family Secret | Talk Tracks
In this episode of Talk Tracks, we travel to Rockville, Maryland, to meet the Statter family and their 24-year-old son, Ethan - a nonspeaker who began spelling his thoughts at age 18.What started as a breakthrough in communication quickly became something much bigger.Through letterboard spelling,...
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S2E18: When a Near-Death Experience Unlocks Hidden Genius Part Two | Talk Tracks
In part two of this two-part episode series of the Talk Tracks, we continue the exploration of near-death experiences with Tony Cicoria, an orthopedic surgeon whose life changed after surviving a lightning strike in 1994. Tony describes leaving his physical body, witnessing his own resuscitation,...
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S2E17: When a Near-Death Experience Unlocks Hidden Genius Part One |Talk Tracks
In part one of this two part episode series of Talk Tracks, we hear the extraordinary near-death experience of David Ditchfield, who survived a devastating train accident that should have been fatal. David describes leaving his injured body behind and entering a realm of healing light, guiding...
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S2E16: Dr. Neil Theise on The Afterlife | Talk Tracks
In this extended interview, Dr. Neil Theise reflects on his mother’s experience with Parkinson’s and end-of-life visions, and how those experiences shaped his understanding of consciousness. He discusses her interactions with deceased loved ones, changes in perception as her memory declined, and...
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S2E15: Koray and The Hill | Talk Tracks
Today we’re introduced to Suzanne Simon, the mother of telepathic nonspeaker, Koray, who Suzanne has come to find out plays an important role on The Hill. Suzanne describes the journey of diagnosing and understanding Koray’s autism, the lengths she’s gone to to seek care and resources for her...
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S2E14: AMA with Ky Dickens | Talk Tracks
In this AMA episode, Ky responds to listener questions about non-speaking communication, telepathy, and the evolving understanding of consciousness. She reflects on what she’s learned from working closely with non-speakers and their families, addressing both practical challenges and deeper...
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S2E13: An NDE That Led To Precognition Part Two | Talk Tracks
In Part Two of the Season Two premiere of Talk Tracks, Anita Moorjani shares what happened after her near-death experience and the astonishing medical recovery that followed. Alongside her husband Danny and physician Dr. Brian Walker, Anita describes how her body rapidly healed from end-stage...
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S2E12: An NDE That Led To Precognition Part One | Talk Tracks
In the Season Two premiere of Talk Tracks, we open with a powerful two-part conversation centered on near-death experiences and what they reveal about consciousness beyond the body. This episode introduces Anita Moorjani, who recounts the extraordinary experience she had while in a coma from...
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S2E12: PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Jill Blakeway
In this Backstage Pass preview, we share a new Ask Me Anything episode, with Jill Blakeway who returns after her appearances in our Energy Medicine episodes from Season Two. Jill answers all of the questions you wrote in about energy healing, acupuncture, trauma stored in the body, chronic…
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TRAILER: Talk Tracks Season Two
Talk Tracks returns for Season 2 on Wednesday, January 14, with new episodes released weekly. Expanding on the themes of consciousness explored in Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes, this season goes deeper into near-death experiences, extended conversations with scientists and experts, and powerful...
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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 Consciousness Cassettes, 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 beyond the brain.
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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...
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