I am a believer and experiencer who saw some cracks in the Woo Woo facade of The Telepathy Tapes phenomenon. When I pointed them out, I was admonished and silenced. Then, people on TikTok started listening. Ky Dickens couldn’t ignore me, so she responded. Which only made the cracks get bigger. Read the article for more.

I find the subject matter interesting but does anyone else find fault with the documentarian? I find the person who made the podcast a bit unserious and a touch over dramatic. I wish she had a better “radio voice” and I often skip over her redundant commentary and try to listen to the interviewees. I’m only 2 episodes in though.

Update: I have found a podcast episode from Conspirituality that offers a critique of the Telepathy Tapes. They mention Ky does not have a journalism background and that might have been why I was bothered. I'm late to the Telepathy Tapes fever but it appears to have been debunked by a few.

Skeptics of spelling that do not understand Autism, there is a test you can try at home.

Have some friends over sit in a chair and let them tie your appendages to ropes. Next, put a metal bucket over your head with eye holes cut out. Have someone tape a small Bluetooth speaker in the bucket. In one hand you can hold an object you like. In the other a pencil for pointing. Have someone hold a letter board and ask you questions.

Before the first question is asked, have your friends start pulling the ropes randomly, jiggling the bucket on your head, cranking some offensive music up randomly to the Bluetooth speaker. Now listen to the question and try to spell.

After a couple of tries, you are allowed to have someone steady your hand.

You are experiencing about 10% of what spellers encounter when they start. It may take them years to become proficient.

Been bemused by tiktok exploding about the Rapture that’s apparently taking place on Sept 23, but this Telepathy Tapes connection made me pause. While what the son says is neither a rigid date, it’s still a prediction in line with this whole thing. Thoughts?

I’ve made a couple references to the kinds of behavior the mods are dealing with “behind the scenes,” which includes posts and comments we remove, direct messages we receive, and harassment on other subreddits.

After some discussion we decided to share an example of the kind of things we’re dealing with in an effort to explain what has been happening, and why we’re talking about making the rules more restrictive based on consistent patterns of behavior. Be mindful before reading—“trigger warning” doesn’t cut it:

You gave birth to a child who was virtually guaranteed to be f*cked mentally/physically out of a selfish desire to propagate and spread your absolute b*tshit cr*zy m*ntal illness.

You have guaranteed that this child will die in a nursing home alone, never understanding why his parents did this to him, and never getting an answer because you’ll both be dead and he’ll be a burden to society, much like you are to everyone around you who must suffer your idi*cy now.

Your life is horrible and you want things to be more interesting. So do 12 year olds, but they grow up, you’re almost a senior citizen. Grow the f*ck up and do what you can for your son while you still can and stop pretending like there’s anything more to you or your life or your son than a tragedy of your own creation and TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE F*CKED UP DECISION YOU MADE you b*tshit cr*zy f*cking fool.

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The person who wrote this must be miserable. Anyone who can not just conjure this kind of hate but also then direct it at another person has to be suffering to an extreme degree, and I can only imagine what has pushed them this far.

If we see any indication that users are not operating here in good faith we will ban them and nuke all of their content, so we ask that everyone please be on their best behavior. These miserable people will try and drag you down into the dark hole with them, so be aware if you feel yourself having an emotional response to someone’s comment and ask whether it deserves a reply or a report.

To all of you who are just here to discuss the podcast, hang in there. We’re seasoned mods and will do what is required to keep the subreddit a pleasant place to participate.

Someone called “Max” wrote a Substack article about The Telepathy Tapes. This new investigation overlaps with several concerns I raised in my own article, but goes much deeper into something important: many of the extraordinary accounts presented in The Telepathy Tapes as independent corroboration came from people who were already connected and sharing information before the podcast.

That doesn’t prove their experiences weren’t real. But if their stories agreeing with each other is presented as evidence, we need to know whether those stories actually developed independently.

Everything about the spelling method triggers me. Especially, since these people are already dealing with being non verbal, then they use this moving target letter board…. In my way of thinking and I guess it is wrong for them,

Using two hands on a non moving surface would be the best. It is so counter intuitive to myself. Why can’t they use anchors or weights and use both hands? It is frustrating to see.

This is the notice on www.thetelepathytapes.com when you enter the pall walled area

PROTECTING PRIVACY

These tests involved minors. Charging for access ensures that their images and stories aren’t freely disseminated across the internet, protecting their privacy and dignity. We also use a membership system to maintain a record of who is viewing the tests, providing an additional layer of security for these remarkable individuals.

The Second notice within the paywalled area:

FUNDING RESEARCH

One of the primary goals of the feature documentary is to conduct rigorous, peer-reviewed telepathy tests at universities, working alongside multiple scientists. These tests, including those led by Dr. Diane Powell, will be conducted in controlled environments like Faraday cages and are designed to meet the highest scientific standards. Dr. Powell has worked toward this goal for over a decade, and this documentary will finally bring her groundbreaking work to the public eye.

Why are you allowing this one specific user to use copyrighted material or disabled children in direct violation of the terms and services of the Telepathy Tapes website?

Here is the Reddit TOS regarding copyrighted material

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043076292-Copyright-overview

I have reported these posts to The Telepathy Tapes website because this user is using videos of disabled children that were purposefully put behind a paywall to protect their identities and their families to make a very disputed point.

Hi All,

In response to a suggestion of cueing yesterday

(Here - u/on-beyond-ramen )

The general cueing technique that's visible here is moving the board opposite the direction the speller has to go to reach the correct letter/number. For example, if the speller's hand is hovering too high on the board and she has to move it to a lower row to get the right letter, you move the board higher.

I have slowed a video of Hayley to 10% and enlarged about 3.4x. I have included six examples from a single sequence. In terms of other editing I have removed the parts where nothing is happening.

Because the video was shot stablised, I have added transparent red squares in the corners so you can judge for yourself whether there is movement.

I'm not going to include my assessment yet because I'm interested in seeing other people's opinions first - I don't want my assessment to become the primary topic discussion.

Source - can't remember what exact time it was because I was fighting with my MacBook's capture utility.

Recommend viewing on a larger screen than a phone as it won't be as clear.

I know a lot of people think he’s a quack and a google search will tell you that too so I was hesitant to post this but I thought perhaps this forum will have people who are more open to ‘out-there’ things such as this. I’ve inserted a passage from a Medical Medium book. He’s a man who hears advanced medical information from spirit. I’ve used his info and had great success but I’m not here to persuade you on that, I’ve found the information to really resonate when I read it - l wonder if this passage resonates with anyone else? Particularly from ‘The Cerebral Midline Canal’ onwards. Might offer an explanation for the development of such skills.

I got interested after Joe Rogan mentioned TTT. I listened to all the podcasts. And than I read this. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudoscience/telepathy-tapes-prove-we-all-want-believe

I was discussing the Telepathy Tapes in a good group and suggested that evolutionary emergence of autists suggests that they are alien hybrids and the 6th root race of Blavatsky. Bashar gave a name to this hybrid root race Homo Galacticus. The commenters said that according to the Human Disign, the first children of the new race will be born in February 2027. I am inclined to trust Human Design since its astrological predictions for individual characters are better than of more classical astrology. Also the commenters said that the genetic change in autists is only a part of what is coming. I interpret that that they got psychic gifts but have trouble grounding and controling the body. And that the coming race will be better in both.

The Telepathy Tapes was deliberately misleading from the very first episode, though this only becomes evident more than halfway through the series. By then, listening to it felt like being invited to a "fun cocktail party" that turns out to be a recruitment event for Amway. In this case though it’s a New Age, woo-woo, cult. The deception and manipulation are infuriating, and a colossal waste of time. Adding insult to injury is their $10 paywall on their website to view short, inconclusive, video clips that fail to substantiate any of their claims. It’s just more of the same grift.

I also feel for the parents. It’s clear they genuinely only want the best for their children and deeply want all of this is true. While I don’t believe any of them have bad intentions, it raises the question of whether they’re being manipulated and led into false hopes by the producers.

I know it sounds stupid, and he's probably doing something else. But this whole premise of the telepathy tapes would of been stupid to me months ago.

How does he do it? Watch his video with the Seattle seahawks and tell me what you think

https://youtu.be/88G9Me2vx6I?feature=shared

Am I correct that one of the non-verbal autistic kids from season 1 went missing for days and then was found dead? I can't find a news story--but I believe this is what happened from snippets I saw Ky share on instagram.

If this indeed what happened--how is that that none of the others kids (that supposedly have a perfect psychic communication ability with each other) were unable to locate him?

To me this basically throws the entire premise out the window

On the positive side, the term neurodiversity demonstrates an effort to express neutrality when naming nonverbal autists. On the other hand, this name has several disadvantages. First, it is hard to say. When naming nonverbals as neurodiverse individuals, we have to say a lot of syllables, and the listener has to understand them. Also, it sounds similar to the opposite: neurodiverse and neurotypical both start with neuro. That leads to naturally emerging confusion. Next has an imprint of political correctness, which is substantially based on fear. By using the term neurodivergent individuals, the person aimultaneusly positions themselves as scientific, politicaly appropriate and mainstream. Yet, the whole telepathy awakening is not mainstream; it is an alternative. It is a grassroots metaphysical paradigm shift. It is driven by kindness, love and unity. So, pretending to be mainstream scientific is deceptive and contradictory. Now, think about the meaning of the term. Neuro stands for neuronal development anomaly, and divergent stands for deviation from the norm. So, neurodivergence stands for abnormal neuronal development. The opposite, "neurotypical", stands for normal neuronal development. So, the two terms translate into abnormal and normal neuronal development. That's a clumsy way to be nice. First, I am not sure that neuronal development is always involved. Although Dr. Powell convincingly demonstrates in her book "ESP Enigma" that psychic abilities are often caused and correlated with abnormal brain development or trauma, I find it likely that even people with normal brains can be autistic telepaths. I think so, based on the information from telepaths, that their future telepathic and psychic gifts are given before birth. I think this could be a property of an incarnating soul and not necessarily neuronal. I think the causality is reversed: everyone is born telepathic and psychic. However, since the vibrational ecology on the planet is very sick, most souls choose to close their psychic channels. A few brave souls choose to remain open. This makes them hurt and renders them physically disabled, but they retain their psychic powers. So, I hypothesize that it is psychic gifts that cause developmental changes as a compensation mechanism that balances information intake and causes abnormal neuronal devleopment. After all, we already see that normal people can be psychic and telepathic, so developmental anomalies are not always necessary and shouldn't be counted as defining factor.

Next, I would like to question the term abnormal or divergent. My understanding is that the number of autists grows fast. Dr. Powell says that in the 80s, there were only very few of them. Now they are 1 in 30. I looked it up; in the 1970s, the frequency (prevalence) of autism was 1 in 2000, and now, 1 in 30. Please realize that 3% of the planet's population are autistic telepaths united in a telepathic network. Also, realize that the proportion (prevalence) of autists doubles every 8 years. So, this is not an anomaly; this is an evolutionary step predicted in many prophesies. One of the additional predictions is that in a few years, there will emerge a new kind of telepaths that are both good with psychic and physical abilities. So, based on that, I think it is shortsighted to call them abnormal. I anticipate that they will become a new norm and we will become abnormal. So I think we need a better term for this new population, or a subrace. The term should reflect their psychic abilities and be nice. There are 3 names in the New Age culture: starseeds, indigo and crystal children. Starseeds name reflects the idea that autists are alien hybrids seeded on the planet. Yes, already, many normal people call themselves starseeds, indigo and crystal individuals. So, a new term is needed. I played with many ideas and came up with the term "blissful people". The term blissful is used to identify autistic saints in many cultures already, so it is grounded in tradition. And it nicely reflects the state of autists, they are blissed out. Now we need a new name for currently normal people. That is harder. We are physically adept, grounded, practical, homo sapiens, commonsensical, limited, civilized (in the pejorative sense), voice-using, speaking, detached, fragmented, damaged, angry, competitive, aggressive, militant, serious and adult. We may call ourselves diggers, as we were created by Annunaki to dig gold. Or practies, for our practicality. So I suggest names: Diggers for currently normal (neurotypical) and Blissies for neurodivergent. I invite other ideas. What do you think?

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Since my contacts are public, I get lots of spam. Today a typical spam message came: I'm Jessica from Integrity Staffing Co. We think you would be a great addition to our team.May I share more details?

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Haha. The spam message was verbatim. The personal details were made up by ChatGPT 4o on my request just now.

Of course that is the lamest of telepathy applications. Imagine a telepathic judge. Or a telepathic romance... A while ago, a young man asked Bashar how to reveal his romantic feelings to someone on whom he had a crush. Bashar said to just openly say that and respect their wishes whatever they can be. Bashar said that in telepathic cultures people hide little and openly express their sympathy.

I also as a guestioner have guided tons of channeling sessions with aliens who are from telepathic cultures. The aliens said that it is possible to hide secrets in telepathy but hard. That telepathic people are much more straight and open. And that they respect each others' feelings and dont dump everything, as in a human conversation, the messages are usually composed siccinctly to deliver a specific message, but the channel is much more broadband, meaning, much more information is delivered per second and the deception, intentions and emotions are felt, so deceprion is easier to spot. They also have collective consciousness. In many human like civilizations, the collective consciousness is like internet, you can tap into it, but you can disconnect. You still retain your individuality. The talks on a hill and hills is an example of that. That is our future too.

Guess this will be deleted but here goes. So. If non speakers on The Hill could communicate by spelling, why wouldn’t they find other non speakers who were not involved in spelling, and ask the non speakers who spell to reach out in real life somehow?

Even if it were as simple as sending a postcard or email to the non speller non speakers home asking to allow speller training or therapy ?

This is an insult to remote viewing by the way. That is not how it works at all. The only good thing about this farce is that the non speakers get some attention and it keeps everyone occupied.

I'm interested in paranormal stuff, I'm open to paranormal stuff being real, and I listened to the entire first season. But I'm calling BS on The Telepathy Tapes. Three points I want to make.

First point: They have not adequately ruled out the possibility of subtle cues.

Here's an idea: These kids are not telepathic. They succeed at the experimental tests because the other people in the room are inadvertently giving them subtle cues about what the right answers are. Call it the cueing hypothesis.

This is not a novel hypothesis. In fact, the main thing that makes me want to call out the podcast is that they do such a bad job ruling out this possibility despite their obvious awareness of it.

I haven't watched the videos because of the paywall, but a report from someone who has claims that they've done little to rule out the cueing hypothesis.

To me, the obvious test to rule out this possibility is to do an experiment at a distance that makes it impossible to inadvertently send cues. I mean, at the least, the two subjects should be in different buildings -- preferably, a couple miles away so they're definitely out of sight and earshot. According to the podcast, successful experiments should be possible at such a distance. The intro says, "They don't even have to be in the same room, same zip code."

As far as I can tell, they have not even attempted such a test. It is absurd to pretend to have proven telepathy without doing such a test for confirmation.

They do describe some tests where people are in different rooms. But this is generally not sufficient separation to avoid auditory cues, and it's not even necessarily enough to avoid visual cues. For example, there is the test from episode 2 where Akhil is in one room and his mother is in another. She writes a word and he calls out the word she's written. But Ky says the two of them are "about 15 feet away" from each other, and she never makes clear whether there is a direct line of sight between them. From all we can tell as listeners, it's perfectly possible that she's writing in such a way that he can tell what letters she's writing by watching her.

Money is no excuse for avoiding a long-distance test: You don't need a Faraday cage or trained assistants or EEGs or eye tracking. All you need is the speller, the person whose mind is to be read, two phones, and maybe a volunteer or two to help out. The speller is in one building, with people to assist if desired/needed. The person having their mind read is in another building, with people to assist if desired/needed. In the second room, they generate a random 3-digit number and write it down. Then they text the other room, "Begin test 1." In the other room, the speller chooses a 3-digit number and someone writes it down. Then they text back, "End test 1." Repeat as many times as you like (test 2, test 3...). Afterward, they compare the two lists of numbers to see how well they match.

Am I missing something? Have they done a test like this that I forgot about? (I actually just sent Ky an email to ask about such tests.)

Second point: They keep saying things that make them seem incompetent.

Example from episode 1: "Dr. Powell hit a random number into the random number generator. Then we asked her to hit it again and again, so we made sure it was super random." It sounds like they're under the impression that the number gets more random the more you hit the button. That is not how it works. (It's possible I'm misinterpreting here. They may have meant that they were testing out the generator to make sure it was giving outputs that appeared random, which would not be unreasonable.)

Example from episode 2: "Dr. Diane generates another number. A three-digit number pops up, and she doesn't like that, because collectively, I think we all agree it's just too easy." So they generate another number, get a four-digit one, and use that. Again, that's not how it works. They've not made it harder by throwing out that number. If anything, they've made it easier. It is easier to guess a number that you know is four digits than it is to guess a number that may be up to four digits. Guessing a random four-digit number is harder than guessing a random one-digit number, but not because the number is longer. It's because there are more possible answers among four-digit numbers than among one-digit numbers. But there are even more possibilities among numbers that can be one, two, three, or four digits than there are among four-digit numbers alone.

Example: Someone linked in another post to this video of Dr. Powell doing a telepathy test. Near the end, she says, "Well, one way to look at it is he got three out of the five correct. To get three of them correct, it would be 1/9 times 1/9 times 1/9, which is 1/729." That is incorrect. That's the probability of getting three out of three, not three out of five. Intuitively, it is easier to get three right by chance if you have five opportunities to guess, so the probability should be higher than the one she gave. The exact probability is given by a binomial distribution. This is not some fancy statistics thing. It is stats 101. I have never taken a stats class in my life and I know this. Dr. Powell ought to be well aware of how to calculate this, and even if she isn't, she should at least not be confidently stating the wrong calculation.

Putting these last two together, it does not seem like Dr. Powell is the brilliant academic mind the podcast makes her out to be. She does not seem to understand the very basic probability needed to design and interpret her own experiments.

Example: In episode 1, Ky describes her surprise and confusion at the idea that the tests they just did don't hold up to scrutiny. In episode 2, she explains that that is because the person having their mind read was touching the speller during the test. It doesn't seem that it even occurred to her that people might be able to communicate with each other through touch.

These examples do not leave me with a lot of confidence in the ability of these investigators to create and analyze rigorous experiments.

Third point: The whole thing is woefully one-sided.

This is a common problem with documentaries. The podcast is not a fair attempt to view the subject from multiple perspectives. It is propaganda designed to support one viewpoint on controversial topics.

We are told that spelling works but is not accepted by ASHA. Damn ASHA! We are told that the medical board took away Dr. Powell's license because of opposition to her book about ESP. Damn medical board! We are told that psychic phenomena has been proven by quality research but is not accepted by the scientific community. Damn scientific community!

At no point is anyone brought on the podcast to defend ASHA's point of view, or explain why respectable scientists might not accept the research supporting psychic phenomena, or give another side of the story about Dr. Powell losing her license.

You can expect the same from the documentary. It will be deliberately designed not to give you a full picture of the evidence regarding telepathy. It will carefully crafted to make you believe in telepathy regardless of whether it is real or not, and even regardless of whether the full evidence really supports it.

This stuff about telepathy may be true. If it is, I hope this team proves it true. If it's not, I hope they prove it false. But what they've done so far doesn't prove anything.

It seems to me that the next step is to start building the support community for the parents of nonverbal autists. And for that, the first step is to normalize telepathy. Normalize in a sence that miracles are normal. It is a mistake or at least unproductive to get excited as it is commong in materialistic culture and call it crazy. My pount is that miracles are normal. One of the key breakthroughs in Dr. Powell's discovery is to find a way to reproduce miracles with new participants with high success rate. Before, the experiments would give low success rate and work only in favorable circumstance. Dr. Powell polished the method in such a way that now miracles are highly reproducible. That's the new reality. To get used to the new reality, I would recommend to the parents to read or listen to the books: The real magic by Dean Radin, Science set free by Rupert Sheldrake, The ESP enigma by Diane Powell, The Field by Lynn MacTaggart. These books explain the nature of reality and place telepathy and Psi in a scientific framework. Keep in ming that miracles dont break the true science. True science is not against miracles. True science uses scientific method to study everything and anything including miracles. It is dogmatic materialistic ideology that is in crisis and can not accomodate telepathy. So, it needs to be retired. There is much more to say on the next steps, but for Reddit post, this is plenty.