Telepathy

The way of the past, the way of the future

It seems that telepathy, formerly known as ESP (extra-sensory perception) has entered the mainstream, and is even considered a valid scientific topic. Did you know the NIH National Library of Medicine has well over 600 peer-reviewed studies on telepathy?

As far as the general public goes, apparently the most downloaded podcast on Spotify is no longer The Joe Rogan Experience. That slot has been taken by a newer show called The Telepathy Tapes.

The show is about non-verbal autistic children's journeys toward being able to make their thoughts known despite the inability to control their bodies. Despite the attempted debunking of autistics' telepathic skill–and there are many debunkers– the amount of podcast downloads alone is evidence that people are curious about the phenomenon and hungry for more information about it.

There are many "official" narratives trying to convince the public of one thing or another, as discussed in last week's article. There's no doubt that we are influenced by a vast number of unseen, undetected cues designed to influence our thinking, whether the perpetrators are advertising companies, governments, hackers or others. Yet if we acknowledge the existence and effectiveness of such cues, undetectable by the usual five senses, why would we not acknowledge the existence of other means of unusual transference of information or ideas? Like...telepathy.

Surely almost every one of us can recall at least one instance–and some of us many more than that–of knowing something by intuition, seeing a ghost, having a "feeling" that saved us from a bad situation, having a prophetic dream, receiving a message that just appeared in our mind, having a dream that seemed more real than waking life, or seeing weird phenomena we could not explain. These are normal happenings in life. But we're trained to discount their validity.

In World War II my Uncle Stanley was a Motor Machinist's Mate on board the USS Bush, a Fletcher class destroyer. He lost his life when the ship was sunk after a Japanese aerial attack on April 6, 1945. On a website dedicated to this ship and its personnel, Torpedoman's Mate Art Woolfolk, who survived the attack, describes an incident that had occurred the previous night on April 5:

"Frank Dinda and I had been gambling. We had money on board. Had a crap game the night before we were hit. I won $250. Had it in my shirt pocket, huddled near the gunmount...Later that night, I and Frank were at the rail, April 5th. Frank was looking at the stars. Suddenly he said, kinda low, 'We're getting hit tomorrow. The ship will go down.'" (For additional gripping survivor recollections of that day, consult the website.)

Sometimes we just....know stuff.

Why is telepathy possible? There have been a number of scientific peer-reviewed papers on the phenomenon of telepathy, but scientific papers seem to focus on the how rather than the why. Monitoring of brain activity in subjects with an aptitude for telepathy shows activity in the right parahippocampal gyrus section, for example. But is there some kind of scientific framework that might give us a basis for this phenomenon, a reason WHY humans can do this? Yes, and it seems to lie in various theories.

The “Hundredth Monkey” phenomenon (after 99 monkeys on an island learn how to do something, all monkeys of that species wherever they are in the world also know how to do it) happens because of Morphic Resonance (biologist Rupert Sheldrake). More mathematical frameworks like String Theory and Many Worlds Theory discuss unseen and unperceived dimensions of reality not readily accessible to our 3D selves. These aspects of reality are enfolded into our own. They’re part of the field in which we live even though we don’t perceive them with our five senses.

Because our world is still dominated by mechanistic thinking and approaches to science, we’re still trying to understand telepathy that way. It won’t work.

Prior to the 17th century knowledge was not separated the way it is today. In those days, the practical (as opposed to mystical) exploration of our reality was a blend of science, astrology, spirit communications, alchemy and more. But the era of specialization in the West largely ended the study of these types of correlations. The toe bone is no longer connected to the heel bone, the ankle bone, the leg bone, the knee bone, the thigh bone, the hip bone, back bone, shoulder bone, neck bone, head bone–you better go see a podiatrist.

Ted Kaptchuk, in his book The Web That Has No Weaver, describes the difference between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Occidental medicine. They are completely different systems. The Chinese had a working diagnostic and treatment system over 2000 years ago: the Huangdi Neijing, or The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine. Such a system works because it makes correlations between body, mind and spirit, rather than separating all these components. And dare we mention that without all these components working together, we would not be human beings?

There's a distinct trend, represented by the Transhumanist movement, that wishes for exactly that. In humankind's quest for superhuman abilities, we're told we have to implant chips into our brains and bodies rather than cultivate the skills that are part of the human birthright. But we're too busy scrolling to work on such skills. Is this by design?

I haven't watched TV since 1977, but I do remember the 70s show Six Million Dollar Man starring Lee Majors. The character Steve Austin is an astronaut who suffers severe injuries after a crash and is "rebuilt" with bionic parts, hence the title of the series. Whether or not this was intended to be predictive programming we'll never know, but the premise certainly falls in line with the Transhumanist agenda. And we're talking about a TV show from half a century ago.

Of course, we're sold on taxpayer funds being directed to Transhumanist efforts by branding these initiatives as aids to the handicapped and those with traumatic debilitating injuries. Just as we're sold on involvement in foreign wars by branding them as "saving democracy." Because "grabbing the oil/gold/rare earth minerals" just doesn't have the same ring.

Ky Dickens, creator of The Telepathy Tapes, says the following: "Maybe our ancestors understood it better than we do, and some convergence of science and technology and media persuaded humanity a few hundred years ago to dismiss their wisdom as small-minded and naive, and that kind of ushered in this new reality of materialism."

In The Telepathy Tapes we're told that non-verbal autistic people can read others' thoughts, communicate with angels, spirits and God, and interact with each other in another dimension they call "The Hill." They also go there to learn, and according to one of the autistic young men named Houston, literature, art, history, philosophy and ideas are highly valued in that realm. Well, that's certainly good news for artists. Here on earth we build statues of Generals and burn books. But apparently our artistic creations do survive, albeit in another dimension where we don't get paid!

One can imagine the necessity of telepathic communication before language was invented. Therefore, humans must have at least the vestiges of this ability, even though it’s become atrophied from lack of use. We experience telepathy with people we know well and spend time with daily, such as partners, spouses, family members, children. People communicate with their pets telepathically. Some people claim to communicate with their plants as well. An entire book was written on this subject in the 1970s, The Secret Life of Plants. Since then extensive research has been done on plant “feelings,” augmenting the vast anecdotal data that was and is still widely available.

A lot of our world's problems stem from over-identification with superfluous, irrelevant details like skin color or gender. This is a direct result of having lost our ability to communicate telepathically with one another.

If we could sense what another person is thinking, then duplicity, betrayal, and deceit would be eliminated. First, it wouldn’t be possible to fool another person by saying one thing while intending something different. Second, eventually we wouldn’t even want to fool each other, because we would know and feel directly the emotions and thoughts of others.

Emotions and thoughts belong to the internal sphere of humans. We are well-practiced at keeping them hidden from others. Yet the trend in the past few decades has been toward the opposite: toward sharing of feelings.

In my parents’ day, it was considered somewhat shameful to go see a psychiatrist. Later on it became much more accepted, as society and family structures began to share feelings as a matter of course. It’s actually a bit shocking to me to see the kinds of intimate details of the inner life that young people today share with their parents, and vice verse.

Are we in fact imitating an aspect of the inner self–the wish to share feelings–by manifesting it in the physical realm? Are we sharing our feelings more because we're moving in a more empathetic direction? Right now we need to share feelings verbally, with some body language on the side. But as we become more and more telepathic, returning to our roots as it were, the verbal sharing will become less necessary because our family, friends and associates will ALREADY know these things about us.

The return to telepathic communication will not eradicate verbal communication by any means. It will, however, empower us to see through superficialities of physical appearance and establish relationships based on something authentic–our souls.

We all belong to the same infinite expression. The interface of Space and Time, the changing of Light from particle to wave just because someone happens to be looking (as we see in Quantum Mechanics)…to those who explore such realms it is clear that most of what is real is invisible. Neither can those dimensions be heard, smelled, tasted or touched. They can, however, be known by the mind, and by our sixth sense. The sixth sense rides on a dimension outside what can be perceived through the five senses, and this is precisely the dimension we must access to increase our telepathic powers.

Is the language used in telepathy the same as a verbal language? Words, but also phrases, numbers, symbols and images can be communicated telepathically . In my experience of having channeling sessions with mediums, it seems that spirits often communicate in images rather than words. For instance, the medium will often say about a spirit, "she's showing me ...." rather than "she's saying....." Swedenborg says the following:

"The speech of spirits with one another is not a speech of words, but of ideas, such as are those of human thought without words, on which account it is the universal of all languages. But when they speak with a man, their speech falls into the words of the man's language. When I have spoken with spirits about this, it has been granted me to say that when they are conversing with one another, they cannot utter even. one single word of human language, still less any name." –Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia, paragraph 1876.

The non-verbal autistics I've been studying make constant reference to Christian concepts, heaven, and other realms of reality. They speak via their spelling boards and computer keyboards. It seems very much as if their faith is what sustains them in the midst of a physical reality where they feel trapped in a body they can't control.

Faith itself goes back much further than Christianity. The omniscient power which (according to any faith) created our physical world has been given many names. Famed guru Sai Baba (who performed miracles on a daily basis) said, "Man is the Divine poured into a human mold." Similarly, all faiths and cultures, throughout history, recognize the existence of both good and evil entities who reside in different dimensions but are perceived in our 3D world at certain times (fairies, jinn, angels, demons, leprechauns, wood nymphs, ghosts, etc.). In Episode 9 of The Telepathy Tapes we hear from Asher, an autistic man in England who states:

"There are, and always have been, beings, entities, visiting and interacting with our world. Some people are more open to sensing their presence and influence than others, just as some are more able to receive telepathic communication from other humans. Our skills vary from person to person. Some are gifted at maths or music. Others have wider fields of perception. Those who become aware of the intelligent entities interpret them according to their personal socialization and belief system. Some will view them as gods, saints, or angels. Others will see them as sci-fi aliens, complete with spacecraft.

"Similarly, the human perception of their purpose or intentions will vary according to our beliefs. Some interpret the entities as threatening. Others see them as guides, or advisors. This is not dissimilar to the varied ways in which our own non-speakers are perceived. There are those who refuse to accept their intelligence due to fear of the unknown, and others who treat them as prophets.

"In all cases, the solution is for the so-called experts to broaden their perception (except that there's far more going on in and beyond their reality than their instruments can measure) and adopt a humble and wondering attitude. Mastering telepathy is a valuable and helpful first step."

Sages and ancient texts, for millennia, have been using metaphors like "an illusion", “a game”, “Plato’s Cave”, etc. to describe our reality. Now we live with technology, with computers, so we have a new metaphor that closer reflects our environment. This metaphor is "The Simulation." Simulation Theory says we are all living inside a computer program. But, it's the same thing.

We don't have to ascribe our reality to a video game being played by a 15 year old in his parent's basement in the year 3035, or a mega AI intelligence that's controlling us like avatars. Our reality is just....an illusion. Whether we call that illusion Maya or The Simulation or something else doesn’t really matter, they are names for the same thing. Cultivating a skill such as telepathy is one of the many ways we can break out of the illusion, and this motivation is what has driven sages throughout the ages.

Birth and death are just points on the earth dimension we’re experiencing most of the time. The other dimensions, expressed in Many Worlds theory and String Theory, are enfolded into reality so that they aren’t even visible to us as long as we’re focused on the earth reality. There are people who can “tune in” to these other dimensions/realities. We call those people psychics, channelers, shamans, artists–and now autistics.

"Spirits are incessantly in relation with men. The good spirits try to lead us into the right road, sustain us under the trials of life, and aid us to bear them with courage and resignation; the bad ones tempt us to evil: it is a pleasure for them to see us fall, and to make us like themselves."

–Allen Kardec, The Spirits' Book

Lionel Snell, in his brilliant book My Years of Magical Thinking, puts forth his theory that humankind repeats a cycle consisting of a social focus on, in turn, Science, Magic, Art, Religion. He says that a scientifically-oriented culture (such as the one we've been in for 300 years) naturally evolves toward a magically-oriented culture.

We're seeing this. At least in the West. In addition to the many TV programs and films on magical and supernatural topics, we see a dissatisfaction with the science-only approach toward health, environment, and lifestyle. Besides the fact that Western health care has become prohibitively expensive (if you can even get an appointment), we aren't getting the results we've been primed to expect. Hence today's massive interest in alternative healing methods. Besides the interest in supplements, the public is fascinated by energy healing, of which there are a number of emerging modalities.

Tibetan demon

Surely the most fascinating aspect of a possible transition from a Science epoch to a Magic epoch would be the merging of the two. If we revisit the 20th century work and writings of physicists like Capra and Zukov, we see clearly that there is indeed an overlap between Science and Magic. As far as a 21st century take on it, author Paul Levy writes extensively on this topic.

Nikola Tesla, the iconoclastic inventor whose papers were confiscated upon his death by none other than the FBI (with John Trump, Donald Trump's uncle, as the team leader) has entered the imagination of the public in the form of documentaries, films, and zero-point energy research. There are also fringe applications of technology supposedly invented by Tesla, such as the "purple plates" which nearly 2000 folks gave a 4.3 star rating on Amazon.

The compulsion some people have for merging their bodies with Artificial Intelligence devices seems to reflect a–can we call it primal?–desire for “superhuman” powers. Yet these powers have always existed: telepathy, clairvoyance, control of the sympathetic and para sympathetic nervous system, perception of matter as energy, persuasion and suggestion, hypnosis, spontaneous healing, non-verbal communication with animals and plants, ability to transmute negative emotions, astral travel, etc.

Even when one has a natural aptitude for something–let’s say music–one still must practice it. Any ability must necessarily adhere to the “use it or lose it” axiom. Because the cultivation of many natural human abilities is discouraged in school, children often lose those abilities even after having them initially.

A child’s mind naturally is in a theta brainwave state until the age of seven. The theta state easily allows perception of frequencies and phenomena that are invisible in our normal beta brainwave state. Hence, the child’s world is filled with "imaginary" playmates, perception of matter as energy, instinctive knowledge of other’s feelings, expression of archetypal behaviors.

I remember something I saw when I was five. I was hanging upside down on a gym set in a playground. Suddenly I saw that the air was filled with small silver discs, floating all around me. But when I got right-side-up, they disappeared. Bummer. (If I put in the time, I could list a whole lot of happenings I’ve personally experienced that were outside of daily perception and understanding, hence my interest in the topic. Maybe that will be a separate article for the future.)

So-called superhuman powers are actually our birthright. The only reason we don’t experience them as such is that society structures have largely eradicated them. We have given away power over our own bodies not only to doctors, but also to lawmakers and government. We’ve given away power over our emotions and minds to therapists and psychologists. We’ve given away power over our behaviors to police. We’ve given away power over our thought process to media outlets.

A popular YouTube channel is that of an MIT-trained former neurosurgeon who does videos on the changes in his thinking that led to him quitting a high-paid and well-respected hospital gig, because he began to think he might be doing more harm than good by being part of the traditional medical establishment. Surgeons who realize surgery may not be the best option for a patient seem to be trending now.

What if we could combine science with (what's now termed) woo-woo? Would that be the best of two worlds?

The good news is, new behaviors and new thoughts can be cultivated right now. We CAN change ourselves, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. Ultimately each of us will gravitate toward the belief system we feel serves us. Whether that belief system is based on Science, Magic, Religion or Art, each of these offers an entire universe of ideas and structures to support our reality.

Choose wisely, friends.