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The Telepathy Tapes

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens 76 Episodes Aug 20, 2026

The Telepathy Tapes is a podcast that explores the origins of consciousness and unexplained abilities like ESP through science, personal experiences, and formal testing. In Season One, non-speaking individuals with autism demonstrate striking telepathic abilities that challenge conventional understanding of the mind. Season Two broadens the focus to include near-death experiences, telepathic communication with animals, energy healing, plant intelligence, and sudden savant abilities, offering a glimpse into the vast terrain of consciousness beyond the brain.

Episodes

S2E46: PREVIEW: Awakening Your Intuition: How to Access Your Clairs
S2E46: PREVIEW: Awakening Your Intuition: How to Access Your Clairs Aug 20, 2026 00:08:53 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 children’s book introducing four intuitive senses: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience,
S2E46: The Languages of Intuition | Talk Tracks
S2E46: The Languages of Intuition | Talk Tracks Aug 19, 2026 00:23:31 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 around her.Anna introduces what she calls the six languages of intuition. From clairvoyance and cl
S2E45: Casey Carter: The Teacher Who Started Hearing Her Student’s Thoughts | Talk Tracks
S2E45: Casey Carter: The Teacher Who Started Hearing Her Student’s Thoughts | Talk Tracks Aug 12, 2026 00:48:59 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 read her thoughts. Soon, she began hearing his thoughts back.In this episode, Casey shares th
S2E44: Is Spelling Really “Debunked”? An Advocate Responds | Talk Tracks
S2E44: Is Spelling Really “Debunked”? An Advocate Responds | Talk Tracks Aug 5, 2026 00:51:36 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 nonspeaking autistic son, Stone, revealing his intelligence, love of learning, and dreams for th
S2E43: Ibogaine Inquiries Part V: Before the Forest Is Gone
S2E43: Ibogaine Inquiries Part V: Before the Forest Is Gone Jul 31, 2026 00:25:12 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 providers are beginning to offer powerful ceremonies without the training, accountability, or
S2E42: Ibogaine Inquiries Part IV: Who Owns a Sacred Medicine?
S2E42: Ibogaine Inquiries Part IV: Who Owns a Sacred Medicine? Jul 29, 2026 00:26:04 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 addiction and dedicated his life to bringing ibogaine into modern medicine. But as scientific i
S2E41: Ibogaine Inquiries Part III: The Sacred Roots of Iboga
S2E41: Ibogaine Inquiries Part III: The Sacred Roots of Iboga Jul 27, 2026 00:32:59 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 presence.Gabonese practitioners and Bwiti initiates describe the preparation, community, music, mentorship, a
S2E40: Ibogaine Inquiries Part II: The Intelligence of the Medicine
S2E40: Ibogaine Inquiries Part II: The Intelligence of the Medicine Jul 24, 2026 00:36:25 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 episode, psychologists, neuroscientists, chemists, physicians, and former patients explore why iboga
S2E39: Ibogaine Inquiries Part I: Remember the Name
S2E39: Ibogaine Inquiries Part I: Remember the Name Jul 22, 2026 00:34:42 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 traumatic brain injury. Critics urge caution. But how did we get here?In the first episode of Th
S2E38: From Skeptic to Advocate: Becca Cramer Returns | Talk Tracks
S2E38: From Skeptic to Advocate: Becca Cramer Returns | Talk Tracks Jul 15, 2026 00:55:27 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 has since evolved into a commitment to advocating for nonspeakers and challenging the assu
S2E38: PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Dr. Christopher Kerr
S2E38: PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Dr. Christopher Kerr Jul 9, 2026 00:08:35 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 be less frightening than we imagine, how end-of-life dreams and visions can bring comfort and h
S2E37: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: What a Stroke Revealed About Consciousness | Talk Tracks
S2E37: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: What a Stroke Revealed About Consciousness | Talk Tracks Jul 8, 2026 00:46:04 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 life’s work. As the parts of her brain tied to language, identity, linear time, and the sense of b

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