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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 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...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kai Dickens makes contested ideas about telepathy and consciousness legible through careful interviews with researchers, experiencers and families.
The Telepathy Tapes puts extraordinary claims about consciousness into close, patient conversation. Kai Dickens speaks with researchers, non-speaking autistic people, family members and people describing encounters with death or grief.
A hospice doctor hears dying patients talk about canoes; your tidy answers may need more room.
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A patient conversation about late-found spelling, family persistence, and being heard.
This Talk Tracks episode is strongest when it stays with Betsy Hicks-Russ and her son Joe, who began learning spelling at 30. The conversation has real force in its attention to trauma, patience, poetry, and the simple need to be heard.
A grief story that stays specific, tender, and hard to dismiss.
Carla Kaufman-Sloan's conversation with Kai Dickens moves between grief and signs from beyond with a steady hand. It starts in the plain details of a life in New Orleans, a move to New York, television writing, and work for Judge Judy, then opens into the moments that made her…
An open-ended series intro that points toward conversations about reality, science, spirituality, and psi.
Kai Dickens frames Talk Trax as a series that will look more closely at the revelations, challenges, and unexpected truths around The Telepathy Tapes.
A measured conversation about evidence, uncertainty, and the limits of explanation.
This episode starts by situating The Talk Tracks alongside The Telepathy Tapes, then moves into a plainspoken conversation about reality, science, spirituality, psi abilities, and what counts as evidential experience.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Kai Dickens interviews Dr.
Kai Dickens interviews physicist and inventor Federico Faggin, who says his work on the first microprocessor eventually led him to study consciousness and free will.
Betsy Hicks-Russ joins Kai Dickens with her son Joe, who has just started learning spelling at age 30.
Kai Dickens opens with a sensitivity warning.
The Talk Tracks features Elizabeth Gilbert explaining her two-decade practice of writing Letters from Love after hearing a voice tell her to write the words she had always wanted to hear.
The Telepathy Tapes episode “Unlocking Ryan | Talk Tracks” features Mary Heller describing how her non-speaking son Ryan moved from a life-skills class to communication through spelling.
This episode explores the telepathic abilities of a non-speaking autistic man and his family's experiences with ESP and spiritual connections.
Kai Dickens opens the Talk Trax by widening The Telepathy Tapes into a broader conversation about revelations, questions, and unexpected truths.
Talk Tracks opens as a companion series to the telepathy tapes.
Host Kai Dickens introduces a Q&A episode addressing a parent's question about encouraging spelling in a minimally verbal son, while discussing telepathy and extraordinary experiences.
This episode explores the phenomenon of seeing without eyes, featuring children and adults who can read and identify objects while blindfolded, and examines the scientific validity of this ability.
This episode explores telepathic communication in people with Alzheimer's and dementia, building on previous findings about consciousness.
This episode revisits a near-death experience story to explore whether consciousness remains active when the body cannot express it, setting up upcoming episodes on telepathic communication.
This episode explores the scientific investigation of energy healing, questioning whether it involves energy, information, or both, and examines lab studies detecting electromagnetic changes.