After Dr. Diane Hennessy Powell, Johns Hopkins-trained and Harvard neuropsychiatrist, started studying savants, she had an unexpected result. Persons—doctors, scientists, educators, many parents—who interact with those diagnosed as non-verbal autistics, say that their inability to talk keeps them from communicating. Many of them have telepathy—they merely need to find a way to communicate that trait. Dr. Powell found that letterboards, typing on iPads, and other aids revealed another side to their abilities. Kai Dickens, a podcaster, met Dr. Powell, and these two plus technicians interviewed many non-verbal autistics. In the initial 10-tape series, Dickens wanted to create a documentary about Dr. Powell’s discoveries and the various obstacles she faced to get funding for her important project. Kai Dickens investigates different subjects, approaches, and needs, with each of her podcasts covering different facets of their situations.
In Tape 1, Dickens recounts her trip to Mexico with Dr. Powell to meet a young girl, Mia, whose mother claimed that they communicated telepathically. Three cameras and carefully-controlled tests showed that Mia could identify random numbers, objects, and colors through telepathy with her mother located in another room. Mia’s almost 100 % ability to identify these things stunned disbelieving materialist technicians filming the event.
Tape 2 introduces the non-speaking Akhil and his mother Manisha. When only 10 months, his autism surfaced. Determined to help him learn to talk and communicate, she began by teaching him to type. Then she successfully transmitted words and numbers to him without personal contact. He also learned to use a computer and was attending college when Dickens met him. They too demonstrated Akhil’s telepathic ability. Akhil’s accomplishments shocked Dr. Deepak Chopra when they met.
Dickens introduces the audience to Katie and her son Houston from Georgia in Tape 3. Houston did not talk before he was 17. His mother, divorced from his abusive father and raising four other children, was working three jobs. Houston saw her despair, and for the first time ever, looked into her eyes and said “I love you.” A psychologist told Katie that some communicate with RPM. She did not know about it—”rapid prompting method”. She called a mother who used it and realized that Houston had been enclosed in his body with no way to communicate for almost two decades. Distressed and dismayed, she decided he would learn how to use the letterboard.
By the time he was 21, he wrote his first sentence on it. Houston loved stones, and after his mother hid some for his Christmas gift, he immediately went to the space and found them. He had read her mind and knew where they were hidden. (Stones have piezoelectric energy which can transmit mechanical to electrical and back. And each stone has its own measurable hertz, attractive to Houston.) This ability to find hidden objects is commonplace among autistic non-speakers, and parents cannot successfully hide things from them. Houston’s family had a difficult time believing that he knew anything until he told them accurately what they and their friends were thinking. Since he was young, Houston had known the horrible abusive crimes that his father had plotted and committed against members of the family but couldn’t tell them until he learned to communicate.
Katie relates a call from a woman in Utah who told her that her nine-year-old claimed that Houston was his best friend and that they communicated telepathically. Thought is energy, and it behaves like energy, like radio waves. The brains of these non-speakers resemble cell towers, transmitting and receiving information. Houston believed that every non-speaker could communicate telepathically. But when he is in a room with other people, he may not be able to discern to whom the thought belongs. When Dickens asks Houston via Zoom if he talks to his friends through the telepathic “The Talk On The Hill,” he writes “Definitely.” The “Hill” is where many telepathic autistic non-speakers meet to discuss their lives and share information. They do not have to be in the same state—or the same country! For those who think that non-speakers are mentally challenged, this ability is mind-boggling. Non-speakers and those with apraxia (no control over their bodies) are often taught only colors or shapes because educators have thought they were unable to learn. Their testing methods have been completely unsuitable. They are, in essence, trying to teach a blind person to read. To test Houston in Atlanta, Dickens and Dr. Powell took expert Dr. Jeffrey Tarrant to conduct a brain scan. He used a hyperscanner to scan both Karie’s and Houston’s brains simultaneously. Then they conducted a series of tests, even double-blind tests, that reveal Houston’s stunningly accurate identification. The skeptical staff was amazed at what they before had not believed possible!
When I decided to write about (now the first season) of The Telepathy Tapes, I thought I would briefly summarize each one of the ten tapes. However, each of the tapes contains such interesting information that I will cover the others in future blogs. Everyone needs to know about this unexpected discovery!