Rev. Abigail Schairer kept telling me to listen to The Telepathy Tapes, and though I listened to Abigail, I didn’t listen to the podcast—mostly because I spend so much of each day listening directly to individual people’s pressing issues, hence find I don’t have a lot of bandwidth for listening to, well, anything else (also, ironically, it’s hard for me to absorb information through listening).
But finally I did tune in, and I’m glad I did. The Telepathy Tapes is, depending on which platform you check on which date, in the top three most listened to podcasts in the nation. This includes the Joe Rogan Experience, which I decline to listen (or link) to at this time.
The show, which has been controversial in its perspective, focuses, at first exclusively, on nonspeaking, autistic children, who many parents and teachers claim can communicate telepathically, then eventually expands to explore the nature of consciousness.
Full disclosure (see listening capacity above): I’m only a third of the way through the first season, but even that has expanded my mind considerably. In only eight episodes, I’ve learned (and am entirely convinced) that not only are some almost completely nonspeaking autistic children communicating with their parents telepathically, but they are also communicating telepathically with other such children all over the country and maybe the world. These kids meet on what they call “the Hill” — a place accessible only through their minds (not computers or social media, which it sounds like) — to laugh, to share, to fall in love, you name it. (As a former public interest lobbyist of the US Congress, it sounds to me like this “Hill” beats the other “Hill” — Capitol Hill— all to hell)
In a few short episodes, I have come to see these children, of which there seem to be more and more, as evolutionarily superior to “verbal” humans. In fact, it is fascinating how hard these “nonverbal” autistic children have to work to communicate with their “verbal” parents and teachers when they can send and receive information on a scale that “normal” people can only dream of.
As we learn that so many of these nonspeaking autistic children (many of whom have been written off or mislabeled as unintelligent or nonfunctional) have superpowers of consciousness, it naturally leads the irrepressibly curious host and creator of the show, Ky Dickens, to explore the nature of consciousness itself.
This suggests the question: Is consciousness what we think it is? Or, is consciousness actually much bigger and more powerful than what most of us have been able to perceive with our “conscious” minds?
The answer to the latter question, for any minister educated in the Science of Mind by the Centers for Spiritual Living (like me), is clearly “yes.” Consciousness, like the quantum field, is the ground of all being. It precedes, creates, and becomes everything. Yet, our own consciousness shapes our perception and understanding of what is possible. So everything we teach at the Centers for Spiritual Living is about how to work with consciousness. And these kids and this show is showing us truly what else is possible.
I guess this is why Rev. Abigail wanted me to listen to the series.
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