Last week we wondered if ideas can be downloaded. This week, we ask if talent can be, too. We meet congenital, acquired, and sudden savants whose gifts in music, math, art, and memory appear without training. A psychiatrist’s lifelong work reframes savant syndrome as brilliance to understand, not a flaw to fix. A London artist renders city skylines from a single flyover. A man wakes from a head injury seeing moving geometry and piano compositions. A woman in crisis prays and begins drawing sacred forms with professional fluency that did not exist the night before. Alongside researchers, we explore synesthesia, lowered brain filters, and a provocative possibility from a modern theorist of consciousness. If knowledge can be accessed rather than taught, are savant skills a clue that the mind is an antenna as much as a machine? And if so, what else might we be able to tune in?Thank you to our Sponsors!Visit Quince.com/tapes for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Visit happymammoth.com and use code TAPES to get 15% off your entire first order. Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/TAPES! #honeylovepod.Get 40% off your entire order at Lolablankets.com by using code TAPES at checkout. Experience the world’s #1 blanket with Lola Blankets.Visit Progressive.com to see if you could save on car insurance.Visit Graza.co/TAPES and use TAPES to get 10% off your order.Use code TAPES at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Cool Gloss with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #adVisit Tonetoday.com and use my code TAPES to get 20% off your first order. Visit FactorMeals.com/TAPES50OFF and use code TAPES50OFF to get 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Laura Lynn Jackson
We’re sharing a sneak preview of a subscriber exclusive episode featuring renowned medium, Laura Lynn Jackson, answering listeners' questions about her life as a medium, tips on how to hone your own "sixth sense", and - for the first time - she describes her journey with a nonspeaker to The Hill.To hear the full conversation, and access all upcoming AMA episodes with Ky and our Season Two guests, subscribe to The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass. You’ll also get ad-free episodes, bonus content, and access to our private community. Visit our website, www.thetelepathytapes.com, to sign up today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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S2E3: The Consciousness of Creativity: Are Ideas Alive And Do They Choose Us?
The mystery of inspiration begs the question: is the universe conscious and using us to create a vision of it’s own? We turn to the mystery of inspiration. Bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love; Big Magic) offers a provocative idea: that creativity doesn’t come from us, but to us. Ideas, she argues, are conscious entities—knocking at the doors of our imagination, looking for human partners to bring them into the world. Legendary music producer and author of The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin echoes that sentiment, describing artists as “antennas” tuned to a universal current, catching downloads that must then be shaped by craft and discipline. And Emmy-winning showrunner Liz Feldman (Dead to Me) shares her own uncanny experiences of creative lightning striking, when a fully-formed story seemed to arrive out of nowhere.Together, their perspectives point toward a paradox at the heart of all creation: effort and surrender. Inspiration demands our labor, yet it also requires letting go of control, trusting that we are not the sole architects but collaborators in something bigger.Threaded through these conversations is my own story—the moment when I tried and failed to launch The Telepathy Tapes as a film, surrendered it back to the universe, and only then discovered that it wanted to live as a podcast. That surrender, painful as it was, became the gateway.So are ideas conscious? Do they choose us, and the way they want to enter the world? In this episode, we follow the breadcrumbs—from mystical intuition to neuroscience—to ask whether creativity itself might be the clearest evidence that mind isn’t just a product of the brain, but part of a larger field of consciousness still waiting to be understood.Thank you to our Sponsors!Visit CBDistillery.com promo code TAPES for 25% off your entire purchase.Visit Quince.com/tapes for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Visit happymammoth.com and use code TAPES for 15% off your entire first order today.Visit Progressive.com to see if you could save on car insurance.Visit Graza.co and use TAPES to get 10% off your order.Get 15% off OneSkin with the code TAPES at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpodUse code TAPES at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Cool Gloss with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #adVisit FactorMeals.com/TAPES50OFF and use code TAPES50OFF to get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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BONUS: Inside The Home Life Of Laura Lynn Jackson
In this bonus episode, we turn the lens toward Laura Lynne Jackson’s home life through conversations with her husband and three children. What began as a section in Episode Two became its own story: a rare, intimate glimpse into what it's like to grow up with a mother who is a medium.Thank you to our Sponsors!Visit Quince.com/tapes for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Visit happymammoth.com and use code TAPES for 15% off your entire first order today.Visit Progressive.com to see if you could save on car insurance.Visit Graza.co and use TAPES to get 10% off your order.Use code TAPES at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Cool Gloss with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #adVisit FactorMeals.com/TAPES50OFF and use code TAPES50OFF to get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Ky Dickens
We’re sharing a sneak preview of a subscriber exclusive episode featuring Ky Dickens answering listeners’ most burning questions from Season One of The Telepathy Tapes—and offers a glimpse into what’s ahead in Season Two.To hear the full conversation, and access all upcoming AMA episodes with Ky and our Season Two guests, subscribe to The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass. You’ll also get ad-free episodes, bonus content, and access to our private community. Visit our website, www.thetelepathytapes.com, to sign up today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In a world that often dismisses the extraordinary as mere fantasy, The Telepathy Tapes dares to explore the profound abilities of non-speakers with autism—individuals who have long been misunderstood and underestimated. These silent communicators possess gifts that defy conventional understanding, from telepathy to otherworldly perceptions, challenging the limits of what we believe to be real. For years, their parents and teachers have quietly witnessed these remarkable abilities, knowing that the time to share their truth would eventually come. But now, as the evidence mounts, the time has come to reveal what has been hidden in plain sight.This groundbreaking series challenges everything we think we know about communication and the human mind, inviting listeners to step into a reality where the impossible is not only possible but happening every day. Through emotional stories and undeniable evidence, The Telepathy Tapes offers a fresh perspective on the profound connections that exist beyond words. Traveling and witnessing mind-boggling telepathy tests and forging deeply intimate relationships with families around the globe - Host Ky Dickens invites you to contemplate the world through the eyes of those who speak without words. Prepare to be captivated, challenged, and ultimately transformed as the series shines a light on the untold capabilities of those who have been underestimated for far too long.
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