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Autism, non-verbal communication and telepathy

Something completely off topic for the holiday season.

I’ve listened to the first couple of these so far, and I think it’s incredibly interesting.

https://thetelepathytapes.com/listen

Enjoy

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The duality of self vs other is after all quite arbitrary.

Knowing not to let your outer layer touch a flame is soon learned; and has a hard edge.

The thoughts that are mine and the thoughts that are other have a hard edge, or seem to, but maybe that is socially constructed.

if the boundary - (my thoughts/other thoughts) - is actually permeable, unless we are re taught otherwise (“it’s not polite “) then people who disbelieve that, (“autistics”) will not learn it.

Similarly if the boundary were dissolved by a psychoactive? Shamans. Divine fools. Wild Talents.

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Yes,

Great thoughts K.

The subject of shamanism gets touched upon in the series. It’s clear that what began as an investigation into something very specific exploded in scope as more and more data came out. From a starting point of a seemingly unique telepathic connection between a mother and her child, the subject has grown into exploring

  • shared consciousness, where 2 or more people are tapped into the same underlying conscious field seeing through another’s eyes etc.

  • group telepathy, where hundreds (or more) people congregate to chat with each other telepathically. Those who connect to this space call it the “talk on the hill”, and compare it to how trees communicate through their roots

  • mentally connecting to disembodied others; sometimes those who have died

  • a nonverbal autistic child who has found a way to cause others to lucid dream: a state in which they can both converse normally.

And lots more. In my opinion the series just gets more interesting as it goes. And the emphasis on trying to set up tests wherever they can to demonstrate these effects really appeals to me.

Of course none of this is accepted at all by mainstream science. The episodes on scientific gate-keeping made my blood boil.

On that subject, even leaving all this supernatural business aside, the fact that there is still such a controversy around the basic notion that nonverbal autistic people (even though “autistics” seems to be common usage these days, I find that hard to use for some reason) can learn to communicate through spelling has such a vicious pushback from the scientific community boggles my mind.

The online discussion around “spelling” is quite adamant that autistic people are not communicating at all, and it’s just wishful thinking by desperate parents. Personally I think one has to be so blinkered and closed minded as to being effectively blind to believe this.

For those who are interested in nonverbal autism and this topic, I recommend this film:

I found it very moving.

Anyway. I’m still working through the episodes of the telepathy tapes. There’s so much paradigm shifting material in there, if it turns out to be true. Perhaps a new world is on the doorstep…

Wishing joy and peace to everyone in 2025. Anything else is a bonus.

Cheers
Aly

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shared consciousness, where 2 or more people are tapped into the same underlying conscious field seeing through another’s eyes etc

Is it the reappearance of Jung’s theory of collective consciousness with a bit more twist? I dislike the nodes in a network metaphor that “shared” consciousness might imply.

Happier though with the thought that there is a “me”/Other binary and that the second of these incorporates the collective consciousness.

That egregore, coldly acquisitive as it is, is a prime vector in how problemitization → algorithmic diagnosis and treatment pathways.

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It does feel Jungian. He was on to something that old geezer. One of my goals for 2025 is to ramble through his Red Book.

What seems clear to me is that we currently lack any good theories of what’s going on here. The only accepted theory is that none of it is actually happening, and there’s nothing to see here… That seems clearly wrong to me.

But what is me, and what is not me. Where identity sits in the brain or whether it doesn’t actually exist at all are open questions.

For my money, the Buddhists and perhaps the students of Vedanta have given the most thought to these questions, and the answer the consistently come up with is that individualised identity is something of a mirage.

Ephemeral.

But I’m not an expert. Far from it. I do find these explorations fascinating though, and these podcasts are adding what looks like vital new data to the subject.

Not following this part. Can you elaborate a bit? My brain has not fully recovered from this last bout of flu… Feel like I’m operating at half speed.

Cheers
A

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I was not clear.

The collective unconscious can powerfully shape us. Some argue that thought forms at an individual level, tulpa, might aggregate to form a powerful entity capable of certain autonomous feats. That’s what I meant by egregore.

This does exist I believe. It is rapacious and deceitful and much besides.

Using pharmaceuticals to fix problems is particularly profitable when the same powers control how the problem is defined. And the egregore becomes the pharmaceutical industrial complex, or vice versa.

This powerfully shapes how groups of people may gain traction when their victim status is medicalised. But I ramble

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This is heavy. But it reminded me of an NPC called Yung in The Secret World.

Here is a video of his cutscene and dialogue.

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