Tag: podcasts

For months, I have contemplated how to start this post.

Fellow Reiki pal, Leslie, and I (via Woo Woo BBQ) even attempted to record our own podcast episodes about it, but kept getting tripped up. It’s not because it’s impossible to believe; it’s not because it’s too easy to be skeptical and ignore. Rather, it’s just… so much.

If you haven’t yet heard about The Telepathy Tapes, it’s probably because you aren’t heavily affiliated with either the autistic or the woo-woo world. My guess, though, as these two worlds continue to collide, more and more mainstream arenas will begin to take note. One side will try to heavily discredit what’s been going on. The other side may–hopefully–keep walking that thin line between falling over an imaginary crevasse that divides what we know, and that which we suspect.

The world is not as it seems.

If we teeter into the chasm, though, maybe, just maybe, we will be okay.

The Telepathy Tapes, at its core, is about non-speaking autistic people, their families and how they live within the world. It also includes interviews with teachers and their students, scientists and skeptics.

While the autistic spectrum touches my family at a very superficial level, there are those whose bodies are so at odds with their spirits, they cannot communicate.

Except, they can. Paradigms be damned. As it turns out, the veil appears to be thin for those who don’t have full access to their bodies. Finding new ways to communicate, and heal, and learn, these individuals appear to have easier entry into worlds some neurotypical people can’t even begin to fathom.

Ky Dickens, who is at the helm of the podcast, is also a documentary filmmaker. She is creating a film about the people of the podcast. (Side note–I don’t know which came first, the podcast or the film.) As she began to know the people she was interviewing, she was shocked to uncover an intricate web of inexplicable phenomena.

She reaffirms what I’ve believed for a long time. These psy-phenomena of worlds unseen are considered nothing more than a hoax because science is lacking in its ability to study and explain them. (Hello, funding; hello, stigma!)

Not because they don’t exist. Not because they aren’t real, or rather, real enough.

Science is made to study the material world. When things become too abstract, it seems like it’s impossible to measure them. Yet, we’ve all felt love. How do you measure that?

Can you measure thinking about a friend and then her calling you after you thought about her? What came first? Her calling you, or your thought?

If you know me, you know I adore science. I love learning why and how things work. This does not take the magic away, but rather, amplifies the wonder. Science can be hard, and complicated, rather impossible for me to make sense. It can also be very simple.

And of course, science, like anything else, can be weaponized.

Our autistic friends have personalities, dreams and fears like the rest of us. Yes, they can sometimes communicate to us by actions or through a method called spelling. Rather than using science to disprove that a nonverbal person is able to communicate through typing with help (and some of these people have learned how to do it without assistance), why don’t we find ways to measure the telepathic gifts they’ve developed in place of speech?

And there’re a lot of woo woo things going on here. We’re talking conversing across space, and maybe even time. We’re talking about reading people’s minds; we’re talking about healing.

Things this podcast describes sure sound an awful lot like the energy healing portion of my business. Hi there, Reiki. Heya to my tagline of being more than just a massage…an experience, if you will.

There are even animal episodes which will give you paws (I love a good pun!) about every creature you’ve encountered. You’ll discover love stories and transcendence. You’ll learn about death, about religious ideas. You will shed some tears.

You will feel hope.

I highly recommend giving a listen to the podcast, as well as its sister work, The Talk Tracks. The second part of the podcast seems to be less about the specific people covered in The Telepathy Tapes, and more generalized about the topics that were brought up.

The messages are the same, though–even though science can’t prove it, we all have seen and felt things we can’t explain. The nonverbal autistic population appears to have been grossly misunderstood and are more adept at these gifts than speakers.

Love, and hope, are what matter.

We are all connected.

And no, not my own; however, soon I will be sharing a post {potentially seasonal posts at that} with a list of all sorts of things that I’m currently finding swell, and I will be sharing details about my own podcast at that point.

But! This was brought to my attention just last night that Jane Fonda had been interviewed for a brand new podcast! My nerdy self was so excited to hear about it.

I gave a listen this morning, and it will not disappoint.

Firstly, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the one hosting this podcast and it’s called Wiser Than Me. Since my family is obsessed with Seinfeld, Louis-Dreyfus is a part of my regular lexicon. When I found out it was her podcast that was just a bonus.

The premise:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus wants to know why the hell we don’t hear more from older women, so she’s sitting down with Jane Fonda, Carol Burnett, Amy Tan, Diane von Furstenberg, Isabel Allende and Fran Lebowitz (and more!) to get schooled in how to live a full and meaningful life.

The premise is brilliant AF, and be warned, speaking of the ‘F’ in AF; she drops the ‘F’ bomb like it’s saving her life. It’s pretty funny. If you’re not a fan of curse words, I’d stay away from this one.

If you don’t care, GIVE A LISTEN. Not only is the premise worthy, not only is this whole thing timely (it just came out this month), she interviewed Jane Fonda! (And if you want to see my post regarding exercising with Ms. Fonda earlier this year, read about it here.)

I still haven’t watched Grace & Frankie, and now I want to read all of her damn books. (Thanks a lot, Julia.)

Jane discusses how she’s broken her own life into three acts: Act I is ages 0 – 30; Act II is 30 – 60; Act III is 60 – 90. She drops sage advice like nasal drip running from my allergic nose. Seriously. Of course she does. She’s eighty-freaking-five years old!

I listened while I walked, and had goose bumps for a lot of the walk. That’s how you know something is real; something is true.

Hear it here and then share it with every female you know, even the young ones.

Growing old ain’t for sissies.

I can’t wait to hear more of these podcasts. So far Isabel Allende and Fran Lebowitz have also been interviewed.