S2E10: Cognitive Decline and Higher Consciousness

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

Society & Culture, Documentary, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

When memory fades and language falls silent, we assume connection is lost. But what if it isn’t?

In this episode, we explore whether telepathy might offer a bridge to those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia. The journey begins with Rebecca, a close friend from Season 1, whose father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis collides unexpectedly with the earliest telepathy experiments that launched The Telepathy Tapes.

As caregivers and families reach out with similar stories, we follow Rebecca into a deeply personal experience with Dan Goerke, a man who communicates with people’s “higher self” of people who can no longer speak. What unfolds raises unsettling and tender questions about awareness, regret, forgiveness, and the possibility that something essential remains intact even as cognition declines.

We then widen the lens, turning to physicians and researchers studying end-of-life consciousness, including hospice data showing that visions, communication beyond language, and profound peace are not rare—but incredibly common. These accounts challenge a core assumption: that a failing brain means diminished consciousness, rather than a thinning of our mind’s filter.

Across these stories, an idea emerges. That dementia may not represent disappearance, but transition. That those we fear we are losing may still be present—listening, understanding, and connecting in ways we don’t yet know how to measure.

This episode asks us to reconsider what it means to be “gone,” and whether communication—like love—might persist even when words do not.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Kai Dickens and you're listening to the telepathy tapes podcast.
0:07.0	In season one, non-speakers showed us that telepathy is possible, shattering our assumptions
0:13.5	about the world itself.
0:15.8	This season, we're turning to others who've also been dismissed, doubted, or mocked for the
0:20.2	ways they claim to know,
0:22.0	see, heal, or create. What if only by listening to those who've been ignored, we could unlock
0:28.6	the deepest mysteries of who we are, where we come from, and where we're going. This is the telepathy
0:34.6	tapes, and we're opening up the next channel.
0:38.3	It's Kai, and as we move into the holidays, I've been thinking a lot about the ways we stay connected.
0:46.3	So this December, we want to offer something that feels truly special.
0:50.3	You can give the gift of telepathy all month long.
0:52.3	Our annual Backstage Pass subscription is 25% off.
0:56.0	And for the first time, you can gift an annual membership to someone you care about. The holiday sale runs from December 1st through December 31st.
1:03.0	To subscribe, visit the telepathy tapes.supercast.com. The link is also in our show notes. We hope this brings a little bit more joy and connection
1:11.0	into your holidays. In our last two episodes on healing, we explored how scientific research
1:15.7	is beginning to explain how energy and information can move through us, even across distance.
1:20.8	Those conversations grounded the idea that the body and mind are not closed systems. They
1:25.0	gave some scientific validation to the fact that even though some mysteries are not yet fully understood, they're real and not imagined.
1:32.3	But data can only take us so far, because at the heart of this work is something science has not yet been able to measure.
1:39.3	Is there a higher self? A soul, a part of us that exists beyond the physical brain. And this week, those types
1:46.0	of questions become particularly relevant, especially if possibly a higher self or soul might be a
1:51.3	bridge to connect with someone whose mind or body are failing them due to disease, decline, or dementia.
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