S2E5: Animal Telepathy & Consciousness
The Telepathy Tapes
Ky Dickens
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Animal communication moves from theory to lived experience. A non-speaking teen, Trevor, spells intimate details from his therapy horse, knowing about deaths, emotions, and conversations no one told him. Danish National Team rider Emily Koenig works with communicator Ditte Young, whose insights from a pony lead to an unexpected arthritis diagnosis that changes Emily’s path in the sport. Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake shares research suggesting animals can sense human intention, like dogs waiting at the precise moment their person decides to return home. And interspecies communicator Anna Breytenbach describes telepathy not as sending messages but as stepping into a shared field of awareness.
We also hear the now famous story of elephants who walked miles to mourn conservationist Lawrence Anthony, gathering at his home and returning again on the anniversary of his passing.
Across every story, a single idea emerges: connection does not require words. And if communication can move through attention, emotion, and presence, then maybe consciousness is wider, more relational, and more ancient than we assume. This episode asks us to listen beyond language, to each other, to animals, and to the living world itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, this is Kai Dickens, and you're listening to the Telepathy Tapes podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | In season one, non-speakers showed us that telepathy is possible, shattering our assumptions about the world itself. |
| 0:13.4 | This season, we're turning to others who've also been dismissed, doubted, or mocked for the ways they claim to know, see, heal, or create. What if only by listening |
| 0:23.9 | to those who've been ignored, we could unlock the deepest mysteries of who we are, where we come |
| 0:29.5 | from, and where we're going. This is the telepathy tapes, and we're opening up the next channel. |
| 0:40.6 | The savants we met last episode were deeply engaged with a talent, an interest, or a skill that they couldn't fully explain. |
| 0:47.2 | Yet it was often so palpable that they could literally taste it or see it. |
| 0:51.5 | Today, we turn to engaging with something much more subtle, |
| 0:54.9 | animal communication. |
| 0:56.6 | Throughout season one, and in some of our talk tracks, |
| 0:59.3 | we've touched on animal telepathy, |
| 1:01.2 | but today we're pulling the pieces into one place, |
| 1:03.8 | gathering these insights to see if they reveal something deeper |
| 1:06.4 | about the nature of consciousness and just how far it reaches. |
| 1:09.9 | For much of history, scientists have |
| 1:11.7 | asserted that consciousness belongs only to human beings. Even 100 years ago, it would have sounded |
| 1:17.2 | preposterous to suggest that animals like horses or dogs were conscious beings, but science and |
| 1:22.6 | mainstream views change. And animal consciousness is now being studied and widely recognized as real. And if we're |
| 1:29.1 | able to accept that animals may be conscious, then we have to take seriously the possibility that |
| 1:34.1 | they can communicate. Many of the non-speakers you met last season, who experienced telepathy as a way |
| 1:39.3 | to connect in the absence of spoken language, have said that communicating with animals is not only possible, |
| 1:45.5 | but something they do. And one of them is Trevor, who we briefly introduced to you in the talk |
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