What Are Non-Speaking Telepathic Autistic Savants Trying to Teach Us? (Diane Hennacy Powell, MD)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Diane Hennacy Powell is now known as the neuroscientist from The Telepathy Tapes podcast (it’s created by Ky Dickens, and it’s great). Hennacy Powell trained at Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she received her MD and psychiatric training. She has been on faculty at Harvard Medical School. And she is a leading expert on autism and savant syndrome. Her research focuses on autistic children who appear to have ESP as a savant skill—in other words, children who seem to perceive information that is beyond our known senses. Their profound abilities and Hennacy Powell’s work with them expands our understanding of the human mind and how consciousness might actually work. And within this, there is possibly an even larger, and more critical message for us—to help humanity save humanity from itself, as Hennacy Powell says. For more on Diane Hennacy Powell, how to get a copy of her book, and all the show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
0:03.6	Today I'm talking to neuroscientist Diane Hennessey Powell,
0:07.5	who many of you will know from the telepathy tapes.
0:10.2	And if not, you're in for a real treat.
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0:58.9	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
1:05.1	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.
1:10.7	My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all
1:12.1	collectively learn and grow.
1:15.8	Here is today's guest, Diane Hennessey Powell on her desire to understand how human
1:21.1	consciousness works.
1:23.5	And so I thought, well, if this is true that somebody can access information that is not part of their usual sensory way of obtaining information, then we need to understand that.
1:37.6	There's some way in which the brain is functioning that we just don't even consider.
1:42.5	Diane Hennessy Powell is a neuroscientist who trained at Ohio State University
1:47.0	and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she received her MD in psychiatric training.
1:52.7	She has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School as well.
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