Before Christmas I listened to the Telepathy Tapes podcast.
I heard about it on a Joe Rogan podcast and added it to the queue immediately.
I think it went viral because there was a lot of chatter on twitter/reddit about it around this time.
Here’s a plot of google trend data:
You can see the leap in interest right around the airing of Joe’s episode with Duncan Trussell.
When I started listening to the Telepathy Tapes podcast, I could not believe what I was hearing. I fact, I binged the program and thought that it was fiction dressed as non-fiction, a genre I LOVE!
Nope. They are earnest. The result is that I have no idea what is going on, other than the thought:
Do some hard science on this stuff and tell me what you find out!
Where are the physicists?
They probably got me. Maybe it’s real!?! Oh man, I’m a sucker.
Anyway, I searched around for similar content and found the Shawn Ryan Show and a suite of eposides on remote viewing.
I will listen to an occasional Shawn Ryan episode, mainly those on special operators. Remote viewing sounded bunk.
Anyway, I drank them down.
Most of it sounded like total bunk. Some of it though… damn it! They got me too.
So I went off and read some books:
- Phenomena, Annie Jacobsen.
- Penetration, Ingo Swann.
- Mind-Reach, Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff.
“Phenomena” is a fun read and I’ve read other books by Annie Jacobsen. I’ll probably read more.
“Penetration”, nope. Not into it at all.
“Mind-Reach” reads partly like a bag of research papers and partly like a research journal. I like it.
I have a few more books on the topic to get through.
If (big IF!) this stuff isn’t bunk, then surely an ensemble of viewers is the move here for any real-world tasking?
Anyway, if I ever write fiction, it’s going to come across like the Telepathy Tapes or Mind-Reach.