Ky Dickens

Claims made

• Dickens stated on air that Dr. Diane Powell told her the Mia runs 'don't count' as science because Mia's mother was touching her — 'she can never be touched' — the show's own expert disqualifying its showpiece protocol.

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  • 0:19:56 "These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes… · Ky Dickens ▶

    she's like they don't they don't count Kai in terms

• Ky Dickens stated that for the Mia tests she rented a Glendale house, removed mirrors and TVs, installed cameras, bought a fresh iPad and downloaded the random generators herself, used a blindfold and a divider between Mia and her mother, and that Mia was right every time across numbers, words, pictures and colored balls.

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  • 0:02:09 "These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes… · Ky Dickens ▶

    we took all the mirrors down and all the TVs down and put up cameras every

• Dickens stated that with Akil and his mother Manisha the crew wrote random words on the spot, that roughly 100 tests were run that day, and that Akil began spelling the next word at the moment the previous one was crossed out — Manisha's 'shared consciousness' demonstration.

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  • 0:23:24 "These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes… · Ky Dickens ▶

    now cross it out and start writing another one and in the midst of Crossing it out the second it's crossed out and you start even thinking about the next one he'd start writing the next one

• Dickens stated that Houston coined 'the Hill' — a telepathic meeting space for non-speakers — and that independent cohorts in Atlanta, Israel, Arizona, Florida and Chicago describe it, including a minister's youth group and a teacher's classroom.

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  • 0:35:03 "These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes… · Ky Dickens ▶

    Houston's the one that coined this term this the talk on the hill which was this telepathic chat room where non-speakers can tune in

• Dickens stated that John Paul's story concludes the series in episode 9 in a way she calls her 'proof of afterlife', and that her skeptical father told her he now walks through cemeteries 'so aware that like people survive'.

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  • 0:46:37 "These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes… · Ky Dickens ▶

    through John Paul for me that was proof of afterlife yes in the most profound beautiful way

• Dickens stated that ASHA — the American speech-language accreditation body — does not recognize spelling/RPM as valid communication and calls it pseudo-science, which she and the host frame as a human-rights issue for non-speakers.

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  • 0:26:01 "These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes… · Ky Dickens ▶

    Asha says that spelling is not a valid form of communication they've called it pseudo

• In The Telepathy Tapes' own filmed evidence, the facilitator holds the stencil in the air or keeps a hand on the child's forehead while the mother knows the answer, and host Ky Dickens concedes the tests do not meet her own scientific advisor's standard.

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  • 0:19:56 "These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes… · Ky Dickens ▶

    they don't they don't count Kai in terms of science in terms of the rigorous science that we need to prove this because she was being

• Dickens relayed the Josiah–Max Davis chain: the boy spelled accurate details of the author's private circumstances — house construction popping, a nap, the chapter title 'first fruits' — with no contact between them, converting the skeptical novelist.

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  • 0:42:29 "These Children Can Read Your Mind!” (ft. Ky Dickens | Telepathy Tapes… · Ky Dickens ▶

    he knew about the nap he knew about the name of without Max having any communication