S2E2: Mediumship Under The Microscope

Mediumship has long been dismissed as fraud or fantasy but what happens when it’s put under the microscope? Often called the most profound form of telepathy, mediumship may find unexpected validation in the voice of a young nonspeaker. In this episode of The Telepathy Tapes, we step inside blind trials, EEG brain scans, and one child who hears both the living and the dead. From the rigor of the Forever Family Foundation’s certification tests to the neuroscience of Windbridge Research Center, and from the grief of parents seeking their children to a non-speakers spontaneous messages, we talk with renowned psychic medium, Laura Lynn Jackson, and follow the evidence for communication across the veil. Is mediumship proof that consciousness survives death or is it telepathy in disguise? The answers reveal as much about the mind as they do about love, grief, and the mysteries that connect us all. _______ Join The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass https://thetelepathytapes.supercast.com/ to get ad-free episodes, never-before-heard interviews, behind-the-scenes documentary footage, and access to our private Discord community. This is your invitation to come closer. To help shape what’s next. To be more than a listener… to be a co-creator of this paradigm shift. So if you’ve felt moved, if you’ve felt seen, if you’ve felt the call, subscribe today and join us: thetelepathytapes.com. https://thetelepathytapes.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Ky Dickens?

  Hi everyone, this is Kai Dickens and you're listening to the Consciousness Cassettes from TTT Media.

• 0:10Ky Dickens?

  In our first series, The Telepathy Tapes, non-speakers showed us that telepathy is possible, shattering our assumptions about the world itself.

• 0:20Ky Dickens?

  In this series, 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 to those who've been ignored, we could unlock the deepest mysteries of who we are, where we come from, and where we're going? This is the Consciousness Cassettes, and we're opening up the next channel. By now, you know we're big fans of energy healing here at The Telepathy Tapes. And in particular, we're big fans of Luminara. We've talked about the science, the stories, the results for a year now. Luminara.Care is the best platform for energy work and makes it easy to experience energy healing from your own home. Every practitioner is vetted by Luminara, so you're not guessing about credentials. And Luminara is currently working with researchers at Florida State University to study the

• 1:04Ky Dickens?

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• 1:48Ky Dickens?

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• 1:55Ky Dickens?

  In our last episode, we explored what happens when we die, and whether consciousness can survive the body. And what we found was compelling. Across centuries and cultures, people have described near-death experiences with striking consistency: a sense of leaving their body, encountering a light being, having a life review, and coming back transformed. It left us with a powerful question: if consciousness can exist beyond the body, could communication across that boundary be possible? Because for one young non-speaker named Amelia, that boundary doesn't seem to exist.

• 2:27Speaker 01

  Spirits were something that sort of started happening when we first talked, but now they're here all the time. And she's talking to people who have passed, and we have messages for people, and not necessarily like who are close to us, but it's almost always one person removed that we have these messages for.

• 2:45Ky Dickens?

  Today, we'll explore mediumship, and whether it's truly possible to connect with the other side. We'll meet organizations that have run rigorous blind tests on mediums. We'll look at their brain scans, and meet one of America's most vetted mediums, Laura Lynn Jackson. And along the way, we'll return to Amelia, the 11-year-old you met in season one, because her abilities may hold the key to one of the oldest debates in the history of sci-research. Does mediumship prove that consciousness survives death? Or might one be using psychic abilities to tap into an informational field or the mind of someone in grief? To even begin answering that question, I think we need some solid ground. At least for me, I need to know if mediumship, which is talking to a deceased person on the other side, has ever even been tested,

• 3:29Ky Dickens?

  and whether research has managed to separate genuine ability from guesswork or fraud. And that question led me to the Forever Family Foundation. For nearly two decades, they've been putting mediums through rigorous, blind testing, building evidence that helps both researchers and grieving families take this mystery seriously.

• 3:47Speaker 02

  I'm Bob Ginsberg and I am the co-founder of Forever Family Foundation. I'm a very different person than I was 23 years ago. I used to be a logical, left-brained thinker. I didn't believe in life after death. I thought that was a fairy tale. I mean, after all, we were our brains, our brains produce consciousness.

• 4:08Ky Dickens?

  Overwhelming grief following the tragic death of Bob's daughter Bailey in a car accident would dramatically change that logic.

• 4:14Speaker 02

  I went to sleep every night, you know, praying to the universe that I wouldn't wake up. I mean, I wanted to die. I didn't see any way of surviving my daughter's death. And as with many people, tragedy propels you into a new world and you start exploring and searching for meaning or answers.

• 4:32Ky Dickens?

  Bob turned to academic research for both comfort and answers. He desperately wanted to believe that consciousness survives our physical deaths. But wishful thinking was not enough. What he wanted was evidence.

• 4:43Speaker 02

  And I met with scientists and medical doctors across the country that studied the mind, the consciousness, and I wanted to know if there was any credible evidence by credentialed people that we could survive our physical death. And I wanted to know, with every parent who'd wanted to know that lost a child, does my child still exist, you know, and how is she? The two big questions, you know. And the more I learned and reading literally, you know, 500 books or more, I was amazed that the mainstream was not aware of the evidence I was reading about.

• 5:17Ky Dickens?

  Bob and his wife Fran confronted this lack of awareness and the taboo of consciousness survival when they attended a grief group for grieving parents. Discussions around mediumship or communication with the other side, or even the afterlife, were strictly forbidden.

• 5:30Speaker 02

  And every time either I and my wife brought up the subject of life after death, the moderator would shut us down by saying, "This is not the purpose of the group. We don't talk about such things. Our purpose is only to teach you ways of coping with the loss." And, you know, we thought that was really odd because frankly, everybody in the group, that's all they wanted to talk about. Because what could give you any more comfort than knowing or believing that your child still existed? It was in New York at the time in the middle of the winter and we used to stand outside in the parking lot at, you know, 15 degrees and, and talking for an hour with the parents. And I saw a glimmer in their eyes and we were sharing some stories and

• 6:12Speaker 02

  experiences. And then we started to think, well, there has to be some sort of a forum where people can feel free to talk about their experiences and what they learned without the fear of being judged or labeled or crazy or this is just a product of your grief. And that's one of the things that led us to form our organization for Family Founders.

• 6:32Ky Dickens?

  Bob and Fran founded Forever Family Foundation in 2003, which in their own words is a global movement that helps to change the worldview about grief and life after physical death. They are a 100% volunteer run nonprofit organization that brings scientists and academics together to educate the public about the established evidence of consciousness survival. And in the process, they support those in grief.

• 6:56Speaker 02

  Our two goals were to educate the public about evidence that were more than a physical bodies and to support research into consciousness and life after death. The overriding thing is, is to support the bereaved. We don't support the bereaved by counseling. We support the bereaved by information.

• 7:14Ky Dickens?

  So Bob, what type of research are you engaged in?

• 7:17Speaker 02

  We were interested in all the various disciplines of research, you know, near death experiences and reincarnation and then the life experiences and so forth. And starting with telepathy and ESP and precognition, because in order for you to believe that we survive a physical death, you have to be able to show that our minds can act independently of our brains. Because if that's true, then the thought that we could survive physical death becomes not only probable, but logical. So we start there.

• 7:45Ky Dickens?

  In addition to extensive academic research, direct personal experience had the most impact on Bob's journey.

• 7:52Speaker 02

  I went to a few mediums, even though I didn't believe in mediums, but my wife dragged me to a couple. The day before I went to the reading, I went to the cemetery. My daughter had a thing. Every month she'd come up to me and say, all right, Dad, admit it. Admit that I'm your favorite child. You know, and I'd say, Billy, I'm not going to admit that. I love all my children. So I knelt down, you know, at a gravesite and they said, okay, you know, I admit it. You know, you are my favorite. And the first thing the medium says to me is, is Bob, I have your daughter here. And she's telling me to tell you that she's real happy that you admitted that she was your favorite. And I said, wow, I had just said that like 24 hours early. That's the one I said, I'm trying to figure out the trick. I mean, how did she know those things?

• 8:34Speaker 02

  I didn't want to die when I went to sleep that night, you know, because it gave me hope. Because I don't know how else to explain what the medium was able to do. On the other hand, mediumship is not an exact science. There are a tremendous number of practitioners out there that can't do what they claim.

• 8:50Ky Dickens?

  Bob opened the possibility that a credible medium could truly be connecting to the deceased. But he and Fran had also sat for mediums who were not very convincing. So Bob started to form an idea to develop a system to evaluate mediums for accuracy in a controlled environment.

• 9:05Speaker 02

  We take the study of mediumship and identifying those who can and cannot very seriously. Because they're on the front lines and there's no oversight. So anybody can say they're a medium, start charging a lot of money.

• 9:18Ky Dickens?

  So the Forever Family Foundation began testing and evaluating mediums. Under controlled conditions, each medium sits with five different sitters and is scored using five separate evaluation methods. A sitter, by the way, is the person working with the medium who's seeking to connect with the other side.

• 9:34Speaker 02

  We have a pool of trained sitters, meaning people that know about mediumship and that we've trained to identify evidence, what represents general evidence, specific evidence.

• 9:46Ky Dickens?

  Mediums who received high scores are officially certified with Forever Family Foundation and volunteer to help those in grief. And volunteer is a key word. These mediums don't get paid. And this is how Bob and Fran started working with psychic medium, Laurel Lynn Jackson.

• 10:00Speaker 03

  So Forever Family Foundation was just profound in my journey. And it was actually Garrett, my husband, who saw an ad in like a diner window. The organization had just started, I think it was like 2004.

• 10:11Ky Dickens?

  Laura was an English teacher by day, and her mediumship abilities were mostly a secret.

• 10:16Speaker 03

  The whole time I was teaching, I couldn't dismiss these abilities. They were always there, but my husband's an attorney and he was always like, "You cannot let anybody at work know this." So anyway, I decide I'm gonna go get tested to see if I would be able to pass these tests for Forever Family Foundation in order to volunteer as a medium to help people in grief, which for me seemed ideal, right? Because I could do it in secret. So I get to the Huntington Hilton that night and there's this big kind of like ballroom area and there's like five different stations set up. And at each station, there's a camera, there's a person behind a desk with like a clipboard and a scoring thing.

• 10:54Speaker 02

  Evaluating the evidence and scoring it. It's a general statement that's not going to be scored very positively, you know? But if you said to me, "Bob, I have your grandmother Rebecca here, and I know that she was a nurse in the Army," and those two facts were true, I mean, that would be given higher scores than a general statement.

• 11:13Ky Dickens?

  And I realized that, you know, smartphones and Googling people weren't really around back then. But how did you make sure that mediums didn't know anything about the sitter before the session?

• 11:23Speaker 02

  We set up stations with a sitter and the medium with a screen dividing the two so they couldn't see each other. We take steps to make sure that obviously the sitter has never had a reading with that medium or has never heard of that medium. And we only give the medium the sitter's first name.

• 11:42Ky Dickens?

  And this restriction prevents a technique used by fraudulent mediums called a hot reading, where a medium has access to a sitter's full name and can research information about them and their deceased loved ones prior to the reading. And then they present this information as if it's coming from the other side.

• 11:56Speaker 03

  They had trained sitters really well, where the sitters could only say like yes or no to anything you were bringing through.

• 12:02Ky Dickens?

  Training sitters not to give the medium any leading information is a way to control for what's known as a cold reading, which like a hot reading, is a technique for a fraudulent medium. They'll use feedback from the sitter to gather information, presenting it as being from the deceased loved one.

• 12:16Speaker 03

  And they were constantly scoring you. And then they videotaped the whole thing so that a third party could watch it to make sure there was no feeding the mediums or anything like that.

• 12:24Ky Dickens?

  So Bob, how did Laura Lynn perform?

• 12:26Speaker 02

  She was way beyond proficiency guidelines. She was kind of an all-star and as far as evidence goes.

• 12:33Ky Dickens?

  So Laura Lynn Jackson became a certified medium with Forever Family Foundation, and they pass on average only one medium per year. It is hard to pass their test, and Laura has volunteered for them extensively ever since.

• 12:44Speaker 03

  Shortly after I passed Forever Family Foundation's test, Fran and Bob asked if I would volunteer to do, you could call it a gallery reading?

• 12:55Ky Dickens?

  A gallery reading is when a medium reads for a group of people instead of just one person at a time.

• 13:00Speaker 03

  I was told it was going to be 10 sets of parents who had lost children. And I remember the weeks leading up to it, feeling overwhelmed by the responsibility. I knew I had these abilities, but, you know, it's interesting. I always feel like, as a teacher, I would walk into a classroom, right? With a lesson plan and a backup lesson plan and three different ways to teach it. And whenever I would walk into a room as a psychic medium about to do something like this, when I tell you I've got nothing, I've got nothing. I'm closed until I'm open. I'm thinking like, is this gonna happen? What if this doesn't happen? And I remember thinking, I am going to try to connect these parents with their children to model what is possible.

• 13:43Speaker 03

  And if I am not able to do that, how is that gonna leave them feeling?

• 13:48Ky Dickens?

  And Laura, if it's okay, I want to read the caption you wrote about this in your book, The Light Between Us, because it captures the scene so vividly. So you wrote, "I was on Jericho Turnpike heading west when the messages started coming in. I squeezed the wheel of my Honda Pilot and swerved right, pulling into a Staples parking lot. Just a bit earlier, I'd been taking deep breaths, trying to stay calm, because I was so nervous, scared to death, really. Soon I would be in a room with suffering people. My role that evening was to try to ease their pain. My fear was that I would make it worse. Then suddenly, they started to come to me, the children, all at once as a group."

• 14:23Speaker 03

  And all these children rushed in. They all rushed in, and they all started giving me messages to let me know, like, who they were and who their parents were and how they had crossed and what the messages they wanted. And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, you gotta wait till I get there. But I know that they did that to let me know that I wasn't walking in alone. And so I remember walking into that room and taking a deep breath in. And the minute I opened, they just all came through and they guided me to their parents, one by one, by one, by one. They told me their names. They told me how they crossed. Like, one family, their son drowned trying to save someone else. Another one got the flu and got sepsis and crossed within three days. And she gave all these details, like, including her name and the fact that her parents had to pull her off life support, like, the timeline for that, like, details that they had never told anybody.

• 15:08Speaker 03

  And I felt just so humbled and honored to be with the vehicle, to bring those messages through that night and connect their parents. And the reason I'm getting very moved is just the love. I watched how that transformed the parents in the room. Because they left that evening knowing that their children were so present in their lives still and loved them so much. Such unique and specific information came through that evening that there's just no way to experience something like that and not be forever changed by it.

• 15:40Ky Dickens?

  Oh, I love that story. And I followed up with some of the parents that Laura had met back then in her early days volunteering for Forever Family.

• 15:48Speaker 04

  My name is Dr. Mill Hannah. I'm a college professor. I've been teaching at a small liberal arts college for over 30 years now.

• 15:55Ky Dickens?

  Nearly 20 years ago, Dr. Hannah tragically lost her daughter Monique.

• 15:59Speaker 04

  Monique was an extraordinary kid. As many young people who die young. She was poetic. She was very artistic, very deep, and very emotional, and very different. And we were extremely close. And I could never have predicted what happened to her. It was something that you cannot fathom. The pain of that kind of grief was not just psychological and emotional, it was physical. It was literally like having a physical illness.

• 16:29Ky Dickens?

  There's not words. I can't fathom how hard that must have been.

• 16:32Speaker 04

  I'm a practicing psychologist, so I have a psychotherapy practice, helping people with their problems. And I didn't have a clue as to how to get past this, how to survive. I had three younger children. I had to be on this planet. I got in contact with the Forever Family Foundation just in time, just when I needed it.

• 16:50Ky Dickens?

  Knowing that the Forever Family vets mediums, did you believe in mediums and the afterlife? Or was that kind of a stretch?

• 16:55Speaker 04

  It was a stretch. When Monique passed, I did not believe in an afterlife. But I got a reading from Laura Lynn that is stayed with me for the rest of my journey. There was no question in my mind she made contact with my daughter.

• 17:07Ky Dickens?

  Many people record medium sessions because honestly, in that moment, it's emotional overload. And often you want to go back later and check their words and ask, wait, did that really just happen?

• 17:16Speaker 03

  Okay, I'm getting a younger female who is coming through as a daughter to you. And she's also apologizing and taking responsibility for her crossing. I get this often with individuals who have crossed through suicide. Does this make sense to you?

• 17:34Speaker 04

  She knew that Monique had been living in New York City, that she'd been going to NYU, that she had taken her own life, and that she had had an attempt that involved pills. This was in the earlier days of the internet. None of this information was available back then. There were things that she absolutely would have had no way of knowing, you know?

• 17:51Ky Dickens?

  Yeah, and people forget that Facebook and Instagram weren't around back then, that you couldn't just Google someone.

• 17:57Speaker 04

  Not all mediums can do what Laura Lynn can do or what the Forever Family Foundation mediums can do. She was able to come up with very evidential details. And she's really a phenomenal evidential medium.

• 18:07Ky Dickens?

  Laura's volunteer work with the Forever Family Foundation continues to this day. But so does her work as a research subject and another nonprofit organization dedicated to survival of consciousness investigation is Windbridge Research Center, co-founded by husband and wife research team Mark Bakutzi and Julie Beichel. In addition to co-leading research at the Windbridge Research Center, Mark is also the managing editor of Threshold, a journal of interdisciplinary consciousness studies, and has spent decades in the fields of research, technology, and education. And Julia, co-founder and executive director at Windbridge, received her PhD in pharmacology and toxicology and has minors in microbiology and immunology. So they are both fluent in mainstream biology and medical science, which is important, especially when researching mediums,

• 18:52Ky Dickens?

  because they know how to scrutinize claims against rigorous, conventional standards. We spoke with Mark about Windbridge's research activities.

• 18:59Speaker 05

  The big question is, can mediums report accurate and specific information about a discarnate or deceased loved one under controlled laboratory conditions? And the short answer to that question is yes, they can. We developed a rather extensive protocol that takes care of things like information leakage, cold reading, hot reading, and statements that are too vague that could be applied to anyone. And so generally, all the criticisms that people raise about mediums and mediumship readings and the potential for fraud.

• 19:37Ky Dickens?

  Windbridge is known for its rigorous testing protocol that uses multiple layers of blinding to control for fraudulent cold readings.

• 19:44Speaker 05

  They have to perform blinded phone readings for us. That have to meet a certain level of accuracy. The medium will be on the phone with an investigator, who we call a proxy sitter.

• 19:57Ky Dickens?

  A trained investigator sits for the medium in place of the actual sitter seeking the connection. Medium readings are done with proxy sitters and over the phone, so mediums are physically unable to cold read the sitter for any information.

• 20:11Speaker 05

  So they never interact directly with the actual sitter. The only information that's provided is the first name of the discarnate, or the deceased loved one. From there, the medium then has to provide accurate and specific information about the deceased loved one, or DLO, describe cause of death, provide a physical description, provide hobbies, and so on. That information was considered to be accurate, higher than a level that would be expected by chance.

• 20:38Ky Dickens?

  So Laura, you're one of very few mediums who've passed the very challenging tests at Windbridge, and now you're kind of part of their science and research team. What was that like?

• 20:48Speaker 03

  When I went through that series of testing and passed, I was like, wow. The scientist part of me really wanted and needed to have that sort of like concrete validation.

• 20:58Speaker 05

  Well, as scientists, we're very cautious about words like proof and belief and those kinds of things. But the data suggests at this point that there is some sort of life after death or continuation of consciousness after death. This is the current party line at the Windbridge Research Center. Given the information about accuracy and given the information about phenomenology, it seems that mediums are in fact connecting with some sort of discarnate individual. And that discarnate individual knows a lot about the sitters.

• 21:33Ky Dickens?

  So Windbridge's blinded accuracy testing can be seen as evidence that their research mediums are able to report statistically relevant, accurate information to the sitters about their deceased loved ones. For me, it seems pretty clear something's going on. The question is what? Is it truly a connection to the other side? Or is it some other psychic ability making it look that way? And just to cover the basics, psychic abilities refer to perceiving information about the past, present, or future through extrasensory perception. And mediumship refers specifically to communication with someone who's passed on.

• 22:05Speaker 05

  There's two competing theories. One theory is, yes, they're actually interacting with a discarnate or deceased loved one, or they're getting the information from some other psychic mechanism. They're just, I'm using finger air quotes here, they're just reading my mind, which in and of itself is kind of amazing, but it means that there's no need for a discarnate.

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• 24:54Ky Dickens?

  So Laura, where do you fall on that question? Is mediumship connecting to their side? Or is it like a heightened psychic ability?

• 25:00Speaker 03

  You know, there's a saying that all mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are mediums. And what that means is that your psychic abilities are what open the doorway for you to reach, I think, the highest level of being able to perceive unseen energy and communicate, which is mediumship. When Windbridge came along and started studying many of us mediums, we all were reporting the same exact experiences.

• 25:23Speaker 05

  What we did was we had the mediums give psychic readings and mediumship readings, and then they had to describe their experiences for each reading.

• 25:32Ky Dickens?

  And what does it mean when they all independently report the same thing? And mind you, they didn't know what anyone else reported.

• 25:39Speaker 05

  The mediums did, in fact, have a difference between the experience of having a psychic reading and having a mediumship reading. There's a much more loving feeling that comes through when a medium is having a mediumship reading versus just using telepathy, clairvoyance, or precognition to get information about a sitter. That's the fundamental finding of this phenomenology research. Connection feels different, and that difference was captured in the dimension of love.

• 26:12Speaker 03

  The feeling that I have when I do readings for people, too, there's this profound love.

• 26:17Ky Dickens?

  But can that difference she feels between psychic and mediumship readings be measured? Can science or research back it up? Laura, it turns out, is a great medium to study due to how she receives her information. She says she sees it on an internal screen. Psychic information on one side, mediumship information on the other.

• 26:35Speaker 03

  My screen looks like a widescreen TV. It's an inner screen. It is not extending outside of my body. And mediumship is always on the right-hand side for me. My psychic works on the left hand, the mediumship comes in on the right. And people who come in from the other side, those spirits, they always show up first as points of light before they show me anything else.

• 26:53Ky Dickens?

  Most mediums have their own way for receiving information. Some hear a voice in their mind, some see images, some feel emotions or physical sensations that aren't their own. However it arrives, the process is telepathic, and the medium must translate all that into words that we can understand. But Laura's unique split screen makes her a rare subject for study. If her brain shows different activity during mediumship and psychic abilities, it would help rule out the idea that she's just psychically somehow picking up from the living or downloading data from an informational field. It could point to mediumship being something different altogether.

• 27:27Speaker 06

  I was a pretty hardcore skeptic for several years. We're physical bodies. We live, we die, we turn into worm food. The idea that maybe there's something more. I really assumed that this was all defense mechanisms or wishful thinking.

• 27:41Ky Dickens?

  That's Dr. Jeff Tarrant. He's a licensed psychologist and a board-certified neurofeedback specialist. And Jeff first met Laura Lynn Jackson at a forever family conference almost 10 years ago. He was there to discuss some research that he'd just completed.

• 27:54Speaker 06

  So went to this conference and we presented our thing, met Laura. And then at the end of the conference, that was the first time that I mapped her brain.

• 28:03Ky Dickens?

  So all of us at some point has probably seen a Q E G in movies or TV. Often the subject wears what looks like a swimming cap with wires and electrode sensors that pick up tiny electrical signals from the scalp. And the brainwave frequencies translate into digital information. So lots of squiggly lines and color-coded brain maps showing activity in specific brain areas. So then Jeff, what do you do with that information?

• 28:24Speaker 06

  We can put numbers on them. It's called a quantitative EEG. And then when we have numbers, we can compare them to something. How do they compare before or during a mediumship reading? So then we can see how the brain is changing in terms of these different brainwave patterns and what that might mean in terms of states of consciousness.

• 28:41Speaker 03

  When attempts are made to try to figure out like what's going on with people who can access this information, they're watching what my brainwave activity is doing when I'm in normal talking mode, when I go into psychic mode, or when I'm doing mediumistic readings, and it's fascinating.

• 28:58Ky Dickens?

  So Jeff collected this brain scan EEG data from Laura Lynn's brain at work.

• 29:02Speaker 06

  And you know, what was really interesting is when we examined her brainwaves during both a psychic and a mediumship reading, the patterns that we saw matched exactly what she reported.

• 29:13Ky Dickens?

  Remember that Laura said mediumship information, or messages from the other side, appear on the right side of her internal screen and psychic information on the left side.

• 29:23Speaker 06

  Information from the left visual field comes in and it actually crosses over and gets processed in the right back of the brain, in the right occipital lobe. And so that's exactly what we saw was when Laura was doing a psychic reading, there was a huge increase of brain activity on that right occipital lobe. And then same thing, when she did mediumship, we saw it on the other side.

• 29:44Ky Dickens?

  So did you see anything else in Laura's brain scans that felt neurologically remarkable?

• 29:49Speaker 06

  There was a clear distinction between the psychic and the mediumship. Aside from the side of the brain that was being involved, when she was doing a psychic reading, there was much more activation. All of the brainwaves increased back there on that right side. But the biggest ones were the fast brainwaves. So high beta and gamma. Gamma is the fastest brainwave that we usually deal with right now. It's associated with activation, but it's also associated with things like being in a flow state or being in the zone, integrating high level information without effort.

• 30:22Ky Dickens?

  Okay. So there were fast flow state brainwaves on the intuitive, non-analytical right side of the brain when Laura was doing a psychic reading. So then what was the difference with the medium reading?

• 30:33Speaker 06

  Well, what was interesting is when she did a mediumship reading, looking at the other side of the brain, the only brainwaves that increased were the slow brainwaves. So delta and theta, there was no increase in fast brainwaves at all.

• 30:46Ky Dickens?

  Okay. So slow brainwaves, does that mean that something is kind of turned off or like going offline?

• 30:52Speaker 06

  Yeah. So the mediumship was almost like turning everything off. And so to me, it suggests the mediumship is much more of a receptive state. So a very different process. One of them was much more activating for her, the psychic one, than the mediumship one.

• 31:08Ky Dickens?

  Okay. So going back to Laura Lynn, Laura, all this brainwave data, the left, the right, the slow and the fast frequencies, does this data match how it feels for you?

• 31:16Speaker 03

  When we read psychically, we're retrieving information. We're like reaching out and getting it. And when we read mediumistically, we're just sitting back and receiving, just receiving it, receiving it, receiving it. So it feels very different, but it's also on different parts of my screen.

• 31:29Speaker 06

  The other thing that supports that idea is her right frontal lobe during mediumship also shut down. It's like getting out of your own way so that you can hear other information. So your frontal lobe's not planning and trying to think about the future. The brain has a lot of different mechanisms in place to filter information. It screens out the vast majority of what is out there. Because if you were tuning into every single piece of information out there from a sensory perspective, you couldn't function. So one of the things that I think is going on with some of these mediums and psychics is that they are able to temporarily turn off some of those filtering mechanisms so that they do have access to more information.

• 32:11Speaker 03

  When I read, it's completely telepathic. And it's so rapid and it's always been so frustrating to me that I have to like slow it down and put it into language that I just wish like there was a way that somebody, when I was doing a reading, could like touch my finger, get on my screen and like download it at the same time.

• 32:26Ky Dickens?

  Since meeting Laura, Jeff has done brain scans on more mediums, most of which have been rigorously vetted by the Forever Family Foundation, the Windbridge Research Center, or the University of Arizona. And he found an interesting observation when looking at their scans, and it has to do with the right parietal lobe.

• 32:42Speaker 06

  The right parietal lobe, the back right quadrant. It got kind of dubbed the God spot by the media. The reason that it got that name, the God spot, when people had injuries and that part of the brain was damaged, people became more empathic. They also reported having more spiritual experiences. When you look at the function of that part of the brain, it's really about boundaries and saying, I'm Jeff. I exist only in this physical body. I'm separate from you. And so if you disrupt that, what appears to happen is that the boundaries between self and other become more flexible. You're able to step outside of your small ego and connect to something else. We see that part of the brain kind of go offline, especially in mediumship, all the time.

• 33:27Speaker 06

  I can't say that it's like the signature, you know, that would sort of define like, oh, are you a real medium or not? But I would say it does show up maybe 75% of the time. And it usually doesn't show up in psychic stuff.

• 33:40Ky Dickens?

  Jeff's brain scans make clear that psychic readings and mediumship readings are not the same thing. The brain is doing something entirely different in each case. One is more active, reaching out for information, while the other is more receptive, almost like shutting something down to let something in. And that brings us back to Amelia, the 11-year-old non-speaker in Wisconsin. What makes her different from mediums and so unique is most mediums cannot telepathically communicate with someone who's alive. They can only do it with someone who's passed on. Amelia, on the other hand, can do it with both.

• 34:11Speaker 01

  One of Amelia's pretty cool gifts is that she can talk to people who have passed away, like spirits. Early on, I think I was thinking, where is that information coming from? Is it from someone who actually passed? Or is it somehow something else? Is it telepathy?

• 34:26Ky Dickens?

  That's Maura, mom of Amelia, who was eight years old when you met them in the podcast last season. Diagnosed with DDX3X syndrome, doctors said Amelia would have a limited ability to understand and connect. And they were wrong. When Amelia began communicating by pointing to letters on a letterboard, she revealed a staggering inner world. Not only was she an incredible poet, with an interest in genetic science and an astute awareness of everything around her, she could accurately identify hieroglyphic symbols. She understood both Spanish and Portuguese, two languages her family did not speak. She could read the mind of not just her mom, but her therapists and teachers. And perhaps most perplexing was that Amelia told her mom she could connect with people who were not physically there.

• 35:10Ky Dickens?

  And before we explore Amelia's connection with people who've passed, it's important to show how her telepathic abilities first emerged with the living. These early exchanges became the first real evidence that what she was spelling was not imagination. And they serve as an important data point later in the episode.

• 35:26Speaker 01

  Like, three years ago at school, I said, who's your best friend? And she said Fiona. And so I tried to find Fiona at school, and they couldn't find Fiona.

• 35:34Ky Dickens?

  At first, her mom thought maybe these were just imaginary playmates.

• 35:38Speaker 01

  And so I just let it go, thinking, well, I don't know, maybe she was just making it up, or I don't know. At the time, I didn't know.

• 35:45Ky Dickens?

  However, since you last met Amelia, a lot has changed.

• 35:48Speaker 01

  She's got a lot more body control, which is amazing. And now she's able to type completely independently, which is exciting.

• 35:54Ky Dickens?

  Amelia's progress seemed to dovetail with a groundswell happening. Across the non-speaking community, parents started finding each other, started online groups, and bonding over experiences that they had once kept quiet, especially around things like telepathy.

• 36:08Speaker 01

  When all of this started kind of coming out and I learned about The Hill, she let me know that Fiona was actually a friend from The Hill, which made more sense because that's why we couldn't find her.

• 36:20Ky Dickens?

  The Hill was introduced in season one. It's a telepathic chatroom where some non-speakers say they hang out and communicate.

• 36:26Speaker 01

  And then we started realizing just how many people that she knew from The Hill, but had never physically met. And the fun thing was that we actually got the opportunity to meet them in person.

• 36:37Ky Dickens?

  Maura has connected the dots with various parents from around the country, people she's not met, yet the thing they have in common is their children all say they're talking to one another on The Hill.

• 36:45Speaker 01

  We did have a FaceTime calls with a couple of people.

• 36:50Ky Dickens?

  And Maura ended up meeting with at least four families, so Amelia could meet friends from The Hill in person.

• 36:55Speaker 01

  And when they saw each other for the first time, it was so fun to see that there was such a love between them that they clearly knew each other and they had stories. One of the cool things about all of this with all the friends and discovering all these people and then actually finding them. And as a parent, like going through this whole thing, you're constantly like struggling with, is this real? Is this not real? Like, what's going on? And then when she's talking about this person and then you actually find them and you find that they're actually talking to each other and then they validate that. It's been crazy to actually see that these people exist and they have been talking on The Hill. And it just validates all of the things that they've been saying.

• 37:29Ky Dickens?

  As her typing got better and better, she started being asked to deliver messages. And these messages were seemingly not from other non-speakers. They were messages for grieving friends and acquaintances and even strangers, for people whose loved ones had passed. Her dad and Mike did not know what to Make of any of this at first.

• 37:46Speaker 01

  I've definitely been more skeptical my my whole life. So not not a believer for sure until Amelia started showing signs of other possibilities. I think in the last couple of months, there was a point where she was really overwhelmed with spirits. And I said, what are they here for? What do they want? She said to give a message to a loved one. And I said, all right, well, is there somebody that you have a message for? Is there somebody here now? And she said, yes. And I said, OK, for us to be able to give a message to somebody, we need to know who it's from and who it's for. And so she typed right away. Her name is Hunter Chastain. And so then she gave a whole message and she said who it was from. It was from his mom.

• 38:28Speaker 01

  And now this is a person who I've met him maybe once, but I don't know him. Amelia may not have even met him. And so it was this very specific message that we passed along.

• 38:38Ky Dickens?

  And this message was not vague or generic. It expressed happiness that his daughter was learning to ride a horse. And then there was some comment about the Kentucky Derby.

• 38:46Speaker 01

  Which didn't make any sense to me. And so when I pass that along to them, her thing was the Derby, like she loved the Derby. There's so many things that you could say, well, it's kind of generic and anyone could think that. But she's just getting so specific about things that she's sharing. It's crazy. Just random people that she meets that she has no, no reason to know anything about them. Right? She's shared things about their relatives, current and past, with us as well. Amelia said, it's jolly giving people the message because when they're getting the lesson, they see that spirits are real. I can tell now when she's hearing somebody.

• 39:27Speaker 01

  And I always describe it like if somebody was talking in the other room and you wanted to hear them and you're like, wait a minute. And you like, listen, you can see when somebody's doing that, when they're focusing and listening. And that's what she does. She like pauses and she's listening and then she'll type and then she'll pause again and listen and then she'll type again.

• 39:45Ky Dickens?

  It kind of feels like Amelia can engage in, I don't know, three lanes of telepathy, if you will. I guess the first would be reading the thoughts of those close to her, like you or her teachers. And I guess second would be communicating telepathically at a distance with other non-speakers. And then the third would be communicating telepathically with people from beyond the grave. So does it all feel the same to her? Is there a difference between telepathy with, you know, a living person and with someone who's passed?

• 40:14Speaker 01

  I asked Amelia how she knows the difference between a spirit or a non-speaker because she's talking to them both all the time. She said that non-speakers look nothing different than their bodies, but that spirits look like energy. And she also said that non-speakers give me more holler, like they're louder. And she said, people get loud in my hill, which I think is funny. And that spirits, she said that they're kind of slower and it's hard to hear like the actual words. I think more subtle than the non-speakers. And she said that they feel different.

• 40:58Speaker 01

  She said, non-speakers feel more dominant and more milling, like they're hanging around, they're closer. And that spirits feel like distant and jolly, which I thought was interesting, that spirits are happy.

• 41:12Ky Dickens?

  So we return to the big question we asked earlier. Could mediumship simply be telepathy in disguise? Are mediums really talking to the other side? Or are the best ones just world-class psychics pulling memories and feelings and thoughts from the bereaved sitting in front of them?

• 41:30Speaker 01

  One thing that's different with Amelia is that when she's passing on these messages, it just kind of comes on randomly and she'll just start typing and sharing it. It's not like somebody's sitting in front of her and she has the opportunity to read what they're thinking. It's messages for like a friend's friend's husband or really kind of distant, random people. And People that we don't have real access to or connection to.

• 41:57Ky Dickens?

  In short, because there's no sitter in Amelia's case and there's nobody nearby seeking the information, her experiences push back against the idea that mediumship is simply psychically dipping into someone else's memory. Amelia herself explains that it's the spirits who find her. From this bit of data, it seems possible to conclude then that mediums could truly be engaged in communication across the boundary of life and death. And of course, the way that communication would work is via telepathy, language without voice, without even a body. It seems to me one way to validate this would be to look at brain scans done on mediums and see if they look similar to a brain scan done on Amelia when she's telepathically engaged with another non-speaker who's alive, but just not physically in her same space.

• 42:43Ky Dickens?

  And to do this, all roads lead to Dr. Jeff Tarrant. As you heard earlier, Jeff has already mapped the brains of world-class mediums and several telepathic non-speakers, and he was in touch with Amelia and her mom, Maura, already. Amelia loves neuroscience. She always wants to help non-speakers, and she expressed her excitement to meet Jeff and participate in some brain scans. Her parents were also excited, and I think more than anything, just to validate that the mysteries unfolding in their home were real.

• 43:21Ky Dickens?

  So this past summer, Jeff traveled to Wisconsin to meet Amelia and her parents and to run a series of EEG brain scans to get a sense of what Amelia's brain is doing when communicating telepathically with a living non-speaker who's not around.

• 43:35Speaker 06

  Amelia, I'm going to put this cap back on you. And then here, you can help me hold this.

• 43:38Speaker 01

  You are like a pro at this.

• 43:40Speaker 06

  You're so good, Amelia.

• 43:42Ky Dickens?

  Amelia and her parents are sitting at a table as Dr. Tarrant carefully fits the electrodes and cap on her head. And then Dr. Tarrant got what he calls a baseline scan to capture her brain in a normal state of being.

• 43:54Speaker 06

  Where she's just kind of hanging out, looking through a picture book, in comparison to what I'm calling telepathic communication.

• 44:01Ky Dickens?

  During the telepathic communication part of the test, Amelia was asked to engage with a friend telepathically from a distance. This was new data and significant data because up until this point, Dr. Tarrant had only tested non-speakers doing telepathy-type exams. They had to communicate the word that their mom or teacher was looking at, or the number, or the picture. They weren't asked to communicate and engage with another non-speaker from a long distance.

• 44:26Speaker 06

  She wasn't actually doing a telepathy exercise the same way that we did with John Paul in Houston, but she was talking to her friends.

• 44:33Ky Dickens?

  So like friends on the hill?

• 44:34Speaker 06

  I don't know if it was the hill necessarily. I think it was one friend in particular, who is often in her psychic space. And so they were having this conversation that was going on for a while while we were recording. And so even though it wasn't necessarily talking to spirits, it seemed like it was a telepathic communication.

• 44:53Ky Dickens?

  When Dr. Tarrant reviews the data with the family, he's sitting with them at their kitchen table, and he's built a PowerPoint presentation with various slides of squiggly lines and color-coded brains and all sorts of information that looks foreign to me.

• 45:05Speaker 06

  There's a lot of interesting data that, at a bare minimum, it suggests that something is happening differently when engaged in telepathic communication compared to a baseline or compared to just a regular conversation.

• 45:17Ky Dickens?

  And what was most fascinating and consequential to me was when Dr. Tarrant decided to look back on the readings he's done with vetted mediums and compare them to Amelia's brain scan. And here's why this is fascinating. Because as you know, Dr. Tarrant has compared the medium brain scans to each other and found similar patterns. But he's not yet had the opportunity to compare brain scans of telepathy with brain scans of mediumship. And I don't want to confuse this comparison with what we saw earlier, when Laura Lynn's scans showed clear differences between psychic work, which is actively reaching for information, and mediumship, which is receiving it passively. What we're looking at here is something a bit different: the mode of communication. Whether Amelia is connecting with a living non-speaker across the country, or a medium is connecting with someone who's past,

• 46:02Ky Dickens?

  both seem to be engaging in communication without speech or without a physical body. And the question is whether that lights up in the brain the same way.

• 46:11Speaker 06

  In Amelia's case, if you look at the theta activity in particular... You can see the VEDA increasing, but most of the increase in activity was in the right, and especially in this kind of back quadrant on the right hemisphere. I thought that this was interesting and again, potentially important because I've seen this pattern before. And so I wanted to just give you some examples of other places I've seen it.

• 46:32Ky Dickens?

  Then Dr. Tarrant pulls up a slideshow featuring brain scans from some of the vetted mediums he's already tested.

• 46:38Speaker 06

  So this is Laurel Lynn Jackson's data. And so, look at hers.

• 46:44Ky Dickens?

  Wow.

• 46:45Speaker 06

  Angelina Diana, who's another really well-known Forever Family Foundation medium. And then here's Joanne Gerber's, again, another well-known Forever Family Foundation medium.

• 46:54Ky Dickens?

  We'll put all these scans up on our YouTube page so you can see them. But in short, their scans look just like Amelia's.

• 47:00Speaker 06

  So when Amelia was talking to another non-speaker who is alive, who's here on physical earth, but speaking to them telepathically, her brain pattern looked remarkably like many of the mediums that I've observed before. They were doing mediumship readings. Maybe there's some overlap between telepathy and mediumship. In fact, I've heard Laura say before that mediumship is telepathy.

• 47:26Ky Dickens?

  The brain scans illustrate an unusual spike and wave pattern in the back right quadrant of the brain. It's that same area that's been dubbed the God Spot. Scientists don't really use that term, but they do agree this region is linked to how we sense boundaries between ourselves and others.

• 47:40Speaker 06

  The right parietal lobe. So what it's doing, it's normal job.

• 47:44Ky Dickens?

  Mm-hmm.

• 47:45Speaker 06

  It's creating an ego boundary. And so what we think might be happening is that when people are engaging in things like mediumship or telepathy, that they've got some sort of way to disrupt the normal functioning of this area, which then allows them to extend their consciousness to connect with others.

• 48:03Ky Dickens?

  Amelia's brain scans offered something tangible to her parents, showing that her brain was doing something unique when engaged in telepathy.

• 48:09Speaker 01

  It was so cool to get to do these scans and actually see the data when she was not just talking telepathically, but to spirits. That was the coolest part for me, I think, seeing how she compared to other validated, certified mediums. It was really cool.

• 48:28Ky Dickens?

  But having the scans didn't actually answer the harder question, which was, what do we do now? How do we help an 11-year-old who's overwhelmed with telepathic messages every day? For her parents, the search shifted from proof to guidance, and that search eventually led them to someone whose work you've already heard this episode, Laura Lynn Jackson.

• 48:49Speaker 01

  So as we're kind of going through this journey, I've just tried to take in as much information as I can and learn from people and figure out how to guide this. And one of the books that I read was The Light Between Us by Laura Lynn Jackson. And I actually, I listened to it on audio because I never have time to actually read. And so we were driving somewhere and I had one earbud in listening. And Amelia was in the back. She was listening to her iPad, so she had music on really loud. And we got where we were going and Amelia typed, "cool lady." And I said, "who?" And she said, "book lady." So she had been listening the whole time. I mean, it was literally in my ear. So she was listening to in my head.

• 49:27Ky Dickens?

  Okay, so you had earbuds in your ears. So she couldn't even hear you, right?

• 49:31Speaker 01

  Yeah. And so on the way back, she asked me to listen to it again because she wanted to keep listening to it. And so Amelia said it would be cool to meet her. And she was really hoping that she could help her with the spirits.

• 49:42Ky Dickens?

  And then, did you get ahold of Laura? And how was that? Was she receptive?

• 49:46Speaker 01

  When we first talked to her, we talked over email. And she was really excited to hear from us and excited to meet Amelia. So she is gonna try to help Amelia manage this.

• 49:56Ky Dickens?

  And just a few months ago, Laura Lynn traveled to Wisconsin to visit Amelia and see if she could help her manage the influx of energy around her.

• 50:04Speaker 03

  When I first knew I was meeting with Amelia, I thought I was gonna go in there and I was going to come help organize energy for her. I've been doing this for so long and it's such a comfortable thing for me to do. But I did not anticipate what was gonna happen. Right before I met her, I started getting what I call spinny energy in me, which is like, it used to happen to me decades ago, before I would do like a really big gallery reading where I'd get all like these people on the other side coming at me at once and I couldn't manage the energy. And I would like, I'd have to shake my hands and like shake them out of my hands. "Hi, Amelia. I'm so excited to be with you."

• 50:42Speaker 01

  I've been looking forward to meeting you. What beautiful light you have. Come on over, buddy.

• 50:47Ky Dickens?

  Laura Lynn, Amelia and Mara sit on the big couch in Mara's cozy den.

• 50:51Speaker 03

  I'm excited.

• 50:52Speaker 01

  She needs help with something.

• 50:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:54Speaker 01

  So she, there's another non-speaker. She has been trying to help.

• 50:59Ky Dickens?

  And Mara means that a non-speaker is telepathically hanging around in Amelia's space, talking to her actually non-stop. The backstory is that this girl is lonely, hasn't yet learned to spell, and wants help. But for an 11-year-old, without the agency to help her, she's feeling overwhelmed and saddled with a burden of guilt that she rightfully just can't manage.

• 51:17Speaker 01

  She is constantly here.

• 51:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:20Speaker 01

  With her, and to the point that it's all of time and she can't get her to go away.

• 51:26Speaker 03

  She has no solitude.

• 51:27Ky Dickens?

  Laura sat with Amelia for a little under two hours and was so patient and loving. And at times, you could tell Amelia felt really dysregulated and was trying so hard to engage. There was a lot of ups and downs, but also a lot being exchanged, much of it through spelling and whispers, and some of it seemingly non-verbal. So I was excited to get recaps from everyone later. The first recap happened in the car when Laura and I were on the way to a restaurant to grab a table for dinner, and Amelia and Mara were about 10 minutes behind us.

• 51:55Speaker 03

  I thought I was gonna come there, not necessarily as a teacher, but as a helper, right? And I thought I was there to kind of help organize what was going on on her screen. But when I sat down next to her, and then I touched her on the arm, something totally crazy happened. She brought me into her screen. And it was a screen I had never experienced before, because my screen is on the left-hand side and the right-hand side. The screen wasn't on either of those places. It was above my head. It was like if we were looking, waiting for an elevator, and there was like a little half-moon on top of it, and I'd never experienced that space on my screen before. And what I also was understanding was, I would see on like the top left-hand part, like energy of people who were here, in the here and now, still alive, talking to Amelia.

• 52:40Speaker 03

  And on the right-hand side, I would see people who had crossed, talking at the same time. And all of this was happening at once. It was like if you walked into, let's say, a barn, and there were bats perched in the ceiling. But you didn't know about them and then you entered and all of a sudden they all fluttered at you. That was what I was experiencing. And Amelia was handling it and I was like, oh my God, like what is going on? And I saw all these energies demanding her attention, demanding her attention. And specifically one of her friends who's still here on earth, just like glomming on her, glomming on her, like not letting go. And so I telepathically spoke to that friend, which shocked me because she could hear me and talk back, which I've never communicated telepathically with a live human, right? All my conversations are with people who are no longer in a physical body.

• 53:25Speaker 03

  That seems to be a prerequisite to communicate with me thought-wise. But I kept talking to this girl and saying, and she was just saying like, no, no, no. I was saying, but your grandfather who crosses right over there, why don't you go, you know, work with him, he'll help you. No, because he is not on earth anymore. He's there and that can't help me. And the more I tried to help, the more I realized I was so in over my head and realizing I had no control of the situation. So I did something that, you know, I probably haven't done since I've been a little girl. I called on my grandfather who's on the other side. It was such a force of love and goodness and joy. And I said, Papa, can you please come help Amelia with this friend, this girl who won't leave her alone, who's here on earth, but like in her energy space because she's not listening to me, but I know you can help.

• 54:09Speaker 03

  Will you do that? And that's how I left it because I felt in over my head. And I also felt that I had been called in to bear witness to what Amelia experiences. And she is a force of light. She just stays in it and she handles it. And it was just everything well at once.

• 54:29Ky Dickens?

  When we had all arrived at the restaurant, we sat down in a quaint cozy booth overlooking a lake and Amelia was eager to spell.

• 54:36Speaker 03

  And she spelled to her mom that Molly has gone to the cool grandfather who's helping. And Maura didn't know what that meant to me at all. And I was like, Amelia. Whose grandfather is that? Is that Molly's grandfather? And she spelled out that it was my grandfather. And nobody knew I had called my grandfather to help. And that was the one person who finally helped.

• 55:01Ky Dickens?

  There was no way they could have heard Laura Lynn's confession about asking her own departed grandfather for help. I even reviewed all the mics from all of our audio input when I got home. This was never spoken of at the house. And yet, here was Amelia in the restaurant saying Laura Lynn's grandfather was trying to help her. And about a week later, more and Amelia were actually coming to Southern California for a spelling conference. I met them at the beach and we had a chance to connect about how things were going for Amelia post the visit with Laura Lynn. I wanted to know if it was helpful. Okay, hold on, hold on. Let me get out my phone mic. Okay, so how have things been going? Is Amelia doing better?

• 55:34Speaker 01

  Laura really empowered Amelia not just, not only to embrace her gifts and love her gifts, but how to be in control of them. She helped her understand that she didn't have to give messages to everyone. And that's important because she did feel compelled to help everyone that came to her. And a good example of this is we jumped on a plane right after we met her. And we were sitting on the plane and Amelia said, I need to give the girl in front of me a message. And I said, do you want to? And she said, no. And I said, well, you don't have to. Just because somebody wants to give you a message doesn't mean you have to. And that was something that Laura explained to her

• 56:18Speaker 01

  is that you need to care for yourself as well. Another thing that Amelia said was that Laura helped her manage the influx of people that were coming to her at night, I think, when she's sleeping. And so that was really, really helpful.

• 56:32Ky Dickens?

  After a five-year journey of surprises and doubt and hope and confusion and questions, Amelia finally received some real constructive help.

• 56:42Ky Dickens?

  For Maura and Mike, who do not have a woo-woo bone in their bodies, and have slowly, reluctantly come to accept their daughter's abilities as real, there's finally some peace. The brain scans gave grounding, Laura Lynn gave tools, and Amelia has learned to set boundaries. And yet, the hardest part may still be ahead, because mediumship carries a double weight: a history of fraud and a culture of fear. Yes, there were con artists and rigged séances that exploited grief and tainted the field. But there's another story that we rarely name: religious hypocrisy. Because when a sanctioned holy man hears the dead, it's considered sacred. But when a common woman does, it's often considered witchcraft. The same experience is canonized in one mouth and condemned in another.

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  Is this truly about danger? Or is it about control?

• 57:31Speaker 01

  She really has no skin in the game. She's not, like, charging money, and she's just offering up this information that she just feels compelled to share.

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  Amelia is inconvenient evidence: an 11-year-old non-speaker, spelling each word with effort and intention, offering specific, validated messages from the other side that bring relief. There's no fee, no fame, and no agenda but love. She wants sleep more than the spotlight. And yet, the messages land, and they bring peace, and hope, and even faith. I mean, in a world that taught us to fear each other and doubt divine perception, the cruelest trick may be this: we've been taught to fear our own power. What I've learned, sitting with Laura Lynn, observing her work, reading her books, and bearing witness to the healing she's caused, is that she tends to always leave people with this message.

• 58:25Speaker 03

  I think we all have these abilities, and I don't think you need a medium to connect with your loved ones on the other side. You can do it.

• 58:32Ky Dickens?

  Like telepathy, this capacity is human. And maybe the real question that we should be asking isn't, "Is this allowed?", but "What heals?".

• 58:42Speaker 03

  So many times, I've had people on the other side who crossed, they've shared, you know, "Your life is a gift", and I think we need to be reminded of that. You need to honor your light. You need to honor your role here, because it's so much greater than you can even imagine.

• 58:56Ky Dickens?

  And so often, our lives are remembered by what we create. Creation seems to be the core of this entire place we call Earth. Every building, every tool, every tradition, everything was created from a thought. So if we're trying to understand consciousness, and whether it's manufactured in the brain or received like an antenna, maybe the best place to look is in the very act of creation itself. Because whether you call it inspiration, or genius, or big magic, or the hand of the divine, the act of making something from nothing may be the clearest evidence that consciousness is not just a byproduct of biology, but a force that finds us and then binds

• 59:40Ky Dickens?

  us to something bigger and wiser, and possibly with a consciousness and will of its own. Join us next week when we explore creativity itself, where ideas come from and do they seek us out.

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