TRAILER: The Reincarnation Records (Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

The Telepathy Tapes returns October 7 with Season 3: The Reincarnation Records. If The Telepathy Tapes deconstructed what you believe about consciousness, The Reincarnation Records may shatter it. On October 7th, Ky Dickens takes on one of humanity’s oldest questions in a new podcast, The Reincarnation Records: What if memory doesn’t begin at birth? If The Telepathy Tapes challenged the way we think about consciousness, The Reincarnation Records confronts evidence that could alter what we believe about death. Around the world, young children have described lives they seemingly never lived. They remember people they’ve never met, speak languages they’ve never learned, and know intimate details about places they’ve never visited. Some describe sudden or traumatic deaths, with birthmarks that appear to mirror the injuries they recall. Others exhibit unexplained fears, behaviors or extraordinary abilities that seem to belong to the lives they claim came before. And remarkably, in most cases, simply allowing children to talk about these memories appears to bring profound emotional and even physical healing. In a worldwide investigation spanning France, Nepal, Vietnam, Germany, Brazil, Tibet, Sri Lanka, and the United States, Dickens works with researchers and experts from around the world, including scholars affiliated with the University of Virginia and Harvard, to examine extraordinary cases and the evidence behind them. We meet children whose memories contain startlingly specific details that can sometimes be independently verified, and families whose understanding of reality has been transformed by what their children remember. Along the way, we trace the ancient debate over whether we’ve lived before, from contested ideas in early Christianity to the extraordinary Tibetan Buddhist process used to identify the reincarnating Dalai Lama. Could suggestion, coincidence or cultural influence explain these stories? What happens when a child’s statements are documented before anyone knows whom they might be describing? And if even a fraction of these cases resist conventional explanation, what happens to the worldview we’ve built around the idea that consciousness begins at birth and ends at death? 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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• 1:27Ky Dickens?

  All right, everyone, I have a special announcement. So, season three of the Telepathy Tapes, titled "The Reincarnation Records," drops October 7th. So, the concept of past lives has come up again and again over the past six years of my journey. And honestly, it's something I initially dismissed, and I did not take seriously. I did not even want it to be true. But it kept coming up so much that I finally decided that I needed to look into it with the same open-minded skepticism and rigor that I brought to the Telepathy Tapes. And the season features scientists, and researchers, and stories, and children from all over the world who've experienced this. So, if my goal with the Telepathy Tapes was to determine whether consciousness is bound only to the brain, my goal with this season is to ask the next big question, which is,

• 2:11Ky Dickens?

  does consciousness survive death? And we keep joking around the office that if the Telepathy Tapes deconstructed your reality, the reincarnation records might just shatter it, but in a great way. I think you're going to be challenged, and expanded, and excited, and comforted, and thrilled, and moved. And at the end of the journey, I think you'll have a sense of our reality that maybe you didn't before. So, please, I beg you to find a buddy to listen with, because you're going to need a partner to discuss this one. So, get ready, because on October 7th, the afterlife might not be left up to blind faith any longer. So, here's the trailer for the Reincarnation Records.

• 2:48Speaker 03

  I don't think a three-year-old is supposed to be having nightmares about how they died in a fiery plane crash.

• 2:53Ky Dickens?

  For millennia, young children have reported something extraordinary.

• 2:57Speaker 04

  They remember their names, they remember places.

• 3:00Speaker 05

  Oftentimes, the kids remember how they died and was something traumatic.

• 3:04Ky Dickens?

  And in some cases, these memories can be verified.

• 3:06Speaker 06

  Allowing kids to talk about it is very important. Past life memories can heal.

• 3:11Ky Dickens?

  What if memory doesn't begin at birth? What if some part of us arrives already carrying a story?

• 3:17Speaker 03

  If reincarnation is real, I don't think we're supposed to remember.

• 3:20Ky Dickens?

  This season, we step into one of the most controversial and quietly persistent ideas in human history: reincarnation.

• 3:28Speaker 06

  We are taught from a very early age in the Judeo-Christian culture that reincarnation doesn't exist.

• 3:34Speaker 07

  It's not an escape from the demands of religion.

• 3:37Ky Dickens?

  We'll meet people who speak with striking clarity about other lives, and the researchers around the world who've spent decades studying these cases.

• 3:45Speaker 06

  Once you observe this in a child, and the evidence is very compelling, you have to open up to another explanation for what is going on.

• 3:57Ky Dickens?

  Welcome to the Reincarnation Records.

• 4:01Ky Dickens?

  The Reincarnation Records will drop on October 7th on the Telepathy Tapes' main feed. Expect your paradigm to be shattered once again.