Arthur
Appearances
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
What you would call ultra-Orthodox parade. My son Ben, he chose to come here, leaving the modern, sophisticated Boston, Massachusetts area. and to become part of a community that was very traditional and spiritual and not modern Western civilization.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
They fully accept what he's doing. They were actually printing 80,000 copies every week of his messages distributed throughout Israel. And now, by the way, any of the messages that he's writing, which are now in Hebrew, well-versed rabbis, which I'm not, that the Jewish law says that everything Ben says is consistent with the strict Jewish laws and Jewish viewpoints, everything.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
My Hebrew is not so good.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
I became aware, at least, of telepathy with him in April 1994. There were some times when he was younger that I would think something that I needed without saying it, and Ben would be immediately responsive to it. He somehow developed an alternative channel.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
That alternative channel is something that we would call telepathy, although my son says, and I can't prove it, that it's not a psychic ability, but it's a spiritual ability. It's a gift from God.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
They're not the only group that does them. Ben basically has his group here and they communicate that way. And you have the group in Arizona that does the same thing, even though they're hundreds of miles apart.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
He intentionally just restricts himself to the Jewish people. In terms of his knowledge of things and so forth, it goes beyond telepathy.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
I've had two-way telepathy with my son from the beginning.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
Yeah, but I usually prefer not to. I prefer to have him actually write it on a letter board.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
She found among these thousands of students that there were hundreds, maybe like 10% of them, that were also reporting having telepathy.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
The group of parents spoke to the people from Syracuse University and said, could we discuss this telepathy and what's going on? And the response from the Syracuse University people or the Facilitated Communication Institute, they said, although there's no such thing, they felt that it would hurt the credibility of facilitated communication.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
And by the spring of 1993, they had managed to completely suppress any talk about telepathy.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
Tom Smith, they made sure he got fired because he said there was telepathy involved. Ann Donilon was considered one of the leading experts on autism in the world. They basically threatened her, and she lost a lot of her position because she mentioned the possibility of telepathy. There was an email group called FCNet, which was run by Pat Edwards.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
These were just classroom teachers, and they found that there was telepathy involved.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep. 8: Gatekeepers of Truth - Telepathy and the Spelling Controversy
I stand behind him when I facilitate with him so he can't see where I'm looking.