Dan Engber

And so you can either see that happen and go, you know what, I'm a little worried that this method doesn't work. And then you move on to other interventions to try to help the non-speaking person. Or you say, oh, I know what it is. The spelling is valid and they have ESP.

Yes, exactly.

Yes, exactly.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, the podcast gets into it. I mean, there's a certain point right at the beginning. It's not clear what we're even talking about. It's just, here's this girl, Mia. She can read her mother's mind. And as it goes along, it gets into the history of facilitated communication, the scandals. There were false sexual abuse allegations. There were the debunkings of the 90s.

Yeah, the podcast gets into it. I mean, there's a certain point right at the beginning. It's not clear what we're even talking about. It's just, here's this girl, Mia. She can read her mother's mind. And as it goes along, it gets into the history of facilitated communication, the scandals. There were false sexual abuse allegations. There were the debunkings of the 90s.

Yeah, the podcast gets into it. I mean, there's a certain point right at the beginning. It's not clear what we're even talking about. It's just, here's this girl, Mia. She can read her mother's mind. And as it goes along, it gets into the history of facilitated communication, the scandals. There were false sexual abuse allegations. There were the debunkings of the 90s.

And so the podcast has to engage with that, right? And what the host, Kai Dickens, does is she basically acknowledges that all that happened. She says, but look... People were experiencing telepathy from the very beginning. And also the method has improved. We now have these new versions called rapid prompting or spelling to communicate. And they're much better.

And so the podcast has to engage with that, right? And what the host, Kai Dickens, does is she basically acknowledges that all that happened. She says, but look... People were experiencing telepathy from the very beginning. And also the method has improved. We now have these new versions called rapid prompting or spelling to communicate. And they're much better.

And so the podcast has to engage with that, right? And what the host, Kai Dickens, does is she basically acknowledges that all that happened. She says, but look... People were experiencing telepathy from the very beginning. And also the method has improved. We now have these new versions called rapid prompting or spelling to communicate. And they're much better.

And also she talks about one guy that she features in the podcast.

And also she talks about one guy that she features in the podcast.

And also she talks about one guy that she features in the podcast.

A man named Akhil. Who is, you know, according to the podcast, telepathic and can also speak to the dead.

A man named Akhil. Who is, you know, according to the podcast, telepathic and can also speak to the dead.

A man named Akhil. Who is, you know, according to the podcast, telepathic and can also speak to the dead.

And he does this without being touched. So for her, it's like, there you go. That's proof.

And he does this without being touched. So for her, it's like, there you go. That's proof.

And he does this without being touched. So for her, it's like, there you go. That's proof.

I mean, this is, again, it's one of the complicating things about this. It'd be nice if you could just say, oh, FC is fake and everyone who uses it is, you know, the message is coming entirely from the facilitator. But it's just such a diverse set of practices and it involves such a diverse set of people and people-facilitator pairs. It's just like a very complicated question.