Ross Coulthart

When Paul McCartney, for example, wrote Yesterday, he literally had a dream and the lyrics for Yesterday were in his head.

He woke up, wrote out the lyrics.

He's never been able to explain where that came from.

This has happened time and time again in science and creativity.

Some of the great writers say that when they write, they're not writing.

There's a voice in their head that's telling them what to write.

I'm fascinated by this and I'm actually thinking quite seriously about writing a book called Downloads because I think that there is something to the idea that maybe some humans, when they get to a certain level of proficiency, they tap into that unitary consciousness and it starts leaking ideas to them.

So many of the great scientific discoveries of our time, Nikola Tesla, alternating current, DC current, he had dreams about how he could design the machines that he eventually made.

Time and time again, there are scientists that describe these breakthroughs, and when they're really pushed on it, it's spiritual for them.

I think the evidence for the use of magic mushrooms as a way of psilocybin, as a way of treating people with extreme trauma, is overwhelming.

I've got friends in the United States who are self-dosing with magic mushrooms in Mexico because they can't get enough of the psilocybin on the program that they were being treated on as part of a Veterans Affairs study in the United States into treating post-traumatic disorder.

And what's really interesting is it's having an incredible effect.

They can feel it healing them.

Just on telepathy, one of the things I've done for my show is I've interviewed a woman called Kai Dickens, who's a filmmaker who stumbled across evidence written by a scientist called Diane Hennessy Powell, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist.

She's a professor of psychiatry.

Diane discovered that there were a lot of nonverbal autistic children in the United States whose moms credited them with being telepathic, that they were able to communicate telepathically with kids on the other side of the United States.

And so Diane started researching this, and she brought Kai in, who's made an amazing series called The Telepathy Tapes that's available on all good podcasts.

And this Telepathy Tapes series has just gone crazy because, as The Telepathy Tapes reveals...

It is the case that autistic nonverbal children have developed telepathic abilities.

And there's a place they call the hill where they congregate in this psychic world where they are literally able to share information.