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The Telepathy Tapes & Akiane’s “Jesus”—What the Dickens Is Going on?

By Warren B. Smith

The work of the telepathic communicators is one of the most important in the coming new age, and it will be of value to gain some idea of its significance and techniques.¹—Alice Bailey, New Age Matriarch

The radio and television networks of the world will be linked up, and He will make His appeal, His call, to mankind. By mentally overshadowing all mankind simultaneously, He will come into telepathic rapport with all humanity everywhere, and we shall hear His words silently entering our minds, in our own language.²—Benjamin Creme, False Christ Spokesman

Telepathy is very important to the coming New Age Christ, otherwise known as the Antichrist. He is the ultimate deceiver who the Bible warns will appear at the end of time. As cited above, this false Christ says he will use telepathic communication to announce his presence to the world—a world that has been increasingly prepared to accept his telepathic approach. In this regard, New Age matriarch Alice Bailey stated that his followers “must occupy themselves increasingly with right understanding, right designation and right definition of the new science of telepathy.³

Enter Ky Dickens and The Telepathy Tapes.

The Telepathy Tapes

The Telepathy Tapes is a hugely popular podcast series written, directed, and produced by award-winning film maker Ky Dickens. Her series, soon to become a major film, is her rather obvious attempt to normalize the occult teachings of the New Age movement. She does this by featuring the supernatural reports being attributed to non-speaking autistic children who communicate with spelling boards. She uses their controversial mind-blowing testimonies to justify her call for a “paradigm shift”⁴ to what is, in effect, an occult/New Age worldview. And somehow she does this without ever mentioning the words occult or New Age. From astral projection and talking with the dead to mystical spirit guides and mind-reading parrots,⁵ according to Ky Dickens and her cast of autistic non-speakers, questionable researchers, and New Age sympathizers—it’s all good!

To accomplish her “paradigm shift,” Dickens attempts to normalize, legitimize, and glorify much of what has commonly been known as the occult and New Age. In particular, she effectively destigmatizes one of the chief tools of the coming false Christ—telepathic communication. While almost everything Dickens presents flies in the face of biblical Christianity, her presumed objectivity and casual assuredness makes what she is presenting seem very credible to undiscerning listeners. This is especially true for those who are unaware of the Bible’s many warnings about the misinformation she often presents as “researched” fact.

In his new book Testing the Telepathy Tapes, author Mark Baker biblically challenges what Dickens and her many guests are putting forth. Are psychics, spirit guides, and talking to the dead really okay? Are autistic non-speakers actually spiritual savants whom we should learn from and follow to help save the world? Is Dickens paving the way for a peaceful loving future—or is something else going on here?

The Aquarian Conspiracy

I knew almost nothing about The Telepathy Tapes until I read Mark Baker’s book. It is both a biblical examination of The Telepathy Tapes as well as a practical manual on spiritual discernment. And what I quickly realized as I read his book was that Ky Dickens was now spearheading the nearly fifty-year effort by New Age leaders to shift the world from a materialist and biblical worldview to an occult/New Age worldview. Whether Dickens is aware of it or not, The Telepathy Tapes is really just a podcast version of Marilyn Ferguson’s 1980 classic New Age book—The Aquarian Conspiracy. In fact, Dickens’ series could easily have been titled The Aquarian Conspiracy 2.0.

In The Aquarian Conspiracy, Ferguson publicly calls for a “paradigm shift”⁶ to an occult/New Age worldview. In her series, Ky Dickens is also calling for a “paradigm shift” to what is, in effect, an occult/New Age worldview. Ferguson’s New Age declaration back in 1980 was—“Ready or not, here we come.” Today, Dickens and her Telepathy Tapes are declaring—“Ready or not, here we are!”

Ferguson and Dickens both call for a “paradigm shift” that is based on what they claim to be new scientific and spiritual discoveries. Yet these new discoveries are really just the old occult. Ferguson said for these discoveries to become “what everybody knows,” they would have to be “widely communicated.” They would have to become “our new consensus.” She wrote:

If these discoveries of transformation are to become our common heritage for the first time in history, they must be widely communicated. They must become our new consensus, “what everybody knows.”⁷

And for the last five decades, Ferguson’s hidden-in-plain-sight “conspiracy” has been widely communicated by countless New Age proponents—most particularly Oprah Winfrey. In fact, a 1987 Oprah program titled “The New Age Movement” featured Marilyn Ferguson and her book, The Aquarian Conspiracy. The show went out to millions of viewers as Oprah echoed Ferguson’s New Age contention that we are all divine—because we all have a Divine Self—a “God within.”⁸ Oprah said:

Jesus did not come to teach us how divine he was. But came to teach us there is divinity within us.⁹

After listening to The Telepathy Tapes myself, it was easy to see how Marilyn Ferguson’s New Age mantle has been effectively passed on to Ky Dickens. The Telepathy Tapes has already been “widely communicated” and is in the process of becoming “what everybody knows.” Dickens’ upcoming film presenting autistic non-speakers as spiritual savants is sure to gain even more attention as it makes its way into theaters, film festivals, and people’s homes.

Autistic Non-Speakers

The Telepathy Tapes first appeared on YouTube in September 2024. Presently, there are two complete seasons. The first season has ten episodes and the second season has eleven. In addition, there are a number of supplemental “Talk Tracks” and several “Bonus Episodes.” In his book, Mark Baker succinctly presents what Ky Dickens is telling everyone about autistic non-speakers and their presumed “spiritual gifts.” Baker paraphrases what she is basically saying:

If you think the non-speaking autistic young person in your life has the mind of a small child, you are likely wrong. Chances are that there is a fully aware and highly intelligent individual inside who is also highly informed and highly evolved spiritually, far more than the rest of us. Unfortunately, he or she has been treated as a two-year old their whole life, as no one has believed in these non-speaking children.

However, we at The Telepathy Tapes certainly believe them. More importantly, these kids need you to believe in them, and in what they are trying to teach all of us. Why do you need to believe? Because so much of the future of humanity depends on you trusting in these kids and believing the messages they are proclaiming.

More specifically, an untold number of non-speaking autistic children have supernatural abilities, quite literally. It is suggested (at least by the kids themselves) that all of them have these unique paranormal or psychic capabilities. In fact, these extraordinary abilities are frequently referred to as “spiritual gifts”—particularly at the beginning of each episode. These gifts include things like telepathy, hence the name of the podcast.¹⁰

Through the use of spelling boards, and usually with the help of a facilitator, autistic non-speakers appear to be reporting their active involvement in a variety of occult/New Age practices. Yet The Telepathy Tapes seem to justify these occult activities by making them look normal and perfectly acceptable. Mark Baker lists a number of these controversial practices: telepathy, clairvoyance, astral projection, mysticism, collective consciousness, necromancy, spiritualism, mediumship, spiritual evolution, and divination.¹¹

Objective Documentary?

While The Telepathy Tapes is presented as a documentary, it is anything but objective. In Testing the Telepathy Tapes, Mark Baker notes how Dickens contradicts herself about not having an agenda. In Season 1, Episode 9, she seems to earnestly state:

My only objective is to give a platform to voiceless people who are often not listened to or believed or supported. And this is why when the non-speakers talk of certain things, even though it’s hard for me to even share some of them because I so desperately don’t want to be perceived as having an agenda.¹²

Baker writes, “While it is not wrong to have one or more agendas, it is misleading, wrong, and even harmful to say otherwise.”¹³ He then quotes Dickens contradicting herself just moments later in that same episode about not having an agenda:

And the mission of the show is really to prove that our paradigm is wrong, that there’s more happening than we realize, and that more amazingly, the non-speakers can really validate, if not prove these claims.¹⁴

Note: Speaking of agendas, neuropsychiatrist/New Age sympathizer Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell (aka Dr. Diane Hennacy) was featured throughout the first episode of the first season of The Telepathy Tapes. Her extensive but controversial “research” with autistic non-speakers is what first inspired Ky Dickens to create The Telepathy Tapes in the first place.¹⁵ While Powell’s impressive academic credentials are made very clear to podcast listeners, there is no disclosure made of her strong New Age leanings.

On her own website, Powell describes herself as “a student of ancient wisdom traditions.”¹⁶ This is really just another way of saying “a student of the occult and the New Age.” In her 2009 book The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, she frequently cites the late psychic/medium/necromancer Edgar Cayce as a legitimate authority on spiritual phenomena.¹⁷

On March 20, 2026, Powell was a featured speaker at a huge New Age conference in Sedona, Arizona.¹⁸ She spoke alongside a host of psychics, mystical energy healers, and a man who was allegedly channeling an alien entity from the future named “Bashar.” Powell’s presentation effectively told those attending that everything they were doing as New Agers was being validated by her “research” regarding autistic non-speakers. Thus, it was really no surprise when Ky Dickens opened the second season of the Powell-inspired Telepathy Tapes with three very New Age guests.

Selected New Age Guests

Eben Alexander
The second season’s very first episode featured Eben Alexander, author of The New York Times best-seller, Proof of Heaven. He tells Telepathy Tapes listeners that he emerged from his alleged near-death experience believing there is a “pure oneness”¹⁹ in the universe. That a “God force”²⁰ interpenetrates all of creation. In other words, we are all “One” because God is “in” everyone and everything. However, this is pure occult, pure New Age teaching.

Soon after his near-death experience, Alexander became involved with the occultic Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia. It was Monroe’s Gateway Voyage program that taught Alexander how to mystically meditate and leave his body to help him simulate his previous near-death experience.²¹ The Institute’s website invites everyone to “Join the Global Paradigm Shift.”²²

Note: Some years ago, the Monroe Gateway program was seriously studied by the CIA. A declassified report states that a primary CIA goal that surfaced from their involvement with Gateway was “to remove the stigma” of the “occult connotations” associated with astral projection and to place it more in the realm of physical science. In the words of the CIA, their goal was:

. . . [to] construct a scientifically valid and reasonably lucid model of how consciousness functions [in order to put] out-of-body states into the language of physical science to remove the stigma of its occult connotations.²³

And that is exactly what Ky Dickens and The Telepathy Tapes are doing with their astrally projecting autistic non-speakers. They are weaving the alleged out-of-body experiences of Eben Alexander together with the reputed reports of autistic non-speakers in order to “remove the stigma” and “occult connotations” that have always been associated with out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Another example of Ky Dickens’ effort to remove the stigma and the occult connotations of New Age practices, is seen in the controversial area of psychic mediumship.

Laura Lynne Jackson
In Season 2, Episode 2, and in a separate Bonus Episode, Dickens continues her effort to normalize the occult practices that are allegedly being practiced by the autistic non-speakers. In these particular episodes, the subjects are telepathy, psychic mind reading, and talking with the dead.

Totally ignoring the controversy surrounding these practices, Dickens introduces best-selling New Age author Laura Lynne Jackson as “one of America’s most vetted”²⁴ “world-class famous medium[s].”²⁵ This flattering, over-the-top welcome gave Jackson’s mediumship and talking with the dead an immediate and undeserved air of respectability. Dickens even visits Jackson’s home and interviews her family in what seems to be an obvious effort to show listeners just how “normal” Jackson’s occult activities are.

By weaving in the reports of autistic non-speakers who are reputed telepaths, psychics, and necromancers who talk with the dead, Dickens continues her effort to “remove the stigma” and the “occult connotations” regarding these dangerous practices. The Bible expressly warns us not to practice any form of divination or to interact with the dead in any way. Scripture does not refer to these occult practices as “spiritual gifts,” but rather in no uncertain terms as literal “abominations” (Deuteronomy 18:9-12).

Note: Dickens ignores or is apparently unaware of the Bible’s account of the Philippian psychic who lost her ability to do psychic readings when the apostle Paul cast a “spirit of divination” out of her in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 16:16-19). And it was Jesus Himself who clearly stated that no one will be sent from the dead to tell anybody anything (Luke 16:19-31).

Elizabeth Gilbert
In Season 2, Episode 3, Ky Dickens welcomed Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love. In her best-selling New Age memoir, Gilbert describes how a four-month stay at her Indian guru’s ashram helped to further solidify her New Age belief system. She tells her over twelve million readers that “we are all one, and divinity abides within us all equally.”²⁶ Repeating her guru’s signature mantra, she writes, “God dwells within you, as you.”²⁷

In this episode of The Telepathy Tapes with Gilbert, people are encouraged to recognize there are ideas and messages floating around in the airwaves looking for a place to land—for someone to recognize them and download them into their life.²⁸ In her upbeat exhortation, there is no mention made of the seducing spirits that float around in those same airwaves, waiting to deceive anyone who mistakenly falls for their deceitful ideas, messages, dreams, and visions.

Deepak Chopra
One of The Telepathy Tapes’ many “Talk Tracks” features Deepak Chopra, a long-time key figure in the New Age movement. Dickens gives him immediate validation by referring to him as the “legendary” Deepak Chopra.²⁹ Over the years, Chopra has authored a number of best-selling New Age books and has spoken at New Age conferences around the world. He was instrumental in popularizing Transcendental Meditation (TM), along with a host of other pseudo-scientific New Age healing practices.

Note: Regarding Chopra and telepathy, a 2026 article in the San Diego Union Tribune revealed that Deepak Chopra was involved in facilitating a $50,000 donation³⁰ from his longtime friend, Jeffrey Epstein, to help fund a telepathy research project at UC San Diego. It seemed that Epstein had a special interest in telepathy and other psychic activities. Based on some of the more recently released Epstein files, the New York Post reported:

New Age guru Deepak Chopra discussed weird science experiments with Jeffrey—including tests on telepathy in autistic kids and clairvoyant reactions to “erotic/violent” images.

E-mails released by the Justice Department show the disgraced financier regularly spoke to the Ageless Body, Timeless Mind author [Chopra], as well as other researchers interested in psychic abilities.³¹

In featuring New Age figures like Eben Alexander, Laura Lynne Jackson, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Deepak Chopra, Ky Dickens is clearly telegraphing where her desired “paradigm shift” is heading—straight into a sanitized and destigmatized New Age movement methodically stripped of its occult connotations.

Although there has been no real mention of Jesus in the first two seasons of The Telepathy Tapes, many autistic non-speakers have reputedly seen, met, and worshiped him. And it is being reported that the “Jesus” they encountered looks just like the famous “Jesus” portrait painted in 2002 by an eight-year-old girl named Akiane Kramarik.

Heaven is for Real & Akiane Kramarik

In the fall of 2025, I wrote a booklet titled Akiane, Heaven is for Real, and Visions of a False New Age Christ. In it, I took a close look at the near-death experience of young Colton Burpo as described in his father’s best-selling book Heaven is for Real. In the book, Pastor Todd Burpo describes how his son allegedly met and talked with “Jesus” in Heaven. He goes on to explain that of all the many pictures of Jesus that his son was shown after his near-death experience, there was only one that Colton said got it “right.”³² It was painted by a young girl named Akiane Kramarik.

Akiane’s Prince of Peace portrait is a stunning picture of the “Jesus” she claimed to have met and telepathically conversed with in her many mystical dreams and visions. Because Colton identified Akiane’s “Jesus” as the one he met in Heaven, her portrait was dramatically featured in both the Heaven is for Real book and movie. In the book, Pastor Burpo, speaking for his wife and himself, described the impact Colton’s recognition of Akiane’s “Jesus” had on the both of them:

Knowing how many pictures Colton had rejected, Sonja and I finally felt that in Akiane’s portrait, we’d seen the face of Jesus. Or at least a startling likeness.³³

But Colton’s father worried that others who met “Jesus” in their own near-death experience might describe the “Jesus” they met differently. But this was not the case. In a church interview posted on YouTube, he explained:

I anticipated all kinds of people to contact me and say, well I saw Jesus, I went to heaven, and he didn’t look like that. I’ve had zero people do that. What, thirteen million copies later, I’ve had thousands of people say that’s exactly what he looks like.³⁴

Best-selling near-death experience author and pastor, John Burke, in a 2025 interview with Akiane in Marble Falls, Texas, similarly reported how “many” of the near-death experiencers he has researched have also testified that the “Jesus” they met looked just like Akiane’s portrait of “Jesus.”³⁵

Akiane’s “Jesus”

Akiane Kramarik is now 31, and she reports that her Prince of Peace portrait of “Jesus” has been seen by over a “billion” people on her “gallery” website alone.³⁶ And over these last 23 years, after countless media interviews and tours in the US and abroad, her portrait of “Jesus” is now the go-to picture of “Jesus” around the world. Prints of her painting can be purchased on Amazon, and they hang in people’s homes everywhere.

However, there is an irreconcilable problem with Akiane’s “Jesus.” Akiane claims to be a Christian, but the spiritual beliefs that were impressed upon Akiane by her “Jesus,” and posted on her gallery website, are distinctly New Age:

Relationship with our Selves is our relationship with our Universe. . . .

This world rarely meets our expectations, and our forgetfulness of our Divine Self and purpose for us is a true mystery. . . .

Comprehending the significance of our living here forms peace and assurance of our oneness with everyone, the conviction that we are all part of that collective puzzle, part of one and the same Spirit, part of The Divinity, part of each and every one we will meet today. . . .

We are all One.³⁷ (emphasis added)

What Akiane posted are the foundational teachings of the New Age movement. What becomes immediately apparent is that Akiane’s “Jesus” is not the true Jesus Christ of the Bible. Her “Jesus” is a false New Age Christ who impressed Akiane with his false New Age teachings. He is who the true Jesus Christ warned us to watch out for (Matthew 24:3-5).

Akiane’s dreams and visions were false dreams and false visions. But how was a young child supposed to know that what she experienced was a false dream or false vision? How was she supposed to know the “Jesus” she saw and talked with was a spiritual impostor?

Akiane’s “Jesus” and the Autistic Children

John Burke, the pastor who interviewed Akiane in Texas, recently interviewed Scottsdale, Arizona pastor/lawyer Joseph Infranco.³⁸ Along with Diane Hennacy Powell and Ky Dickens, Infranco has become a popular and prominent voice for non-speaking autistic spellers. He was interviewed by Dickens in Season 1, Episode 7 of The Telepathy Tapes. And while Dickens has not mentioned anything about Akiane in her first two seasons, Infranco told Burke that “a number”³⁹ of autistic non-speakers are identifying Akiane’s “Jesus” as the “Jesus” they have personally seen and met and conversed with.

In the interview, Infranco described how non-speaking autistic spellers communicate by reading each other’s minds. He described how they often leave their bodies to meet and worship “Jesus” at a kind of out-of-body telepathic chat room they call “The Hill.” Infranco explained:

They worship on The Hill. They worship God. They worship Jesus. . . . They all see him.⁴⁰

I’ve seen two things from it again that overlap with NDEs [near-death experiences] because I really think this is the way to understand The Telepathy Tapes. The things that overlap is some number of them have seen Jesus. . . . And I’ll ask them, “How did you know it was Jesus?”[they say] You just know, they know it’s Jesus. . . . There’s no mistaking it.⁴¹

Burke readily agreed from his own experience with the near-death experiencers who had reportedly seen “Jesus.” He said, “That’s what they say. You don’t have any doubt in your mind at all.”⁴² But sadly, their comments are extremely naive—especially for two pastors who should know better. Their response falls completely short of the Bible’s admonition to be spiritually discerning (Acts 17:11) and to test the spirits (1 John 4:1-3). However, for the autistic non-speakers or anyone else to just “know” it’s Jesus is not what a lawyer, like Infranco, would ever introduce as evidence into a court of law.

At one point, Burke asks Infranco if any of the non-speakers have ever seen Akiane’s portrait of “Jesus.” Infranco answers:

I’ve shown a number of them paintings and asked which is the most lifelike, and the one that gets picked the most is Akiane’s Prince of Peace.⁴³

These sightings of Akiane’s “Jesus” were further confirmed when Infranco was interviewed by the mother of an autistic non-speaking son. In the interview that was posted on YouTube, she stated that her son, Noah, had identified Akiane’s “Jesus” as the “Jesus” that frequently visited him in his room at night.⁴⁴ Infranco was not surprised. He said he had worked with “many” autistic spellers who had also met with “Jesus” and that Akiane’s “Jesus” was “the one nearly all of them identify” as the “Jesus” they saw.⁴⁵

In his book Decoding Cody, Infranco described how Cody, the autistic son of longtime friends, was one of those who had picked Akiane’s Prince of Peace portrait from a pile of “Jesus” pictures as best representing the “Jesus” he met and worshiped on “The Hill.”⁴⁶ Infranco also described a woman at his church who had visions of “Jesus” just like Akiane’s. Regarding the “Jesus” she met, she stated:

If you want an accurate picture of what He looks like, the best representation that I’ve ever seen is a painting called Prince of Peace by Akiane Kramarik. . . . She was given visions a lot like mine.⁴⁷

“Another Jesus”

Akiane’s “Jesus” is what the Bible describes as “another Jesus” who has “another spirit” and brings “another gospel” (2 Corinthians 11:4). And it is Akiane’s “Jesus,” with his false New Age gospel of “Oneness,” who is being deceptively interjected into people’s dreams and visions by seducing spirits:

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. (1 Timothy 4:1)

The true Jesus Christ warns us not to be deceived by the “great signs and wonders” that often accompany false prophets and false Christs (Matthew 24:3-5, 11, 24). The prophet Jeremiah warns us not to be deceived by false dreams (Jeremiah 23:32). Ezekiel warns about false visions (Ezekiel 13:7). However, all of these scriptural warnings are to no avail if people don’t care enough to read the Bible and take heed of what it says.

Telepathically Delivered New Age Teachings

Akiane was deceived by the counterfeit Jesus she met and telepathically connected with in her mystical dreams and visions. When my wife and I were in the New Age, we followed a set of false New Age teachings that were telepathically delivered to a Columbia University professor in New York City named Helen Schucman. These teachings were later compiled into a three-volume set of books published in 1975 as A Course in Miracles. It was our New Age “Bible.” It was reputedly “new revelation” from “Jesus” and emphasized the need for a “shift” in one’s spiritual thinking—just like the “paradigm shift” called for by Marilyn Ferguson and Ky Dickens. This false “Jesus” taught us what he later taught Akiane about “Oneness,” the Divine Self, and the “God within.” That same false “Jesus” also taught us to deny the victory the real Jesus Christ won on the Cross of Calvary. This false New Age “Jesus” said:

The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. There is no separation between man and God.⁴⁸

The oneness of the creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity and your limitless power.⁴⁹

A slain Christ has no meaning.⁵⁰

The journey to the cross should be the last useless journey.⁵¹

Do not make the pathetic error of clinging to the old rugged cross.⁵²

We believed this New Age “Jesus” and his Oneness teachings until a series of dramatic events showed us how deceived we were.⁵³ We learned that the telepathic voice that spoke to Helen Schucman and purported to be Jesus, was not the true Jesus Christ. We came to understand that we do not have a “Divine Self” or a “God within” who is “in” everyone and everything.” We learned that Scripture tells us:

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. (Galatians 6:3)

[V]erily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.” (Psalm 39:5)

[T]hou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God. (Ezekiel 28:2)

In these, and many other verses, the Bible teaches that only God is divine and we are not. We are made in the image of God, but we are not a part of God in any way. Rather, we are sinners, saved by the grace of God when we confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in our hearts that He died on the Cross for our sins; that He rose from the dead, ascended into Heaven, and now sits on the right hand of God; and that He gives eternal life to those who believe in Him and put their trust in Him (Ephesians 2:8, Romans 10:9, John 3:16, Colossians 3:1-4).

The Coming False Christ

Colton Burpo, along with thousands of other near-death experiencers, a growing number of autistic non-speakers, and countless others around the world have already met Akiane’s false “Jesus” in their own personal dreams, visions, and near-death experiences. It would not be surprising if many of the Muslims who have reputedly seen Jesus in their dreams will soon be reporting that their Jesus also looks just like Akiane’s “Jesus.”

One might argue there is no way that so many people could all be so deceived. However, the Bible absolutely refutes this argument. It warns that Antichrist is definitely coming and that “all nations” will be deceived by him and his “sorceries” (Revelation 18:23). What we are witnessing today is how sorceries, like those brought forth in The Telepathy Tapes, have been deceptively normalized and legitimized by New Age sympathizers like Diane Hennacy Powell and Ky Dickens. Jesus refers to Antichrist as “the abomination of desolation” (Matthew 24:15). Daniel, in speaking of the Antichrist, said that he will “destroy wonderfully” and “by peace shall destroy many” (Daniel 8:24-25). With many people describing The Telepathy Tapes as “wonderful,” the prophet Jeremiah warns that “A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. . . . and my people love to have it so” (Jeremiah 5:30-31).

What If?

What if a man looking exactly like Akiane’s “Jesus” was suddenly standing before a battery of microphones and television cameras in Jerusalem? What if he announces that he is “Jesus” and has returned to help save the world? What if most of the people watching instantly recognize him as Akiane’s “Jesus”—the “Jesus” she explicitly portrayed in her Prince of Peace portrait? What if this “Jesus” tells everyone he has come to “set all things right?” What if he states that he and his gospel have been seriously misunderstood? What if he explains that he has come to clear up the confusion and to declare the true gospel—the God “in” everyone and everything “Oneness” gospel that will unite all religions and bring peace to the world?

Note: Before this “What if” scenario is too quickly dismissed, think about the following: For billions of people, this false “Jesus” would seem to be stepping right out of Akiane’s painting and into their hearts and homes. For most people, Akiane’s “Jesus” would mistakenly be seen as the true Jesus, not as the false “Jesus” he really is. More than ever before, the world is ripe for this deception.

The Temptation Tapes

The Telepathy Tapes could also be described as The Temptation Tapes. They are tempting everyone to accept a number of occult practices as people move unknowingly into the spiritual arena of the false New Age Christ. By seeming to normalize occult activities through its autistic non-speakers, The Telepathy Tapes are saying—these autistic non-speakers are doing all of these spiritual things—and so can you! In fact, The Telepathy Tapes are almost screaming that you, too, can be telepathic. You, too, can be a psychic, a channeler, have an out-of-body experience, and talk with the dead. But what people are not being told is that those who give in to these temptations are opening themselves up to spiritual deception and a world of evil.

Going After Other Gods

Mark Baker’s Testing the Telepathy Tapes ends with a very important quote from the Bible’s book of Deuteronomy. It warns us to beware of prophets, dreamers, and other figures—like near-death experiencers and autistic non-speakers—who suddenly arise with great signs and wonders. Yet they tell us to follow after other gods—or “another Jesus”—like Akiane’s “Jesus” (Deuteronomy 13:1-4).

The question should always be: Is what I am reading, watching, or listening to biblical or not?

What the Dickens? What the Devil?

Given all the occult things that Ky Dickens is trying to normalize through her autistic non-speakers, I thought that “what the dickens is going on” was an appropriate subtitle for this booklet. I was curious as to the origin of that phrase and discovered it had nothing to do with the famous English author Charles Dickens. I learned that the word “dickens” was related to the word “devilkins” meaning “devilish.” It was explained that “what the dickens” is a euphemism and just a nicer way of saying “what the Devil.”⁵⁴ Thus, the question we should all be asking about Ky Dickens and her Telepathy Tapes is not so much “what the dickens is going on?”—but rather “what the Devil is going on?”

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2 Corinthians 11:14-15)

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Endnotes*

*Note: On all endnotes for The Telepathy Tapes, go to https://www.youtube.com/@TheTelepathyTapes/playlists to access the seasons and episodes that are referenced. The letters mm in these endnotes stand for minute mark.

1. Alice A. Bailey, Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle (New York, NY: Lucis Publishing Co.: New York, NY, 1950, 2023), p. 12.
2. Benjamin Creme, The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (London, England, Share International Foundation, 1980, 2007), p. 39.
3. Alice A. Bailey, Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, op. cit., p. 33.
4. Ky Dickens, The Telepathy Tapes, Season 1, Episode 7, mm: 50:41-50:48.
5. Ibid., Season 2, Episode 5, mm: 16:20-17:59.
6. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1970s (Los Angeles, CA: J.P. Tarcher Inc., 1980), p. 27.
7. Ibid., p. 34.
8. Ibid., p. 382.
9. The Oprah Winfrey Show, #W265, September 18, 1987 (official transcript).
10. Mark Baker, Testing the Telepathy Tapes (Fresno, CA: Hope, Ink., 2026), p. 6. (Available through Amazon or Lighthouse Trails.)
11. Ibid., p. 12.
12. Ibid., p. 85. This quote is taken from Season 1, Episode 9 of The Telepathy Tapes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnkcusfKeg), starting at mm: 1:38.
13. Ibid., p. 86.
14. Ibid. This quote is taken from Season 1, Episode 9 of The Telepathy Tapes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnkcusfKeg), starting at mm: 1:57.
15. The Telepathy Tapes, Season 1, Episode 1, starting at mm: 2:00.
16. Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell’s website: https://drdianehennacy.com. Scroll down to “Student of Ancient Wisdom Traditions.”
17. Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D., The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena (New York, N.Y: Walker & Company, 2009), pp. 60-62, 107-108, 133, 222, 226.
18. Sedona Ascension Retreat March 20, 2026 (https://sedonaascensionretreats.com/presenters). Scroll down page to Diane Hennacy Powell.
19. Ky Dickens, The Telepathy Tapes, Season 2, Episode 1, mm: 10:47.
20. Ibid., mm: 10:55.
21. https://www.monroeinstitute.org/blogs/videos/cortical-near-death-experience.
22. The Monroe Institute (https://www.monroeinstitute.org). Scroll down the home page to see this heading.
23. CIA “Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process” (https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf).
24. Ky Dickens, The Telepathy Tapes, Season 2, Episode 2, mm: 01:44-01:50.
25. The Telepathy Tapes, Bonus Episode, found in Season 2, “Inside the Home Life of Laura Lynne Jackson,” mm: 00:17.
26. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across India, Italy, and Indonesia (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006), p. 123.
27. Ibid., p. 191.
28. The Telepathy Tapes, Season 2, Episode 3, mm: 01:29-01:47. The word “download” used at mm: 1:20.
29. The Telepathy Tapes Talk Tracks (go to Talk Tracks from playlists for Season 1, Episode 17, mm: 01:10.
30. Lucas Robinson (reporter), San Diego Union-Tribune (March 8, 2026, https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/08/ucsd-professors-wanted-money-to-research-telepathy-they-turned-to-jeffrey-epstein).
31. David Spector, “DOJ emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein was asked to fund telepathy experiments-and met with ‘spoon bender” (New York Post, 2/7/26, https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/sociology/doj-emails-reveal-jeffrey-epstein-was-asked-to-fund-telepathy-experiments-and-met-with-spoon-bender/ar-AA1VSgEd).
32. Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010), p. 144-145.
33. Ibid.
34. “Heaven is for Real,” Interview with Todd and Colton Burpo (YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyZbJi1ebnY), mm: 16:30.
35. “A Conversation with Akiane Kramarik and John Burke” (YouTube, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGgjaYLkh2E), mm: 10:29.
36. Akiane Gallery (https://akiane.com/story-about-akiane).
37. “Footsteps of Eternity” (https://akiane.com/product/footsteps-of-eternity).
38. John Burke interview with Pastor Joseph Infranco on YouTube (Imagine Heaven podcast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EFRXLTGqFY), mm: 00:30-01:09.
39. Ibid., mm: 36:52.
40. Ibid., mm: 27:23.
41. Ibid., mm: 36:47-37:16.
42. Ibid., mm: 37:04-37:10.
43. Ibid., mm: 45:24-45:43.
44. “The Hidden Gifts of Autism” with Pastor Joe Infranco (Real Story Tellers Podcast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6BOgYYpylY), mm: 01:15-01:51.
45. Ibid., minute mark 01:44-01:55.
46. Joseph Infranco, Decoding Cody: Secrets of the Spectrum From People With Autism Who See, Hear, and Smell in the Unseen Realm (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image Publishers, Inc., 2025), p. 145.
47. Ibid., p. 144.
48. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume (Glen Ellen, CA: Foundation for Inner Peace, 1975, 1992), (Text), p. 147.
49. Ibid., (Text), p. 125.
50. Ibid., (Text) p. 425.
51. Ibid., (Text) p. 52.
52. Ibid.
53. See: Warren B. Smith, The Light That Was Dark: From the New Age to Amazing Grace (Mountain Stream Press, 1992, 2005), chapters 11-15; False Christ Coming: Does Anybody Care? (Mountain Stream Press, 2002, 2011), chapter 5. Both books available through Amazon or Lighthouse Trails.
54. Phrase Finder, “What the dickens” (https://www.phrases.org.uk./meanings/what-the-dickens.html).

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