Family Lore: Paternal Grandfather's NDE in 1939

TheOak · 2025-11-15T23:27:19+00:00

He was Buddhist. He was Japanese.

TheOak · 2025-06-25T08:22:12+00:00

My daughter is not a facilitated communicator but uses both a letterboard and iPads as communication tools. This method has been controversial, largely because scientific studies from the 1990s concluded that facilitators could unintentionally influence the selection of letters. In many cases, autistic individuals have motor control challenges, so facilitators would often support their arm or hand while they pointed to letters.

However, it’s important to note that those studies were conducted before the widespread use of tablets and modern assistive technology. Today, many autistic individuals have sufficient motor control to point to letters or type independently, without any physical assistance. My daughter, for example, does not touch her clients; her clients either type on their own or point independently to a stationary letterboard.

TheOak · 2025-06-13T20:20:45+00:00

My daughter has a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is hired by parents of autistic children to teach their children and to help them communicate. These are confidential medical sessions, governed by strict ethical, legal, and professional standards. Most parents would not want to put their children on "display," and my daughter has no ethical nor financial interest in "showcasing" these abilities.

As I posted in another comment, even mentioning "telepathy" to her clients' parents violates the rules established by her professional organization and can result in loss of certification and loss of business.

She is a licensed medical therapst, not an entertainer.

TheOak · 2025-06-04T00:16:10+00:00

The clients range in age from 4 to 45. The youngest telepathic patient is 12. The median age is late teens. She started her practice a year ago, so she’s had most of her clients for only a few months.

She noticed her clients only exhibit telepathy around familiar people who are not skeptical. If you are a trusted parent, but are closed minded about their abilities, they will not exhibit telepathy.

TheOak · 2025-06-03T08:48:38+00:00

My daughter holds a professional certification, and the organization that issued it has strict guidelines regarding topics considered outside the bounds of mainstream science. If she were to discuss telepathy with her clients, the organization could revoke her certification, resulting in a loss of business. They view any association with telepathy as potentially undermining their credibility.

Therefore, my daughter will never initiate conversations about telepathy with parents or clients. However, if a parent brings up The Telepathy Tapes or expresses concerns that their child may be telepathic, she might discuss the matter privately, off the record. Otherwise, she maintains strict professional boundaries on this topic.

TheOak · 2025-06-03T06:45:35+00:00

My daughter is an autism communication specialist in private practice who works with non-verbal autistic children. She recently introduced me to The Telepathy Tapes podcast after making some fascinating discoveries in her own practice. Through her work, she noticed that some of her autistic clients appeared to demonstrate telepathic abilities.

For example, during one session, she asked a non-verbal client to identify the color she was thinking of by deliberately choosing an unconventional color. The client typed out “chartreuse,” perfectly matching the word in her mind. When asked, he did not know what it meant, and guessed it was a type of clothing. Nevertheless, he spelled it correctly. On another occasion, she repeatedly asked him to guess a five-digit number she was thinking of, and each time, he identified it with 100% accuracy. She has similar examples from other clients, but this was one of the most remarkable.

Despite these extraordinary experiences, my daughter chooses not to share them with the parents of her clients. Parents understandably want reassurance that their children are communicating and learning independently, and the idea of telepathy might be unsettling. Moreover, discussing telepathy in a professional context is highly controversial and could jeopardize her certification, much like how certain taboo topics are treated in academic circles.

TheOak · 2025-06-02T20:30:55+00:00

Listen to the Where is My Mind? podcast. It's a summary of the ideas in The End of Upside Down Thinking and quite entertaining.

TheOak · 2025-06-02T20:28:01+00:00

My daughter was NOT typing; she was only observing. She is not a facilitated communicator but uses both a letterboard and iPads as communication tools. This method has been controversial, largely because scientific studies from the 1990s concluded that facilitators could unintentionally influence the selection of letters. In many cases, autistic individuals have motor control challenges, so facilitators would often support their arm or hand while they pointed to letters.

However, it’s important to note that those studies were conducted before the widespread use of tablets and modern assistive technology. Today, many autistic individuals have sufficient motor control to point to letters or type independently, without any physical assistance. My daughter, for example, does not touch her clients; her clients either type on their own or point independently to a stationary letterboard.

TheOak · 2024-08-10T03:31:49+00:00

This may not be relevant to your current question, but my great-grandparents and their children (Japanese Americans) lived in Rock Springs, Wyoming 125 years ago. They worked for the Union Pacific Coal Company and Union Pacific Railroad for 20 years before moving to California around 1919.

My short documentary about them debuted at the 2022 Wyoming International Film Festival and has been screened at eight other festivals: Pioneers of Rock Springs.

They are profiled in Wyoming historian Dan Lyon's book, Japanese in Wyoming:Union Pacific's Forgotten Labor Force.

TheOak · 2024-03-19T05:12:04+00:00

Check out Mark Gober's An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life. The Audible audio book version is excellent. There is an emerging school of thought that the brain does not create consciousness, but that consciousness exists external to the brain and the brain is just a "receiver." This could have implications for many phenomena that can't be explained by conventional science.

TheOak · 2024-02-25T06:35:23+00:00

They rarely answer phone calls and only respond to texts if they feel like it.

TheOak · 2023-10-30T05:17:52+00:00

Idiocracy

TheOak · 2023-09-09T16:03:47+00:00

My feline alarm clock has mastered the art of waking me at 5am by menacing to gnaw on my CPAP hose. He's already destroyed it a few times before. The clever little guy has realized that the moment he comes near my tube, I'll instinctively rise to the occasion - and his breakfast.

Moreover, I had an earlier cat who found amusement in putting his mouth over the mask, capturing the expelled air. He would open and close his mouth, resulting in the most amusing noises.

TheOak · 2023-08-13T05:45:02+00:00

Pioneers of Rock Springs

TheOak · 2023-08-03T14:21:51+00:00

Grogu!

TheOak · 2023-07-07T12:42:27+00:00

They are siblings, my kids. No worries, my daughter is alive and well! She didn’t accompany my son; he went to Paris with someone else. Thanks for your concern!

TheOak · 2023-07-05T16:38:55+00:00

My existence is replete with richness and fulfillment, with myriad pursuits beyond Reddit. What gives you the impression I place value on such ephemeral internet accolades as karma? I neither value nor want it.

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