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I’m looking forward to listening to this podcast. The excellent podcast series Hysterical is another in the genre of ‘we don’t really understand humans and our capabilities.’ Strong recommend.

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Roger, superb article. Another amazing display of human abilities is found in the experiences of Daniel Kish, who lost sight at an early age and over the course of his life developed a form of echolocation that allows him to navigate as if he were sighted. https://youtu.be/uH0aihGWB8U

Keep up the good work.

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Thanks as always Dr McFillin, for a fascinating, humane and insightful piece of writing. I share your belief that more and more people are starting to become aware of just how much we're mislead by authorities at every level - but I think you do a great job of not throwing the baby out with the bath water, and I find myself reassured that the problem isn't all the experts and authorities - just the blindly unthinking ones...

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“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.” Thomas Szasz. When you become a member of an elevated class of expert, it’s easy to lose your intellectual curiosity for this reason, you’re blinded by your own sense of importance.

I also trust people who say “I changed my mind” much more than the evangelical type.

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I've listened to the first in the series. I was reminded of Mary Rodwell and her book "the new human" where she's interviewed all kinds of gifted humans, particularly letters people, like the telepathic children. These, to me, are highly advanced humans and they are different rather than disordered.

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Absolutely incredible episode, thank you 🙏

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Telepathy has been somewhat discredited because intel types in both US and Russia were actively testing it in the '50s and '60s. They reached the official conclusion that it wouldn't work consistently enough to use as a weapon, but their studies found a few people with definite talent that went beyond the random mean. Because they had to report the mean instead of the outliers, the chance to develop and understand the outliers was lost.

http://polistrasmill.com/2022/08/27/the-endicott-experiment/

Official neuroscience is getting much closer to dealing with this realm, in the fast-moving area of brain networks. The outlines of the true picture are starting to appear.

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