Are We Witnessing the Birth of Telepathic Humanity?

Autism, the Internet, and the Evolution of Consciousness

I don’t claim to know the answers — but I find myself wondering more and more lately:

Could it be that humanity’s consciousness is evolving right under our noses?

When I step back and look at the big picture, I can’t help but notice some striking patterns:

      •     Autism diagnoses began to rise dramatically right around the same time the Internet became widespread.

      •     The Internet, for the first time, networked human minds technologically across time and space.

      •     Some nonverbal autistic individuals seem able to connect and communicate with each other — and even experience the world — in ways that bypass traditional language and speech.

      •     Near-death experiences and psychic phenomena suggest that consciousness might not be locked inside individual brains after all, but part of a greater, shared field.

It makes me wonder:

Maybe autism, for some, isn’t a disorder. Maybe it’s an early biological expression of something new — a form of mind-to-mind, networked consciousness.

Autism: Early Telepathic Communication?

In recent years, podcasts like The Telepathy Tapes and books by nonverbal autistic authors have opened a window into a hidden world:

Many autistic individuals — particularly those who are minimally speaking — describe an intense, direct awareness of others’ emotions, thoughts, and even intentions.

They aren’t detached from the world.

They are immersed in it, but in ways that often bypass traditional verbal pathways.

Perhaps what appears as “nonverbal” is not a lack, but a shift — away from the older system of dense, cumbersome verbal communication, and toward a newer, more intuitive way of connecting.

If that’s true, it would make sense that a small minority would experience it first, struggling to live in a society still rooted in older ways.

Evolution doesn’t happen to everyone all at once. It starts at the edges.

The Internet: Humanity’s First External Mind-Network

When the Internet emerged, it linked human beings across the world — not biologically, but technologically.

It shrank distances. It sped up communication. It allowed thoughts to travel instantly from mind to mind through language, images, and video.

The Internet is, in many ways, the first prototype of telepathy — made from machines instead of minds.

If technology can network us externally, could it be that biology would eventually begin adapting to network us internally?

Could the rise in autism at the same time as the rise of the Internet reflect this resonance?

Maybe our own inventions — like the Internet — act as mirrors, showing what we are about to become.

Consciousness as a Shared, Decentralized Field

Near-death experiences, like those detailed in Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander (a neurosurgeon who had one himself), reveal something extraordinary:

      •     Consciousness seems to persist even after brain activity ceases.

      •     People experience expanded awareness, travel beyond their bodies, and connect to something larger — something timeless and interconnected.

These accounts suggest that consciousness is not generated by the brain, but instead exists independently, like a field.

If consciousness is already shared at a deeper level, then telepathy would simply be the ability to access this shared field consciously, rather than unconsciously.

And if that’s true, it’s not hard to imagine that some individuals — particularly those whose brains are wired differently — might be born closer to that access point.

Growing Pains of Evolution

If some forms of autism represent early-stage biological telepathy, it’s no wonder life feels overwhelming for many autistic individuals today.

      • They live between two worlds: One based on body language, speech, and social rules — and another based on direct sensing, feeling, and intuitive knowing.

      • The world is not yet built for their mode of being — but maybe, slowly, it will be. Evolutionary leaps often come with suffering for those ahead of their time.

But their struggles may be planting seeds for a new way of being human.

The Next Leap: What Happens Now That AI Is Here?

Of course, if the Internet catalyzed one phase of consciousness evolution, it begs an even bigger question:

Now that AI is here — synthesizing ideas, connecting knowledge across vast oceans of information — how might this influence our biology and evolution?

If the Internet was about networking information, AI is about synthesizing it — weaving meaning across the noosphere (the collective sphere of human thought).

Maybe this phase will accelerate the realization that we are not isolated beings,but facets of a single, vast, decentralized consciousness — learning, evolving, becoming.

Perhaps collective consciousness will grow stronger, and humanity will, in time, unite more deeply as one species, not through coercion or force, but through a natural awakening to our interconnection. Things that make you go, “Hmmm…” indeed.

Resources and Inspirations:

      •     The Telepathy Tapes podcast – exploring intuitive communication among autistic individuals.

      •     Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander – a neurosurgeon’s account of a transformative near-death experience

      •     Studies on Near-Death Experiences (e.g., work by Dr. Pim van Lommel)

      •     Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Resonance – proposing fields of memory and consciousness beyond the brain

      •     Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious – the shared psychic inheritance of humanity

Disclaimer:

This post is a speculative exploration, not a scientific claim.

I’m sharing these ideas as questions to wonder about, not answers to proclaim.

While I reference some scientific and philosophical work, much of this remains unproven and open to interpretation.

I encourage readers to stay curious, to keep wondering, and to remain open to the mysteries of consciousness and evolution.

Closing Thought:

Maybe the Internet wasn’t just a tool we built.

Maybe it was a reflection of what we are destined to become.

And maybe — just maybe — the future of humanity is not in more machines, but in the unfolding of the networked, loving, brilliant mind that already lives within us all.