The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 6: The Mind's Back Door: Alzheimer's and Telepathy
Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Can we still connect with our loved ones when memory fades and language disappears? In this tender and eye-opening episode, The Telepathy Tapes coordinator Katherine Ellis sits down with Dan Goerke, whose wife Denise lost her ability to speak due to early-onset Alzheimer’s. What followed was something extraordinary: Dan believes their bond transformed into telepathic communication. As Denise’s verbal language faded, Dan began sensing clear thoughts and emotions from her—deep, complex messages conveyed without a single word. Their story challenges everything we assume about communication, presence, and the boundaries of consciousness. We also explore the emotional realities of caregiving, the lasting nature of love, and how Dan’s experiences have resonated with others navigating dementia and loss. This episode is a moving reminder that connection doesn’t always need words—and sometimes, it transcends them entirely. Contact Dan: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the focus of Talk Tracks Episode 6?
Hi, everyone. I'm Kai Dickens, and I'm thrilled to welcome you to the Talk Trax. In this series, we dive deeper into the revelations, challenges, and unexpected truths from the telepathy tapes. The goal is to explore all the threads that weave together our understanding of reality, science, spirituality, and yes, even unexplained things like psi abilities.
If you haven't yet listened to season one of the telepathy tapes, I encourage you to start there. It lays the foundation for everything we'll be exploring in this journey. We'll feature conversations with groundbreaking researchers, thinkers, non-speakers, and experiencers who illuminate the extraordinary connections that may defy explanation today, but won't for long.
So I'm really excited about today's episode because it dives even deeper into our exploration of telepathy, specifically in people with Alzheimer's and dementia. In the last episode of The Talk Tracks, we told the story of a woman in the late stages of cancer whose consciousness seemed to be traveling to her childhood home when she drift into a sleep state.
And then something caught the eye of our telepathy tapes coordinator, Catherine Ellis, as she was going through some of our incoming emails. So Catherine, you started working for me in December and you have your eyes on our incoming emails and messages and you kind of flag something. What did you see?
Well, what really caught my attention is that we're getting a surprising number of emails about Alzheimer's and dementia. People are saying that they're experiencing thought sharing or telepathy with someone who has dementia or late stage Alzheimer's.
Okay, and just for clarity, we're talking about caregivers, family members, nurses, right? And they were all describing the same similar experience, which felt like genuine moments of telepathic connection with someone who had Alzheimer's or dementia. So you said that to me, and I have to confess that I thought it was implausible.
I had come to believe that, yes, telepathy was legitimate and verifiable amongst non-speakers with autism, but how could it manifest elsewhere in such large numbers? But you said something that really hit me in my heart because it validated what parents of non-speakers had previously been saying. They were terrified to talk about it openly because they didn't think they'd be taken seriously.
Exactly. Some of the people who wrote in even said they were afraid they were going crazy, but that they were absolutely certain that something real was happening. That their loved one was somehow communicating with them, beyond words. And one name kept popping up as someone who had been through it and really put language to the experience. Dan Gerke. Okay, so tell me about Dan.
Dan wrote a book called Unforgettable Unbelievable about his wife, Denise, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at just 56 years old. As her disease progressed and she lost the ability to speak, Dan says he began communicating with her telepathically. And now he's become a kind of sounding board for others who are going through similar things and don't know where to turn.
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Chapter 2: How did Kai and Katherine discover telepathy in Alzheimer's?
Oh, yes. So this was so cool. We were about two, three months after I started communicating telepathically with her. My dad started coming in. So almost 20 years after he passed away, never had any communication with him before. He starts popping in and saying, telling me what's going on, how beautiful it is. He loves sports cars. And I would see these images of him
Being in a sports car, driving down the road. And it was just so, so heartwarming to see my dad again after all these years. And Denise and him start showing up together. My dad passed away 10 years before I even met Denise. They never knew each other. Okay. Denise also was an adventurous person, loved fast things, including, guess what, fast sports cars. So I see the image of the two of them.
Denise is in the car with my dad as a passenger. He is flying down the highway. Her blonde hair is flying in the wind. And they've just got the biggest smiles on their faces and just loving it. And I'm just like smiling blankly. beaming to see both of them having fun. And especially for Denise, because she wasn't having fun in life at that point. She's three or four years into the diagnosis.
It was not a fun time with her. So to see her have fun was so heartwarming. So one night, I'm putting Denise to bed. She's got her eyes closed. And I'm tucking her in. She always loved to be tucked in. She opens her eyes and she says to me, I am so looking forward to getting to know your dad. And I was speechless.
I'm like, I did not need validation that I was speaking to Denise or speaking and seeing my dad. But here it was right in my face.
Well, I love that story so much, Dan. I want to ask you, what is your advice for someone who's looking to tap into the side of themselves that would be open to this kind of communication?
I think so much of it starts with meditation. Just taking a little bit of time every day, minute, two minutes, and just sit in a quiet place. A lot of people think, oh, meditate. You got to sit there for an hour to two hours and, you know, say OM a hundred thousand times. No, no, no. It starts with a minute or two, build that up to three to five, build it to 10, 15, if you want to.
But yet it's more about quieting your mind. opening your mind and your heart to what is out there in the universe and what messages you get back. The universe, I believe, wants to help us. And it gives us these messages either through telepathy, through meditation, through intuition. And they want to help. And that's where these messages come from. Yeah.
Do you ever experience other people coming into your head who are not Alzheimer's? It's like people who are nonverbal in other ways?
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