Day 3,947 —Is this my first Marathon of the year? I ran 100 miles three Weeks ago, so . . . —

Maybe it was if I ran a marathon in January it would have been the first week of the year, but I don’t know if I did that. I listened to most of the first season of the Telepathy Tapes at 1.8x speed, which has become my preferred way to listen to everything. The only drawback is that when I listen to normal fast-paced music, it still seems slow to me.

Even though I am not religious, I have always been fascinated with the concept of the collective unconscious because it is present in so many cultures and religions. At one point I took a church class that was about this idea a long time ago. My mom always thought I was gifted and that I could hear god. I always did feel like I could hear something, but later I always wondered if maybe this was just my intuition. But in that class, we did things like guess what numbers we were thinking of, and I have a strong memory of holding a bag with different colored plastic chips. I put my hand in the bag and would guess the color before I pulled it out.

When I started meditating, it would sometimes feel, like I could access a different part of consciousness, which is usually described as the third eye. I don’t have strong opinions about telepathy, but like a lot of people, certain events have transpired that have made me think that someone was able to read my mind, or I was able to read their mind. I have never thought this was more than wishful thinking or my mind rewriting events to seem like they followed prior knowledge. I cannot say my opinion on the topic has radically changed after listening to the episodes, but it is so compelling to think about how certain communities have possibly thrived through generations communicating this way.