Neuroscientist Dr. Julia Mossbridge, lead researcher for the Telepathy Tapes and author of Have a Nice Disclosure, joins Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen in person to discuss the connections between neurodivergence, intuition, and psychic ability, and to reveal for the first time details of mysterious childhood experiments she underwent in a gifted and talented program in the early 1980s that may have been government-run studies on the effects of radiation and chemicals on children’s developing minds and psychic capacities.
Neurodivergence, Labels, and the Myth of the Neurotypical Brain
There is no single “neurotypical” brain; every brain is different, and studies that compare “autistic vs. non-autistic” brains rely on statistical averaging that washes out individual differences, making them of limited practical use.
The neurodiversity movement is useful when labels help people access resources and understand their unique gifts, but becomes problematic when everyone claims to be “a little different,” potentially diluting support for those who genuinely need accommodations to function independently.
Society’s definition of “normal” may itself be dysfunctional — many so-called neurotypical people suffer from attention deficits, poor focus, and cognitive drain caused by technology, processed foods, and modern lifestyles, yet these are not treated as deficits.
Rather than focusing on deficits, Mossbridge encourages people to identify their unique gifts and cognitive differences as valuable contributions to a team or society, where different thinking styles fill different needs.
The Brain as Filter and the Informational Dimension
The conscious mind processes only about 3% of the information the brain receives; the rest is filtered out unconsciously. This filtering system handles both local environmental cues (things you see or hear without realizing) and what Mossbridge calls “non-local” information — information from sources distant in space or time.
Mossbridge proposes that information is fundamental to the universe — more basic than matter or energy — and exists in what she calls an “informational dimension” outside of spacetime. Spacetime is built out of this informational substrate, much like a computer runs on binary code.
This informational dimension intersects with spacetime but operates under different rules. It has no spatial extent and no time component, meaning all information — past, future, distant — is accessible in principle.
The unconscious mind cannot distinguish between information gathered from local sensory input and information received from non-local sources. Both are processed the same way, which is why intuitive or psychic experiences feel like ordinary thoughts or feelings.
Unconditional Love as a Practical Tool
Mossbridge defines unconditional love as “the experience of being loved and being able to love without needing anything to change.” This is distinct from unconditional acceptance of behavior — you can unconditionally love someone while still rejecting their harmful actions.
Most people have never experienced unconditional love; their relationships operate on conditional love, expressed as “if you would just X, I could love you more.” This conditional framework is a prison that prevents personal growth and productive relationships.
Accessing what Mossbridge calls “universal love” — whether through a relationship with God, the universe, or simply as a natural force — is the foundational step for working with your own mind, increasing intuition, and changing your life circumstances.
She offers a simple prayer: “Please allow me to forgive myself. Please help me access universal love. I don’t need to understand how or why it’s been hard for me to do this. I just ask that I can do now.”
Love and forgiveness are intertwined and serve as coping tools that free people from repetitive, self-destructive patterns rooted in trauma and conditioning.
Remote Viewing: How It Works and How to Practice It
Remote viewing is a structured method for accessing non-local information. It involves separating the intuitive, image-based right hemisphere from the analytical, language-based left hemisphere, allowing raw data to come through without premature labeling.
Mossbridge practices precognitive remote viewing, where the target is not known to anyone in the present — it will only be revealed in the future. This prevents the viewer from unconsciously picking up on the expectations of the person running the session.
In a demonstration exercise with Mayim, Mossbridge had her divide a whiteboard: the left side for intuitive, wordless drawing and the right side for analytical labeling. Mayim was guided to close her eyes and draw what she saw in her mind’s eye without naming it, then label it afterward with her analytical mind.
The key principle is to spend more time in the open, wordless, boundary-free space before jumping to labels. Words tend to foreclose possibilities — calling something a “cup” makes you miss that it might be a “missile silo.” The analytical mind is valuable but must be kept separate during the receptive phase.
The target for Mayim’s session was a photo on Jonathan’s phone (the 7th photo), which was only revealed afterward. Mayim’s drawings and associations — a flower-like shape, a waveform, a prism in salmon/peach colors — showed notable correspondences to the actual image of dogs, including one named Peaches, lying in a shaft of light.
Mossbridge uses the arbitrary number 9324 as an “address in information space” to give the analytical mind something to hold onto, though it has no actual magical properties.
Remote viewing makes you a better thinker overall because it trains you to honor both intuitive and analytical modes and use each at the appropriate time.
Julia’s Childhood Experiments: The Gifted Program and the Pink Drink
In 1981–1982, as a seventh grader at Butterfield School in Libertyville, Illinois, Mossbridge was selected for a gifted and talented program called SOR. While some aspects were enriching (writing books, field trips), others were deeply strange.
Weekly “hearing tests” involved listening to extremely high-pitched sounds through headphones, particularly in the left ear, in pairs. Mossbridge, who later earned a PhD in psychoacoustics, is certain these were not actual hearing tests.
Every week she met with a counselor — despite having no behavioral issues — in a remote room. She remembers dreading the walk there and remembers the route in detail, but has complete amnesia for everything that happened inside the room. She remembers not remembering.
Students were given a viscous pink drink described as fluoride or antibiotics. Mossbridge does not know if it was an amnesic, an iodine compound to protect against radiation, or a low dose of radiation itself.
When she requested her school transcripts for a federal job application, all eight years of comments were redacted — covered with cardboard and photocopied, an old-fashioned and labor-intensive method of censorship.
Her mother, when asked about the program, casually said “they were studying you” and suggested “the CIA,” though this was not necessarily meant literally.
Mossbridge also had a memory-loss experience working at Lockheed Martin in her early twenties, where she was hired immediately as a word processor but has no memory of most of the day, only shaking and crying and telling her supervisor she had to leave.
She attempted to explore her blocked memories through a regression therapist, but the therapist abruptly canceled, claiming she would have “emergency dental surgery” at any proposed rescheduling time — which Mossbridge interpreted as a protective warning that accessing those memories could be dangerous.
Radiation, Psychic Ability, and Government Research
Mossbridge’s best guess is that US intelligence and defense agencies recognized the need to study the effects of increasing radiation exposure — from nuclear testing, computer screens, and early cell phones — on human cognition and physiology.
A 1978 government memo she discovered through a dream-led investigation outlined the necessity of studying ionizing and non-ionizing radiation effects in humans.
The question driving such research might have been: what is the “tipping point” of radiation exposure, and could low doses potentially enhance psychic capacities rather than simply causing harm?
Mossbridge’s family background adds context: her father worked for the Department of Energy, her mother was recruited to the University of Chicago from a poor family, and her maternal grandparents worked in a uranium mining facility in Denver.
She does not claim certainty about what was done to her, but notes that the combination of redacted transcripts, memory loss, unusual testing, and her family’s connections make the government-study hypothesis plausible.
She also notes that people claiming to represent intelligence agencies sometimes approach parents of non-speaking autistic children, offering to study their psychic abilities — and that the actual intelligence community considers such domestic operations illegal and unethical.
Precognitive Dreams and the Development of Psychic Ability
Mossbridge’s first precognitive dream occurred around age seven: she dreamed her friend Esme would lose her watch on the playground, and the next day it happened — despite Esme having just received the watch the day before and never having lost it previously.
She began keeping a dream journal to guard against false memories, a practice that continued throughout her life.
She had these experiences throughout childhood and college but largely set them aside during her PhD program in neuroscience at UC San Francisco, where studying consciousness or psychic phenomena was considered career-ending.
After her master’s, she moved to Northwestern for her postdoc, where she found colleagues open to studying psychic phenomena, and began integrating her analytical and intuitive capacities more fully.
When she is deeply engaged in analytical work, she tends to have fewer precognitive dreams; her “hidden part” — the intuitive, connected aspect of her mind — seems to show up when she becomes overly analytical to remind her of her broader connection to the universe.
Tips for Increasing Intuitive Ability
Start by cultivating a relationship with God, the universe, unconditional love, or whatever name you give to the greater force. Feeling protected and loved is essential because fear biases intuition toward negative outcomes and blocks receptivity.
Practice sitting with the unknown. Intuition requires openness to what is not yet known; if you rush to label or control the experience, you foreclose the information coming through.
Use structured exercises like remote viewing to practice separating receptive/intuitive processing from analytical labeling. Draw without words, then label afterward.
Keep a dream journal to track precognitive dreams and build confidence in your intuitive experiences.
Recognize that everyone processes non-local information unconsciously; the goal is not to create a new ability but to become more receptive to what is already coming through.
Telepathy in Non-Speaking Autistic Individuals
Mossbridge is the human potential research lead for the Telepathy Tapes, which studies telepathic communication in non-speaking autistic individuals who communicate through letterboards (spelling out words by pointing to letters).
These individuals demonstrate spontaneous telepathy — for example, a student accurately described what a distant person was watching in a video, associating blossoming trees outside a church with the actual content, despite having no sensory access to it.
In one demonstration, a non-speaker spontaneously named Mossbridge (whom he had never met), described an owl she had been watching on a video, and mentioned the comet 3I/ATLAS — something he had no way of knowing. When asked why, he spelled out that it is a “sentient comet.”
Standard controlled telepathy tests using stock footage videos don’t work well because the subjects find the videos boring and don’t care about them. The telepathy seems to flow more naturally through genuine human connection and intention.
Mossbridge is developing, with teachers Nataliya Mihal and Maria Welch, a curriculum that integrates telepathy as a legitimate communication tool for non-speakers rather than ignoring it.
She is also launching Mind Rise, a for-profit/nonprofit organization aimed at transforming how human potential research and technology are conducted and funded.
She warns parents to be cautious of anyone claiming to represent government agencies who wants access to their non-speaking children, and to evaluate such people based on whether they are ethical and transparent, not on their claimed credentials.
Disclosure and Wholeness
Writing Have a Nice Disclosure was itself a process of self-discovery for Mossbridge. She had many of the childhood memories before writing the book but did not understand them or see how they fit together until she pieced them together through the writing process.
Disclosure — to oneself and others — involves integrating fragmented or hidden parts of experience into a coherent understanding. This is not just about revealing secrets but about fitting pieces of knowledge into a framework where they make sense.
Mossbridge describes the experience of going public with her story as simultaneously scary, pride-inducing, and deeply unifying — making her feel whole and loved.
She manages the fear of being targeted by recognizing two layers: a paranoid fear (which she considers unlikely) and a deeper fear of grandiosity — “am I important enough for this to be true?” She resolves this by recognizing that she is objectively interesting, not necessarily important, and that her combination of analytical and psychic capacities makes her a natural subject for such interest.
