This conversation has mostly offered people two responses: ridicule from one side, exploitation from the other. The Telepathy Center exists to offer a third thing. Honesty, in both directions.
Jordan co-founded this center. His story is his own, and he tells it in his own words, where it belongs. What this page holds is everything an institution can put around a story like his: a clear accounting of what's known, real grounding for a hard night, and the direction we're building in.
The two circles
The clearest way we know to untangle this conversation:
GATE, Gifted and Talented Education, was and is real school: a legitimate program that found certain kinds of minds and, for millions of students, simply educated them well. It is also documented, separately, that the United States government has at times studied and tested its own citizens, including children, without full consent. Project Talent, MKULTRA, Stargate. These are matters of public record, not speculation.
The allegation, at the heart of Jordan's testimony and of many accounts like his, is that somewhere inside that outer circle, a quieter mechanism used gifted education channels as a sieve: noticing certain children, and routing a few into something that was not school at all. This is testimony. Serious, specific, and in many cases carried silently for decades before it was spoken. It is not ours to certify, and it is not ours to dismiss. We hold it as a question that deserves real investigation, not one already closed in either direction.
We will not tell you your memories are proof. We will not tell you they are nothing. You have probably been offered both, and both are cheap. The truthful position is harder: your experience is real as experience, and its cause deserves investigation, not verdicts in either direction.
And one more honesty, because it protects people: most who went through gifted programs got exactly what the name said — school. If the ordinary version left marks on you anyway, those marks are real: the perfectionism, the worth welded to performance, the strange loneliness of being a category. They are documented harms, and they don't need a conspiracy to deserve care.
We are a research institution. Rigor is how we show respect, to the question and to you.
If you're struggling tonight
Nothing here is medical advice, and we are not your clinicians. But some basics hold, and we'd rather you have them now than wait for something perfect:
- Slow down with the content. Disclosure media is a flood right now. You do not have to resolve your whole history this week. Pacing is not avoidance. It's how a nervous system integrates.
- Tend the body first. Sleep, food, daylight, movement, people who feel safe. The unglamorous things are the ones that hold the weight.
- Let memory be slow. Memory that returns after a long time away deserves both respect and care. Recognition is powerful, and communities can be lifelines and amplifiers at once. What surfaces in a rush does not have to be sorted tonight. You don't owe anyone a verdict on your own past.
- Find a trained witness. Look for trauma-informed clinicians, especially those experienced with dissociation. If a practitioner dismisses your experience outright, or feeds it uncritically, keep looking. You deserve someone who can hold both.
- Share at the pace of trust. You are allowed to keep your story close while you find your footing.
If you are in crisis right now: call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (US, free, 24/7).
Outside the US: befrienders.org lists crisis lines worldwide.
What we're building
The plain truth: we don't fully know what the help looks like yet. We'd rather tell you that than pretend. What we can name is the direction we're walking.
- A community to ground in. A place where this can be spoken without ridicule and without exploitation. Built slowly, because slowly is how you build things that hold people.
- Serious ways to understand consciousness. Methodology, calibration, no overclaim — the same discipline we bring to everything we study.
- Real work in the psychology space. Conversations underway with people trained to hold trauma, dissociation, and memory, so that what we eventually offer is grounded in more than good intentions.
We are not announcing a program today. We're telling you where we're headed, so that finding this page means something: you have been seen, and what comes next is being built with you in mind.
If you can help build it
If you are a clinician with trauma and dissociation experience, a researcher who can hold both rigor and respect, or a steward of capital who wants this to exist — we want to hear from you. And if you're a survivor who simply wants to stay in contact as this takes shape, the same door is open.
hello@thetelepathycenter.comA human reads this inbox. Write “GATE” in the subject line and it will reach the right hands.
You've carried this alone long enough.