https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqTG9n4icmw
The woman is very good.
We Proved Trans Women Are Men – Maya Forstater
May 042025
Sandra Finley
May 032025
Conservative Damien Kurek announced he will step down as MP for Battle River–Crowfoot to allow party leader Pierre Poilievre to run in a by-election following a narrow and controversial loss in his own Carleton riding.
Kurek was re-elected with nearly 80 per cent of the vote.
“It has been a tremendous honour to serve the good people of Battle River–Crowfoot as their Member of Parliament since 2019,” Kurek said in a statement on Friday. “Their support and commitment to the Conservative movement has been unmatched.”
Poilievre lost his longtime riding of Carleton to Liberal newcomer Bruce Fanjoy by a margin of approximately 2,000 votes.
He held the riding since 2004 marking over two decades of a Conservative presence in the Ottawa region, often dominated by Liberals in recent years.
The contest garnered national attention after more than 90 candidates appeared on the ballot, creating confusion and unprecedented challenges for ballot counters.
Citing the need for strong leadership in the House of Commons, Kurek said he believes it is in the best interest of his constituents and the country to allow Poilievre a path back into Parliament.
“I know we need Pierre fighting in the House of Commons to hold the Liberal minority government to account,” said Kurek. “This is what’s best for Canada, and is what’s best for Battle River–Crowfoot.”
May 032025
re Robert F Kennedy’s important point – – level 3 autism (25% of autism cases).
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April 30, 2025
Neurodiversity Is a Strawman
Personal Stories
A dear friend had a beautiful, healthy, engaged baby boy.
After his first round of childhood vaccinations he went blind, non-verbal, started head banging, having seizures, lost all engagement, and fell into the abyss of autism. Today that child is 40. He is incontinent, cannot speak or feed himself, and is totally dependent upon his father to survive.
Another friend had a son and a daughter.
The daughter, following her first round of childhood shots, experienced almost exactly the same scenario described above, minus the blindness. At the time my friend did not connect the dots and when it came time for his son to be vaccinated, the child began to seize. In the room, my friend put it together and stopped the rest of the shots. Today, his son is only mildly autistic while his daughter, at 26, is non-verbal, incontinent, and often uncontrollable. Since the son is only mildly autistic, I suppose we shouldn’t look into the cause of his issues? It’s a gift, right?
A mother (a client in one of the many tragic cases) had a teenage daughter who, after a round of the Gardasil vaccine, suffered a seizure and went into a coma. The young girl had been captain of her volleyball team, top of her class, poised for a full and happy life. Today, at nearly 20, she lives in total darkness because she has seizures every 30 seconds – cannot have any light. The neurodegeneration is unquantifiable. She cannot read or watch TV, let alone go on her first date, go to prom… experience the life she should have and would have.
Another friend had a perfect, beautiful young daughter who was exceeding all of her milestones. After her second round of jabs, she locked in, stopped talking or making eye contact, developed a severe learning disability, and is still struggling today, at 6. She, too, will never experience the “normal” milestones we all would like to see for our children.
Those stories, anecdotal though they may be, are the tip of the iceberg.
I could share thousands, each one worse than the next, that would make most people sit in a room and cry forever.
Media Normalization and Misdirection
The media machinery has conflated mild spectrum disorder with what I just described above specifically so that people will have the reaction they are having right now. This is normalization of extremes by conflating them with non-extremes so that it’s a step-by-step incremental (and coordinated) attack on those who would expose the root cause of the terrible suffering experienced by so many. It’s executed so that people like RFK, Jr. are hobbled from doing their job.
Neurodiversity vs. Harm
How does questioning the environmental harms and risk factors for autism and/or neurodegenerative disorders threaten or even conflict with the idea of autism as neurodiversity?
Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.
No other disease has people normalizing a spectrum (no pun intended) of symptoms ranging from terrible to non-debilitating in order to argue that it’s actually great. We don’t say there’s a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorder from paralysis to neuropathy and there are benefits to neuropathy therefore neurodegeneration is great. This is normalization at its best.
Suddenly everyone’s kid is Rain Man. Suddenly everyone is “on the spectrum.” Ergo, it’s normal. Being a little bit weird is beautiful and normal and we are all a little bit weird so that’s not a disorder.
This is a psyop and everyone is falling for it.
No one is saying there is something wrong with neurodiversity or that we shouldn’t also be looking into that. But when it comes to discovering the contributing factors and co-factors, the environmental insults, and the increase itself in autism to date, we’re not talking about that.
We are talking about, and have only ever been talking about, the above scenarios.
Silencing Investigation
The tactics to muzzle debate and halt real investigation are duplicated across all levels.
(This should all sound eerily familiar when we recall the conflation, normalization, media machinations, and strawmen to emotionally activate opposition tactics used during Covid.)
Unanswered Questions & Red Flags
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Pharmaceutical companies have no liability for vaccines.
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The pediatric schedule increased from 3 to 72 in one generation.
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HHS draws a hard line at 1989 for autism – the year combination vaccines emerged after 1986 liability protections.
The media is adept at keeping dots that should be connected in silos so that most people do not connect them.
The Burbacher Study & The Mercury Debate
The Burbacher Study, if anyone were to know about it, SHOULD have at least sparked research into these potential harms.
Instead, Paul Offit – spokesperson for the pharmaceutical industrial complex – dissects a strawman.
The strawman? Ethyl vs. methyl mercury.
How the Strawman Works:
Offit’s argument:
Ethyl mercury (Thimerosal) clears from the brain faster than methyl mercury.
The problem?
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There are organic and inorganic types.
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For the organic type, Offit is right.
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For the inorganic type, he’s wrong.
Key points:
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Both ethyl and methyl mercury break down into organic and inorganic forms.
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The organic form of ethyl mercury clears from the brain faster.
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The inorganic form of ethyl mercury does not clear – it remains forever.
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Even methyl mercury clears better, including its inorganic form.
So Offit’s comparison is flawed twice:
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It’s irrelevant (no one is proposing methyl mercury injections).
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It’s incorrect if considering clearance rates of inorganic forms.
Simply put:
The Burbacher study proves mercury crosses the Blood Brain Barrier.
Did we pause and investigate? No. We ended animal studies for mercury.
A Larger Pattern
This is just one strawman used to marginalize and sideline risks and harms.
Others include:
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Autism and HHV-6?
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Autism and glyphosate, PFAS, and forever chemicals?
It’s not ignorance – it’s profit protection and regulatory capture.
Flawed Logic & Confirmation Bias
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Only ONE vaccine has ever been properly tested – and even that, never fully.
If you search one lit area of a dark street and find nothing, do you conclude the entire street is empty?
Do we pour concrete on our confirmation biases? Or search for the truth?
The former is happening. The latter is being suppressed.
What’s Really Being Prevented
The assertion that these issues have been addressed is false.
In fact, it has been disallowed.
A strawman causes outrage.
Outrage creates chaos.
Chaos halts real progress.
That’s the model. It’s coordinated. It works.
The Cultural Psyop
People predictably snatch up the dog treats thrown to them by the mainstream.
The perpetually offended contingent muddies the water by coming unhinged.
We apologize for using a Whole Foods bag at Trader Joe’s.
We’ve become reactive to everything, including the trivial, while ignoring the existential.
What Matters Most
RFK, Jr’s job is not to be Gandhi, but to stabilize a floundering nation.
We cannot prioritize the weakest subset of our population from a government perspective, or we die.
We cannot produce caregivers as fast as we are producing people with autism.
We have to scale back the rate of increase.
That starts with finding and mitigating the cause(s).
A Final Word to Skeptics
To the skeptics:
You likely have friends or children affected by these injuries.
They are terrified to speak out.
They do not have the bandwidth to fight the mob.
I hear from them.
They are grateful for this work.
They are begging not to be “outed.”
Forward-facing, they appear compliant.
But it’s not the truth. Not for them.
They are living it, every single day.
Without a break. Not ever.
Sofia Karstens is an activist in California who worked closely with publisher Tony Lyons and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on several projects, including Kennedy’s best-selling book: The Real Anthony Fauci. She collaborates with several organizations in the legal, legislative, medical science, and literary spaces and she is co-founder of Free Now Foundation, a non-profit preserving medical freedom and children’s health.Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
May 032025
Apr 23, 2025
You’re hearing this straight from the horse’s mouth — our rather, our guest dental experts — that tooth fillings and water fluoridation are not as safe as public health officials and practitioners would like us to believe. They touch on the following:
- Are fillings really made of silver or something else entirely?
- Scientific arguments for the banning of amalgams
- The power of consumer choice
- Mercury in fish, brain damage and reproductive toxicity
- Should we be consuming fluoride?
- Litigation to protect the public from drinking industrial waste
- Removing sources of neurological impairment
Apr 242025
Klaus Schwab on his way out and WEF future???
Apr 242025
https://www.rebelnews.com/update_ostrich_farmers_fight_to_save_flock_continues
While the farmers are relieved to be permitted to have a judicial review of the culling order, they continue to face what they consider to be unreasonable restrictions and punishments from the agency while awaiting those proceedings.
The most recent measure taken against them is a fine they received on March 18. The CFIA issued the penalty due to their claim that the farmers “failed to notify the nearest veterinary inspector of the presence of a reportable disease or toxic substance,” an allegation Pasitney claims isn’t true.
“They slapped us with a $10,000 fine yesterday morning saying that we did not, that we failed to report this illness which is absolutely false,” she said. “All documentation has been given that this is the first case of H5N1 in Canadian history.”
According to Pasitney, when some of birds fell ill they initially believed it was the same non reportable flu that some in their flock caught a few years prior and they handled the onset of the illnesses the same way. “When we started having symptoms, which presented exactly like they did in 2022, we did absolutely exactly what we should have and we went right to our vet.”
The farm and their counsel has been in court this week for examinations for discovery, where both parties have been questioned about their positions and evidence in preparation for the judicial review.
The farm’s expert witnesses who are set to testify include viral immunologist and vaccinologist Dr. Byram Bridle, University of British Columbia Department of Medicine neurology professor Dr. Steven Pelech, and outbreak specialist Dr. Jeff Wilson, who holds doctorates in veterinary medicine, pathology, and epidemiology.
Pasitney expressed continued frustration with the CFIA’s refusal to conduct a thorough assessment to confirm whether or not the animals are even carrying the illness any longer.
“They have not done soil samples. They continue to not do water samples. They deny us testing and still the threat of a $200,000 fine or six months in jail if we shall test our animals ourselves,” she explained. “We have survivors and I think we need to be looking at them as survivors and see how we can use them to better science, not kill them and just keep killing the next animal and the next animal.”
According to Pasitney, thanks to supporters of the cause donating at the farm’s crowdfunding site, the farm has already spent $70,000 in legal fees, but expects to owe an additional $75,000 for the next wave of legal costs.
Despite the mounting costs and government pressure, Pasitney and her team remain determined to fight for the lives of their ostriches and the sovereignty of all BC farmers.
“We don’t know what will happen next, that they could come in and still murder all these animals,” she said. “We are in a huge battle to save our animals that in turn can save your animals. Let’s not allow this to be another mistake the government makes,” said Pasitney.
Apr 232025
Viruses, organisms, vaccinations, Immune Systems, . . . and Serendipity! Encounter with a woman who knows a man to whom I am most grateful.
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Recently I was asked “What alerted you to the covid vaccination?” (not safe and not effective)
My reply: I had an unfair advantage. I was diagnosed with TB 20 years ago (2005). It was a dress rehearsal for covid. I learned a lot by having TB. For one thing, TB is not immediately contagious. The Doctor and I had 8 months in which to test hypothesis BEFORE the TB would become contagious. The experiment was successful.
A different man, a different doctor, would not have agreed to enter into the experiment with me. He did, and we succeeded, working together with a Naturopathic doctor.
I think of those ostriches near Kelowna. 400 adults to be killed, without any chance to investigate whether their Immune Systems might have played a role in their healthy survival.
RELATED: (there’s more, but this is enough!)
2025-03-0 Ostriches, with thanks to Drea Humphrey, Rebel News (Vaccines / Immune Systems)
Apr 232025
From: Nicolas Hulscher, MPH from FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse) <petermcculloughmd@substack.com>
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REAKING — RFK Jr. Launches Long-Awaited Offensive Against Deadly COVID-19 mRNA Shots
RFK Jr. breaks silence on mRNA injections — cites risks of myocarditis, stroke, and death on national TV.
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As millions of Americans anxiously await action from the new HHS leadership against the deadly COVID-19 mRNA injections—injected into over 9 million children this year—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has finally gone publicly on the offensive:
Let’s go over each key point made by RFK Jr.:
The recommendation for children was always dubious. It was dubious because kids had almost no risk for COVID-19. Certain kids that had very profound morbidities may have a slight risk. Most kids don’t.
In the largest review to date on myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 infection vs. COVID-19 vaccination, Mead et al found that vaccine-induced myocarditis is not only significantly more common but also more severe—particularly in children and young males. Our findings make clear that the risks of the shots overwhelmingly outweigh any theoretical benefit:
The OpenSAFELY study included more than 1 million adolescents and children and found that myocarditis was documented ONLY in COVID-19 vaccinated groups and NOT after COVID-19 infection. There were NO COVID-19-related deaths in any group. A&E attendance and unplanned hospitalization were higher after first vaccination compared to unvaccinated groups:
So why are we giving this to tens of millions of kids when the vaccine itself does have profound risk? We’ve seen huge associations of myocarditis and pericarditis with strokes, with other injuries, with neurological injuries.
The two largest COVID-19 vaccine safety studies ever conducted, involving 99 million (Faksova et al) and 85 million people (Raheleh et al), confirm RFK Jr.’s concerns, documenting significantly increased risks of serious adverse events following vaccination, including:
- Myocarditis (+510% after second dose)
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (+278% after first dose)
- Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (+223% after first dose)
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome (+149% after first dose)
- Heart Attack (+286% after second dose)
- Stroke (+240% after first dose)
- Coronary Artery Disease (+244% after second dose)
- Cardiac Arrhythmia (+199% after first dose)
And this was clear even in the clinical data that came out of Pfizer. There were actually more deaths. There were about 23% more deaths in the vaccine group than the placebo group. We need to ask questions and we need to consult with parents.
Actually, according to the Pfizer’s clinical trial data, there were 43% more deaths in the vaccine group compared to the placebo group when post-unblinding deaths are included:
We need to give people informed consent, and we shouldn’t be making recommendations that are not good for the population.
Public acknowledgment of the grave harms of COVID-19 vaccines signals that real action is right around the corner. However, we must hope that action is taken for ALL age groups, as no one is spared from their life-reducing effects:
Alessandria et al (n=290,727, age > 10 years): People vaccinated with 2 doses lost 37% of life expectancy compared to the unvaccinated population during follow-up.
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Apr 232025
Here is the other piece, from Charles Eisenstein that I wanted you to see. But really it made a great impression on me when I read it! I had to go and sit quietly for about half an hour. D.
From: Charles Eisenstein
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2025
There is nothing “wrong” with anyone, and…
I saw a post recently arguing that RFK Jr. is a Nazi for sounding an alarm about rising autism rates, and calling to make prevention and treatment a high priority. The argument is that by labeling autism a disease (autism spectrum “disorder”), we pathologize and shame people who are not sick, but merely different. We make them wrong when there is nothing wrong. It is but a short step from there to classic Nazi eugenics to cleanse society of the people it deems inferior or who deviate from social norms. Indeed, many autistic people say things like, “There is nothing wrong with me. I like myself the way I am.” On one level that rings true, and it is important to say. I remember when I was in elementary school, one of the classrooms was “special education.” It contained the children who were politely known at the time as “mentally retarded.” Today the term is regarded as nearly a slur, but then it was considered a compassionate euphemism—perhaps these children were merely slower to develop than the rest. In any case, the compassionate motivation was lost on my classmates, who quickly adopted “retard” and “sped” (short for special ed) as epithets to direct at those kids and each other. I felt uncomfortable in the presence of the ridicule of the special ed kids, but I was too much a coward to speak up about it. So there is truth in “there is nothing wrong with the autistic.” But I would like to hold that truth side by side with perspectives like the following, starting with this Facebook post. I will refrain from linking to it, as the poster wants to remain relatively private. This [photo of the poster’s bruised face] was taken 4 years ago. We were in the midst of the worst crisis we’d ever been in with our son. I don’t recall what he was raging about that day. Dale was at work. I was home waiting on a large delivery. Just as the driver showed up, he started his daily violent meltdown. Normally I’d lock myself out in the garpartment for safety, but this always drove him outside into the yard and that day the delivery driver was a woman. I ran outside to warn her and to get her to come back later. He chased me outside, grabbed me by the hair and yanked me to the ground. He got one hand in my mouth and tried to rip my cheek open. He went for my eyes to gouge them out. As I fought him off, I felt a great peace. I thought “I’m gonna lose my eye but it’s ok.” I was able to sweep his legs out from under him and he went down. As I sat in the safety of the delivery truck with the gracious, understanding driver, I watched my son rip the front door off our house. I don’t dwell on this or any of the other times like this. They are not who my son is. He’s a wonderful, loving, funny person. I adore him with all my heart. He has severe autism. He is verbal but he can’t have a normal conversation. He can’t tie his shoes, make his own dinner, or hold a job. He will never live independently. When Dale and I are gone, he will likely live in some type of institutionalized care facility. It breaks my heart just thinking about it. When he is on any type of anti-inflammatory type drug, he gets better. This is because one of his diagnoses is encephalopathy. He has extensive brain damage from the shots he was given when he was 3 years old, including his first MMR and Varicella. He began showing signs of brain swelling and seizures two days later. I don’t like anyone to know the extreme struggles we’ve had with him over the years. I’ve talked here and there about it but don’t share the worst of it. I’m a pretty private person, so talking about this is very hard for me. And I don’t want people to get the wrong impression of my precious son. The reason I’m sharing this now is because I hope that when you see people talking bad about RFKjr (who has long been a hero in our house), you will know that he was referring to cases like my son’s. This type of autism absolutely devastates families with the financial, emotional, physical, and psychological toll it takes on you. It isolates you. The stress undoes you and shortens your life expectancy. When Dale had a heart attack two years ago, it drove home how difficult this would be without him. I love each of you and take a lot of comfort in knowing that you care about our family and Micah. Thank you for that! This is not an isolated story. At least a quarter of people on the autism spectrum are classified as “profoundly autistic”; many others have severe disabilities. I began to pay attention to autism back in the late 1990s. Based on a gut feeling and a general sense of a pervasive wrongness in civilization, or maybe because I am mentally ill with opposition defiant disorder, I refused to vaccinate our first child and received a lot of pushback, incredulous reactions from friends, family, and pretty much everyone else. So, in a classic exercise of confirmation bias, I started looking to see whether there was anything to confirm my suspicions. I got on mailing lists run by people like Anne Dachel and Barbara Loe Fisher, and read story after heartbreaking story, hundreds of them, from parents, especially mothers, who coalesced into the movement that eventually got RFK Jr.’s attention. Here is a typical one: Hi, my name is Ashley, I’m here to tell my son’s story of vaccine-induced autism. My son was taken into his well-baby visit at almost five months old for his four-month-old well baby shots. We took him in, he received eight vaccines, and he’s never been the same since that day. He went in a happy, healthy, chubby baby boy, and came out one we could barely recognize, shaking his head violently back and forth, no longer able to look at us, no longer wanting to be touched or held, not able to even latch on to breastfeed, falling off the weight chart, blood-streaked diarrhea so acidic it was burning his butt and legs and had to be hosed off in the sink. Most importantly, he’s never returned to that same baby boy that we had. Ashley’s testimony is part of this compilation. More stories here and here. Often the response from pediatricians is to say that the reaction was a coincidence, or to blame the mothers for being hysterical. I don’t think anyone could read or listen to hundreds of stories like that and not be radicalized. Here is an excerpt from another all-too-typical story. (Worth reading the whole thing, but this gives the flavor.) When he got his MMR at 12 months we had a serious reaction. 104 fever, and a horrible rash all over his body. He was sick for 10 days. We were told that this was normal. Then, he started hand flapping and his eyes started crossing. Again, another sign — and more assurance that “this is normal, many kids hand flap, his eyes look normal— it’s a phase.” He also slowed down in terms of language. We continued to listen to our doctor that vaccines were safe, and effective. And that there are virtually no side effects. So, we continued to vaccinate. It gets worse from there. I understand that these anecdotes won’t convince anyone that vaccine injury is real. Maybe if you read hundreds such stories, you would change your mind, especially when you really examine the science that supposedly debunks the vaccine-autism link. Following a pattern that is by no means limited to the pharmaceutical industry, corporations and captured government agencies wage a campaign of propaganda, tendentious science, persecution of whistleblowers and dissidents, and cover-ups. Read this overview of the persecution of Dr. Andrew Wakefield to get a sense of the machinery that keeps reigning paradigms and profits in place. If you want to also look him up on Wikipedia, I’ll save you the trouble. His bio starts with: “Andrew Jeremy Wakefield is a British fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and disgraced former physician.” Then, if you dare, read Vax-Unvax or Dissolving Illusions and observe how the critiques of those books touch very little of the substance of their arguments. That will take a lot of work. Why would you do that if you already know they must be wrong? Why must they be wrong? Because if they are right then the whole edifice of modern society — its systems of knowledge production, its public institutions, academia, government, and the ideology of progress — must be unsound, for the core medical practice of vaccination is embedded within them. You can’t believe “We got this one item wrong” without impugning the rest of the edifice along with it. I don’t understand (well actually I kinda do) how vaccine skepticism has been labeled these days as “far-right,” or how those who listen to moms instead of corporate-funded science are deemed fascists. I thought it was the Left that challenged corporate power and establishment narratives, and championed the citizen in her struggle against oppressive institutions. Anyway, hopefully the foregoing makes it clear that those who advocate for the prevention and treatment of autism are not intolerant Nazis with a secret eugenics agenda. To name something as an illness is not to shame the ill. The same argument that to pathologize autism is to shame the autistic is also applied to obesity—to mention it as a problem is to engage in “fat-shaming.” Indeed, there is nothing intrinsically wrong on a moral or spiritual level with obese people. Those who judge them do not understand what it is like to have a metabolic disorder, or an addiction-generating trauma, or to be too impoverished and busy to buy and cook healthy food, or to grow up deskilled in a ruined food culture, or to spend a childhood mostly indoors, or to be desperately lonely with only food to maintain an experience of connection, or to be bereft of intimacy’s sweetness with only sugar’s available instead. There are many causes for obesity, and few if any are the fault of the obese. But that does not mean we should ignore the causes or celebrate the condition. Is it “poor-shaming” to critique predatory neoliberal capitalism for its impoverishment of the Global South? Is it “addict-shaming” to point out that addiction is destroying people’s health? Such arguments would be very convenient for those profiting from the poor or the addicts. The functional medicine practitioner Mel Koppelman makes the point emphatically: Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by the stunted growth of the right cerebral hemisphere. This hemisphere gives rise to embodiment, emotional connection, empathy, and most types of attention. But these data [autism diagnosis in 1 in 31 children] don’t include the exponential rise in the stunted growth of the left side of the brain, characterized by dyslexia, dyscalculia and emotional regulation disorders, which is actually more common. Both of these conditions give rise to Functional Disconnection Syndrome, where the two halves of the brain don’t operate as a functional unit, resulting in all kinds of emotional, cognitive, neurological and biological symptoms and diseases. Other examples of symptoms or diagnoses in this category, in addition to autism and dyslexia, include Tourette’s and tics, OCD, sensory processing disorders, and ADHD. This includes the majority of all children in the United States. We have literally poisoned and brain-damaged an entire generation of kids. And then those doing the poisoning told parents and children to celebrate it. And to be angry and distrustful of anyone trying to help them. But we could do something else. We could stop poisoning the kids. We could look for the causes and collectively insist that they stop. There is, however, a deeper level to what is happening through the autism phenomenon. In adapting to their condition, autistic people often develop gifts, both mental and emotional, that society needs right now; for example, the abilities of the Spellers described in the podcast the Telepathy Tapes. More generally, in adapting to the specific challenges of each stage of civilization, human beings develop the capabilities necessary for humanity to move to the next stage. Each one of us is soul made flesh; Life made human. If a tree grows in rocky soil, shaded by other trees, and it twists and reaches for the light, we do not say it is a bad tree for being misshapen. It is doing what life does. Life wants to live. Life adapts to overcome all difficulties. Life evolves because of its difficulties. Anyone who thinks that their own virtue and willpower distinguishes them from the obese, the depressed, the addicted, the poor, the lazy, the ignorant, the unjust, or the violent has a humbling lesson in front of them. When a child is injured by vaccines or other environmental insults, and the life within him takes a form different from the rest of us, this is cause for celebration — life lives! — not shame. Yet that does not justify the injury. The autistic are not the only ones who’ve suffered injury from the world-destroying life-destroying Machine. The modern way of life, birth, child-rearing, and death, its sundering of ties to community and nature, its entrenched cycles of trauma, its denial of spirit, its relentless artificial scarcity, and its pollution of the body and the environment with toxic chemicals compose the rocky soil and occluded sunlight in which we have all grown. The life in each of us adapts to these conditions as best it can. We call this basic truth compassion. “But for the grace of God, I too would be autistic. I too would be obese. I too would be addicted.” Or, “I too would be a migrant. I too would be on welfare. I too would drop out of school.” And even, “I too would be a criminal. I too would be greedy. I too would cheat and lie and steal and do others harm.” Not only would I, but surely I have, in some way and form. As Thich Nhat Hanh said, “I am the pirate.” What is in you, is in me, some echo of it, some holographic trace of it. Let he who be without sin cast the first stone. Those we stone with our insults and shaming and denunciation are ourselves. Understand a person’s backstory, and you will realize, “That could have been me.” None of us are made of better or worse stuff than the rest. We all are life, doing what life does in the circumstances it is in. Yet neither is anyone a helpless victim of circumstance. That’s because life is not static. We grow new capacities in evolving within and against trying conditions, until they no longer imprison us but become the material for creative choice. That is the moment when the truth of “It is not your fault; you are victim of forces beyond your control” gives way to a new truth: “Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You are no longer a prisoner of your past, you the author of your future.” The former had been true, but no longer. From the victim, comes the master. From the illness comes the medicine. So, when I meet someone profoundly challenged by injury, illness, tragedy, or persecution, I am always curious. What capacities have been forged in the crucible of your suffering? Again and again, I discover generosity among the impoverished, inner freedom among the incarcerated, compassion among the judged, kindness among the brutalized, joy among the bereft. Sometimes it is hard to see, just a glint of something still forming. Sometimes it is radiant like the sun. It is by those who have grown strong by overcoming the injuries dealt to them by civilization that a new kind of civilization will be born. Free & paid subscribers received the same content. I know not everyone can afford to pay for a lot of substack subscriptions. I am very grateful to those who support this one. Thanks for reading my blog on Substack, You can support my work by becoming a paying subscriber. (Same content, with an extra little buzz of gratitude.)
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