There is more to say about mental telepathy,  but later.    /Sandra

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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.