The families of people with autism are carrying a higher load of chronic, inflammatory mental, emotional, and physical health problems as well as those of us with autism.  It’s just that the inflammation has impaired their non-autistic lives in different ways from our autistic ones.

When supporting the optimizing of autism, and the mental, emotional, and physical health of the families of people with autism (because none of us are islands, and we can’t even pretend to live that way in health), it’s impossible neither to acknowledge the role of trauma on spiritual or energetic health, nor that all other heath benefits or challenges stem from an individual’s unique accumulated trauma.

It’s no accident that holistic, traditional, and Indigenous medicine traditions often treat soul wounds prior to, or alongside the more outward and visible physical/ mental/ emotional signs of our inward and spiritual loss of connection and grace.

Modern science is bringing larger perspective and an abundance of physical evidence to this model.

• E.g. German New Medicine’s ability to track the timing, intensity, type, and theme of a trauma taken on by the target rings (actually spheres) in a CT scan that has not been dyed to remove “anomalies”, and that by the individual identifying the trauma indicated thereby, the disease is often fully and quickly resolved solely by treating the symptoms of recovery.
• E.g. The Heart Math Institute’s tracking of heart coherence and it’s direct relationship with a very wide range of health parameters… with heart coherence being under our influence through teachable meditative skills, and health recovery being commensurate with the level of dedication to acquiring and practicing these skills.
• E.g. Dr. Joe Dispenza’s multi-day spiritual and meditation event results of 80% or better of attendees experiencing dramatic health improvements or complete eradication of disease, as tracked by the San Diego Medical Centre.

What The Telepathy Tapes podcast has surfaced, though, is something I consider a lost heritage of all humanity… the very real capacity for love, peace, and trust to connect us beyond all boundaries of space and time.  These skills are natural to humans.  They are teachable to those who’ve lost them.  I don’t pretend to be the only or best teacher, but I teach them, because I believe they are core to supporting autism recovery.

As part of my support to autism families, I introduce people to the science, the core quantum physics understandings, the ecosystem models of health, the multiple examples in nature which demonstrate the power of spirit, energy, connection, and intention to address environmental problems (e.g. see Sandra Ingerman’s work), including our bodies as environments.

The language and learnings I’ve pieced together come from many, many different traditions.  From…

• The community of somatic/ bodywork therapy, where it’s becoming increasingly common to recognize that repeating physical issues will heal and not recur if trauma is resolved.
• The psychotherapy and hypnotherapy community, where it’s becoming increasingly common to recognize that talking picks the scab off and leaves old wounds bleeding, and healing requires releasing the underlying emotional turmoil and replacing negative beliefs with larger, kinder, and more freeing ones.
• The western medical community, where doctors who recover from serious “incurable” conditions and diseases acknowledge the key and critical role of resolving their prior trauma in order to free their bodies, emotions, and minds to heal.
• The energy/ spiritual skills community, where recognition is landing that the shifts and chills and charges that clients experience reflect actual nutritional, chemical, hormonal, neurotransmitter, energy production, and other physiological, trackable changes in the body.
• The traditional medicine community which never bought into the Cartesian idea that spiritual health can be separated from mental, emotional, or physical health.

In my autism and trauma release work, I’ve felt very alienated by attempts to put me on a pedestal.  It’s felt just as alienating at the attempts to silence me.  If I am treated as a “Sage on the Stage”, then the health and functional recovery I have supported and witnessed for myself and so very many clients would then not be accessible or possible for just anyone.

And that’s not true.  Functional and health gains are possible to some degree for everyone, and that can make the difference between a life on the streets or in an institution or as a burden on multiple generations of a family, and a fulfilling life with socially-recognized connection, contribution, and meaning.

Instead of “Sage-on-the-Stage”, I and other people who have experienced – and to some degree recovered from – serious health and functional impairments need to be understood as a “Guide on the Side”, someone just a little further up the mountain slope who can give others a hand up, over the tricky bits.

The Telepathy Tapes are surfacing a skill set common to all humanity, a skill set for which access is lost as trust, openness, and kindness get crushed by trauma-wounded behaviour.

At the core, the podcast’s message is that humanity’s natural, intuitive, and connective skills are suppressed as they become too painful, so humanity comes to increasingly lean on more distancing alternatives to express.  Autistics are not “special”, or any more “special” than anyone else.

The more neurodiverse we are, the less we can dissociate from our truths without dissociating from everything.  And the more impaired we are, the less we have any option but the natural, telepathic connection that allows babies to sort signal from noise, and learn.

There is a reason that non-verbal autistic Amanda Baggs was able to begin typing on the computers in her adult institutional setting (see her YouTube videos).  Her environment had finally acquired a degree of peace and kindness that allowed her to tap into skills she already, naturally had.  To access the collective unconscious and learn to type and read.  To “teach herself”.

Isn’t it time we started to look at why so many people are carrying so much trauma that failure-to-thrive is becoming the norm?

Isn’t it time we acknowledged that the true measure of a culture’s health is the degree to which elders, children, mothers, and the ill are supported and nurtured to their best possible potential and health?

Isn’t it time to begin addressing and shifting from the cultural choices which result in so much trauma and illness to choices that result in love and robust health?