Autism and the incarnation process

Add to this that studies of brain development show that the brain does not fully develop until around the age of 28 or the first Saturn return.

I suppose it depends on whatever your religious beliefs might be. None of us can know, so it's all going to be speculative. I personally think it's likely that we're all here to learn something and to teach other people life lessons and those lessons are probably very specific to each individual soul. What we learn and take back with us gives pleasure and glory to God, to whom we will all return. Kids with autism are no different than the rest of us in the lessons they are here to learn through their struggles and the lessons they teach parents and family members in patience, compassion, advocacy, etc. Whether those lessons we're learning have anything to do with a past life is probably debatable.

What you have written of Sandra Weidner's article reminds me a bit of Jeffry Wolf Green's (evolutionary astrology)orientation towards people with mental retardation or different syndromes as "dimly evolved". I took issue with him on that and I take issue with this. I have yet to meet a child or adult with autism who does not seem fully incarnated.

Autism is also a very broad catch all term covering many unknowns and with a huge variance. An "autism gene" has not been found, and most who study this feel it is environmentally triggered, which fits the fact that often it doesn't show up until a child is 2 or 3. Many have been "cured" with different treatments, including radionics which I am experimenting some with Damian, my 9 year old son with both Down Syndrome and Autism. When I read articles like Sandra's, although I can understand somewhat where the "not all here" theory comes from, it also feels like she doesn't actually have much first hand experience or knowledge of the subject.

Two of my favorite authors relative to developmental / bonding issues and, as Neumann would say, the full consolidation of the ego, are Joseph Chilton Pearce who many are familiar with from his earliest work "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg" to his latest "Evolution's End", and Alan Schore's book "Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self" which expands upon these same ideas. But, to interpret these ideas as consiousness itself being half formed, or as "not fully incarnating" implying perhaps that a soul is only half here and half somewhere else, is not what these authors would agree to. Instead, they have to do with the neurobiology of emotional development, and it is the emotional component that compromises the ego's ability to fully individuate, and beyond that incorporate all of the brain from the angel frontal lobes to the mammalian, brain to the reptilian instincts (to put it very simplistically) vs. getting "emotionally arrested" due to either bonding or emotional issues.

Obviously on a metaphysical level our souls are probably in many realms concurrently, but that is also a different idea than deciding to just step a big toe into this one, metaphorically speaking. the danger with this thinking to my mind is that there is then both projection and illusion put on an already misunderstood child who may be desperately trying to connect. There are man stories of totally 'withdrawn" children who when given the right assisted speech technology devices, for example, suddenly open their mind to the world.

I think it's very complex with autism because the strong environmental component brings up the idea for me of our over stimulating and highly polluted electromagnetic environment possible affecting arrestment at certain stages of vulnerable brain development in the first three years. We live in a very unnatural world that is not conducive to healthy life and growth.

I know I'm a little late in this discussion but I'd like to add my point of view. I'm finding the component of emotional bonding interesting. In my own experience, I wouldn't say I'm only half here due to the way I think and feel. On the personality test I am INFP- introverted, intuitive, feeling, perceiving. Due to my make up, emotional processing is huge for me. I do have a passion to connect with people; I do better on one on one social engagements and small groups than I do with large parties. And if I do stay isolated for a long period of time I tend to bounce towards being social for a while before I crave my own time again (though I must admit, there is much more alone time than social time). For me it's about balance. I do feel environment has a huge part of shaping us. I tend to believe we all have emotional baggage from our past to deal with and being human is about learning how to deal with this and learning our lessons while we are here. I can totally see how someone would think I'm not totally here; I'm can be quite spacey at times and I do meditate in order to ground myself. But from my perspective it's really more that I just process things differently from most people. I don't like thinking that just because I process things emotionally that I'm less incarnated than someone else; to think this makes me feel sad for some reason. (I'm not attacking, just responding how I feel.) I tend to feel that I was given this way of processing in order to help me learn my lessons and also so I can in turn help others. I also feel that culture and conditioning depends on how we respond to certain aspects in processing and thinking and feeling. Our society seems to esteem the rational and not so much degrade the emotional but maybe not respect it. I grew up with very analytical parents who favored traditional intelligence above all else; so I learned how to live in that world. They really don't understand the emotional world. So I learned how to balance these two worlds. Showing people that we are all different; we have different strengths and weaknesses and that there is a point to the diversity of how we process makes sense to me. Accepting yourself, and accepting people who are different and finding a way to communicate and meet in the middle I think is very important to the human experience. Ok, I'm getting a little spacey again from working on the computer so I'm going to need to go ground myself. Thank you for such an interesting topic of discussion; the comments from everyone has been wonderful too. I'm going to have some books now to look up!

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I'm sorry to make you sad, Laura. :) I think though that some of us are more comfortable with this incarnation than others are. I know I myself have always felt very uncomfortable with the idea of being in a body which I have always felt to be a Uranian situation.

When something new appears, we tend to fear it and categorize it as not being acceptable. And to be perfectly honest, it's a little scary when people judge others as not acceptable.

You're absolutely right, and this is a highlight of the opposition between Saturn to Uranus that is taking place over the next couple of years. I was thinking about this yesterday - how African-Americans went from being demonized to suddenly becoming the Magical Negro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro). In some "primitive" cultures someone who is very different is thought to be a creature of the gods, and in others that person may be demonized.

That's why I wrote the article on autism originally - to present a hypothesis that rather than being bad or different, perhaps we really are looking at a new breed of human entirely.

Ah, thank you for this. Sometimes when I read I get emotional input that I need to work out. I do have to remember that communication is over 90% facial expression, body language, and the tone of our voices. Once it's strip to just words in type we sometimes misinterpret another's meaning. I am really interested in learning more about the opposition between Saturn to Uranus and how that effects us. Could you recommend more for me to read on this? Thank you in advance.

Andrea- I did get a chance to see Kryon through Lee Carroll some years ago and it was amazing. Thank you for reminding me about him. I'll be surfing his website today.

I am the astrologer above that Lynn quotes from in my paper on autism.

I have read your comments and find them interesting. I want to add some comments of my own, but they cover more space than I understand would be wanted in a blog, so I have put them in a "blind" page (just like a blind cc in a letter) on my web site. Address is above. Hope you read it. Thanks for all your consideration.

I'm so glad the Sandra's article came up on here: I referred to it in my last post on the previous article before i found this one to read...
I loved Sandra's article, and actually studied it for two days. I just don't understand the charts she uses well enough to do anything with the article other than consider Sandra's beautifully authored interpretation-
so for that reason, I found it frustrating.
I wanted to read the example charts and experience for myself what Sandra asserts.
My south node is in Aquarius, and I came to astrology at a Uranus station as if it were a language in which I were born fluent, but had temporarily forgotten. I have been devoting over 4 hours a day for the past two years, acquiring as broad and diverse a battery of astrological skills as I could absorb. I simply haven't gotten Harmonics down yet.
Astrology hooked me because it elaborated sensational perceptions of people I have experienced since childhood. When I interact with people, I feel them, and their charts delineate and articulate the sensations I experience. To me, Autistic People FEEL similar to high level adepts, having a palpable metaphysical quality.
This work has come to me without much contriving (during a Venus retro that began on my MC/Mercury opp IC/ Pluto) so I am insatiably curious to understand anything and everything I can. Boundless gratitude in advance...

Autism I think means being unable to communicate fully with others. Either it happens from lack of contact of mind as opposed to just physical care, this is just theory. When someone seems in their own world it means on a different mind level, in thought as opposed to trying to connect in mind and spirit with the ones around. Either a shy form or withdrawn due to lack of proper contact, communication when developing social mind. The way to possibly address this is to allow space and room for one deemed as autistic to come to someone and open up, to talk. Give someone said as autistic something to do and see someones mind and spirit open as opposed to feeling as if a seperate entity apart stared at improper regard, which is just it.