An article on the Discover web site and the publisher’s print magazine revealed that the traditional views of autism as a genetic disorder originating in the brain are changing. New discoveries reveal that autism is possibly a neuroinflammatory disorder that is also linked to the immune system and “the gut”.

Autism, as you may have heard, is on the rise at an alarming rate. So are many other disorders, including those no one knows about until commercials for the wonder drugs that manage those disorders are aired on television. Is it a coincidence that we are plagued with so many diseases and disorders? No. As we continue to pollute our bodies (and the planet) with increasingly toxic food, air, water, politics, cultural habits, etc, I hardly see the great mystery behind our exploding health crisis. In a piece I posted some years ago on our country’s Disorder Disorder – the disorder of having many disorders – I touched on the need for us to start addressing the larger health issues (including emotional and spiritual health issues) that surely underly our crises.

Interestingly, the new findings on autism may open that door. From a physical perspective, pieces of the autism puzzle could open the health industry’s eyes to the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated disorders and potentially (fingers crossed) take the world down a new path and approach to medicine. The link between “the gut” and autism in terms of Energy Medicine is a very interesting and revealing bit of information. The subtle or spiritual anatomy of the gut is involved with the processing of emotion. Metaphysically speaking, in a society where members have become largely disengaged from one another at the spiritual and emotional levels, and in which attention is frequently focused on the negative and the destructive (which often makes people want to disengage), it does not surprise me that a condition like autism would manifest and be on the rise at this particular point in time.

Look at this summary of the behavioral characteristics of autistic disorder from the Cambridge Center of Behavioral Studies web site:

1. significant difficulties with social interactions – does not pay attention to other people; does not play with other children; does not reciprocate

2. significant difficulties in verbal and nonverbal communication – grabs what is wanted or leads to get what is wanted; copies or parrots words (echolalia); if has words, does not converse

3. significant difficulties in the development of play – uses only parts of toys; lines up or stacks objects; no imaginative play

4. highly restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior and interests. May talk continuously about one topic or repeat the same questions; may spin and stare at objects; may flap fingers or pieces of string; mouth or hit self

5. highly resistant to even slight changes in routines

If you read that summary with your spiritual eyes, do you not see in it a description of how our society behaves? I certainly do.

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Hello folks, this is just an intoduction to let you know what to expect in Donald’s views.

I intend to explain how I came to theorise about the subjects in my blog http://unfeatheredangels.blogspot.com/ and try to give more detail and  logic to them. Most so called discoveries about the universe and how it originated are theories, and some theories are calculated from other theories which leaves plenty scope for error or misjudgement.

We as nations on a planet that is so insignificant in this universe as to be the only human intelligence in it is a ludicrous and arrogant suggestion and because we have discovered and landed probes on planets near to us we think we could be the only intelligent beings in all the vastness that is space.  In my opinion we are in comparison to the real intelligence in the universe, like the cavemen hollowing out trees  forming the first primitive canoes to  utilise the water making it easier to explore and expand to other parts of our globe. We have taken the first steps to explore and expand into the universe and like the cavemen. WE will encounter other “tribes” or nations as we now call them whether it be them that return here, or us that reaches them, which, in my mind is the most unlikely of the two.

Make no mistake there has been superior beings on earth before and that is what the various writers in the bible are trying to explain to us in their naive and simple way being thrust into having to explain a technology so far advanced that they could only use the description of things  they could relate to from their era.

That is why the bible has so many interpretations. Why if as a nation with so many of our own advancements can we not at last realise that the machines we strive to invent for space travel have been here and are being described in the bible? Some of the miracles spoken about in the bible were as read “MIRACLES” to people of the biblical age and even as far as  our grandparents, but are no longer a mystery to us as some of them are being performed now on earth. Artificial insemination is one example, and of which could have been used to impregnate Mary, and one of the many theories you will find in my blog that we will discuss and dissect if need be .

If you have theories of your own do not discard them just because a scientist, or someone else THINKS they have found the answer - because until it is proven beyond any doubt it will always be a theory, and we have a long long way to go before we can verify the theories and calculations that are assumed on earth.

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