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Recieved: 1999/08/31 16:42
Subject: Re: [K-list] Autism /Your post on the K-List
From: loren mc2
On 1999/08/31 16:42, loren mc2 posted thus to the K-list:
has anyone read the book on autistics and dolphins out 7-8 yrs ago?
Loren
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:27:17 EDT MrsToastATnospamaol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 8/9/99 10:58:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>mumblecatATnospamangelfire.com writes:
>
><< :) This is very interesting, Melissa. I never thought
> about a connection b/n autism and spirituality.
> Normally, I wouldn't have given it a thought,
> but I am curious.
>
> Do you have any more lines of "evidence" to share with
> us about this connection ? >>
>
>Talk about getting lost in my own little world! Am finally getting to
>answering this fine question posed by Amanda a while back.
>
>As I posted, my brother is autistic. Not high-functioning a la Rainman, no
>extraordinary computational or musical skills, etc. His developmental
>disabilities include profound mental retardation and autism. Tho I might add
>that autism is now considered a brain disorder, with developmental
>implications.
>
>My evidence of the spiritual aspects of autism are purely personal and thusly
>subjective. One experience I had many years ago was that I drempt that my
>brother and deceased father were showing me around a facility of sorts. It
>was a place where people/souls having a hard time adjusting were helped, sort
>of a rehab/prehab. A few years after that dream, I went to a psychic. I'm
>not prone to go to psychics, but had heard good things about this one, had
>the cash to spare and the curiousity to get me there. When I asked about my
>brother, she told me that part of the reason for the autism was karma (both
>his & my parents), and part of the reason was that it freed him to work on
>other levels of existence. She also told me that he and my father were
>working together, helping people/souls/spirits make transitions. She blew me
>away with all this as I had gone in giving her little info, and trying very
>hard to maintain a skeptical, challenging attitude about the whole thing w/o
>allowing myself to be baited. This psychic also told me that my father had
>stayed around for me after he died, to help me understand and to help himself
>feel he was doing right by me. That bit of info peeled back my hair as it
>was true, down to the amount of time, how he came to me. Remarkably, I
>hadn't told anyone up to that point that he had come to me at all.
>
>Anyway, as I've grown and learned more about spirit and energy, I became
>aware of the tremendous energy exchange that goes on when I visit him. It is
>almost as tho he is bestowing a blessing. He and I have quite a spiritual
>connection. I base my assertation on the things listed above, and that pesky
>gut feeling that it is right. I feel with my brother that there is less
>shielding his spirit from this world than I have, just that he has a very
>limited range of expression for that spirit here.
>
>Of course, I could be completely wrong! LOL!
>Melissa
>
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