The Soul of Autism Explores Spirituality, the Paranormal, and Their Relationship to Autism
Tuesday April 15, 2008
William Stillman
Bill Stillman, a writer, speaker and adult with Asperger syndrome, has been exploring the relationship between autism and the extraordinary for several years. He feels strongly that what he has seen shows that people with autism have a special connection to all things mystical, spiritual, divine, and/or paranormal - and that they may offer insights into an unseen world. The Soul of Autism is his second book on the subject.
Of course, The Soul of Autism isn't for everyone. Who should read this book? I'd recommend it to anyone who has seen or believes they have seen a person with autism who demonstrates:
- Knowledge of existence before birth
- Precognition or premonition
- Telepathy
- Animal communication
- Connection with a loved one in Spirit (that is, a dead loved one)
- Apparations (ghosts)
- Communion with angels
Comments
I think my son has some telepathy. He knows things he shouldn’t or couldn’t. There have been many days I had some real odd bad dream, and just in his communicational conversation out of the blue that day, he’s retelling my dream without saying that’s what he’s telling me. He’s done this too and in fact many times. It’s very freaky when he does this.
I think everyone has the capability for all that’s listed above, however I believe for at least my kid who perceives his surroundings and world differently than I do, he’s much more capable of things than I am.
Okay, some people may really think now that I will live up to my name here, but I do believe in this too.
My son just last weekend insisted we stay home instead of going to the movies. We went anyways, despite his attempts to convince us otherwise, and low and behold…even though we arrived 45 minutes before the movie started, we missed the movie because we couldn’t get our tickets in time. The next day, he was bugging us unrelently to go to the movies, and there was hardly anyone there.
Similar happened when going to the pumpkin patch one year. It was the last weekend before Halloween, our last chance to go, and he was throwing a fit in the car, insisting we go somewhere else. Of course, I didn’t listen, and we got stuck in the biggest traffic jam I had seen to date. As soon as we got turned around, he calmed right down and had a coy “I told you” look on his face.
I could go on with more, but then this would get too long. It’s a significant enough thing in our house that our oldest son did a speech for the school-wide speech contest on it, and no one laughed or made fun of him after.
Skeptics can say what they want, but something is going on and even if I didn’t want to believe it, it’s enough to make you wonder.
Cheers
Caroline
Wow, can’t believe I’ve been so busy and this is one of the topics I come back to, wow!
YES, I could care LESS what anyone thinks. We are connected with instincts or mystical awareness or what ever one would call it. It is real.
It also brings to my mind that there is a growing number of people who believe that autism is part of human evolution (Lisa, that may be a topic you could think about doing).
Regardless, the mystic/paranormal is something that can’t be described when it happens to you because it seems to me it is the experience that convinces/validates it within ourselves.
Some people call it instinct and that over the centuries we’ve gotten lazy or let outside influences cut us off all but the deepest instincts (i.e., fight or flight).
Motherhood can also be an awakening of sorts, it was for me. Many women who breastfed know we could be miles away when the baby cries we leak milk. Telepathy?
We can figure out the cosmos and laws of nature but can’t be “in tune” with one another…call me a flake, I totally know we can!
Thanks for this topic, Lisa!
It is disheartening to see a post such as this one. Every day new information related to the causes and treatment of autism are uncovered. Usually this site does a wonderful job of presenting this information to those who need it most. Mysticism and telepathy should be left to people like Sylvia Browne.
Respectively, maybe these kids would have these abilities regardless of autism, but since parents of kids with autism pay more attention to our kids (no offense to any other parent) we see things that Lisa dares to bring light to while we wonder who’ll think we’re nuts. When we parent’s finally hear our kids talk- we tend to really really pay attention to their words, and for some of it, there simply is no explanation for the words said.
This topic isn’t about on-going causes and treatments of autism.
It’s about the amazing things our kids can do, be it whatever but it happens to be this topic. Would causes and treatments of autism take away these things that make our kids unique? Or was it a part of them to begin with? (and by the way, telepathy is not what Sylvia Browne does. She’s a psychic)
pyschic = refers to the ability to perceive things hidden from the senses through means of extra-sensory perception
telepathy = describes the purported transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses. A person who is able to make use of telepathy is said to be able to read the minds of others.
Instincts, we all have them.
My adult grand daughter has Aspergers and there is SO much I could go on about, but the very things that she “Gets” is animals and they “Get” her. From the garden lizards at home to the Bears at the zoo. It also seems like she lives in the Ether a good bit of the time, that invisible realm where her world comes alive. What I mean is that her dreams are very vivid and she’ll tell me that there was a planet where the asteroid belt was and has described it’s beauty to me, because she remembers living there once.
And regarding crowds- she has told me that crowds are suffocating to her because of all the noise- not just the outside noise but the noise from collective mind of the crowd.
Of course I believe this is evolution. And I’m grateful others are waking up to this truth.
Stella
Please consider visiting http://www.neoteny.org/?cat=7 to review a unique and unorthodox theory for the cause of autism. Consider Darwin’s other two theories of evolution as being responsible for the extreme maturational delay characteristic of autism.
I agree with Debi- we do all have “instincts,” but I’m of the belief that many people have access to greater depths of “instinct,” especially children, and even more so autistic children. My autistic son, age 7, has an incredible “unlearned” knowledge base and talks extensively about historical topics. He is steadfast in his desires not to do things, which we later discover would have been dangerous. Focusing on a cure is nice, but appreciating qualities in our autistic children is even more important in helping them get though each hour of the day.
Bill what are the symptoms that would alert me that an adult has autism? I mean how can you tell? Obviously you are a very good looking intelligent person who can write, etc… and I believe I’ve been having a relationship with a man who seems strange and there is no other explanation for it except this.
What are the symptoms of this affliction when a person is very bright and above average intelligence, above average looks but has some strange social behavior that is unexplained? What should I look for? You can email me if you have the answer.
Autism is not an easy thing to see. I am one of those people. In my case you would look for one who does not smile. Imagination can be quite rampant. Since my brain works different, many times I am called eccentric. Many times they can not hold to a long time relationship. In my case I am married but the emotional bound is slow to develop. ESP is definitely there but I never equated it with the Autism. Autism and fitting in the world is not easy. Usually you take your strengths and find some one to fill in for the weaknesses when this happens you can keep from having the label of Autism put on you.
Gary
I have worked with individuals with autism for over eight years and have made the same observations that others have posted here.I am fascinated with this topic because I feel very connected to these experiences,especially since my heart transplant in Oct. of 2007.Does anyone know where I can go to share my psychic/telepathic experiences?
Yes, I’m becoming more aware of the my son’s gifts.
One day earlier this year, my son comes to me and says that I need to call a friend of ours. I asked why and he said that it was her birthday. I asked him how he knows that and he says that her daughter is making birthday cards. I looked on the calendar and I didn’t have it on my calendar, so I let it go.
Later that night, my husband was talking to our friend’s husband on the phone. When I asked him if it was her birthday, his comment was, “Yes. I forgot and (their daughter) was making birthday cards all day long.”
This incident among many others similar or along the same lines have happened many times. I think it’s soooo cool.
Hi …just had the strangest experience with my 6yr old autistic son…. He was prepared to eat a hotdog at the dining table and was sitting in a trance i responded by asking him to eat his lunch …he just stared wildy into space then i heard his echolalia from the top of the staircase …within 3 minutes he returned to eating his lunch …Oh god ..the goosepimples …was a phenonomal experience!!!
The Soul of autism is for people willing to open themselves to the currently unexplainable.
I taught individuals with autism for many years. Doing so broadened my conception of the universe, as they led me on an internal journey to an ever-evolving belief system. Intuition, joined energy, direct knowing, and telepathy had now become part of my perceptual reality.
These remarkable individuals have led me to believe that the brain is a diffusing device rather than an emanating one. The emanating source being the soul They may have easier access because their filtering devices – brain and sensory systems – are impaired.
Mary Ann Harrington