What an interesting line of inquiry, John. As someone who's on the spectrum myself, I'd be fascinated to know how it connects to the whole Anunnaki / Yahweh / Origin of Consciousness story.
By the way, on the subject of consciousness, I've recently started listening to the audio version of "Thinking and Destiny," by Harold W. Percival:
Thanks for the recommendation, Tirion! Thinking and Destiny is on my to-read list already, but I'll bump it up to my prioritized list, so it is one of 50 books rather than one of 500 😂.
It's a new exploration to me, but I'm wondering if the current rise in autism is a sort of echo of the changes in human neurotypology that occurred around the late 2nd millennium BC that Jaynes characterizes as "the origin of consciousness" in his book by the same title, and that seemingly caused the Anunnaki to depart from us, or at least go deep underground.
I recently finished rereading the Jaynes, and I plan to write a review of it here. This will probably be a little more in depth than the present review of NeuroTribes, and I might be touching on this a little more there.
I've firmly believed that vaccines were a leading cause of autism for many years now. I've been questioning that belief recently, because it is good to question my beliefs from time to time. I might figure out I was wrong, which would be good if it happened. And I might find a synthesis, or hints of a synthesis, that might provide a larger context for both my belief and my anti-belief to fit in to. In any event, toying around with the vaccine thing, it doesn't seem likely I'm wrong. I want to devise some sort of more comprehensive test, but that is hard to do, because 99% of the internet is pro-vaccine biased now. As always, hard to find reliable data. But I'm hunching that there is some kind of synthesis that contextualizes vaccines causing autism, and autism being a step, tentative or otherwise, in human evolution. Sort of like how the Anunnaki were both real, physical beings sharing space here on Earth with us humans, and how they were just figments of our overactive psyches, and voices in our heads. I'll see if it leads anywhere.
I haven't checked in with Clif in a while. Started listening to that one last night, will finish later. The guy is always moving! Also I seem to have missed what happened with his wife. Smart motherfucker Clif.
Those are all interesting ideas, John! I wonder where they will lead?!
Yes, Clif's Cathy died in January after a long battle with dementia. Her health deteriorated suddenly last year and she moved into a care facility. I find what he's been teaching recently about his ontology both fascinating and intuitively satisfying. I guess a lot of it comes from Percival.
What an interesting line of inquiry, John. As someone who's on the spectrum myself, I'd be fascinated to know how it connects to the whole Anunnaki / Yahweh / Origin of Consciousness story.
By the way, on the subject of consciousness, I've recently started listening to the audio version of "Thinking and Destiny," by Harold W. Percival:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1637466.Thinking_and_Destiny
It's rather heavy going to be honest; but the ideas presented are quite fascinating and, to me, make a great deal of sense. Recommended!
Thanks for the recommendation, Tirion! Thinking and Destiny is on my to-read list already, but I'll bump it up to my prioritized list, so it is one of 50 books rather than one of 500 😂.
It's a new exploration to me, but I'm wondering if the current rise in autism is a sort of echo of the changes in human neurotypology that occurred around the late 2nd millennium BC that Jaynes characterizes as "the origin of consciousness" in his book by the same title, and that seemingly caused the Anunnaki to depart from us, or at least go deep underground.
I recently finished rereading the Jaynes, and I plan to write a review of it here. This will probably be a little more in depth than the present review of NeuroTribes, and I might be touching on this a little more there.
Haven't heard of Jaynes before; so I'm looking forward to your review in due course.
Clif High recently published a piece on Percival, which is what prompted me to acquire a copy:
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/i-blame-heidi
As for the rise in autism, there seems to be quite a bit of evidence that it's caused by vaccines, despite what BigPharma would like us to believe:
[Rappoport] "The Big Vaccine-Autism Lie"
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/20/the-big-vaccine-autism-lie/
"Mapping the entire field of autism causation studies in one article"
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/all-vaccines-will-kill-you-mapping
By the way have you ever checked out the Telepathy Tapes? You might find it interesting.
https://thetelepathytapes.com/
No, I've never heard of The TT. I will investigate! Many thanks for the heads-up!
I've firmly believed that vaccines were a leading cause of autism for many years now. I've been questioning that belief recently, because it is good to question my beliefs from time to time. I might figure out I was wrong, which would be good if it happened. And I might find a synthesis, or hints of a synthesis, that might provide a larger context for both my belief and my anti-belief to fit in to. In any event, toying around with the vaccine thing, it doesn't seem likely I'm wrong. I want to devise some sort of more comprehensive test, but that is hard to do, because 99% of the internet is pro-vaccine biased now. As always, hard to find reliable data. But I'm hunching that there is some kind of synthesis that contextualizes vaccines causing autism, and autism being a step, tentative or otherwise, in human evolution. Sort of like how the Anunnaki were both real, physical beings sharing space here on Earth with us humans, and how they were just figments of our overactive psyches, and voices in our heads. I'll see if it leads anywhere.
I haven't checked in with Clif in a while. Started listening to that one last night, will finish later. The guy is always moving! Also I seem to have missed what happened with his wife. Smart motherfucker Clif.
Those are all interesting ideas, John! I wonder where they will lead?!
Yes, Clif's Cathy died in January after a long battle with dementia. Her health deteriorated suddenly last year and she moved into a care facility. I find what he's been teaching recently about his ontology both fascinating and intuitively satisfying. I guess a lot of it comes from Percival.