Neurodiversity, Altered State of Consciousness and Sacred gifts

For many months now, I have been wanting to write this essay, as my personal experience of the world, my own neurodiversity & ADHD, and my shamanic gifts have weaved together a thread that I wish to share with you.

In recent years, the world of autism, neurodiversity and ADHD has been more deeply explored and revealed a new paradigm, truth, and possibility for those of us who often feel different in our connection to the world around us and within us.

Societal norms, wounded family dynamics, and conformism in the capitalistic and anthropocentric machine, has been the model for a few centuries and has now shown its limitations, dangers and extreme violence. As the insanity of this fast-moving ship grows, the intensity of the denials and oppression increase.

Those who do not conform, who do not see the world through that model of science without moral, who believe that humans should not be at the center of our decisions but in a council of beings that includes all life (see the amazing work from Joanna Macy “Council of all being”), and who do not want to mold themselves into those narratives have been rejected and often qualified as “crazy” (origin of the word 1580s “broken, impaired, full of cracks or flaws,”) or weird (from Old English wyrd, c. 1400, “having power to control fate,”).