The Upside of Autism

Comment based on the Wall Street Journal  Saturday/ Sunday March 31 April 1 edition

HEAD CASE : Jonah Lehrer           The Upside of Autism,

April starts Autism Awareness Month, and suddenly the press is transformed into a mouth piece for contemporary autism. Most every article describes the huge increase in autism cases,  and  often every article includes the following statements,  the lack of eye contact ,miserable social skills and the fact there are more boys than girls with the condition, don't even mention the group home side of the story. This refreshing Wall Street Journal Article was quite different and actually told there was some of us that really do OK in many ways. 

A big shocker was the mention of Autism's Temple Grandin. Temple is the highest functioning person contemporary autism will own up to.  Perhaps she doesn't do too much and succeed in life like we do or she to would be shunned.  Autism is blessed with and totally ignores its very best functioning population. We BUILD on the Work of Temple Grandin and take the picture thoughts to the threshold of normal.  Normal humans use short cut thoughts and don't know it . Once we figure out autism's long hand thought your normal ones are the result. Temple Grandin has not got this far yet. Autism research has this idea no autism person can do more than she has unless of course they discover the cure. There is no worry of that ever happening as no autism researcher has come up from the bottom of the gene pool and thus they are totally ignorant of everything autism entails.  Autism is not a top down thing as it is currently set up but, rather it is a bottom up to the top  puzzle we had to solve on our own as it has never been in a text book before. 

We are in fact a living anthropology of people from all over the world and figured out autism, it is the long hand version of human thought.  We started out below 123 and the ABC's and ended up in Einstein territory.  Our anthropology met each other online and we all tell the same pre rain man story and all came up with the same picture thoughts and same ideals no matter what country we are from or language we speak. We were all ignorant of each other and missed the antics of contemporary autism- or we would have been in a group home for sure.  We even did a version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to make our social skills flow.

We taught our selves an entirely different kind of human thought. It has never been in a text book before. It is the next 1000 chapters in Psychology. Old Classic autism is also medical research stood on its nose.  Our keen senses and pain tolerance of only feeling 7 and above on the 10 pain scale is just beyond belief. Still if we have been injured or sick our medical records ,stunned doctors, nurses are just set back a few notches as we bounce threw life pain free. This Pain Tolerance was once a common ideal in classic autism. It has been since the 1960's since our pain tolerance appeared in a medical journal. Most contemporary Autistic people are Autism not diagnosed to the old strict standards so most of them do feel pain and those that don't only hit the radar when they get seriously hurt- then they are often 'labeled as too dumb to be hurt' (and tell you about it).


  Autism hero Alan Turing, 1912 -1954 gay autistic father of the computer and WWII hero ran marathons with out walls!  The boy from Alverez (1600's) ran the woods naked in all kinds of weather. He was captured and brought to town for testing. Of course normal people in the 1600 's as well as , today testing 'different' people have the cart before the horse as always. The entire Montorissi School  special education system we still us today is based on his tests and results.  It seems not much has improved.  I for one am very glad Autism forgot about our pain tolerance ,just imagine the torture chamber we would be in at some drug company lab while they seek to find a pill that copies our pain tolerance.

It has only been since Rain Man the movie that Autism took off and is now a big buzzword and  political issue and yes and epedmic. Sadly the late Dr Rimalnd father of the movie Rian Man  was ignorant of real Autism and his empire is now too big to overcome as those of us that really made it and did the whole trip up from the bottom of the gene pool are too little too late.  The peer review and approval process has failed autism as those of us that really made it have a story to tell that no peer review and approved 'expert' will buy.   Autism is BOTH mr/dd and Einstein. Since normal researchers have never knowingly had an autism thought the research of Autism is worthless.  Unless they realize the entire scope of the  human mind their short cut thoughts are just too shallow to figure out autism.  Until some researcher comes up from the bottom of the gene pool  like we did no one will have the experience to even look for ,or ask the right questions.  Until then autism speaks but will not listen.

Thanks to the Wall Street Journal and Mr. Lehrer for not just printing the autism party line. It is refreshing not to hear how big autism has become.

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism 

Special thanks to Dr. ands Mrs. Evans for passing this article along.

Rich is inventor of The Turing Motor a green 'triple hybrid' Car motor running on Compressed Air Gas and Battery- less electric.                 

Why do we Dream? It is Elementary, it is the basic thought of mankind.

Elementary indeed.      REFERENCE to PBS (America) Show Why do we Dream?  Aired Wednesday 6-29 2011 on WOSU Columbus, Ohio.

I seen the promotion for this show a day or so before it aired and it is the 'typical' lost version of man specifically man's researchers asking the obvious questions/ one would ask IF they didn;t know the whole story of the human mind. As Einstein has said ."If they knew what they were doing they would not call it research."  Bless them they don't even have enough knowledge of the human mind to even ask the right questions, let alone realize how off base we are as mankind as we attempt to let ourselves think we are smart.

The show makes a big point of noting dreams take over the mind and body during sleep. As well it should. We are indeed programmed  to think like that as humans. AND we do we just don't know it.  Yours Truly Rich Shull started out at the bottom of the gene pool in Special Education and I and others like me learned the long hand version of human thought in by happenstance in a day and age when Autism was not a buzzword or a curse. AUTISM is simply thinking with dreams all the time.   We learned  when our OPTIC vision was OFF (lack of Eye Contact as autism calls it) we were thinking with our brain generated images yes daydreams and dreams!  When the TV show is talking about the power of dreams it is the power that makes us Einstein. It is the modem that allows us as humans to think. The KICKER IS  humans think in short cuts all the time and thus the IMPASS is identified. If man knew those below the surface of the mind dreams -picture thoughts were vital and used every day ,dreams would not be such a mystery.  Mans mind is nothing more than a store house of pictures from real life from the day we are born to we die. The BRAIN ADDS to the physical pictures in the memory banks to make new thoughts. When we dream we are really thinking at capacity in the way the mind is truly programmed to work.  Man's mind has short cutted the dream parts so we as humans can function faster and in real time like we do. Man thinks unknowingly in short cuts all the time

The only time man ever thinks in pictures in real time these days is when someone is going along in a conversation and suddenly you stop the conversation  cold you might say "I can picture him but can't place the name?" YOUR OPTIC vison is off and you brain generated image -a dream- show a picture of some one. You either figure out it out and say that is Mark, Willis ,Rich or whoever OR you blow it away and go one with the chat.  
Once we learn those daydream lack of eye contact thoughts they start us out well below 123 and the ABCs in the dungeons of the mind and then we learn the basic daydream thoughts and normal short cut thoughts result. Then as we build on the work of Temple Gandin we see how to develop those picture thoughts daydream in to  Einstein Level projects. Along the way we we get a very scary education on just how man as a human doesn't function and an even scarier reality check to just how close to the cave person we still are.

The dreams that awe the researchers really should appreciate but don't. They are DNA map to the mind. Our Picture thoughts we don't know we use are the root and the fabric of the mind they explain EVERYTHING psychology.  They explain Narcissiam, Dyslexia, left handness, stuttering ,genius, mental retardation ,savants, old autism and yes even sexual identity.  Our minds roots are all in pictures. When we daydream and night dream it is just our old mind working out its process. No peer reviewed professional will give this theory the time of day as no one doing the peer review has ever come up from the bottom of the gene pool like we have. 

If research EVER catches up to us school will start some day  BELOW 123 and the ABC's as we finally teach and guide our youth threw the building blocks of the mind.  If all our switches were 'flipped' and hundreds of milestones  in the progress and the building of the mind  were known we could virtually eliminate MR/DD  and nearly every student could do Einstein Things. School could start about 2 years old and be over for most every one by 8th grade and we would be smarter than we are now.  The 8th grade could in fact rival college educations of  the 1930's. It is said an 8th grade education from  the 1930's is like a college degree today.  There is only so much knowledge in the world and if organized and put in the right spot of the minds  eye -dream charts /picture thoughts bins, all knowledge would build on old knowledge  like it should and soon we would all be Ken Jennings the Jeopardy Champ.

The mind is nothing more than picture memory upon picture memory built and stored from birth (even in blind people) from day one until we die. If we knew how to apply store and use the brain and indeed how the brain really worked (sorry guys the brain waves have it all wrong)  we could blossom to new highs as humans and we would not even have to land on the moon. We just simply need to embrace our dreams and daydream.  ALL of this power and might are for sure the next 1000 chapters in psychology.  Warning the mind is a bit more backward than one would care to admit to so the discovery is not too much of a charming glorious affair as man hoped  but rather a humbling experience that totally explains antics of humans on the Jerry Springer show and the brightest minds of colleges and think tanks.  One explanation for everything - DREAMS -explain them  ,know them , love them and control them  and you will know psychology and education and yourself inside out.

Again none of this dream weaving below the surface of the mind has been knowingly experienced by the average person and since experience is the only teacher in life the best of research is jumping into this dream adventure as it always has wearing blinders and with peer review holding back progress, as usual. Dreams are only gibberish when they are not acted upon and used to expand horizons. 

If all these dreams were under stood we would discover many more types that enable man to talk. Picture thought and dreams take a huge evolutionary leap of faith when a parrot or even a human talks. IF only science could hook monitors to our brains and see how the picture thoughts and day dreams function and convert to normal short cut thoughts the whole psychology book would be finished.   

  The power of dreams in reality

Only advanced figured out Autism- day dream- dream thought could do this.

I was driving some years ago now in my 79 Mercury Cougar down US 33 in Lancaster Ohio and seen a Van driver exiting the Meijer store and he was running a red light. I figured by the time he seen me and slammed on his brakes it would be too late ,especially if I did the normal thing and did the same thing -it was a sure crash.

Instead my OPTIC vision went OFF and in my dreams I figured out all the crash angles and scenarios and discovered the BEST chance to miss the crash was to STOMP the GAS and turn to the right very gently to keep the front tires from loosing grip I did just that. I heard the chirp of the rear tires and the howel of the front ones as I executed the maneuver . I missed the crash by millimeters. The other driver went on and I set on the side of the road after getting stopped to finally take a chance to panic and regain my composure. The Dream thoughts the Einstein ones were perfectly executed , timely and enabled me to miss the crash all together!  See the power of  dreams?   If I had been normal and only knew and practiced the short cut normal thoughts humans do by default I would  have stomped the brakes and crashed just like everyone else.       

So dreamers keep on dreaming and researchers think outside the box if you can , the results will be awesome even  if they not peer reviewed or approved.  

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism .




              

Experts and Stuttering

 From the web on a series called 6 Extremely Ethically Questionable Experiments: Asylum .com



The Monster Study (1939)

This experiment was conducted by speech "expert" Wendell Johnson and led, in part, by graduate student Mary Tudor Jacobs in 1939. Johnson believed that stuttering was a learned behavior, attributed to outside factors, such as constant criticism from a parent to his or her child for even the slightest speech imperfections.



Twenty-two orphaned children with no prior speech impediment were chosen for the experiment. Wendell's goal was to induce the disorder in orphans. One group of orphans received praise for positive speech therapy, whereas the other group was belittled, badgered and told they were stutterers. By the end of the study, none of the test subjects in the negative therapy group became stutterers, but the experience caused them low self-esteem and irreparable damage.

Boy I wish psychology would come out of the dark ages. These horrible experiments in the name of research would be seen as nothing more than torture. I am sure this was not the first nor the last flub in the guise of psychology or medical research. Peer review approves the experiment as the peers are as ignorant of things as is the doctor in charge of these charades is. Peer reviewed and rubber stamped approval is demagoguery run a muck. 

If the psychology folk really knew the mind they themselves work with they could simply look into the human code: the code of Picture thoughts. Man indeed thinks in pictures and hardly anyone has a clue that we do that. Our minds operate on a series of picture thoughts ,think of them as the IBM punch cards that once operated the room sized IBM 360 and 370 computers of the 1960's.  These cards were a stiff "4x6" cards with holes punched in them and when stacked and fed threw a computer card reader 1000's at a time, they formed the instructions for the computer or even the program to run. These cards were riddled (like the human minds are) with errors in typing and reading etc. When they worked the computer was fabulous but they often had a few troubles. Programs would bomb out, card readers would fail, a punch card would get out of place all making for a time of it.

Now use the same idea, cards out of place mis punched etc. Instead of IBM cards replace that idea with picture thought. Every human from their birth has developed their own personal picture thought dictionary unique to their experience. Our first picture thoughts form the base of the mind and eventually the mind if we develop normally develops short cuts and adds speech to the picture thought. If those cards  picture thoughts are out of order we stumble and stutter. If psychology knew of our picture thought human thought system they could simply go into our mind and fine tune the speech program with I predict great results. 

Humans have been fooled since the dawn of time by their own 'success'. No one has developed like Autistic like me have and we absently learned the long hand version of human thought and know the internal picture thought system we all use. We learned it by necessity as our default thought system,it was never in a text book.  Trouble is a normal human mind operates in short cuts all the time and man doesn't even know it. The long hand very laborious picture thought IBM card system that makes us appear normal is very over taxed.  Most of what we do to present as normal humans is just beyond belief. The computer Alan Turing fathered, The IBM cards of the 1960's are just almost identical to the actual human mind operation.

While psychology  piddles away chance after chance of honest discovery it is not all the psychologists  fault as he or she only knows the common knowledge and remains ignorant of the base of the mind. I think is nearly impossible for Psychology to really discover our mind as the mind is made in such a way ( very clever if there is a god of some type) to make it tamper proof. 

There again simple evolution of the mind fits the picture thought theories to a tee. Our minds are shared by all the creatures of earth. Yes we talk with the same thoughts parrots do, our anger and rage is the same thought process a Grizzly Bears use. All creatures use short cutted -slip shot thought we know as emotions. All of us (animals included)  use our first sight or experience even if we are physically blind to set the stage of picture thoughts. Then Optic vision and mind generated vision work together to make us think and present as we do. Perhaps our optic nerve is a flipper valve between daydream type of thoughts aka. picture thought and the simple ones we know.  Yes, many times a day our OPTIC vision our eyes are OFF and we never know it as what we think we see is just a picture screen set up by our brain. That is why we have car crashes, we stumble on steps and at times can't hear someone talking to us as the Picture Thought we are having at the moment is using all the brain power we have and thus reality is shut down for a few seconds now and again as the brain catches up. It is the reason why blind people as legend has it can see so well they just have one less input than sighted people have. However they have developed more common sense than the their typical sighted counterpart.

We think in pictures all the time and never know it  unless were stuck on something and stop a conversation by saying I can picture him but can't place the name?  Autistic Temple Grandin has  a loved book called Thinking in Picutes and many of us BUILD on her book and work and ADD more picture thoughts to hers and guess what? We come up with YOUR normal shortcutted thought. Along the way we came up from the bottom of the gene pool, and we also discovered the Einstein side of human thought. That too is just some plug in picture thoughts.  As I say the real human mind is not all that impressive and man will be truly humbled with the disappointment of his mind being so small. ( I just call them as I see them) Perhaps we are really better off as a whole if we keep thinking we are smart at least we can't get into the real internal code of the mind and create real monsters, like we could if knew the real code.   

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism .

  Ps How many times have you seen puppies and kittens  or cats and bears or orphans of all types being raised by another often adversary family?  The Picture thoughts are not formed yet to tell them to hate mother.  

 

Man's Mind --- the roots

Poor old mankind: Despite the best efforts of many people from Philosophers to researchers to quality driven free thinkers of all types man still remains mired in his own muck as he has never been privileged to see and feel and work with the internal thoughts that actually make our brains work. It is just as well the results are not all that far up on the scale of evolution and really man's mind is not advanced at all in fact it is rather childish. I mean really look at television, general culture, and the state of the world at large and it is all a big tit for tat ,piss fight among different people that are merely different from each other and the human mindset is not all that keen on different. So many fights and wars are simply stupid differences over religion,the color of ones skin ,the pure pung of poverty and other childish things. It is the rare human that can make peace ,live peace and be friends with everyone.

Once or twice in every generation there are people like me, that did a different kind of life and we started out life below 123 and the ABC's and think with a picture based mindset that is the pre courser to the normal thought you know as well,"normal". The thought system we know is a few steps closer to the cave person system and includes super keen senses as we are often both deaf and blind (autism lack of eye contact) and thus like a blind person our senses are like hearing are heightened. Man especially the Psychology 'experts' have no clue the real thought the make our minds work are so simple and pr imitative and they also fail realize the thoughts we use all the time (man in general) are even shortcuts of those internal thoughts we don't know we have. It seems like Mother Nature allowed us to short cut our brain's thoughts for streamlined social things and by doing that most of mankind has honestly lost the ability to think. Every Human has the Einstein ability in them! However, it is never tapped and psychology is not even close to opening that door. There is no one more confused than an "Expert" and to make matters worse, they even peer review and rubber stamp their own ignorance time and again in the spirit of research. (or job security). Meanwhile the true innovation of thinkers like me that have figured out autism glow like a polished diamond and traditional humans even use us at times as they like our inventions (like the computer ,Alan Turing 1912-1954) and the innovations of Di Vinci ,Tesla and many others but yet as history has proven normal people pay us lip service claim our ideas as their own and then take credit for new ideas they don't even understand.

That is all par for the course, man is so simple and backwards he is a fool to himself. In a way it is a good thing television is so well liked as it is the biggest babysitter to all of mankind and the mindless chatter and time wasting programs keep many human minds occupied and "gulp" enthralled. It takes all types to make a world, and the biggest mouths , biggest pocket pocketbooks and those with the most peer review feathers in their cap rule. Then you have to consider the mindset of man if you realize like I do the the internal thoughts that really make man's mind work you will see there isn't much hope for mankind improving as long as the sex is the only really driving force in the typical human. I don't think there is real chance of extinction of the human race but as for going up in the world that ideal is pretty much a washout.

Even WORSE the Einstein type of thoughts normal man is striving to figure out and expose claim as his own are so well hidden in plain sight that it is invisible and when it is exposed like in the case of our autism (old working autism, not the modern stuff) it is not even realized for anything more than a fart in the wind. When you see life threw the deep internal thoughts that we have figured out, Life is funny, not all that strange and in some respects damn scary as the ignorance factor in our lives is by far the most powerful human influence on our lives.

Well now, What is it we do to think that you don't?(knowingly do) here is the key to the mind

It has to start with this common example.. Your going along in a conversation and SUDDENLY your stumped. your OPTIC vision is turned OFF and you are looking at a minds eye picture of "uncle Joe" your stumped on who he is? your stuck on his name? You stop the conversation and say I can think of him, its on the tip of my tongue , I can Picture him ,or you just bluff it off. What really happened is you just witnessed for your self one of the deep daydream based picture thoughts that make up the mind in action. MOST of the time they run below the surface of the mind all the time and you never know it until your stuck on something like Uncle Joe. Our human minds simply think with those deep internal thoughts and and our social sides water those thoughts down so that can fit into a conversation. Again normal thought is shortcutted thought. THAT is why man remains so ignorant.

If you followed the trail of those deep daydream based thoughts our default though system by the way, you would see the Einstein side of your mind and be able to tap it. If you ever were successful in explaining a daydream or a dream that is very much the same type of thing we do when we think with our Einstein sides. Honestly if Man knew the same internal below 123 and the abc thoughts we do we all could be Einstein. I know we as humans were expecting Einstein and other great minds to be further up the human scale than this and indeed that is where we are looking but we are also fooling our selves and approving the actions we do to promote our own ignorance.

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism . Inventor of The Turing Motor a Green 70 % efficient triple hybrid car motor featuring one central spinning cylinder.

A Nip Of Something, Pain Tolerance

NIP! I was cutting the lawn in the back yard on Sunday when a neighbor's dog jumped the fence and and came over and bit me in the darieraire. The actual picutre is not fit for this blog but here are the undergarmets I was wearing , plus keep in mind there were a good pair of sturdy of blue jeans that were ripped as well. It felt just like a pinch. The actual wound is much bigger and was really swelled and it bleed for 24 hours before it stopped.  I had a set of rubber handled coverd plyers in my back pocket and I think they really kept the full effect of the bite as the dog got some unexpected interferance in his mission.

Like all previous wounds,, ( Modern autism should know this)

This one does not display black and blue marks (a white person thing) . If this were not a photograph in poor taste I 'd post a picutre of the actual bite here.

I was not thrilled with  the idea of going to the Emergency Room for this as everytime we end up there  ( Old Functioning autisitc in geneal) we become a circus attraction. The last time I was there people from  Doctors to hospital staff to the public were gawking at my X-ray of the neddle in my foot (above) and seen me walking on it with out pain. I was not thrilled about the idea of being sunny side up and exposed as people looked at this dog bite. Of Course no good doctor could resist the Push and Press (until you scream) diagnosis tool and that is the side my bad hip is on so by the time they reached 8-9-10 on my pain scale- when we do finally react- they might have blown my hip again. 

Old Autism pre Rain Man knew of this pain tolerance and gave it the respect it deserved. I know all new age medicne thinks it is great and knows everything and assumes all popuations feel pain but all they need to do is trace the roots of autism to discover we don't. We can thank the late Dr Rimland  (father of Rain Man) for some of that forgotton glory.  It is just as well, The torture chamber we would be subjected to via autism research or medical research would not be fun even if we don't feel pain. I'm sure no research group could be trusted not to do a first class cover up after they abused you to death. 

I proposed in my bansihed book Autism Pre Rain Man Autism a test for the pain tolerance. I related my real life as a mechanic and devised the following. Present the Autisitc person with a series of bolts and give him a wrench. Have them tighten the bolts until they thought they were very tight. I predict Aspie would snap low grade bolts like candy canes and not even wince doing it.  Only the very good grade bolts would not break and we would finally grimace and show some sign of pain as we tightened them.  When I finally discovered a torque wrench that is designed to break away when a pre set torque is reached I was shocked to discover 80 foot pounds was my thresh hold and it felt like 20 foot pounds of torque. No wonder I broke nearly every bolt I touched.

Over the years as I have met old and new age Aspies . Some display the pain tolerance and know it like I do and others don't. It seems those of us WITH the Pain tolerance are the ones that Think in Picutres (building blocks of the mind)  and when  we meet the non pain persons of  today's autism they don't have a clue to picture thoughts.  This BEGs the question ,If the Autism Pain Tolerance and Picutre thoughts and Splinter skills and Obessions were reintroduced into Autism would the successfull Autism of time gone be obvious again?  It is a sure bet, modern Autism and its Research Empire that speaks with a billion dollars of "power"  is not going to be the one to open up this pandora's box - they were the ones that sealed it to start with.

Meanwhile Autism Pain Tolerance like explaind in The Enigma as Alan Turing our autism hero ran marthons with out walls and invented the computer via splinter skills and obession is the real working autism  that time forgot and now can't admit to.  I cry knowing of all the humanity and the next 1000 chapters of Psychology are yet exposed again here in  current times and (not shockingly) man is too dumb to know what he is missing.

As Di Vinci was quoted (along the lines) "Wake up you miserable humans".  I might add until man realizes he is thinking with a short cut thought process he has no chance in discovering his own mind or body. The roots of man's mind and body are in old working autism and our connections we made starting out at the bottom of the gene pool .  The shocker of this Autism connecting to real life will be man is very primevil even to this day.   

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism. Inventor of The Turing Motor, A green triple hybrid car motor running on Compressed Air , Gas and Electric. 0-60 in no time flat and Green earth friendly MPG.

Ps, Please note the neighbor who has the dog is a very responsible dog owner, and rescues many dogs. This one that did the deed was totally deaf.         

More 1600's picture thoughts

THE SOUL OF THE WORLD


Rosie Jackson celebrates the anima mundi

The Philosophers’ Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination

Patrick Harpur
Penguin Books, UK, 2002, £9.99

The Oonark Eskimos were unimpressed by man’s lunar landing. `That’s nothing,’ said one. `My uncle went to the moon lots of times.’ But in a culture as hostile as ours to the wisdom of vision and enchantment, the authenticity of such metaphorical experience has been denied. With matter defined as the only reality, things as `immaterial’ as the soul, imagination, or less visible worlds are deemed to have no substance and therefore not to matter: even as I write, Professor Stephen Hawking is on air declaring belief in God to be infantile.

In this context, Patrick Harpur’s brilliant new study of the imagination - impassioned, wise, wry, humane, full of dynamic scholarship and inspired argument - is especially welcome. A fascinating, beautifully written history, not only is it intellectually meaty, overflowing with telling insight and detailed example, but on a heart level it reminds us of the deeply healing effects of a more generous and imaginal way of seeing. I found myself reviewing my own life in a new way: decisions driven by promptings from intuitions or dreams no longer seemed crazy, but full of divinest sense; I was left vindicated and reassured, with a renewed trust in the unconscious.

The problem is less one of ignorance than amnesia. In our forgetting of a larger, more sacred vision, our literalism - taking this too solid world as the only truth - has become a kind of curse. For the ancient Greeks, truth was aletheia - `not forgetting’ - ­and learning less an act of cognition than of recognition: a process of remembering. Since incarnation itself was held to be a falling away from wholeness - the Primary Imagination, out of which we are born and to which we return - the deepest forms of human knowledge and creativity could not be more than partial recoveries of this original state. Hence Plato’s anamnesis, or `recollection’ - the activity of the Secondary, or human, Imagination: `a power of working at a barrier of darkness, recovering verities which we somehow know of, but have in our egoistic fantasy life “forgotten”.’

Harpur’s powerful chronicle of this eclipsed tradition of otherworldly beings - angels, devils, gods, sidhe, the whole prolific realm once known as `faery’ - helps us remember a way of inhabiting the world that is more ambiguous and shape-shifting than the dull secularism which has come to prevail these last three centuries. His `daimonic’ reality – close to Jung’s `psychic’ and Hillman’s `imaginal’ - invokes a world that is inner as much as outer, where the imagination may not come from us so much as contain us: `It’s as likely that gods imagine us as that we imagine them.’ He undermines dogmatic atheism and the arrogance of any human-centred universe which assumes God to be our invention rather than vice versa. And the reductive literalism we inhabit - our culture’s negative default button – becomes little more than another fiction, another myth, hell-bent on denying the soul. `The sin of the ego is to wish to sever itself from its own source; its tragedy is that it sometimes succeeds.’

Some of the contours of his map of the imagination are familiar - the ideas of Heraclitus, Plotinus and Plato, Coleridge, Eliot and Hughes, Boehme, Blake and Yeats, Jung and Hillman – and the notion that from the early 17th century, the falling away of an imaginal reality has gathered momentum. In the process of our increased materialism of value and thought, we have lost vital touch with the anima mundi – the soul of the world – that collective energy which manifests both spiritually and physically and whose neglect has led to our current lack of meaning and beauty. Banished and suppressed, however, otherworldly realities do not die but return in more disturbing form – the daimonic turns into the demonic – what Yeats called those `lethargies and cruelties and timidities’ whose roots lie in a denial of imagination.

But as he traces the mercurial shifts of a neo-Platonic tradition through the centuries, expertly weaving together Norse and Greek myth, Renaissance magi and alchemists, ancient and modern theorists of dream and the unconscious, Harpur does something new. Part of his genius lies in the rich, non-linear way he re-tells the imagination’s history, part in the originality of his contemporary insights. At every turn he draws out the pertinence of a particular idea for our times, re-reading our literal culture in a symbolic way. The World Wide Web becomes an unconscious imitation of the anima mundi, Mediterranean holidays under a scorching sun turn into rituals of initiation, tourism a `secular pilgrimage’, Western medicine an echo of the mysteries of the alchemists, Derrida and post-structuralism a debased version of Kabbalism, anorexia a hunger for meaningful entry into society – all inverted attempts to invent ritual that is otherwise lacking.

Nor is this is simply a book about the imagination: for all his profound and impressive scholarship, Harpur effectively thinks in images. The texture is almost filmic in the movement from scene to imagined scene: Petrarch’s manifesto of the daimonic nature of man after a vision on the summit of Mount Ventoux in 1336; Edward Kelley and John Dee gathering with alchemists in Prague in 1583; or the fatal beginnings of the modern outlawing of the imagination in 1623 when one Marin Mersenne, `the vegan spider’, dressed in black from head to foot, condemns Ficino, Pico, the magic of hermeticism and the anima mundi. Amongst the most graphic is the portrait of Charles Darwin, `doubled up, trembling, vomiting, and dowsing himself in icy water’. Darwin’s recoil from the profusion of the natural world - nauseous at `the sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail’ – leads Harpur into the most incisive yet concise critique of Darwinism I have ever seen, all the more powerful for being focused, as dreams are, around an image. (`Image is psyche’, said Jung.)

It would be hard to overestimate the value of Harpur’s book or to praise it too highly. Packed with fabulous detail at which I can only hint here, it convinces us once again that everything is soul. We’re offered a timely reminder to recall our larger mystical selves, to conceive of possibilities of transformation, ­to remove the constraints from our limited notion of reality and celebrate life’s infinite and sacred inventiveness.

And without this restoration, how can we move forwards? It is the ability to imagine ourselves in the place of another which is the essential movement behind love: if the imagination is atrophied, so is the heart. A world which fails to foster the imagination fails to foster compassion – and the lethal consequences of that we know only too well.

Rosie Jackson is a novelist and short story writer. Author of Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion and The Eye of the Buddha, she teaches and runs writing workshops in the UK and US.

From Rich
If all of this Autism picutre thought I push holds water It will fit right in with this post. What we are talking about is nothing more than building blocks of the mind the sublevel thoughts that make the human mind function. Evolution and time have moved man a bit further from these picutre thinking ideals with every generation. *They are both MR/DD and Einstein*  In fact, the current day 2009 thought process mans uses and 'knows' as normal thought seems to be nothing more than the long hand version of autism shortcutted (= normal thoughts). Read other posts on this blog to see how we still think in picutres and generally never know it, unless were stuck and forced to say I can picutre "it" but can't put a name to it.

I am seeking a picture I seen years ago in a 1960's National Geographic Magazine of heirogylphics on a cave wall. The caption was "it was a dinner order" in so many words, a carry out order from the pre horistoric times. I seen it has pre historic first grade class room frozen in time. The picutre thinker in me  seen the idea of a picture-in-picture thought being explained. P-in-P thought is a key factor in the evolution of man's mind and if we were exclusive picutre thinkers at one time ,this learning experience would have been necessary to evolve. Once I find a copy of that picture I'll post it here.       

The Wild Boy Not Talking

37 But he did remain Silent ,and could never tell of his wild life. And something of the wild was always in him. He loved pure Icy water and loved to drink it slowly while looking out of the window at the sky and the trees. The sound of a rising wind, or the sight of a whirling snowflakes or the sun bursting from behind a cloud still made him tremble with excitement and a wild joy.

First off drinking cold things is just heaven for us, It is probably related to our pain tolerance and I know for me just feeling the COOOOOOL go threw my body is great. It is feeling something inside our body. In fact we feel more of something like a cold water going down our throat than we do if we had a sore throat.

As for Talking,,,

Victor was so close to talking it was not funny. If things would have been just slightly different he would have talked. I'm sure if the good doctor knew of eye contact and the signals it was giving and allowed Victor time to think of a few things he could have talked. When we talk (humans in general) we have to convert daydream type of thoughts to words to be spoken. If you have ever described a daydream to some one this is the same idea. In a proper Autism School we would have to dedicate an entire segment of the school to talking. During that time we could fully explain dyslexia and stuttering and even correct these misplaced picture thoughts before they turned into issues. Keep in mind Autism is the building block thoughts of the mind and they have never been in a book before so there will be lots of 'Experts' claiming what I just wrote about is impossible, in their mind it is.

Normal Thinkers "talk" easily it has become just part of the human nature for most people but no one knows why we talk no one has ever seen the thought build that forms the words that allow us to talk. Autistic like me learned to talk by trial and error and we were often late talkers. Talking indeed has become automatic for us like it is for you but in order for that to happen, we need to learn some lack of eye contact autism thoughts first. We build on the work of Temple Grandin if we become really good communicators.

Note : If you seen the Movie Rain Man you know how the popular savant plays out in real life. That Stereotype has become the 'gold standard' for autism and of course most autistic people are not that lucky. Still like Victor above could not talk and Rain Man could not 'function' all they needed was the autism picture thoughts all figured out. Many of the very well healed autistic people in my anthropology do well by happenstance. When we compare notes and figure out what we did with our invisible lack of eye contact thought base it become obvious the picture thoughts we all learned in one form or another that make us "tic" today. As I say these picture thoughts are building blocks of the mind and will add a 1000 chapters to the psychology books -if- we were not the very retards being researched. Normal thinkers (researchers included) will continue to be asleep at the switch for a few more centuries yet. Rich Shull on the Blog Autism Pre Rain Man Autism

The Wild boy making life flow

36 Victor loved setting the table ,or anything else he could do to be helpful. Sawing firewood filled him with happiness and pride. He love the fragrant wood and the sound of the saw. He was skillful at feeding and tending the fires. When he solved a difficult problem in his studies,or the doctor praised him , he beamed with pleasure. HE love order and straightened his room every day. He was a boy ,a person. He wasn't wild anymore.

"He loved order and straightened his room every day" That is "autism picture thoughts" at work. Lost in our lack of eye contact thoughts are photo images of our lives. Those images are like your daydream to some degree and it really helps our world flow If the images in our minds eye are the same ones in reality vision. If things get moved and no longer 'match' our picture in the mind thoughts it causes confusion until we learn some more advanced autism thoughts. If you had to think in daydreams all the time like we do (our default system) and those Day dream thoughts had to match the real world you would see where many autistic get their "attitude from".

Being a Social Slave is also a hall mark autism thing. Until we figure out how to do more than most basic things socially we are better off getting along to go along. Thus we are great at doing the table ,cleaning, putting up with tons of "problems". Sadly many of us in our Autism anthropology have discovered we are prime servants for the Narcissistic people in our lives. By the time we discover a parent usually had molded us into a Narcissistic web it is often too late to help ourselves out of a eggshell life. Taat means we learn to walk on eggshells keeping the Narcissistic rants to a minimum to actually seeing the Narcissistic Eggshell in our "loved one". Narcissistic people are hollow people all built on image and no real substance. A born onto them slave like an Autism child is a gift for them.

Rich SHull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism.

The Wild Boy,, Page 31

Here is the Working Autism Take on this.

31 But Victor still flitted from one thing to another, Only food got his full attention. The doctor had an idea : he showed Victor a walnut, then put it under a cup and mixed it up among other cups. Victor watched Carefully and immediately turned over the right cup. The doctor hid the nut again and again, and Victor laughed and found it every time. Even when the doctor replaced the walnut with a ball, Victor always found it on his first try. " Bravo Victor"! cried the doctor, you have learned to pay attention, and you have learned to play.

Dr.Itard as most normal thinkers would, thought he was helping Victor learn to play. Here is the real scoop. Victor was using his keen autistic decibel meter hearing to decode which cup the walnut was under. Unknown to Victor or Dr Itard was the fact while Victors optic vision was being shorted out his hearing (in general) was improved. Thus he heard which place the walnut was. Many of you know the blind community hears more than you do. Its the same thing here, as our Optic vision is OFF our senses "improve" so we get along better. We are in effect deaf and blind when thinking autistically ,except for hearing the slightest whisper or the oddest noise both signal our brain to go back to Optic vision where hearing returns to a more normal range.

For those out of the loop when an autistic person thinks (truly proficient autistic people that build on Temple Grandin's work) our OPTIC vision is off. You can see that in our lack of eye contact. While our optic vision is off our brains interject into our visual field pictures it makes on its own- our thought pictures. Once we learn to read those -translate those pictures into more thought and normal thoughts and convert them speech and water them down from Einstein we can do pretty well.

Most Autistic people never even realize their Optic and brain generated vision is interchanged. Often times the Brain generated image is very close to real optic vision so close -unless your autisitcally "trained" you might not know you have two kinds of vision going on. All of us that figured out this astonishing autism trait did so by Trial and Error and double blind experience. The Autism we figured out is the building block of man's mind. Too bad Autism Speaks (.org) but doesn't listen, even though they claim its time to listen. Rich Shull on the blog Autism Pre Rain Man Autism June 2009

The Wild Boy Page 24 -37 End of book

The Wild Boy Mordicai Gerstein

24, Except for one man.
Jeam-Marc Itard was a young doctor at the institute and thoughtful. He saw the boy ignored and uncared for, growing wilder than ever. Itard watched as the boy sat quietly by the lily pond and gazed in tot he water for hours. The boy's eyes were deep and sad. From time to time he gently scattered a handful of dry leaves onto the surface of the water ,and watched them float away.

25 Dr Itard saw the boy who had never been held or sung to or played with. He saw a child who had never learned to be a child. He decided to take the boy home and care for him ."I will be your teacher," The doctor said to him.

26 The Doctors housekeeper , Madame Guerin, a kind motherly woman , tried to hug the boy when he arrived and but he grabbed her hand and sniffed it all over. He sniffed everything. What's his name ?" asked madame Guerin, laughing. He's never been given one," said the doctor"but I've noticed that he like the sound of 'oh'. His name should have that sound in it.

"How about Victor?" asked Madame Guerin. The boy looked at her. "Victor!" said the doctor. "I believe it will suit him."

27 They took Victor for long walks in the country. He went wild with joy. They made him comfortable in his own room ,and gave him plenty of his favorite foods.

28 One morning, It snowed. The doctor looked out and was amazed to see Victor , naked and laughing ,rolling in the snow. He Hugged it to his body and stuffed his mouth with it.

29 "His Skin," the doctor explained to Madame Geruin has never learned the difference between hot and cold and rough and smooth. We have to teach him to feel ."

They gave Victor hot baths and massaged his scarred body. Victor began to feel the warmth of the water and care in their hands . After a few weeks , he wouldn't get into the water if was too cold.

30 On chilly mornings, he began to dress himself. He learned to use a spoon instead of his hands to take potatoes out of the boiling water, or the fire. He came to love the feel of Madame Guerin's Velvet dress.

31 But Victor still flitted from one thing to another, Only food got his full attention. The doctor had an idea : he showed Victor a walnut, then put it under a cup and mixed it up among other cups. Victor watched Carefully and immediately turned over the right cup. The doctor hid the nut again and again, and Victor laughed and found it every time. Even when the doctor replaced the walnut with a ball, Victor always found it on his first try. " Bravo Victor"! cried the doctor, you have learned to pay attention, and you have learned to play.

32 Day after day, the doctor worked hard with victor trying to teach him to speak . Months passed , but Victor seemed unable to learn . The doctor grew discouraged and finally impatient. "what the use?" He shouted one day, "go back to the forest, Victor! Live like an Animal!"

33 He saw Victor's eye fill with pain and then tears. Never before had the doctor seen him weep. He hugged and rocked the as the boy wailed and snd sobbed and the tears ran down his face. "forgive me, Victor . You are not an animal . You are a boy. A wonderful Boy.' He will never learn to speak , thought the doctor sadly. He as alone in the silent woods too long. But he has learned to have feelings ,and they can be hurt.

34 Victor learned to recognize different colors and shapes. Then he learned to recognize letters. The doctor made an alphabet of cut out letters, and Victor learned to spell Lait the French word for milk. He always took those letters with him when they went to a restaurant, and used them to order milk for him self. Victor learned to read more and more and connect them to thing and idea . He learned to write the words he knew.

35 One Spring morning ,Victor woke and with out thinking ran off to find the woods . He became lost in the suburbs of Paris and spent the night hiding in the park til the police found him. When Madame Guerin came for him , he hugged and kissed her and wept with joy. I believe he love Madame Guerin more than he love me ,the doctor said wistfully to himself. That's natural I suppose in a boy.

36 Victor loved setting the table ,or anything else he could do to be helpful. Sawing firewood filled him with happiness and pride. He love the fragrant wood and the sound of the saw. He was skillful at feeding and tending the fires. When he solved a difficult problem in his studies,or the doctor praised him , he beamed with pleasure. HE love order and straightened his room every day. He was a boy ,a person. He wasn't wild anymore.

37 But he did remain Silent ,and could never tell of his wild life. And something of the wild was always in him. He loved pure Icy water and loved to drink it slowly while looking out of the window at the sky and the trees. The sound of a rising wind, or the sight of a whirling snowflakes or the sun bursting from behind a cloud still made him tremble with excitement and a wild joy.

38 And every evening , when the doctor sat on victor's bed Victor took the doctor's hand cover his eyes and forhead with it and held it there, with out moving, for a long while. They sat like this for an hour sometimes and then the doctor would kiss him and say good night.

39 And If the doctor looked back in on him when the moon was full , victor was always gazing up into it, perfectly still , bathed in silver light. I wonder what he sees ,thought the doctor ,I wonder what he feels. I wonder....


38 And every evening , when the doctor sat on victor's bed Victor took the doctor's hand cover his eyes and forhead with it and held it there, with out moving, for a long while. They sat like this for an hour sometimes and then the doctor would kiss him and say good night.

THIS IS THE MOST VITAL STATEMENT IN the whole book Victor was tyring to tell the doctor his EYES were OFF his optic vision was OFF and he "seen" his thoughts! By holding the doctors hands over his eyes he was trying to tell the doctor in the only way he could his OPTIC vision was not always on and When It was OFF he was thinking with "daydream" thoughts and they need to be converted to "normal thoughts"

I can hear it now as I write this in 2009 ,I can hear the experts of Psychology SCREAMING "hogwash" no one thinks in Pictures and who ever heard of a daydream based thought system. And indeed they haven't BECAUSE these daydream based thoughts are the foundation for your normal everyday thoughts. Normal Thoughts are shorthand Autism thoughts. Autism thoughts are the building blocks of the mind and if you learn all of them (invisible to normal thinkers) you yield normal thoughts. These building thoughts take place during the lack of eye contact thought process noted so well in autism circles.

Learn all of these Autism thoughts and you will see how humans form words , you will see how and way the mind works, why we have stuttering and dyslexia. You will see how autism keen senses works and where they come from . You will see where all of this cave man stuff is still here in modern humans,just absently ignored. Normal Thinkers ,just don't have the scope of mind to realize they have missed the boat and despite their best effort and most notable intention will never figure out the mind as they don't the insight to even know the building block thoughts exist let alone connect Mr/Dd to Einstein. That is not a shock when normal thinker only use 10% of the human thought spectrum. The worst news is Man is doomed to his fate, like many others before me from Einstein to Turing to Di vinci and many of our modern high functioning autistic anthropology ,we are from the "wrong planet" and often came up from the bottom of special education system. Despite figuring out life and it one by one invisible to you daydream thoughts that form normal thoughts we are too little too late. Expert man , Experts in general are not experts but rather stead fast zealots working too hard to protect one point of view. Humans are indeed in fear of change or real truth especially when it comes from the bottom of the gene pool.

RIch Shull on the blog Pre Rain Man Autism

Picture Thinkers?

I found this on the web (Stumble Upon)and it makes my point. How do normal thinkers think they solve the issues of the mind when all they use is the normal thoughts they know? In reality normal thoughts are only 10% of the human thought range.

Rich Shull on the blog Pre Rain Man Autism
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Essay

The importance of stupidity in scientific research


Martin A. Schwartz
Department of Microbiology, UVA Health System, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
e-mail: maschwartz@virginia.edu
Accepted 9 April 2008
I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school, went to Harvard Law School and is now a senior lawyer for a major environmental organization. At some point, the conversation turned to why she had left graduate school. To my utter astonishment, she said it was because it made her feel stupid. After a couple of years of feeling stupid every day, she was ready to do something else.
I had thought of her as one of the brightest people I knew and her subsequent career supports that view. What she said bothered me. I kept thinking about it; some time the next day, it hit me. Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it. So used to it, in fact, that I actively seek out new opportunities to feel stupid. I wouldn't know what to do without that feeling. I even think it's supposed to be this way. Let me explain.
For almost all of us, one of the reasons that we liked science in high school and college is that we were good at it. That can't be the only reason – fascination with understanding the physical world and an emotional need to discover new things has to enter into it too. But high-school and college science means taking courses, and doing well in courses means getting the right answers on tests. If you know those answers, you do well and get to feel smart.
A Ph.D., in which you have to do a research project, is a whole different thing. For me, it was a daunting task. How could I possibly frame the questions that would lead to significant discoveries; design and interpret an experiment so that the conclusions were absolutely convincing; foresee difficulties and see ways around them, or, failing that, solve them when they occurred? My Ph.D. project was somewhat interdisciplinary and, for a while, whenever I ran into a problem, I pestered the faculty in my department who were experts in the variou s disciplines that I needed. I remember the day when Henry Taube (who won the Nobel Prize two years later) told me he didn't know how to solve the problem I was having in his area. I was a third-year graduate student and I figured that Taube knew about 1000 times more than I did (conservative estimate). If he didn't have the answer, nobody did.
That's when it hit me: nobody did. That's why it was a research problem. And being my research problem, it was up to me to solve. Once I faced that fact, I solved the problem in a couple of days. (It wasn't really very hard; I just had to try a few things.) The crucial lesson was that the scope of things I didn't know wasn't merely vast; it was, for all practical purposes, infinite. That realization, instead of being discouraging, was liberating. If our ignorance is infinite, the only possible course of action is to muddle through as best we can.
I'd like to suggest that our Ph.D. programs often do students a disservice in two ways. First, I don't think students are made to understand how hard it is to do research. And how very, very hard it is to do important research. It's a lot harder than taking even very demanding courses. What makes it difficult is that research is immersion in the unknown. We just don't know what we're doing.20We can't be sure whether we're asking the right question or doing the right experiment until we get the answer or the result. Admittedly, science is made harder by competition for grants and space in top journals. But apart from all of that, doing significant research is intrinsically hard and changing departmental, institutional or national policies will not succeed in lessening its intrinsic difficulty.
Second, we don't do a good enough job of teaching our students how to be productively stupid – that is, if we don't feel stupid it means we're not really trying. I'm not talking about `relative stupidity', in which the other students in the class actually read the material, think about it and ace the exam, whereas you don't. I'm also not talking about bright people who might be working in areas that don't match their talents. Science involves confronting our `absolute stupidity'. That kind of stupidity is an existential fact, inherent in our efforts to push our way into the unknown. Preliminary and thesis exams have the right idea when the faculty committee pushes until the student starts getting the answers wrong or gives up and says, `I don't know'. The point of the exam isn't to see if the student gets all the answers right. If they do, it's the faculty who failed the exam. The point is to identify the student's weaknesses, partly to see where they need to invest some effort and partly to see whether the student's knowledge fails at a sufficiently high level that they are ready to take on a research project.
Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time. No doubt, this can be difficult for students who are accustomed to getting the answers right. No doubt, reasonable levels of confidence and emotional resilience help, but I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries.

The Wild Boy - the Capture

The Wild Boy ,,, Mordicai Gerstein

Direct quote from pages 12-23

12 One gray winter morning , three men saw him. They were hunting. At first they thought he was some kind of animal. They were not sure.

13 They chased him threw the woods.

14 he tried to escape up a tree, but they caught him.

15 picture page

16 They brought him to town ,and the people stared at him. They had never seen a wild boy. He looked at the people . He didn't know what they were. "he must have had parents," they said But no one knew who they might be , to how he came to live in the wild woods. He didn't know either.

17 The town officials took charge of him . they spoke to him , but he didn't listen. He didn't listen. He didn't know what words were. "He is a deaf mute" they said.

18 He tried to run back to the mountains, but they caught him and put him on a leash. When they first put clothes on him ,he tore them off. They gave him a bed, but he would not sleep in it. All he would eat was walnuts , and baked potatoes still smoldering from the fire. He cared for only food and freedom.

19 Word was sent to Paris : "A Wild Boy has Been Captured"
It was printed in all the newspapers. They printed drawings that showed him with claws, fur and a tail. Scientists and scholars wanted to study him.

20 He was taken to Paris ,over three hundred miles from his mountains, by coach. As the coach clattered into the city, he didn't even look out the windows. the grand building and swarms of people didn't interest him. the forest was the only place he knew ,and Paris wasn't a forest.

21 He was take to the institute for deaf Deaf-Mutes, to be examined and tested. They shouted at him and fired pistols near his ear, He didn't even Blink. BUT they found he wasn't deaf. He turned his head when a walnut was cracked in the next room . He loved walnuts.

22 He would not eat bread,meat,or sweets, but only nuts, boiled beans and potatoes baked in the coals. He plucked them from the fire and ate them burning- hot.
"He seems to feel no pain! marveled the experts. They showed him toys and books ;they rang bells and played music; they poked him and pinched him. They couldn't get his attention. His mind was in the woods. His ears listened for wind and wolves. He only cared for food and freedom.

23 After week of tests and examinations, the experts made an announcement
"The boy's behavior " they said , "places him below all animals, wild or domestic. He is hopeless" They lost interest in him.

From Rich

The sound of this treatment is not much different than Autism Mr/Dd is today. Other than the fact we no longer capture wild kids in the forest, and we simply diagnose them at birth. Centuries later Victor's ideal is still the 'gold standard" for so called dumb people. Notice how quick the experts gave up on him- today if the "experts" can't get a note of fame or publish a book on a retard or use the experience to push along their own careers they just like their counterparts of time gone by, shove the people off to a "group home". Some things never change. I must note here not all researchers are in the fame game and some really do care about their subject. Typically, they are ran out of town on a rail if a designer fad like Rain Man designer autism is born however.

On Page 21 they fired pistol near his ears he never heard and yet he heard a walnut crack in the next room- here is my take on that... When we think We are BOTH deaf and Blind for a few milliseconds as our daydream picture thoughts take over our OPTIC vision. Our eyes are turned off our hearing "turned down" and our brains replace the optic vision with a brain generated picture thought (never in a text book before) that we should be reading and figuring out. When our optic vision comes back on we can hear again. Thus the confusion, We can hear, but not just all the time. A built in safety feature is we hear the really odd sounds the high pitches or the low rumbles while we are in picture thought mode and that is the basis for our keen senses. Blind people have the same keen senses. Again we are deaf and blind while we think and the lack of eye conct is your clue we are "out to lunch". Poor Victor was picture thinking trying to figure out for him self new picture thoughts and his optic and hearing were off so the gun never even registered with him.

This is where all the Picture thoughts Temple Grandin wrote about in her book Thinking In Pictures fit into the picture. Add 3 or 4 more layers of picture thoughts to hers and you finish the autism course and surpass normal thoughts and yield Einstein results. Normal people only use a small sliver of the total human thought scale and their limited ability makes research a never ending treasure hunt as they naturally have no ability to "expand" beyond "normal".

On Page 23 Poor Victor was prodded and punched and they said he didn't seem to feel any pain,,, Well really, That is the autism Pain Tolerance. This was once a known quantity in autism circles and if designer Autism had not reinvented the wheel and kept track of it very high functioning people that MISSED designer autism's curse they would blessed with out real life injury stores. Auto accidents and real life mishaps all discovered via Xrays show we miss the pain of life ,unless its 8-9-10 on the pain scale. The deeper in our bodies a pain is the less of it we tend to feel. I am really glad Modern Autism (2009) Thinks were too dumb to feel our pain or we would be in a mid evil torture chamber.

Naturally on Page 23 the "Experts" declare Victor hopeless and that is more a sign of their limited thinking ability than anything else. It was good they gave up on him , in the long run.

Below is one of those real life Xray 's that we are "too dumb" to feel!
To bad designer autism lost track of this and our Splinter Skills and obessions they were our hope!

The Wild Boy pages 5 -11

The Wild Boy Mordicai Gerstein

Pages 5-11 Quoted directly

5 There once was a boy who lived in the mountains of southern France.

6 He lived completely alone, with out mother or father,or friends . he didn't know what a mother or father was. He was Naked. He didn't know what clothes were. He didn't even know he was a boy or a person. He didn't know what people were, he was completely wild.

7 He knew how to live in the wild woods . He knew which plants, berries and roots would nourish him. He was always hungry. He knew how to survive the harsh winters, the long icy nights. He didn't seem to feel the cold.

8 No one but the animals knew he lived there . He didn't talk to them because he didn't know what talking was. He didn't befriend them because he didn't know what friend were . sometimes the fiercer animals attacked him. He had to fight, his body covered with scars.

9 He loved the wind.

10 He loved the snow he loved the full moon.

11 He loved the icy water from the mountain streams and drank with his chin touching the mossy rocks. He was completely wild.
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From Rich

These words are mixed with a lot of pictures this is after all a children's book. Still it is based on the Story the Boy from Averyron and admittedly the "weak version of it". Normal thinking pervades and poor Victor once discovered was doomed. Normal thinkers think everything has to be just like they want it to be or it just doesn't work. Normal is a normal does.

Page 6 claims he was completely alone with no mother and father and while that seems true Autistic people are never alone he was probably fulfilled with surviving. We are not all that social with people until (if we are lucky) learn some of your ways of communication. Until then we prefer to be alone. I'm sure Victor would have done very well on his own, after all he seemed to have done OK until he was captured. He might well have been a "still born" and left for dead or another possibility was he was NOT a cuddly baby and never gave eye contact so primitive parent left him go? This non cuddly baby business was once a hallmark of autism traits. If his parents were a bit Narcissistic as is kind of common in autism circles they would not have cared if he stayed with them or not.

Page 7, Tells of his survival ability and notes he was COLD and he never felt the cold.... Well hello? That is the autism Pain Tolerance we only tend to feel 8-9-10 on the Pain Scale and nothing below that. This used to be rather common knowledge in Autism circles and Designer Autism came to the conclusion we were too stupid to feel our pain. Both Explanations work and I like the newer one or otherwise the Drug companies would have us in Torture chambers figuring out why we don't feel pain. I too Thought I felt Pain like many aspies did UNTIL we are seriously hurt then we know better. Its only the Xrays of the broken bones we have walked on that convince others we were hurt. Meanwhile some in modern Autism are perplexed with the aspies with stomach digestion issues and all it is probably the last stages of something simple like lactose intolerance, only it present as severe and we don't feel enough pain to pass the press until it hurts medical exams. It also explains why we have a hard time in toilet training, we never feel the urge to go or when we are done. Modern Autism Again Loves to claim were too stupid to know that. Our Autism Blue print The biography of Alan Turing (The Enigma) Tells of Turing (father of the computer) being an avid runner and he often wrote in letters (before e-mail) that he never never felt the "wall" or the pain or the pulled muscles of his sport while others were in agony. I know what he has never been threw as do many of us injured in real life autism accidents. To bad Modern Autism will not own up to us.

Page 8 The he lived with but never talked with the animals is very normal thinker position. I rather suspect he loved the animals and they took care of him. Autistic people have a fond appreciation for animals and we have a communication with them and a feel for them. Didn't our Temple Grandin design the humane slaughter house? Our keen senses and hearing that normal thinkers don't have (developed) give us an inside to the animal kingdom. I have walked up to an injured deer stuck in a fence and helped her out of her mess. I have walked right up the meanest dogs and they melt, I find I can make eye contact with them and not make the noise to scare them, we seem to be on the same level. I suspect he probably lived with a heard of deer or perhaps a dog that he slept with for warmth. I have seen the motherly instinct in all aminals so it is possible they were his warmth on those cold nights.

Pages 9-10,11

He loved the wind the moon and drank from the creek are just par for the course. The moon was probably a night light of sorts for him and a good thing and I'm sure the wind was good for the sound it carried and the scents it also brought to him. Of Course the normal thinker just had to add he was completely wild.

The Wild Boy 1st post

The Wild Boy, Based on a True Story
Mordicai Gerstein


This children's book is a children's view of the story the Boy from Aveyron. The book is mostly pictures and is only 34 pages long.

The whole book is "normal person" personified and despite there being tons of brilliant ideas and masterpiece tid bits of information to the human condition there for the taking it was ignorantly ignored. Funny autism has the exact same problem today 200 plus years later. Autism despite the designer status was figured out and never the issue modern autism made it out to be. Autism Is BOTH Mr/DD and Einstein so it stands to reason the nit wits that claim expert status in autism funnel us into group homes- that is the mold we are poured from after all.

BEFORE Rain Man Many autistic people had and fulfilled a better autism promise than is possible today. Before Rain Man we were never typically diagnosed and the odd strange manner we did life was allowed to fester and grow and expand and suddenly at age 30 or so we figured out our autism thoughts and guess what they yield and surpass normal thoughts. Now, one good thought one figured out-one autism person or for that matter our complete anthropology will never be heard from as we are on the wrong side of the Autism time line .Plus Human nature has us pegged as circus geeks and side show material and group home residents. Those of us missing the curse of Rain Man will never be admitted to, we do too much of a real life. The whole spin of this book was Victor was a freak with out friends and a wild child while he was really an autism genius and he got along very well in his natural habitat just as nature had programmed him.

Again normal thinkers can only think normally so they have one hand behind their back as they claim superior knowledge over Victor and all the "retards" they claim to understand. I have -we have set in tutoring and special education classes and somehow figured out our lack of eye contact thought process that 'goes on beyond closed doors' so to speak and by doing that we have figured out the building blocks of man's mind. If only Psychology knew our OPTIC and Daydream picture thought vision was interchanged. (lack of eye contact) and if it knew those thoughts we do are the base line thoughts for normal thoughts they would be miles ahead. If they knew we are both deaf and blind during serious picture thoughts and that gives rise too our keen senses we would be much better able to do life. If Autism knew our thought base was the thought base for all of man we could bring all the populations up to speed with course work that has never been in a text book yet. Perhaps most shockingly is Autism figured out is Savants and Einstein. The reason normal thinkers missed all of this they are normal thinkers and they only use one small sliver of the human thought range. The Einstein stuff is beyond normal and the MR/DD stuff is naturally "working" in so called normal populations so they have no clue to what makes themselves "tic".

Please Read on as I comment on the book page per page.

The Wild Boy Introduction

An Autism Book review by Rich Shull on the Blog Autism Pre Rain Man Autism
June 2009

Mordicai Gerstein , The Wild Boy

Based on a true story. The Wild Boy of Aveyron

Frances Foster Books ,New York c.1998 Mordicai Gerstein

(note this book is a simple picture book intended for children)

Quoted text last page -" Authors Note"

""" The boy known as Victor, the wild child of Averyron was captured in the town of Saint-Sernin in the Aveyron district of southern France on January 8, 1800. After being studied by a local naturalist ,he was sent to Paris for further study by scientists there. He arrived to Paris on august 6, just a few months after Napoleon Bonaparte took control of the french republic. Almost all the experts declared Victor hopelessly retarded ,but a twenty -six year old doctor, Jean Marc-Gaspard Itard, believed Victor's animal-like behavior and inability to speak were the result of his having live alone for years in the wild . Itard worked with victor for six years,and while much progress was made, Victor never learned to speak.

Dr. Itard wrote two reports on his work with the boy and became world famous. Many of the teaching methods he devised are now used in special education, and Maria Montessori based much of her work on Itard's reports.

Madame Guerin continued to care for Victor in a small house in Paris until he died in 1828 at about the age of forty. His origins are still a mystery"""

From Rich

This story the boy from Aveyron has intrigued me for years, It was often noted in old autism and indeed it fits the old autism , pre rain man autism to a tee. Old working autism as I know it reaches out and threw from the origins of this story to the outer limits of man's mind, yes, Einstein. Naturally the boy was captured and studied and the "experts" gave up on the lad. A normal thinker even an expert normal thinker and a doctor would naturally give up and simply call the guy a retard and shove him off in a corner just like they did. Then as now psychology and medical experts missed the whole point to his state of mind and being. It is absolutely ridiculous to expect normal thinkers centuries ago or even today to know what they just missed in terms of discovering man's mind, they don't even know what questions to ask to even discover the point of view necessary to even get a grip.

Autism is the building blocks of man's mind and indeed the odd cave person behavior of Victor fits in perfectly with autism. If science knew Victor's thoughts (the base line human thoughts) they could see where he was coming from and while he presented as dumb he was simply uneducated. Normal Thoughts you use are short cutted versions of his and happen during the autistic persons lack of eye contact thought process. These autism thoughts (picture thoughts) explain Victors deafness ,lack of pain, his inabilility to talk and many other things. If autism's lack of eye contact thought process was known and then taught in MR/DD schools most MR/DD Students would thrive. These base line thoughts are below 123 and the ABC's and the reason they were never discovered was they are INVISIBLE and normal people would call them daydream thoughts.

It seems evolution blessed most of mankind with normal thoughts- your everyday thoughts- but those are based on the deep one by one building block thoughts of autism. These thoughts offer the entire gambit of human thoughts and everything psychology fits in the total scheme. The same human mind that presents as MR/DD and a savant, and a normal person and Einstein and Di Vinci among others IS the very same mind your using RIGHT NOW. There are 1000's more chapter to write to this autism ,cave person story that connect and explain mans mind from end to end. Naturally mankind's best and brightest normal thinkers ,the people running the world will never see this chance to figure out real nitty gritty of man's mind. Despite a living anthropology of well healed autistic people from around the world, that have all done the double bind autism experience and figured out a never in print before different kind of human thought process we are just too little too late and especially now that "AUTISM SPEAKS" (reference to modern org) and speaks for us and like in the 1800's tells us we are retards. Sorry they are the ones missing the point. Ignorance really is ignorant and there is no way around that so I suspect 200 years from now my counterparts will be writing the same words I am now and mankind will be as lost as ever. Di Vinci said something along the lines of "wake up you ignorant humans". He was so right.

The next few posts on my blog will cover points of this book and hopefully explain the other side to Autism and man's mind. Naturally autism experts galore will be there to shoot it down, but until they have walked a mile in our shoes and figured out our picutre thoughts and keen senses for themselves they don't know what they have missed. Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism June 2009