LOOKING INTO THE DARK PLACES
Dan Green:
The Coming Race
- From Buddha to Asperger
Part 2
© Dan Green 2009
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As the position of the full lotus is essential to the Buddhist in their preparatory measure prior to meditational practice, let us lead an overlong due investigation into this adapted sitting position in which the legs are crossed with feet resting on opposite thighs, and the hands resting on the knees. The Mother Tongue reveals that the two words that describe this first stage of yoga, ‘full lotus’, run into one another, a singular phonetic ‘fullotus’ = ‘floats’, as in floating, to remain suspended within or on the surface without sinking, or to be suspended unsupported in space without falling. Let us study an unborn child, who, after seven or eight weeks, replicates the manoeuvres of an astronaut that floats freely in space, linked only by an umbilical line to the spacecraft - the movement of a foetus tethered only by its umbilical cord also, sends it tumbling in slow motion inside the amniotic sac as it floats weightless. The parallels between this unborn child and that of an astronaut on a space walk are all too apparent, and for a fusion of both images we return to the stunning scene depicting the birth of the Mind Star Child in the closing moments of Kubricks’ ‘2001 - A Space Odyssey’ movie. A new perspective must be taken on board when we ponder over the deliberate shaving of the head being an integral into Buddhist monk acceptance, for this is to replicate the very start of the new born life, a bald headed baby, secondarily for hygiene or renunciation. The deliberation in choosing saffron for the colour of Buddhist robes also needs explaining, for saffron, moderate orange-yellow to moderate orange, also called saffron yellow, is the colour of the early foetus, eyelids fused shut and skin transparent, as it floats in the amniotic sac. The full lotus, then, is an unconscious posture that the Buddhists have employed, a simulation of the unborn baby inside of the mother during the period of gestation. If we can stay with that period, we can also invite PWA into the picture, for a bizarre behaviour demonstrated by the mother-to-be during her pregnancy can be likened to some peculiarities displayed by PWA or Asperger Syndrome, we speak here of the phenomenon referred to as ‘pica’, a craving for unnatural food such as mud, dirt, plaster, coal or cloth (and pickles and ice cream) and a whole host of wonderfully inappropriate others. Authorities state that there is no specific nutritional need that would be assuaged this way, the cravings put down to either hysteria, or a bid for sympathy. Such cravings are thought to be signs of iron deficiency. Returning to actual childbirth, some premature babies are actually born autistic, a very convoluted state of affairs when in cosmic terms it is the already living PWA that are assisting in
Buddha in full lotus 'floats'
has been given high profile global attention with the case of British computer hacker Gary McKinnon, an Asperger who alone enacted the biggest military computer hack of all time by infiltrating networks owned by NASA, the US Army, US Navy, US Department of Defence and US Air Force in a personal search for concealed evidence regarding the reality of alien technology and UFOs. An ‘alien’ seeking his own kind?
Interesting to notice that from the great Chinese universal force that produces harmony in nature Taoism, ’taoist’ equals ‘twist’ as in the twisting spiral staircase of the DNA and by a simple rearrangement of its letters we arrived at ‘Aot-ism’. In the aforementioned yoga, the Buddhist will assume a heightened awareness of both mental and physical stimuli. He or she will attempt to pay a keen
Asperger Gary McKinnon
attention to the movement of their own muscles and rise and fall of breath in an endeavour to ‘feel’ the stillness in the air around them, that lull we experience before a thunderstorm, seeking to apply concentration on colours, textures and feeling of objects - the very collection of sense awareness that has been studied and accredited to PWA. The Buddhist has tried to express this change in his/her mental cognition into words, the outward conveyance or manifestation displaying signs of zeal or ardent fondness, delight, melancholy, lassitude or an anger of the same design as autistic outburst. The PWA is well known for occasional incomprehensible or meaningless utterance or sound. This is agreeably comparable with a technique employed in the Tantras of Buddhism. In its pristine stage, the mantra - which has four forms - is given in detail, as in a hymn. Condensed, it becomes a one-sentenced formula. This formula dwarfs again into a single word, until in its final stage it becomes but a pure sound without any meaning whatsoever, at this ultimate stage known as a seed. In Buddhism the mind must be taken away from the hymn to the finalised pure sound vibration. It is then that this vibration will allow the birth of the psychic body of the disciple, already held by the natural born PWA.
“...is like stepping through Alice’s looking glass. One finds oneself in a topsy-turvy wonderland in which everything seems quite mad - charmingly mad for the most part but mad all the same. It is a world of bewildering dialogues, obscure conundrums, stunning paradoxes, flagrant contradictions, and abrupt non sequiturs, all carried off in the most urbane, cheerful and innocent style.”
The verbatim account you have just digested comes from Buddhist commentator Houston Smith, who in his own world gives a glimpse of Zen from the perspective of the concrete western mind, and yet, to any serious student of Asperger’s Syndrome, it could so easily be mistaken or accepted for a description of the mind of a person with the syndrome. Uta Frith, British commentator on autism for the psychiatric and psychology profession, wrote in 1989 that unsatisfied researchers are unable to come to grips with the experience of PWA as it seems to be in so many ways a lived paradox. Researchers’ experience in interacting with PWA has been itself extraordinary, and Frith draws a parallel with madness, saintliness and saintly madness. This is very like the Tibetan School of Vajrayana Buddhism and its adopted association with the ‘crazy wisdom’ teacher, or ‘siddha’, who disregards conventional Buddhist orthodoxy, any situation offering up opportunities for the blossoming of an enlightened mind, improvisation playing a majority role in any particular circumstance - the spontaneity that is free to act on situations without tacit agreement or custom or comparison of ideas to elicit Truth. It is a ruling enacted from the autonomous, self-contained autistic world beyond compliance to rigidly followed, established practice or accepted standard.
The term ‘Asperger Syndrome’ is a popular reference to individuals with some autistic features who fail to fit all the criteria for a basic autism diagnosis. The most popular held belief is that Asperger Syndrome is a synonym for autism of a less severe kind, or milder form. It is about five times as common as autism. It has been suggested that the syndrome is a mild form of high-functioning autism - there are high functioning PWA and high-functioning Aspergers. Some authorities even argue that Asperger Syndrome is a syndrome in its own right distinct from autism. Rather like the Tibetan Buddhist collective body of descending degrees - Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, High Lamas, lamas and non-monastic novice monks, there is a autistic hierarchy, classic PWA, High-functioning PWA, Aspergers and savants, a body of persons organized and classified according to rank, capacity, authority and ability, thus there is no real mystery why Aspergers should be more able on the autistic spectrum line - they are a designated dispatch, an invent on specific business. Incidentally, the search for the ‘reborn’ Dalai Lama begins approximately in the third year after the absence of the prior incarnation and it is also in the third year that diagnosis for children with autism is preferred. Tests to authenticate the reborn Lama is also similar to testing for an autistic child, in that items known in the previous existence of the Lama are produced, objects that we in the west might refer to as ‘toys’. Toys are placed before suspected autistic children to see if they show an interest or response. Another comparison worthy of
mention is how the autistic obsession with precision and geometry is matched by the Tibetan Buddhist when they painstakingly arrange grains of coloured sand into a Mandala representing the Buddha’s enlightened mind. Whereas the classic PWA collates rhythms and sounds as a duty to examine and compare carefully in order to note points of difference and agreement in preparation for a new, exciting world birth, the Asperger will assist in the collecting of all manners of specified information, the culmination a great library donated to the birth. Clinical observers only scratch the surface when they witness trivia mixed with more relevant data. Aspergers have excellent, often staggering rote
Mandala of the Vajrayana Diamond vehicle
memories and usually become interested in one or two subjects, such as astronomy, geology, psychopharmacology, toxicology, astrophysics, biology and a whole host of exclusive interests such as the music top twenty, jockeys and winning horses, the name of carrot species, rose varieties, Beatles memorabilia, the lives of the Mitfords, bus routes, the livery of Great Western trains, Dewey decimal classification numbers, capital cities and their tallest buildings, boxing records, prehistoric monsters, or characters in a television serial! Although absorbing everything concerning their chosen field, they have little grasp of the meaning of the facts they learn - it is for the purpose of being ‘passed on’. This is rather like the Akashic record of the mystics - allegedly the history of the planet earth forever made available by the applied process of an etheric library surrounding it. We will now look a little deeper into the term ‘Asperger’ with Mother Tongue simplicity and guidance. Synchronising with the appearance of the ‘UFO’, autists started to communicate in the late 40’s like long awaited signals from outer space, and so Kanner and Asperger made the discovery. The PWA, by virtue of what they are, answered space signals in the cosmic scheme of things, that asked them to reveal themselves and their existence. Only That which put those signals out could verify this fact. It was their time to be revealed, as evolutionary waves functioning as impulses, hence why the PWA can be so impulsive. They role play sensory receptors, that both transmit and receive. That this species answered space signals can be found in the name of their founder Hans Asperger.....hANSAS perger = ‘ansas’ = answers. The Buddha denied the existence of a soul that could reincarnate, but sanctioned a similar concept whereby rebirth could be possible. This ‘rebirth’ we have learned is that of the Cosmic Child Birth that is already on its way. At a point in the Buddha’s discourse, there was mention of the Self, otherwise referred to as the Pudgala. Orthodoxy decrees that PWA are, by virtue of their social disability, egocentric, because of extreme difficulty in reading the reactions of others. Given this critique, it is therefore interesting to notice that all that is required to synthesise this Buddhist concept of self with the critical examination of the alleged selfishness of the person with Asperger Syndrome is to simply insert the very initials used for it - A.S. - before ‘pudgala’, to bring about ‘ASPUDGA la’, or ‘aspudga’, to pronounce ‘Asperger’. By doing so again, we can transfer the reverential observance known as the Sanskrit ‘puja’, the Tibetan sacrificial action/prayer, into ‘Aspuja’. Now, from this ‘asperger’ we take out the ‘perger’ - Old French, ‘for to purge’. To purge is to free from impurities, to purify, and in medicine to cause evacuation of the bowels. In our new understanding, this implies an evacuation - discharge, removal - of the Buddhist begging bowl, in the planetary earth body not ‘bowl’ but ‘bowel’, as it is now time for the form of autism known as Aspergers to supplant the Buddhist by behest of the evolutionary process of natural selection. We cannot leave this insight into the word ‘asperger’ without commentary on ‘asp’, a venomous snake of many kinds, plus noting that serpent worship was prevalent around the world in ancient times giving rise to disparate religions and cultures of humanity. The asp is a viper, Vipera aspis, of Southern Europe, any of various venomous Old World snakes of the family Viperidae..the word ‘rid’ contained within meaning (we meet again) to remove, removal. The word is from, again, Old French, vipere, from Latin vipera, snake, contracted from ‘vivipara’ (unattested), ‘That which produces living young’ from the ancient belief that vipers were viviparous, giving birth to living offspring that develop within the mother’s body. Indeed so, this is the active role of the person with Aspergers in the Cosmic Birth. It is worth mentioning that in Roman Catholic ceremony, the ‘asperges’ is a short rite preceding the High Mass on Sundays, consisting of sprinkling the congregation with holy water. The first words of the rite (Latin); “Asperges Domine’ - ‘Thou sprinkle me, Lord.’ A highly commendable religious appraisal by anybody’s standards.
There are three primary players in the making known of autism by divine agency and inspiration; Bleuler, Kanner and Asperger. Their names at birth are meaningful given their destined roles, so allowing the Mother Tongue to point out their purposefulness we see a hidden ‘Bleuler’ reordered within the word ‘cerebellum’, the hinder and lower part of the brain, ‘ce REBELLU m ‘, furthermore containing the word ‘rebel’ - it is in this region of the brain we find that refusal of allegiance and opposing of force of the PWA and its autonomy toward conventional ruling. Looking into the name of ‘Leo Kanner’, we find contained in anagram ‘Koan’ - the technique employed by the Zen Buddhist seeking paradox to transcend conceptual/logical thought as demonstrated in Asperger Syndrome. With ‘Asperger’, we go one further transmutive step to phonetic ‘Aspgyr’ = ‘spagyr (ic)’, meaning of or pertaining to alchemy or alchemical, from New Latin ‘spagiricus’ - coined by Paracelsus the Swiss physician who improved pharmacy, encouraged scientific experiments, and generally revolutionized European medicine - the art of transmutation, to change from one state into another, Buddhist to PWA, as the Mother Tongue itself changes from word to word. Related, let us not leave out the name of the German psychiatrist Hans Berger - containing ‘ h A n S BERGER’ - who in 1929 first demonstrated that the electrical impulse of the brain could be recorded, continually generating electrical current. Significant in a world of no meaningless synchronicities, that both Kanner and Asperger hailed from Austria, the land-locked country of Central Europe, where also was born a painter and decorator named Adolph Hitler who earlier had manipulated an entire country to instigate a push for world domination involving a search for a “Super Race’ and a Nazi official expedition to Tibet in 1938. Even the words comprising ‘autist’ are contained within the title of this country!
Saffron robes of the Buddhist monk seen in amniotic sac
the precision timed birth of a planetary Mind Child, galactic gift to the cosmos, reminding us that in dealing with autism we can’t look into something that’s inside out. If one can grasp understanding of this then it is easier understood why it is that PWA can repeat their actions in a strange loop, in computing a series of program instructions performed repeatedly until one specific condition is fulfilled or as in a tape loop where a magnetic tape recording joins in an endless loop so that it constantly replays itself. Here the PWA is synchronizing with the ‘strange loop’ affecting atomic particles. The inside out effect can best be demonstrated if we pick up a long elastic band and twist it into a figure eight - the geometrical lemniscate, an ancient symbol denoting eternity - you will see that at the point of intersection the outer edge will become the inner. The ‘lemniscus’ is a bundle of sensory nerve fibres located in the brain.
The term ‘autistic’ comes from Swiss psychiatrist Paul Eugen Bleuler, who in 1908 used the word from the Greek ‘autos’ meaning ‘self’, to describe the social withdrawal seen in adults with schizophrenia. Our foray in the world of the Far East strongly suggests that the origin of this word, and the species-to-be, far pre-dates 1908, for the Mother Tongue locates its origin in the Tibetan word ‘Tsa-u-ma’ - anagram ‘autasm’ - which refers to ‘central channel’, a further reference to a middle, to the Tibetan Lamas the major energy channel of what is known to them as the vajra body, visualised as a hollow tube of light in front of the spine. Tibetan mysticism tells us that this central channel connects vertically from the crown of the head to an area in front of the spinal base. At strategic points down this straight line are seven focal points referred to as ‘energy wheels’, a further notation implying the autistic fascination with spinning, commonly known today to all as chakras. The vajra body is a collective system of channels, energy winds (the energy serving as the mount for various dense and subtle states of consciousness) and drops (used in the generation of great bliss) that can be activated though yoga tantra. It is down the central channel that various bursts of energy can be directed outward, often misinterpreted as an autistic outburst, more correctly the overload energy of the PWA referred to by the Chinese as Chi. It is by direct reference to these energy winds coined by the Tibetans that leads us even further back into antiquity and the word ‘Aeolian’, pertaining to Aeolus, in Greek mythology the god of the winds, from which comes a word most popular in New Age terminology, a corruption of ‘aeolian’ becoming the modern day ‘alien’ (‘ae-lian’), as in science fiction, belonging to another planet or world, in this instance the alternate consciousness of the PWA, or a resident of the autistic realm. Ironic then, that in 2009 Asperger Syndrome
A Coming Race and a Cosmic Birth
In the Theosophical sense and accountable to the Gaia Theory, we discover that the name ‘Austria’ is a latinisation of the same Germanic word for ‘East’, and in our cosmic earth body scenario detailed in my ‘The Mother of All Codes’ a representative of the female sex hormone oestrogen and the oestrus of regularly recurring period of fertility and sexual preparedness when pregnancy is possible. Where better to expect a place concealing the kick start to a new ‘birth’ of a race?
The conclusion of my long and personal investigation has brought me a greater cosmic understanding of the role of both Buddhist and PWA, a tangible connexion between various schools of the Eastern Buddhist’s search for enlightenment and the unfolding and ongoing evolution of the autistic consciousness as evinced in the common aspiration
of turning within, detachment and elaborate ritual. After two and a half thousand years it appears to me that the Buddhist is handing over the baton in a new style of race. The role of the person with autism and Aspergers and where it is destined to lead us, has now begun for earnest.
© Dan Green 2009
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