from buddha to asperger

7/26/2019 From Buddha to Asperger

1/3

The Coming Race From Buddha to Asperger

(Brief Excerpts)

Callum Jensen (pen name, Dan Green)

... I experienced one of the most calming and harmonic

days of my life parallel to another in May 1994 at

Samye-Ling when HH the Dalai Lama was paying a special

visit before 20,000 attendees to consecrate the completed

Temple that had been in construction since 1970. Being

amidst Tibetan Buddhists and persons with autism, I foundmyself recognising a 'sameness' and similar deep vibe, and

wondered why this could be so....

Key to Buddhist doctrine is the concept of

impermanence, the continual changing nature of all beings

and objects. Given this, we can ask a question - if

Buddhism, instigated by the presence and investigations of

one Gautama Buddha, - like all else must change, then intowhat? In September 2009, the National Health Service in

England made a startling announcement, that one in every

hundred adults in the country has autism, the neurological

condition described as a complex developmental

disability.... To quote [Leo] Kanner ..., we read, 'It whenever

possible disregards, ignores, shuts out anything that

comes to the child from outside.' Kanner went on to stress

that the lack of contact he was describing was only indealing with people whereas on the other hand objects

might be acceptable. He chose his other defining feature as

obsessive insistence on sameness, 'Most simply in the

form of repetitive stereotyped movements and noises,

additionally in the adoption of elaborate rituals and routines

and lastly, the surfacing of strange, narrow preoccupations

better expressed as highly focused intense fascinations

and fixations.' ...

... Looking into the name of 'Leo Kanner', we find

rom Buddha to Asperger http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/green.html

of 3 02/05/2016, 09:42


2/3

contained in anagram 'Koan' - the technique employed by

the Zen Buddhist seeking paradox to transcend

conceptual/logical thought as demonstrated in Asperger

Syndrome!...

The term 'autistic' comes from Swiss psychiatrist PaulEugen 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 themajor 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 [person with Autism] referred to by the Chinese as

Chi....

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


of 3 02/05/2016, 09:42


3/3

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.

From:

http://ellisctaylor.homestead.com/cjthecomingrace.html

and:

http://ellisctaylor.homestead.com/cjthecomingrace2.html


of 3 02/05/2016, 09:42

from buddha to asperger

Documents