Words from an essay in progress: William Blake famously spoke of the doors of perception which, if cleansed, opened into infinity. For me, those doors of perception, my sensory gating channels, have always been wide open -- though I am often a bit far sighted, seeing the laticework underlying the structure of this world while missing parts of the human exchange going on around me. And I sometimes get overwhelmed. It changed my life to find out that this experience is called Autism. While Autism is classified as a disorder, it is actually a set of neurological variations that allow for a profoundly different experience of the universe. Autistic people have always existed and we serve a fundamental ecological role in a healthy community, mediating between worlds. Some of my Autistic predecessors were the people who lived at the edge of the village, maintaining connection between the human, the wild, and the divine. My herbalism and my magic are in many ways an inheritance from these ancestors of the Craft.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 06:42:33 +0000
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