Bipolar Inquiry

We need unconditional love in order to flower when we fall in bipolar


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I was thinking about logic and how science as logic doesn't see how intelligence can exist beyond words we think words our intelligence its intelligence that creates words and we don't see that that difference we don't see the space in which words arise and in that way I was thinking in terms of children on the autism spectrum that are may be seen as like unfortunate and maybe less intelligent because they're less able to pick up words we don't see that there's a different intelligence in action and we don't actually see that they're kind of proving that there's a lot more to intelligence beyond words than we realize because they're able to remain in that state of play and wordless intelligence longer I was thinking too about how I talked about how children with autism need a lot more love they really need unconditional love in order to flower because they can sense what's not love it's almost like they are highly sensitive in the same way and a tantrum in a way is their meter of them realizing something's happening that's not love and so and also they're being born in a time where they're not going to be institutionalized as much and someone was telling me about how at an airport you can get a stamp for your passport if your child is on the spectrum and if you have that stamp you can go to the front of the line in checking in and you can go the front of line to get on the airplane because they realize that these children get quite distressed in waiting in lines they don't understand okay stand here now for the next hour they don't understand why they just have to stand there in a line so they'd be running all over or they'd be maybe getting upset and so they've made it so the kids can go to the front line with the family of course and I thought to myself that this is an instance it's a small example and I'm sure there's lots out there in the case of children with autism where they are able to have a different process that understands their needs so in a way it's like a redesign of reality for those children it's changing society is changing the structure of the system to support these children to be able to travel in an easier way so it's facilitating that and I thought that was really awesome and then I like to think and extrapolate well how are they going to change so many other things for these children to be able to flower in society and I wonder if they'll ever realize and be able to create the space for these children to grow up and share what it is their gift is will we even create the environment that allows what it is that's trying to flower through these children to actually flower it's one thing to create easier travel it's another thing to create easier education and it's another thing to even be able to recognize with our logical minds their gifts and their intelligence that's different than our logical minds will we be able to recognize it will we be able to support them for that to flower they have a lot better chance I think their experience is also a trance conscious experience and they have a better chance in a way because they're innocent children and they're being born this way or they're acquiring this or however it works and you can't really you know drug them up on antipsychotics when they're having a tantrum and that's what happens to people that go into trance consciousness later in life and so those people aren't allowed to flower either they're suppressed it's one thing to design things into reality so children with autism don't have tantrums and it's another thing to design it in such a way that they have the space to explore so that they actually flower not just giving them enough space so they don't get angry and have a tantrum giving them more space so they will flower in a way that surprises us maybe at some point we'll actually be able to see what it is that they have to offer we might have to create a gentler world for them and we all have to be gentler in order for that to happen and I th

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Bipolar InquiryBy Andrea