The May 2005 issue of Discovery Magazine, among other things, has an article about animals and Temple Grandin, an autistic woman. Aside from her abbatoir designs allowing the more humane slaughter of cows, and that aspect of the article, the piece also talks of autistic perceptions of the world.
Apparently an autistic's perception of the world of vision, for instance is just overwhelming detail, without the generalized abstractions that we 'normal' people make. A paper cup left in a walkway is an overwhelming distraction focused on intensely. Another austistic woman wrote (in another different book) of seeing the millions of colours in a patch of lawn and being lost in the activity of sorting them out. That paper cup left in the walkway is for the cows, a fear trigger. Temple Grandin speaks of Autism as being a state much more like animals than normal human. She says also for her there is no unconscious, and with no unconscious, there are no defense mechanisms... in short, no ego. What is Enlightenment? There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. __________<http://home.golden.net/~samu>__________ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UwRTUD/UOnJAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
