Week in review 09-11-2026

new month, new musings

Greetings fellow human,

Here we are. Another month. Another opportunity to sit as close to our naked truth as we can. We do so because sovereignty resides there. Which, of course, is simply another way of saying the body is trying to save us, and until we wake up to that reality, we are hostage to it.

That being so, up pops the uncomfortable possibility that we may never meet ourselves not in a survival response, which means our very sense of self is a random offcut of scarcity. Always reactionary. Always externally drawn. Never enough.

What if we found a version of ourselves that was inwardly inspired? A version of ourselves emerging from an eternal spring? How would that feel? What would fall away? What would we welcome in?

As we ponder that, of course, the gateway to such journeys is resilience, because the body will not hand over the keys until we show we are capable of withstanding the truth, so as we take a run through last week's long-form videos, we challenge ourselves at each step to ask: If I find this offensive/abrasive or I’m looking to quickly re-narrate, would that be true if I were safe in my body?

1. First up, we have another example of ADHD/ASD as autoimmune disorders. That is, definitely not ‘neurodiversity ’, a ‘neurotype ’, or whatever rubbish our era of cultural poverty spews at those suffering most. The first example was anti-heat shock proteins 60,70 and 90. This time it is anti-GAD. Yes, GAD. The gene that produces 90% of our GABA is being attacked by our own body, and the more it does so, the worse our symptoms will be. Incredibly, a gluten-free diet reduced the prevalence of GAD antibodies. Which means our ‘allostatic load’ approach to reducing our suffering very simply says: Let’s try a gluten-free diet. Let’s mark our symptom severity in our journal for 6 weeks. Let’s ask ourselves if that was a plus or a minus. If it was a plus, fantastic. We are on the right path. That’s it. That’s all we do. We find load after load that is leading to our disorganisation, and we release ourselves from its shackles. We don’t point at empty buildings and call them non-inclusive.

2. Next up is excessive excitatory synapses found in post-mortem studies of autism patients. This should come as no surprise to most people, as it is one of the most widely discussed topics, just for the wrong reasons. ‘We have impaired neural pruning, that must mean it’s ethnicity adjacent.’ No. Once again, that’s our age of cultural poverty. Neural pruning is a continual process. Fasting aids neural pruning. When you become a parent, your brain remodels via neural pruning. For ADHD/ASD, when you have chronic levels of inflammation, you grow more excitatory synapses and the gardeners are told to go on leave. When you reduce inflammation, the reverse happens. The reverse happens also, especially for boys, which requires us not to be stupid and pretend there is no such thing as gender, when they are developing their brains through play. Testosterone drives the desire to play. That play releases BDNF. That BDNF shapes the brain. On the other side of play, GABA is released, also heavily involved in neural pruning. Boys drop excitatory synapses. Deprive them of play, and they not only fail to prune excess excitatory synapses, but they also grow more. We fundamentally do not understand the human condition today. The drive to make children ‘gender fluid,’ when their brains develop in completely different trajectories, is criminal.

3. Next up, more cultural poverty. We have the neurodiversity movement. We have gender ideology. We have the strategic use of autistic children as attack dogs. All using the same buzzwords of ‘fairness, diversity, inclusion’ and yet time and time again, it leads to isolation, outrage and lays the foundations for not just intergenerational trauma but civilisational decline. The biggest trend for the post-COVID era is tribalism. It is a lower form of humanity that requires you to slice yourself up to be in-grouped. Often, as with LGBTQIA+, that is not even for full membership. You are simply required to be available for canned applause as an ‘ally.’ Those who love history know this is where we all came from. Scottish tribal wars meant a lot of lives ended early because of violent retaliation cycles. As the Franks were incorporated into the Roman legions, they were described as coming from similar societies. Australia is a useful example of overcoming these biases as sworn enemies: the Irish and the English set up shop on the other side of the world together. That means many people like me have a lot of Irish and English in our family trees. Civilisation says: Australia. Tribe says: Pick your side (us versus them). Australia created a civilisation in perhaps the fastest time in human history, which, according to Charles Darwin, was unparalleled in converting ‘useless vagabonds’ into productive members of a nation. Today, we are re-tribalising. Social cohesion has almost reached the death cross of 50% after resting at 80% less than a decade ago (when ‘fairness,' ‘inclusion’, and ‘diversity’ began their march, which shows their ineffectiveness, and true operation as euphemisms for anything but). You need 45% to have a social safety net. Which means our current trajectory is the loss of a middle class and high levels of violence. All of this is being carried out under the banner of the buzzwords we mentioned. Yet it is lies, lies, and more lies, only created in order to delegitimise 1788-COVID Australians, give Aboriginal Australians nothing more than a ‘Welcome Ceremony’ performance, in order to achieve the goal of more bodies across borders, essential if globalisation is able to survive as we’ve maxxed the manufacturing and service industry offshoring capabilities. Remember, anyone can be in-grouped. It just takes time. That is time globalisation doesn’t have, so we swap in-grouping for love (a national identity) for in-grouping by hate ‘say these hurty words to people who show you statistics on social cohesion, violent crime and social safety net thresholds.’ Why talk about this? The attack dogs. Us. Insecurely attached, with brains filled with pools of toxins, we want to feel part of something. Fabricated social battles are presented, and school students are prompted to protest on Remembrance Day of all days. Based on the last protests, an absurd ratio of autistic students will likely show up, enjoy the release of endogenous opioids that are inversely correlated with symptom severity, from call-and-response chants (particularly if they rhyme) and, given the natural analgesia provided, believe they are on the right side of history by screaming death threats. Experimenting with ideas is part of growing up. What we have to understand as a frontline defender is that if this is the only form of in-grouping (and certainly not elevating) our ADHD/ASD patient has, we are complicit in human suffering if we are not setting a plan to diversify in-grouping strategies to love-based, which humanises all, rather than dehumanising and spawning enemies out of strangers without their knowledge of the anger now calcifying our hearts. So we remind ourselves: If my in-grouping strategy requires an enemy, I’m in-grouping via hate, not love, no matter the words on the placard. If my enemy disappeared, how would I confirm bonds with my in-group? If I can not answer that, my in-grouping is fueled by hate, not love. If I don’t know who the useful idiot is, is it me? If I don’t know what the nth degree of this opinion is, could my participation be aiding a benefit I have not examined, and therefore produce consequences for my grandchildren that I did not intend? Humanity is a fragile elevation above feral. Civilisation was never certain. Democracy is dependent on demographic security, otherwise, you are simply taking a global poll on whether your civilisation should exist. For those in Europe. We know this. 10 years have passed, and Europe is no longer safe, prosperous and cohesive. It is dangerous, running out of money, and divided. It’s not because EU leadership has a heart for, let’s just say, ‘Martians,’ to distance ourselves from emotional storylines. It's because the EU dreams of no nation-states, something the public would never vote for. So they get a new public, who doesn’t have thousands of years of history. It’s clever, but again, criminal. Australia learns from Europe, or it repeats the same script, and whilst doing so, sacrificing autistic children as cannon fodder to pull it off. If you don’t think that possible, please revisit ‘gender diversity.’ Autistic kids were sacrificed. Suffering did not decrease from swapping genders. The concepts simply fed a social value credit bank that built an entirely new voting bloc from a fabricated social issue, and sustained a political movement that had all the hurty words for anyone who questioned, yet provided themselves endless grace in the aftermath that perhaps we ‘Zigged a little too far.’ Words from Marci Bowers, the former head of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, who has since confessed that puberty blockers probably aren’t a good idea, and the organisation responsible for setting guidelines (nearly globally) was allergic to alternative points of view. Marci is now also part of a court case regarding conflicts of interest in policy and financial benefits, due to making $1m a year from gender reassignment surgeries.

4. Lastly, we examine where Western civilisation came from in the first place, and what we have taken for granted (which means we may not be aware we are losing). There are still plenty of places around the world where reports of human sacrifice are made for luck (E.g. Congo for more prosperous mines). There are even more places around the world where animal sacrifice is made for luck. Christianity dropped both in Western civilisation. Genesis 22:8-14 swapped humans for animals. In Hebrews 9:11-15, we find Jesus swapped himself for animals, resulting in the oft-quoted ‘Lamb of God’ association (John 1:29). Starting with such examples helps us move toward the idea that perhaps there are other relics from our grandmothers' cultural thumb drive, and science reveals there are. Christians (and Buddhists) activate different neural pathways than the non-affiliated when carrying out self-judgment. The stronger the association Christians have with Jesus, the more different the neural activation will be during self-judgment. But which direction are non-affiliated neural activations heading? Lonely and ego-centric. We know this because oxytocin administration sends non-affiliated towards Christian. We know this because swapping ‘I’ for your name (a distancing technique) sends the non-affiliated towards Christian. It doesn’t mean we have to reinsert our grandmother's cultural thumb drive. It does mean we have to understand the difference between our animal instincts (ego-centric, immediacy-biased, and emotionally reactive) and our highest expression is bridged by software we call culture. We do not rise to our highest expression without intervention. Our non-intervention approach since the Baby Boomers (children raise themselves) has seen skyrocketing ego-centrism scores, and ADHD and autism are all about emotion dysregulation and immediacy bias. That shouldn’t upset us. It helps us understand where we are, and then we get to work lifting ourselves up (perhaps surpassing those operating on modern non-intervention auto-pilot). As we have talked about over and over again, yoga has a dose-dependent relationship with brain remodelling that shifts us away from loneliness and ego-centricity. All we have to do is roll out the mat and remember it’s a ‘practice’ not a finish.

That all sounds like a lot. It’s not really. It’s very simply the same answer to every problem, dressed up in a million different ways. We take the body to safety, and there waiting for us is the love we have been looking for. To help us get there, perhaps this week's Monday meditation can be of some assistance.

I’ll leave it there for now.

To your healing 💙,

Jas