Greetings fellow human,
Grab the cardigan, if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, it feels like that is all the summer will be getting this year. How quickly time flies. That being the case, let’s get straight into it. Here’s the most-shared media from the past week, excerpts from programs 1 and 2 in the Somatic Academy:
The biggest hit was cortisol levels in mum’s breast milk predicting fear responses of 2-month-old infants. This is actually an excerpt from program 3, which is likely going to be either extremely liberating or extremely offensive. It will depend on our software installation. Paper after paper will reveal that we are simply a mirror unto our parents, as they were to their parents, and the generational chain keeps going all the way until we are standing in front of a monkey, which is why we remind ourselves: It’s not a blame game. If we try that, we will be decked by a monkey, because it's physically stronger than us, no matter the intellectual arguments we may hold. What we are trying to understand is the human condition, specifically relating to ADHD and autism, and those conditions are strongly correlated with adverse early life experiences. We look and say, well, if I have the diagnosis, that may mean that my parents weren’t able to provide the necessary investment in my human manufacturing, even if they did their best. That is human history. The difference today is we have decided on refusing to adopt ourselves, and instead blaming any random person, and being entirely unhinged until we bring about changes in their behaviour for momentary homeostasis (despite our underdevelopment). This, of course, is why we are devolving. We can look at it from brain sizes. Exam grades. Aggressiveness. It’s all basically the same. The frontal regions that developed last and are a product of safety are atrophying. It doesn’t have to be like that. However, it won’t change until we reorient our highest expression to the next generation. Fairness viewed intergenerationally. All generations to come. Not to celebrate a few today who will be dead in half a century, that we’ve sliced up for some subjective pretty picture that signals our apparent virtue.
Continuing along the same theme, we find that when mothers provide emotional support to their daughters, oxytocin comes in only with in-person and voice (phone call), but not with text. In fact, text provided a cortisol bump slightly higher than no support at all. We expand past simply mother-daughter, quarantine our village interactions, and get pretty good insight into some of the ‘load’ we are all carrying in our nervous system.
Lastly, we look at the cortisol curve. In trauma, cortisol tends to be blunted in the morning, and elevated at night. The same pattern occurs when we ask adults whether they report high or low levels of parental care as a child. With high levels, there is an energy boost in the morning and a clearance that provides room for melatonin at night. With low levels, there is morning fatigue and evening rumination and insomnia. ADHD and autism look like trauma and low parental care, as they always do. We aren’t surprised at this because the easiest way to make ADHD and autism is simply to pop a child in an orphanage, and the absence of care does all the work for us. As a species, we have a few decisions to make. Will we decide that the highest exemplar of human pair-bonding is non-heterosexual relationships? Place a flag in classrooms? Pat ourselves on the back for another virtue signal? Or will we wake up and recognise that a significant portion of the software operating in Western societies tells young girls their highest expression is as a widget maker in a corner office, and their biggest threat is a male. While a male’s highest expression is female 2.0, anything else is apparently transactional to female empowerment. All the while, men and women fail to understand they are designed fundamentally differently for the sole purpose of handing over sex specific skillsets to the next generation. Dad’s challenging parenting heavily shapes top-down development, in deficit in ADHD. Mum’s affectionate care shapes bottom-up development, in deficit in both ADHD but particularly autism.
As we digest that, let’s evaluate the consequences of living a big fat lie that, as we have covered many times, is extremely profitable for the magic bean mafia, but let’s look at the human cost of that.
For those outside of Australia, I introduce you to Grace Tame. In 2021, she was awarded Australian of the Year. Since then, 35,000 people have signed a petition to strip her of the title. An unprecedented request.
Why? Well, let’s do what always helps us when the fires start to burn our fingertips. We take the alien-in-spaceship perspective. Grace received the award for her efforts in changing legislation surrounding the ability of sexual abuse survivors to speak out publicly. She was seen widely as a positive role model in the niche she practised.
Then, she switched course, not unlike another autistic advocate, Greta. The threats of our imminent planetary demise appear not to keep Greta up anymore, and her hyperfixation, as many would be aware, has been on the in-group with Gaza activists. This was the same tent Grace set up shop in, but without international appeal, and €1m from a Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity that Greta banked.
The scarf went on, and the rhetoric ramped up. You can look up yourself how far it went, and how far it ruined her reputation as an advocate for sexual abuse survivors. Suffice it to say, her podcast has been cancelled, and speaking engagements have now dried up. She has blamed this on a smear campaign.
Were there any signs of this? Could this have been prevented? Yes, and yes.
You see, Grace is a product of our modern worldview.
She has received her autism diagnosis, neurodiversity membership card and life operating manual:
Everyone else = enemy.
Homeostasis = changing everyone else.
Shockingly for our times, and blatantly obvious to all our great-grandparents: Wisdom doesn't seem to present itself during survival responses. Which is what we are in if we have a diagnosis of ADHD and autism. It doesn’t mean we can’t have good ideas. It means we are more prone to having bad ideas, because we are far more likely to be in a state of distress, and in that state project our inner disturbance to the world, as our body desires real (or imagined) feelings of being seen, heard and held.
But why does that manifest as social issues and not just road rage? Again, our modern world. The movie being played before our eyes is not a nature documentary. It’s not the top 10 greatest human achievements of the day. It could be. That’s up to us. But it tends not to be. Conversation, media and our streets are filled with human folly, and closer to the top 10 most destructive moments of the day. Which is exactly where many people enjoy it to be.
If the government have us only talking about social issues, we won’t talk about the decline in living standards (economic issues).
If big business has us only talking about social issues, we won’t talk about their tax avoidance, or even look at their practices behind the scenes, because they have borrowed social-value goodwill. Look, we are pro-[insert issue], we are next to what you value, we too, must be part of your taste and preferences.
If the media only talk about social issues, then we create news. No one would watch the news if the update was only ‘Life is great, nothing to report today, go enjoy yourself!’
Which means, instead of lunging for human flourishing, which is what those institutions were originally set up to achieve (democracy, economies of scale and free speech), they are used to throw us around like a rubber ducky in a bathtub.
But not everyone. If you are securely attached with sovereignty over your body, you only want the government to fix your potholes, roll out hospital beds and stay out of your life. You only want business to provide high-quality goods and services. You only want the media to ‘keep the bastards honest’ as we say in Australia. When you see they are trying to rule over (not for), make you a docile consumer, and present fake good versus evil battles, you walk outside, place your feet in the dirt, do your breathwork, and catch up with friends and family, and then vote the bastards out at the next election.
However, if we have been told that we don’t need to do breathwork, and our insecure attachment is other people’s fault, we may be looking for a sense of power to repair our obvious discomfort. Which makes identifying as neurodivergent one of the most predictable voting blocs.
From that position on the ideological continuum, it’s all about social issues. If we spoke about economics, there would be no division and no opportunity for Saturday protest, where our attachment and sense of agency have been rediscovered. Our us-versus-them to bond over.
From that position, we build our new in-group. We make sure we absolutely do not look like our parents we are insecurely attached to, nor other members of society we have been told are the problem to our nervous system hyper-arousal. We are different, special, absolutely not normal. A predictable survival response when we feel unseen. A predictable response that accidentally ends up, like all in-grouping does, minimising differences. We are so different we are the same. Photos of recent protestors from different cities around Australia in the last few weeks. Could be almost the same person, or a bad AI image. It’s not. It’s a worldview.
We’ve been here before. After the anti-globalisation protests in the early 2000s that took the pro-globalisation class by shock, it’s been a social (not economic) issue, about every 3 years. We’ve had climate change. We’ve had gender rights. We’ve had veganism.
Picking up the last one, to understand these trends: Who is most likely to eat a vegan, veggie, or low-meat diet? Someone who doesn’t have spiritual beliefs and does have money. Which means physical needs are covered, but spiritual needs are vacant. We are thus more permeable to other people’s ideas on how to make time here meaningful. If you eat vege, it doesn’t mean you’re a wealthy spiritual orphan. If you have an ADHD or autism diagnosis with high symptoms, and eat vege, whilst blaming other people, it does mean your worldview is complicit in your suffering. Meta-analyses reveal non-meat diets elevate IL-6, an inflammatory cytokine that is a major chef in the kitchen for ADHD and autism, one pathway by disrupting glymphatic clearance and ramping up excitatory synapses.
Ok, so rich, non-affiliated and finding friends (and life meaning) under the liberal tent. Anything else? Particularly if we are examining the downfall of Grace Tame? Sure, being a female is a contributory factor. Again, it’s liberating or wildly offensive, depending on your software installation, to understand that females' morals are more mobile than men's. Boys demonstrate higher moral maturity than girls from a very early age. Girls from a very early age demonstrate higher empathetic capabilities than boys. Girls are designed bottom-up. Boys are designed top-down. Boys get their morals from their family. Girls get their morals gradually from social encounters, which is wholly part of their wiring and communion goal seeking. Also useful from a very long history of moving villages.
In such a village, nothing is out of place. Children lose their animal-like immediacy bias (and morality is borne as a by-product) from dad. Children lose their animal-like emotional reactivity (and empathy is borne as a by-product) from mum. In the modern world where we pretend children raise themselves, and there are no sex specific toolkits, we have a generation of children with a highly reactive immediacy focus, held wholly hostage to fabricated battles on their black mirrors.
This has led females to sprint to a social-issue-dominant left to find resolution for previously non-existent concerns, as social media adoption increased. Each social issue was met with more rights. More social issues were required to maintain relevance. Gay marriage took us to gender diversity. The first had popular appeal. The last was compulsively installed in almost all. From those lofty heights, the largest political move in modern Western history is where young females are taught to yell at young males with labels such as far-right, bigot, misogynistic, phobic bla bla bla. Resulting in over 50% of girls reporting that a boy not even participating in politics is a red flag, while boys don’t care about girls’ political opinion or participation.
This movement, which adherents consider human evolution, is the case not just for young women, but for the entire tent. Many of us will remember pre 2008 political life. Nobody cared. We picked the least worst person on the ticket, and moved on. Now, we have a return of political assassinations, ‘cancel culture,’ and institutions so captured with DEI hires (an incredibly astute move by those seeking sustained power past an election cycle) that they will tell you that the biggest threat outside your door is the stale blob on the ideological map (the threat to power maintenance), that statistically means a married couple, with kids, who attend church, and prefer to affiliate with their country, rather than a political party. While 93% of terrorist attacks in the last 10 years in Europe have been left-wing or Islamist.
But the new blob doesn’t like statistics or science, because if it touches it, it dissolves. That’s how we got gender diversity, which is rapidly dropping from conversation as class actions are finally brought against those complicit in neutering mostly autistic children with half-formed brains and a history of trauma.
So what does that mean? Well, if you are a student in US colleges, you shut your mouth. The tent of ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ only likes conversation that toes the party line. Opposite sex hormones ramp up glutamate, drop BDNF, and disrupt the GABA switch. All associated with suicidal ideation. Which is why longitudinal studies report both elevated suicidal attempts and completers, as we reported in a previous newsletter.
What happens if young girls didn’t get caught in this ideological-science-hating-hurricane? On average, they are less depressed.
They are, on average, less lonely.
Makes sense. If your entire worldview is based on believing the world is evil, and emotional homeostasis is gained by changing the behaviour of your enemy, that’s pretty isolating and depressing. The more we run away from everyone, the more our distress rises, and the more likely we are to hold these left-wing attitudes. An uncomfortable conversation for those who consider it human evolution when it's a destination maintained by scarcity, the opposite of how we evolved.
So what do we do? Run as far as we can to the right? No, of course not. That’s the reason why Germany is currently deindustrialising, and its citizens hate themselves more than any country I have ever been to. A family on a backroad, living in a mud-brick home in Bolivia, given absolutely nothing, loves their country more than the average German today.
Why? Because it was assumed that after going so far right, then left (without limit) must be fate. Now a pride flag is on every public building, you can be arrested for a national flag if there is no football game, fertility rates have been below replacement since the 1970s, German culture (that built once one of the most successful civilisations in our species history) is not advertised, instead, minimised, and anything else is celebrated and placed on a hierarchy above it. Doing so has predictably resulted in stabbings, shootings and sexual assault that have never been higher.
The elite’s zeitgeist is so bemused that a Western universalist liberal is not blossoming from the heart of every imported person as soon as their feet touch German soil, sharing such statistics can produce a knock at the door from the police, reenacting (along with the flag wave arrests) what was apparently being guarded against. So what is done? Of course, we do what we always do when we find the truth offensive. We re-narrate it. One of Germany’s most reputable research agencies adjusted the raw data of crime to every new additional entrant per city, town and village, and successfully achieved a negative result.
Yes, defying all logic, according to the findings, more strangers together should result in lower crime. Of course, this is not the case. 33,741 more women were violently sexually assaulted than would have been so based on the 10-year trend before 2015, and there were two gang rapes per day in 2025. What do many Germans do in this moment? ‘How could they have known better’ or ‘Their life must have been hard’, which, again, carries out the crime sought to be avoided: You are assuming someone of the same species is less capable of respecting another person's right to safety than you are. That’s pretty discriminatory if you ask me. So, we ask as usual, how many bodies? How many bodies will we walk over to maintain worldview:
That humanity is not a fragile elevation above feral.
That the elevation is not suspended by culture.
That all culture is the same.
All people can achieve social cohesion. Simply, not all culture seeks social cohesion. But that’s not universalism, so media articles were presented with headlines ‘Migration not linked to crime,’ with a high chance nobody read the cited study that arrived at such a conclusion by suggesting males, without a job, who are young, living in the city, are more likely to commit crimes, so advertising to young girls living in big cities with crowds of military-aged men in the streets are as safe as they always were, is ‘fair.’ An action no different to denying shark attack deaths from people swimming at the beach, because, hey, there are sharks in the ocean. Fathers, mothers, brothers don’t magically walk back through the door of the family home. Perhaps they could have if a preventable ‘Beach Closed’ sign was placed while the threat was resolved.
But that’s rational. Currently, we are on a very irrational trajectory toward the same place all civilisations go to die. You act like a spoilt private school child, spending your inheritance because you feel like you didn’t earn it. It disappears because it wasn’t fate, and the tools required to amass it have been lost. People wonder in. Stand atop the ruins. Question what life might have been like. Spend 10,000 years attempting to arrive at the same place, with no certainty of ever doing so again. Aliens in spaceships continue to be entertained.
What does that leave us?
Take the body to safety. There, we ask ourselves some questions:
What is my highest expression? Is it love, defined as dissolving the illusion that we are separate?
What is my legacy? Is it the next generation, defined as leaving the world more equipped to deal with the human condition than we found it?
What does that ask of me? Do I understand the human condition and its fragile elevation?
Do I understand in-grouping? That even monkeys know attachment comes from continual relationship maintenance (grooming), not a ‘hope not hate’ protest placard?
Do I understand that civilisation was never certain, and history is cyclical, not linear?
You may be doing that already. You may not be doing that already and have no interest in doing that. Everyone can find peace, attachment and share that in a state of joy with others. Not everyone will. Those who don’t will be taken hostage by their body, call themselves clever, and be complicit in human suffering, as humans have done since the beginning of time. It is what it is.
Perhaps this week's loving-kindness meditation can nudge us toward a receptive state, reminding us that we are all fingers of the same hand, and love is always waiting for us when we finally turn off the survival responses. Only our forgetting gets in the way.
To your healing 💙,
Jas