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Why Autistic Boys Outnumber Girls 4:1

Why Autistic Boys Outnumber Girls 4:1

Does X really mark the spot? Why are there at least four boys diagnosed as autistic for every girl? This gender ratio is a big mystery in neuroscience, but holds clues to the causes of autism. Some of the genes associated with autism lie on the x chromosome and, early on, this alone was thought […]

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

If you bring your young child to a doctor’s office because he lacks social skills, doesn’t make good eye contact and talks very little or has unusual speech patterns, he will undoubtedly be diagnosed as “autistic.” You are also likely to be told nothing can be done. That is tragic because, these vague symptoms can […]

Dreaming and Prophecy

Dreaming and Prophecy

Several years ago I awoke in a panic from a nightmare. I didn’t remember the nightmare, but the first thought that I had upon awakening was, What if it is melanoma? I’m not prone to nightmares, and I wasn’t worried about the new mole that I had seen on the back of my leg the […]

Five Scientific Facts: Links between Autism and Vaccines?

Five Scientific Facts: Links between Autism and Vaccines?

                                                  The incidence of autism has increased over 200 fold during the course of my thirty-year career as a medical doctor. Although more than one billion dollars has been spent trying […]

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Breaking the Silence

While researching nonverbal communication with an autistic girl named “Hayley”, I realized the pervasive and painful lack of understanding about the nonverbal children discussed in the video above. Many children diagnosed with autism are seriously misunderstood, and spreading the information below could literally save a life. It already has. A nonverbal child was almost denied […]

Autistic Savants

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

If you bring your young child to a doctor’s office because he lacks social skills, doesn’t make good eye contact and talks very little or has unusual speech patterns, he will undoubtedly be diagnosed as “autistic.” You are also likely to be told nothing can be done. That is tragic because, these vague symptoms can […]

Screen Shot 2017-02-24 at 3.48.22 PM

Breaking the Silence

While researching nonverbal communication with an autistic girl named “Hayley”, I realized the pervasive and painful lack of understanding about the nonverbal children discussed in the video above. Many children diagnosed with autism are seriously misunderstood, and spreading the information below could literally save a life. It already has. A nonverbal child was almost denied […]

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Autistic Savant Who “Knows Without Studying”

Meet eight-year-old Vishal, an autistic savant who “knows without studying.” He attends a school for autistic children, where he learns social skills rather than academics. He doesn’t have the attention span to study from books or teachers and doesn’t understand why he should because information just comes to him. Like other autistic children, he is […]

Human Consciousness

Why Autistic Boys Outnumber Girls 4:1

Why Autistic Boys Outnumber Girls 4:1

Does X really mark the spot? Why are there at least four boys diagnosed as autistic for every girl? This gender ratio is a big mystery in neuroscience, but holds clues to the causes of autism. Some of the genes associated with autism lie on the x chromosome and, early on, this alone was thought […]

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

If you bring your young child to a doctor’s office because he lacks social skills, doesn’t make good eye contact and talks very little or has unusual speech patterns, he will undoubtedly be diagnosed as “autistic.” You are also likely to be told nothing can be done. That is tragic because, these vague symptoms can […]

Dreaming and Prophecy

Dreaming and Prophecy

Several years ago I awoke in a panic from a nightmare. I didn’t remember the nightmare, but the first thought that I had upon awakening was, What if it is melanoma? I’m not prone to nightmares, and I wasn’t worried about the new mole that I had seen on the back of my leg the […]

Screen Shot 2017-02-24 at 3.48.22 PM

Breaking the Silence

While researching nonverbal communication with an autistic girl named “Hayley”, I realized the pervasive and painful lack of understanding about the nonverbal children discussed in the video above. Many children diagnosed with autism are seriously misunderstood, and spreading the information below could literally save a life. It already has. A nonverbal child was almost denied […]

Businessman and Impossible Staircase

The “Closeminding” of America*

Recently I was asked a simple, yet profound, question by Steven Frampton, a British radio host. He wanted to know why American scientists don’t believe in ESP. We talked about the fear of changing one’s view of reality, and how ESP research has been a death knell to scientists’ credibility. Shortly thereafter, he and his […]

Birds flying through the moon at night, dark

The Spiritual Life of Crows

We had just arrived, before dusk, on our trip to Yellowstone National Park to see its new wolves. Within minutes of passing the gate, a raven flew onto our rental car’s side-mirror. It grasped the mirror with its claws and began pecking at my window… while we were driving towards our lodge. Its acrobatics caught […]

Sticky Wiki

I looked up Extrasensory Perception on Wikipedia out of curiosity and because its page on psychokinesis cites my book. I was surprised at what I found. The page on ESP is written from the die-hard skeptic’s perspective and puts down parapsychologists as “pseudoscientists”.  Parapsychologists are among the most careful researchers I have met. They want […]

Mahale-chimp-baby

Do Chimps Have Superior Memories to Humans?

Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa’s star chimp, Ayumu, was in a 2012 BBC film “Super Smart Animals” because he can remember the sequence and location of nine random digits displayed for only 60 milliseconds. First of all, phone numbers, not including area codes, are seven digits long because that is most people’s short-term memory capacity. More importantly, 60 milliseconds […]

Screen Shot 2017-02-24 at 3.51.45 PM

Autistic Savant Who “Knows Without Studying”

Meet eight-year-old Vishal, an autistic savant who “knows without studying.” He attends a school for autistic children, where he learns social skills rather than academics. He doesn’t have the attention span to study from books or teachers and doesn’t understand why he should because information just comes to him. Like other autistic children, he is […]

Neuroscience

Why Autistic Boys Outnumber Girls 4:1

Why Autistic Boys Outnumber Girls 4:1

Does X really mark the spot? Why are there at least four boys diagnosed as autistic for every girl? This gender ratio is a big mystery in neuroscience, but holds clues to the causes of autism. Some of the genes associated with autism lie on the x chromosome and, early on, this alone was thought […]

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

If you bring your young child to a doctor’s office because he lacks social skills, doesn’t make good eye contact and talks very little or has unusual speech patterns, he will undoubtedly be diagnosed as “autistic.” You are also likely to be told nothing can be done. That is tragic because, these vague symptoms can […]

Five Scientific Facts: Links between Autism and Vaccines?

Five Scientific Facts: Links between Autism and Vaccines?

                                                  The incidence of autism has increased over 200 fold during the course of my thirty-year career as a medical doctor. Although more than one billion dollars has been spent trying […]

Businessman and Impossible Staircase

The “Closeminding” of America*

Recently I was asked a simple, yet profound, question by Steven Frampton, a British radio host. He wanted to know why American scientists don’t believe in ESP. We talked about the fear of changing one’s view of reality, and how ESP research has been a death knell to scientists’ credibility. Shortly thereafter, he and his […]

Mahale-chimp-baby

Do Chimps Have Superior Memories to Humans?

Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa’s star chimp, Ayumu, was in a 2012 BBC film “Super Smart Animals” because he can remember the sequence and location of nine random digits displayed for only 60 milliseconds. First of all, phone numbers, not including area codes, are seven digits long because that is most people’s short-term memory capacity. More importantly, 60 milliseconds […]

Psychiatry

Why Autistic Boys Outnumber Girls 4:1

Why Autistic Boys Outnumber Girls 4:1

Does X really mark the spot? Why are there at least four boys diagnosed as autistic for every girl? This gender ratio is a big mystery in neuroscience, but holds clues to the causes of autism. Some of the genes associated with autism lie on the x chromosome and, early on, this alone was thought […]

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

The Three Faces of Autism: What is really going on?

If you bring your young child to a doctor’s office because he lacks social skills, doesn’t make good eye contact and talks very little or has unusual speech patterns, he will undoubtedly be diagnosed as “autistic.” You are also likely to be told nothing can be done. That is tragic because, these vague symptoms can […]

Five Scientific Facts: Links between Autism and Vaccines?

Five Scientific Facts: Links between Autism and Vaccines?

                                                  The incidence of autism has increased over 200 fold during the course of my thirty-year career as a medical doctor. Although more than one billion dollars has been spent trying […]

Businessman and Impossible Staircase

The “Closeminding” of America*

Recently I was asked a simple, yet profound, question by Steven Frampton, a British radio host. He wanted to know why American scientists don’t believe in ESP. We talked about the fear of changing one’s view of reality, and how ESP research has been a death knell to scientists’ credibility. Shortly thereafter, he and his […]

Social Change

Businessman and Impossible Staircase

The “Closeminding” of America*

Recently I was asked a simple, yet profound, question by Steven Frampton, a British radio host. He wanted to know why American scientists don’t believe in ESP. We talked about the fear of changing one’s view of reality, and how ESP research has been a death knell to scientists’ credibility. Shortly thereafter, he and his […]

Spirituality

Dreaming and Prophecy

Dreaming and Prophecy

Several years ago I awoke in a panic from a nightmare. I didn’t remember the nightmare, but the first thought that I had upon awakening was, What if it is melanoma? I’m not prone to nightmares, and I wasn’t worried about the new mole that I had seen on the back of my leg the […]

Manger and Ganesha

Christians and Krishna

I arrived shortly after Christmas in Chennai, previously known as Madras. It is in tropical India, just above the equator and technically winter, so it was only ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit. Christmas trees with lights and ornaments were ubiquitous inside and out, as were nativity scenes complete with manger, Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, and wise men. […]

jellyfish

Benjamin Button Jellyfish

Turritopsis dohrnii is a jellyfish nicknamed the “Benjamin Button Jellyfish” because it can reverse the process of aging. Christian Sommer discovered it in 1988 on the ocean floor near Portofino, Italy when he was a marine-biology student. After observing it over several days in a petri dish, he discovered that it can revert back to […]

Telepathy

Dreaming and Prophecy

Dreaming and Prophecy

Several years ago I awoke in a panic from a nightmare. I didn’t remember the nightmare, but the first thought that I had upon awakening was, What if it is melanoma? I’m not prone to nightmares, and I wasn’t worried about the new mole that I had seen on the back of my leg the […]

Talker

Evidence of Telepathy in a Nonverbal Autistic Child

The “Talker” above could make scientific history within the next year. It is the communication device a nonverbal autistic girl used when she was originally suspected to be telepathic. I saw her independently type her answers into this  “Talker,” without any touch, in three homemade videos from August, 2013. She developed a dependency upon having […]