What do we know about our mental health?
Please allow me to update you on some important facts that concern us all.
* 1 in 68 American children has autism today. In the UK it’s 1 in 100 and worldwide 1 in 150.
* 44 million people have dementia or Alzheimer’s, 5.2 million in the US alone.
* Worldwide, over 6 million people live with Down Syndrome. How many of them are verbal or have communication skills is unclear.
* Worldwide, 15 million people suffer strokes each year, including children and adolescents. 5 million are left permanently disabled, many with Locked-in Syndrome – unable to communicate.
Why aren’t we alarmed by these numbers? And why aren’t we responding the way we did with the AIDS epidemic? Is it because most people with the above conditions don’t have a voice of their own to tell us about their suffering?
Many of us believe that children with autism or Down Syndrome live in a world separate from reality and with very limited cognition, intelligence or sentience. There is also a wide assumption that people with Locked-in Syndrome or Alzheimer’s and dementia patients live in la-la land or in an inner world that doesn’t care about or has forgotten the outer one. All these beliefs are false, and for now, all I can offer as evidence are my clients’ testimonials.
The truth is, we have more than one cognitive mind, and I have yet to witness any type of malfunction or damage to the brain that can stop us from thinking, remembering or wanting. But who’s to know this when we can’t communicate? Another fact is that all humans have an as-yet untapped capacity for telepathy and I suspect that it’s the second cognitive mind that makes it possible. What else would explain the fact that people deemed to be cognitively impaired can have telepathic conversations with me?