From the Spectrum: Finding Superpowers with Autism
This is a podcast about autism. I do this because I love it. Everything here comes from the Autism DOJO. Thank you for your retinas. Find me here: X: https://twitter.com/rps47586 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGxEzLKXkjppo3nqmpXpzuA Email: info.fromthespectrum@gmail.com
Episodes
Originally released in December 2024, this conversation is being re-released as part of a selection of guest interviews from the podcast archive.
For today’s episode, Dr. Hanna Stevens joins me to discuss prenatal brain development and the complex relationship between the placenta, maternal environment, genetics, and the developing brain. Dr. Stevens received her MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois and l...
Originally released in November 2024, this conversation is being re-released as part of a selection of guest interviews from the podcast archive.
For today's episode, Dr. Eric Weiss, MD, explains an exciting medical approach for Autism. Dr. Weiss, who holds board certification in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, is a notable figure in regenerative medicine. Dr. Weiss is a Veteran of the U.S. Navy. Dr. Weiss attended Duke Universi...
Originally released in August 2025, this conversation is being re-released as part of a selection of guest interviews from the podcast archive.
My guest today is Dr. Nirosha Murugan, a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Biophysics and Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr. Murugan explores how physics shapes biological processes, including pioneering research into biophotons, the ultraweak photon emissions produced by ...
Originally released in June 2024, this conversation is being re-released as part of a selection of guest interviews from the podcast archive.
In this episode, we discuss Autism with Dr. Catherine Lord. Dr. Lord is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Education at UCLA and one of the foremost researchers in Autism. Dr. Lord provides tremendous insights into her roles in Autism and Autism Assessment.
Dr. Lord discusses her journ...
Before asking what is wrong with the world or the person in front of us, perhaps we should ask what might be standing between our own eyes and the light.
What if the plank and the speck are not simply about hypocrisy, but about our ability to see? This episode continues the question of human perception by asking what our histories, assumptions, wounds, projections, and certainty bring into every judgment we make. Jesus does not tell...
The deeper challenge is not simply learning to see other people more clearly, but examining the person through whom the world is being seen.
How do you know when you’re seeing the world clearly? This episode explores the uncomfortable possibility that we never encounter reality from nowhere. We interpret it through our histories, expectations, values, assumptions, and even the things we don’t realize we believe. Beginnin...
The parable gives us a final harvest. The Gospel gives us the time before the harvest. Becoming remains possible precisely because we haven't reached the harvest. Until the final harvest, the story of the human being is not yet finished.
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In this episode, you can learn:
- Why success, popularity, and growth do not necessarily reveal truth or goodness
- How the Parable of the Weeds exposes the limits of human judgment and why seeing something is not the same as seeing everything
- Why humility is not weakness, but the posture that makes transformation and becoming possible
- How the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, and the Parable of the Weeds all point to the same orientation...
In this episode:
- Why we imitate the visible “tree” without seeing the seeds, sacrifices, and choices that produced it
- How individual values spread through imitation until they become culture, institutions, and systems
- Why Jesus says not to pull the weeds—and what this reveals about the limits of human judgment
- How certainty, the crowd, and our unexamined lenses can make us believe we see the whole field
- Why humilit...
You can learn:
- Why every thought, habit, & decision is shaping the person you are becoming
- How parents, culture, institutions, algorithms, & the crowd plant seeds
- Why Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, & Jesus all ask where our values come from—not just what they are
- How the Parable of the Weeds reveals that both good & evil begin as small, almost invisible seeds
- Why temptation always reveals the immediate rew...
In this episode, you can learn:
- Why two people can hear the same truth—yet only one is transformed
- How the condition of your heart determines what you're capable of receiving
- Why the greatest battle in life isn't over information, but over your attention, values, and identity
- How Jung, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Jesus all point to the same mystery: Why do some people change while others remain the same?
- Why becomi...
The Lord's Prayer:
- Relationship (Our Father)
- Value (Hallowed Be Thy Name)
- Direction (Thy Kingdom Come)
- Alignment (Thy Will Be Done)
- Presence (Daily Bread)
- Release (Forgiveness)
- Protection (Temptation & Evil)
- Integration (Alignment of the Self)
In this episode:
- Is the Lord's Prayer actually a map of consciousness?
- Why what you pay attention to determines who you become
- How your hierarchy of values shapes your future—wheth...
You can learn:
- Transformation requires loss
- Mourning is updating
- Identity becomes attached to burdens
- Transformation requires psychological death
- Forgiveness is release
- The Rich Young Ruler illustrates attachment
- Knowledge isn't transformation
- The Beatitudes point to surrender
- Ends by returning to "What are you carrying?"
- Preview into the Lord's Prayer
00:00 Every Transformation Contains a Funeral; Why Change Hurts
02:00 Mourning as ...
Highlights
• Why transformation often requires losing something rather than gaining something
• How burdens, fears, and old stories can become part of our identity
• What Jung, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky reveal about psychological growth
• Why people often remain attached to familiar suffering even when it hurts them
• The uncomfortable question at the center of transformation: Who would you be without the burden?
Why do peop...
You can learn:
• Why Kierkegaard believed despair is not simply suffering, but the failure to become yourself
• How the gap between your current self and potential self creates anxiety, resistance, and growth
• Why distraction, conformity, and the "crowd" can quietly pull you away from an authentic life
• How Jung, Dostoevsky, and Kierkegaard converge on the same question: Who are you becoming?
• Why transformation requires confronting ...
In this episode, you can learn:
• Why repetition—not intention—is what ultimately builds character
• How thoughts become patterns, patterns become habits, and habits become identity
• Why you do not have to believe every thought that enters your mind
• How reward, cost, and prediction quietly shape who you become
Every day, your brain is training something. In this episode of Autism & the Structure of Reality, we explore...
In this episode, you can learn:
• Why the Beatitudes may describe a step-by-step process of psychological transformation rather than simply a list of virtues
• How humility creates self-awareness, while self-acceptance creates the foundation for lasting change
• Why emotional honesty, congruence, and compassion are essential for personal growth
• How the first and last Beatitudes form a unique framework for understanding identity, tran...
In this episode, you can learn:
• Why the first and last Beatitudes may reveal a hidden psychology of transformation
• How humility becomes the gateway to self-awareness, and self-acceptance becomes the foundation for lasting change
• Why emotional honesty, rather than avoidance, is essential for growth
• How comfort, validation, and control can block psychological development
• The surprising connections between the Beatitudes, Carl Ro...
Key Highlights:
• Why the “Three Temptations” are not ancient stories but modern psychological systems
• Why thoughts are not neutral & how repeated thoughts become personality
• Jung, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, neuroscience, & predictive processing brought together into one framework
• How modern systems industrialize temptation through stimulation, performance, & certainty
What actually owns you?
In thi...
Video Link: https://youtu.be/_dS2ZK-6jJY?si=eoXAqStqBU7yYu8l
You can learn:
1) Humans have an infinite capacity for Thoughts; Thoughts are Human Creation, & You DO NOT owe your thoughts ANYTHING
2) What Owns You?
3) How the Three Temptations are alive today
4) Philosophy & Psychology meet Christianity (even though it is a Human Story)
5) Autism Research is worthless so it is necessary to be an N=1
This leads into Part 7...
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