Preface: An Intrapersonal Reckoning

In this episode, I provide some background information on my research as a Human Services Provider, and what led me to why I wrote the book. It's a broad brushstroke of acknowledging how our human uniqueness lends to the nature of our autistic tendencies. That our animal nature is part of our human nature and our personal identities. My book would be good for anyone interested in expanding on new ideas and principles about humanity's evolutionary role in nature. It's a philosophical narrative about autism and the evolution of consciousness in a social and ecological context. More specifically, the book is about a new perspective on autism spectrum disorder. Reflecting on our imperative need to free our minds from a neurocentric view of intelligence, and embrace the emotional dimensions that guide our lives. It's about questioning our traditional sense of intelligence, as it explores the symptoms of modern culture as a parallel version of autism where life and experience are trapped almost exclusively inside the head. But new discoveries reveal that intelligence goes beyond the brain, through the tapestry of feeling in the body within a larger body of awareness. In this collective ecological view, we can express our full potential as free-thinking, living systems. We are not living “things,” as often relegated by materialist science addicted to old habits of reductionism. We are living beings; processes that grow and develop in a social ecology of creative expression.  This project takes on a Taoist approach to how the creative process and evolutionary process are essentially one and the same, as it pertains to our consciousness and how it’s used. Our evolutionary development often depends on our ability to come to terms with how our habits can inhibit our creativity and growth as individuals. So my book is about understanding how our mental health is deeply connected to our biological, ecological, and spiritual health. And in order to use consciousness to its full potential, we must treat it as an art, and learn what it means to free the mind from the mind. Using our hearts as much as we use our brains, as we lend our will to the collective body we are part of. But to be truly free, we must walk the path and discover who we are for ourselves. This Podcast (and this book) would be good for anyone who considers themselves an open-minded, free-thinker interested in exploring new ways of thinking about basic psychology, biology, ecology, Taoism, psychedelics, nature, and evolution. Feel free to purchase a copy from any of the respective retailers at the bottom of the page from the link below: https://pagepublishing.com/books/?book=cognitive-liberty-younce