A disturbing and informative video teaches about the rise of these everyday chemicals that influence the neural and phenotypal plasticity of your child during development.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB-qA9KMsTE

The following is selected from "Healing Ecology, Child Development and Empathy" a conversation between myself and an herbalist/naturalist.

Alternative Child Development Specialist & Naturalist interview eachother on the topic of empathy in child development and in nature, especially with relationship to the autism epidemic.. This is a small selection of our conversation, the transcript of which may be made available upon request.

Now introducing: The Invisible Man.

It’s true that a lot of insight has come from the likes of western science and has produced a working symptomology on the topic. It is not my intention to demean this incredible labor of research. Theirs has been a labor of love. My gratitude is incalculatable as are its benefits. By now we are familiar with the western symptomology.

At this coming CONNEC'SHEN gathering, I will be delivering a presentation on the Chinese word 'Shen' – translating as “the mind in the heart”, “the spirit in the heart”, or, most succinctly, the Heart-Mind.

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A HEART?

words by Hafiz

Once a young woman asked me,

"How does it feel to be a man?"
And I replied,

"My dear,
I am not so sure."

Then she said,
"Well, aren't you a man?"

And this time I replied,

"I view gender
As a beautiful animal
That people often take for a walk on a leash
And might enter in some odd contest

Autism, The Pacific Coast First Peoples & The Shamanic Arts: An Interview with Northwest Medicine Man, StoryTeller and Tribal Elder by A. Zanthe