Experiencing the Joy of a Neurodiverse Universe
Why everyone's 'different' now
Hello everyone. Dr. Thom here. Thank you for being patient as I rethink the theme for Rx for the Planet for the last half of 2025. So many changes have occurred as the forces of re-evolution begin to culminate. All of us feel the impact of times meant to test us and help us grow into the next dimension of time and space.
In my case, I feel drawn to focus more on the education of youth worldwide. Those 1.3 billion young people come to us with vast talents, disruptive minds, and a mission to change our planet. Supporting and guiding them is the key to our future.
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Just as a reminder: I draw my writing from the truth that you and I aren’t evolving from an accidental past. Humans are returning to their roots in the stars. I call this re-evolution.
Embrace that truth and you can feel the next dimension of consciousness beckon. You begin to sense the secrets of human purpose and the power of an intelligent universe.
Another truth to acknowledge? Your journey is guided and supported. A vast array of star-based ‘cousins’ who form a galactic community await reunion with Earth. They listen for your call. They help write this newsletter.
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Act kind,
Dr. Thom
I’ve written many stories about neurodiverse young people:
The 15-year old boy who couldn’t read or pass a test, but who could disassemble and reassemble a race car engine without a manual. He ‘saw’ the engine in his mind.
A 16-year old plant expert diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome who loudly called out his classmates for bullying him and who was rewarded with the threat of expulsion by the Vice Principal. The District Psychologist agreed and suggested a Rorschach Test to prove her point. I stepped up on his behalf and kept him in school (that’s going on my life resume).
The more ‘severe’ cases I saw as an aide in a special school for mentally and emotionally challenged youth. Could they function well in ‘normal’ society? No. Could you see God and intelligence in their eyes?
Yes.
And perhaps because I was thinking of this post, at 3 AM last night I dreamt I faced an autistic youth, nearly immobile in a wheel chair pushed along by a loving mother. His eyes caught mine.
He suddenly and unexpectedly reached out his hand, gripped mine, and would not let go. His mother was surprised, and a bit embarrassed. ‘He’s never done that,” she assured me.
I felt the pulse of his being, the power of a soul hidden away in a body, touch me. It was a reminder and a message to me: I have been many places you have not.
A dream? Not really. Dreams don’t originate in the brain. Your mind travels at night. When those experiences return to the confines of ‘reality’, they lose much in translation, appearing distorted or jumbled.
But sometimes the message stays clear. This one did. I still feel the boy’s hand.
And his message was meant for the entire planet: It’s time to acknowledge universal mind.
How does the universe convey this truth to us? By disrupting our conventional theories about the brain and posing mysteries that can’t be explained.
The disruption is too obvious to ignore. Twenty percent of the world labels themselves as ‘neurodivergent’. Put another way, a fifth of the global population—1.6 billion people—don’t have a ‘normal’ brain.
The boy I met in the wheelchair, with severe autism, is easily recognizable. But most ‘differences’ slide in just below the radar, affecting behavior that interferes with daily life while still remaining manageable.
I work in education, so I hear a lot about neurodivergent minds. For readers less impacted, here’s what a quick search reveals about the range of symptoms:
Sensory sensitivities: Heightened or reduced sensitivity to sounds, lights, textures, or smells.
Difficulty with social interactions: Challenges in understanding social cues, maintaining conversations, or forming relationships.
Hyperfocus or difficulty focusing: Intense concentration on specific interests or struggles with attention and impulsivity.
Unique problem-solving skills: Thinking outside the box, excelling in creative or analytical tasks.
Routine dependence: A strong preference for structure and predictability.
Differences in communication: Using alternative ways to express thoughts, such as nonverbal communication or scripting conversations.
Learning differences: Challenges with reading, writing, or math, often accompanied by strengths in other areas.
Repetitive behaviors: Engaging in repeated movements or activities for comfort or stimulation.
It’s a long, growing list, accompanied by a similar expansion of therapies, drugs, and behavior management systems designed to restore normalcy at some level.
But one commonality links every topic in the neurodivergent conversation: The brain is responsible.
I wouldn’t neglect the brain entirely. In some cases, it is likely the brain suffered bio-chemical, environmental, fetal, or cultural damage. Plenty of evidence has emerged from social neuroscience that the brain responds to its surroundings.
But as with virtually every other strange phenomena about life today, the mystery of neurodivergence points humans back to exploring the fundamentals of consciousness. Why are we alive? Where are we going? What is the purpose, if any, behind the odd events that tell us life is not normal any longer—and won’t be again?
The lesson of neurodivergence is part of the learning. Consciousness is rising, and the path forward for Earth is through the mind, not the brain.
At the core of the lesson is the truth that the mind is infinite in its expression. The universal field of intelligence, powered by quantum properties and encoded in light, flows through the complex fields called the body and brain.
Receptivity depends on us, with awareness centered in the brain. The roughly 86 billion neurons and estimated 150 trillion synapses form neural networks that connect and transmit electrical or chemical signals. That’s why science regards neurons as building blocks of the brain, with synapses proving the ‘wiring’ for the machinery.
This model is failing. Massive currents of energy from the universe flow through every cell, igniting our bio-electric bodies, liberating memories, inclinations, talents, and ways of seeing that reflect the infiniteness of creation. Neurodivergence is the result, a symptom, of the fluctuations in the quantum field that hold life.
It’s important to understand that the process of diversification of human behavior and thinking will accelerate. Neurodivergence will evolve into ‘neuronormal’ as the vibrations of the field increase, affecting mind and behavior.
In fact, no one is ‘normal’ now. Each of us is realizing our uniqueness.
This is a joyful transition. Humanity will begin to deeply reflect the intelligence of the universe rather than an earthbound, machine-like, limited view of human capability.
But learning the lesson requires help—and we have it in our midst. As the Messengers who quietly (and kindly) oversee Earth’s progress tells us repeatedly, the world is now populated by a variety of souls who incarnated on Earth to form a creative collective capable of guiding Earth through a challenging chapter into the next dimension of time and space.
Their history is inherently ‘neurodivergent’ because many of them originate from planetary ecosystems where mind and consciousness operate by unfamiliar rules with different means of communication and connection.
This is particularly true for young people born in the last decade. Youth with histories on different planets, with different mechanisms for consciousness, have begun to impact every country. They come to help by building awareness, often with huge aptitudes and abilities.
The result is more prodigies, but also severe challenges to educational systems. When denied creative opportunities, youth disengage. (If you happen to work in education, you know the story).
How humans cope with this grand shift is critical. Our response will affect the pace of re-evolution and the speed of Earth’s transition into a planet that more closely corresponds with the intelligence of the universe.
How would the Messengers advise us?
First, see neurodivergence as a sign of progress, not limitation.
Acknowledge the breakthroughs and beautiful possibilities that draw us forward, while recognizing the limitations, clear failures, and unimaginative third dimensional structures that tells us our current concept of mind is too narrow.
The universe provides just the right touch as a reminder, just as the young man in the wheelchair reached out his hand to touch me. Our distant memory tells us we’re better than this—that we’re a smarter race with an inner being capable of designing and living more profound lives.
Second, be willing to explore the mind.
Our obsession with the brain leads to a strange disconnect in schools: Despite having the sole goal of ‘improving the mind,’ education operates without a theory of the mind.
The blinders apply everywhere. Humans preach ‘learning’ while ignoring consciousness, value connection without probing the energetic partnership between brain and heart, and obey scientific orders that reject any evidence for the minds.
As adults, all of us absorbed this lesson. It’s time to break free.
This is not a matter of evidence. The brain-based model is hypothetical and untestable. No one knows exactly how ‘learning’ happens. More importantly, science itself has begun to transpose the brain into an instrument of the mind. Many breakthroughs await as research continues into telepathy, remote viewing, transformational out of body experiences, people talking to trees, and quantum explanations for consciousness.
Finally, know the rediscovery of the mind not only marks a milestone for the human race, but leads to culmination: When this cycle closes, the exploration into the mind will make obvious the reality of the soul.
After 50,000 years or more, on an expedition to explore the depths of a material existence, humans will finally reacquaint themselves with their true origins and destiny. Human purpose will be apparent. Soul-power will be ‘normal.’ Every problem becomes a creative problem-solving opportunity.
That’s why I call the process re-evolution.
We’re waking up to our lost past. Neurodivergence is a guide to be welcomed.
Thank you for reading. Stay tuned for more on learning, intelligence, and awakening.