A genetic mechanism, a dog’s gaze, and a shamanic rite measure the same shut threshold of consciousness.

A genetic mechanism, a dog’s gaze, and a shamanic rite measure the same shut threshold of consciousness.

On the self that collapses when it collapses someone else’s story.

What Dream of the Endless and Jungian amplification reveal about an isolation that myth can’t end, only absolve

What Dream of the Endless and Jungian amplification reveal about an isolation that myth can’t end, only absolve

On the self that collapses when it collapses someone else’s story.

Read writing from Christian Gajewski on Medium. Research Scholar, RIIS 2.0. Autistic, diagnosed at 48, twice-exceptional. www.christiangajewski.com

Why situational mutism survives contact with a masking theory that was never built to explain it

Why situational mutism survives contact with a masking theory that was never built to explain it

What Jungian alchemy and a man who could never touch without cutting taught me about separating worth from performance, and the half of the…

A book only measures who you’ve become once it has stopped being yours.

A book only measures who you’ve become once it has stopped being yours.

Read writing from Christian Gajewski on Medium. Research Scholar, RIIS 2.0. Autistic, diagnosed at 48, twice-exceptional. www.christiangajewski.com

What Jungian alchemy and a man who could never touch without cutting taught me about separating worth from performance, and the half of the…

The Self is a Cultural Invention: What the ‘Theory of Mind’ Problem Reveals About Non-Narrative Consciousness

The same instinct that saves my best photos also comforts the people I care about.

What each phrase really communicates, and a sharper question to ask back

The Self is a Cultural Invention: What the ‘Theory of Mind’ Problem Reveals About Non-Narrative Consciousness

The same instinct that saves my best photos also comforts the people I care about.

What each phrase really communicates, and a sharper question to ask back

What three unrelated fields agree survives when the material doesn’t

What three unrelated fields agree survives when the material doesn’t

A materialist account of altered perception, from ritual drumming to the meditation cushion.

A materialist account of altered perception, from ritual drumming to the meditation cushion.

How a near-drowning in Gallipoli and Albert Ellis’s model of rational emotion converge on what care actually costs.

How a near-drowning in Gallipoli and Albert Ellis’s model of rational emotion converge on what care actually costs.

Psychoanalysis, transpersonal psychology, and stress physiology converge on the same fork after a self-model breaks.

Psychoanalysis, transpersonal psychology, and stress physiology converge on the same fork after a self-model breaks.

Zinberg’s drug model and Sternberg’s love model converge on the same dopamine vertex.

Free will as the name we give to what we cannot yet measure.

The neuroaffirmative movement celebrates purity. Jung and the evidence call it a second mask.

An alien ocean, a Freudian dream, and a medieval mystic converge on the same collapse of the sentence.

Temple Grandin showed thinking runs on more than one channel. Literature exams still test for one.

Temple Grandin showed thinking runs on more than one channel. Literature exams still test for one.

An alien ocean, a Freudian dream, and a medieval mystic converge on the same collapse of the sentence.

The neuroaffirmative movement celebrates purity. Jung and the evidence call it a second mask.

Free will as the name we give to what we cannot yet measure.

Zinberg’s drug model and Sternberg’s love model converge on the same dopamine vertex.

Philosophy of mind, contemplative traditions, and neuroscience. Without the supernatural. Without the simplification.

On qualia, substrate, and why recognizing consciousness was never a verification.

What Jaynes, anātman, and Alzheimer’s patients reveal about consciousness when the narrative self dissolves

What Jaynes, anātman, and Alzheimer’s patients reveal about consciousness when the narrative self dissolves

On qualia, substrate, and why recognizing consciousness was never a verification.

Philosophy of mind, contemplative traditions, and neuroscience. Without the supernatural. Without the simplification.

How I spent forty years reading an autism coping mechanism as a philosophical choice.

The essays are on Medium. The research, the book, and everything else is at christiangajewski.com

How I spent forty years reading an autism coping mechanism as a philosophical choice.

The essays are on Medium. The research, the book, and everything else is at christiangajewski.com

How psychiatry’s anonymous backstage named my autism at 48, inside a room I cannot enter

An autistic adult on sensory overload, a bottle of cinnamon oil, and the two-phase regulation system that actually works.