The cerebellum is of particular importance for cognitive abilities required for speech and language including verbal fluency and word finding. As proprioceptors represent a specific form of sensory ability, the so called 6th sense, Ifa suggests in autism there is a compromise of kinestesis and 6th sense favouring the visual information. Recent NMR studies have confirmed in fact the hyper activation of cerebral visual cortex. In Human Brain Mapping on April 4, 2011, Fabienne Samson published a study that, aiming to understand why autistic individuals have strong abilities in terms of processing visual information, collected 15 years of data that covered the ways autistic brain works when interpreting faces, objects and written words. The data came from 26 independent brain imaging studies that looked at a total of 357 autistic and 370 non-autistic individuals.
The Author stated: “Through this meta-analysis, we were able to observe that autistics exhibit more activity in the temporal and occipital regions and less activity in frontal cortex than non-autistics. The identified temporal and occipital regions are typically involved in perceiving and recognizing patterns and objects. The reported frontal areas subserve higher cognitive functions such as decision making, cognitive control, planning and execution”. Going back to the initial phases of Divination, Ifa suggested the existence of occipital-cerebellar pathways that are anatomically confirmed. They explain how proprioceptors may evoke synesthesia collecting their information over the occipital visual cortex.
Indirectly Ifa suggests an approach to communication that should come from the ability of the therapist to mimic the proprioceptive derangement of autism in order to mirror the external behavior and present visual hyperinformation in order to simulate a communicational synesthesia.
Ifa says there is a disease in kinestesis. Ifa says this disease is a receptorial disease and involves cerebellum and occipital cortex. So, indirectly Ifa suggests autism is not a pure cognitive disorder but it is a disease of PERIPHERAL receptors activity that secondarily may bring to a cognitive disorder. The furhter implication is that if one is able to modify the peripheral sensory compromise one is also able to repair the possible cognitive involvement. Ifa suggests VISUAL approach may be useful in a retrograde fashion to stimulate appropriately the peripheral kinesthesis. So, Ifa advises the peripheral approach to stimulate vision may reflect on a positive feed back over the kinesthesis.
Obviously sensiotics represent a further challenging phase where Ifa points out in order to esoterically understand something more about the origin of autism. At least from a neurologic point of view, as the spiritual initial phase has already been disclosed. But obviously the spiritual exigences always reflect on psychological and neurological (somatic) modification. So, discussing about sensiotics, Ifa confirms the responsibility of an “infection” or “infestation” on the origin of autism. There are many theories that call out the responsibility of infective factors in the origin of autism among which even some form of vaccination. Ifa confirms, at least in some case, the infective nature of the neurological derangement. As for infestation, Ifa indirectly calls for the comprehension of the spiritual derangement that manifests with psycho-somatic consequences in the skin and joint territory.
Osa Oturupon says:
Osa Oturupon was divined for a stranger (reference to the spiritual feelings of this special abiku). He was told to make a sacrifice so that he would not lose all he had to others. He did not make the sacrifice when he got to the strange land (reference to the condition of obiku). He made some money and had some possession of his own.
Osa Oturupon was divined for his skin (reference to kinestesis derangement). They said to be healthy and live longer he would have to sacrifice a pigeon, a sheep, kola nuts and forty two thousand cowries.
He heard and not sacrificed (reference to the necessity to go back to Orun)
He later started fighting over a piece of land with the indigenous people of the land. He was killed and the indigenous took over his possessions (metaphorically Ifa speaks about the impossibility of communication coming from the kinesthesis problems).
Going ahead with Ifa advices about autism, the sacred Odu Ogbe Odi speaks about the initial phases of the condition, when the direction of birth is earth-oriented through the vigorous impulse of pregnancy. The open path to earth is closed by the feminine intervention. Ifa confirms that maternal mismanagement of pregnancy period is at the background for the origin of autism. The direction of birth however has per se something wrong from the initial phases of pregnancy, as the newborn seems directed on Earth without passing through the normal spiritual phases that pregnancy should imply. There is a situation where apparently the mother unconsciously refuses the long period of gestation. This unconscious wish is the ground where autism develops. It is not refusing pregnancy per se, the mother may refuse the long duration of pregnancy, for many different personal, family or work reasons. This unconscious attitude may be probably much more evident in our “modern” societies that pretend the whole involvement of every individual at work or inside the family. The esoteric layers of Ifa communication in this case show the inner hidden maternal wish to pass through the pregnancy very quickly.