Peculiar People

‘Peculiar’ can mean strange or unusual, depending on our point of view.

There are conscious people – called practitioners – who know what they are, and there are unconscious people who don’t know what they are, and who are therefore products of their minds.

Practitioners do not have to be religious people; they’re individuals who actually practise controlling their own minds rather than conforming to type. They’re atypical, unusual, non-conformists whose brain processes and behaviours differ from the majority.

On the other hand, typical people are usual, ordinary, standard; they’re conformists who show expected characteristics, functioning in ways that align with the norms of society. As such, they generally experience fewer friction points in daily life.

A neurodivergent person is someone who differs from what is considered to be typical. The word divergent means moving, developing or thinking in different directions from a common standard.

Typical people don’t consider consciousness to be important; they never talk about it.
To a practitioner, however, it’s all that matters as it gives rise to meaning to life.

The shock of realising that the typical environment in which we were brought it isn’t normal has tremendous repercussions. It’s like being in a room full of smokers, and stepping outside to breathe the fresh air. Or being in a room full of people who can’t stop talking – we realise silence is clarity.