Neurodivergence and the Energy of the Collective Consciousness
Two Lenses
Science and the medical model frame autism and ADHD through deficits, meaning that you have to not be able to do something in your life very well to attain the label, like work/school/social “impairments”. Trouble with social cues. Poor time management. Sensory problems or “issues”. Always too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. It’s a wide spectrum and a long list. Let’s take a look at neurodivergence through a spiritual lens.
The akashic perspective sees it differently. Neurodivergent people are tuned to energy first. They carry memories from higher planes, where energy is the primary language. Dropped into Earth’s heavier vibration, they look “broken” because they don’t follow the rules here. Instead of brokenness, maybe it’s a mismatch of souls remembering a lighter way of being while trying to function in a heavier one.
The Akashic Records and Density
The akashic records are described as a universal memory field where all thoughts, emotions, and events are stored. Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious echoes this concept that humanity shares an unseen field of knowledge.
In that view, Earth mostly lives in the 3rd and 4th densities.
3rd density is survival, ego, and linear time.
4th density is emotional awareness and collective consciousness.
Higher densities, like the 7th or 8th, move in resonance and unity. Energy and pattern are the language there.
For souls used to higher densities, being here is disorienting. They sense vibration first, not words or language. They feel the collective field before they understand their own state, and translating that into human behavior isn’t natural.
Feeling the Field
I notice it when I drive onto certain properties doing social work. One psych hospital near me sits on the same land as a crisis unit and a recovery program. Before I even park, I feel it. The heaviness. The despair. It hangs in the air, in the ground itself. I don’t need to walk in to know the suffering there. Science calls that oversensitivity, but spiritually it’s registering frequencies most people filter out.
Sensory Energy
This sensitivity shows up everywhere. A buzzing light scrapes across my system. Scratchy fabric burns. Being touched too long feels like electrocution. A chalkboard eraser makes me brace for an impact that never comes. A crowd feels like drowning.
The UK’s National Autistic Society showed this in their film ‘Can you make it to the end?’. A boy walks through a shopping mall, and every sound, every detail, every flash piles up until it’s unbearable. That isn’t an exaggeration. That’s what direct contact with vibration feels like when there is no filter, no shield. Science calls it sensory processing disorder. The akashic view calls it living in energy raw.
Stimming, pacing, covering ears—these aren’t symptoms. They are energy tools. Ways to move, release, and balance the overload so the body doesn’t collapse.
Emotional Energy
Emotions work the same way. People think alexithymia means not feeling enough. In reality, I often feel too much. I sense the whole room before I know my own state. It’s always energy first and words second. Trying to label it is like, as my grandma would say, “pissin’ against the tide,” one of her many southern sayings for futility.
In higher densities, the flow and quality of energy matter more than the names we give it. Here, it is labeled as a deficit. The accusations of being cold and unfeeling or callous. If only I could put someone in my brain to see what it looks and feels like.
Time and Movement
ADHD fits into the collective, too. Science says disorganized. Late. Poor planning. But time is a 3rd density rule. Higher planes don’t move in straight lines. They flow. Bursts of focus. Restlessness. Shifting when the energy shifts. None of that is a flaw. It’s a body refusing to be chained to clocks. Time is a construct that feels unnatural to the neurodivergent brain. Artificial deadlines demand precision against a million variables, and it’s overwhelming.
The Double Edge
Living this way is hard. Punished for honesty. Shamed for being “too sensitive.” Overloaded by noise that others don’t notice. Trauma builds because the mismatch never stops.
And yet, the same traits are also a gift to the collective. A child’s meltdown shifts the mood of a classroom. An adult naming the unspoken truth changes the tone of a meeting. One nervous system reorganizes the collective field, interrupting the status quo. Social norms and expectations remain draining to match and follow
Collective Consciousness
This is where Jung and the akashic view meet. The collective consciousness is not an abstract concept; it is the field we live in. Neurodivergent people behave like they’re already there, tuned to energy instead of words. That sensitivity is part of why the world resists them so hard, because their presence pushes the collective toward what it avoids.
The mismatch creates suffering, but it also accelerates growth. By existing, we stretch the collective to evolve.
Integration
Science pushes correction. Medication. Social scripts. Normalizing.
The akashic view pushes that we need to change the environment, not fix the soul.
Sensory insights can guide architecture, design, and art.
Pattern clarity can reveal flaws before collapse.
Energy truth can restore relationships and systems.
Neurodivergent people don’t need to be cured. They are contributors. Their wiring expands what the collective can perceive. A reminder of what is lost with sameness and conformity, and a benefit for those willing to listen and understand.
Closing
If the akashic records hold truth, then autism and ADHD are not mistakes. They are reminders. Souls tuned to higher densities bring their language of energy into a world that still runs on performance and labels.
The struggle is real, but so is the purpose. Each sensitive body shifts the collective field. What science calls disorder may be the signal that humanity is already moving toward its next stage of consciousness.