Summary:

Asher Walden joins Neurodivergent Spot to explore how neurodivergent people often experience and interpret spirituality differently. He shares his journey of late-in-life autism discovery and how it led to the creation of the Empyrean Deck—a tool for finding meaning outside traditional religious frameworks. This thoughtful conversation invites listeners to consider new ways of approaching the sacred through personal experience.

Quotes:

• “All humans are spiritual. The question is how we find language for that experience.”

• “Neurodivergent people are more sensitive to cognitive dissonance—we can’t just tune out inconvenient truths."

• “The Empyrean Deck is not a theology to adopt. It’s a structure to help you discover the theology of your own life.”

Contact Information:

• EmpyreanProject.com

Keywords:

• Neurodivergent spirituality

• Autism and religion

• ND meaning-making

• Neurodiversity and faith

• Non-dogmatic spirituality

• Autistic experience

• Spiritual framework

• Sensory spirituality

• Comparative religion

• Neurodivergence and belief

• Late diagnosis journey

• Trauma-informed spiritual practice

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