Sarah Taylor: Neurodivergent People Are Wired for Awakening

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Are certain individuals more inclined to awaken spiritually? Do some of us have a natural proclivity to experience spiritual states of oneness? Welcome to the first episode in our new podcast series, Being Open: Spirituality and the Neurodivergent Mind. In this illuminating conversation, Tami Simon speaks with intuitive energy healer and awakening trail guide Sarah Taylor about the empowering revelations and approaches she has discovered throughout the course of her life—including the late-in-life realization that she has both autism and ADHD.

Give a listen to this compelling and informative dialogue on: waking up to our interconnection; the shift from “head awakening” to “heart awakening”; Dzogchen and “the one taste”; the receptivity and porousness of neurodivergent people; the healing power of integration and embodiment; the critical importance of downtime and self-care; experiencing equanimity; unraveling the adaption strategies that no longer serve you; living with a high level of “raw sensitivity”; owning your truths—instead of masking your wants, needs, and authenticity; the misunderstood habit of “stimming” (or self-stimulation); the concept of samskaras (or energetic blockages in your subtle anatomy); reckoning with grief; the futility and harm of self-labeling; reframing limitations as gifts; managing your energy and seeking support when you need it; the connection between our increased understanding of the neurodivergent brain and the collective evolution of humanity; and more.

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications.
0:22.5	For more information about Michael Singer's work, access to all prior episodes, and information
0:28.7	about upcoming releases, we invite you to join us at Michael Singer Podcast.com. The Sounds True Podcast Network.
1:03.7	Look, labels can stifle us and box us in, and they can also set us free.
1:09.9	I look at it like, you know,
1:11.2	this is probably my autistic wiring. I'm like, oh, there's certain sets of behavior and, you know,
1:18.0	ways of seeing that somebody with my wiring has. So it's really helpful for me to learn about that.
1:26.9	Welcome to being open. Spiritual spirituality and the neurodivergent mind, a special insights
1:34.0	at the edge series.
1:36.3	My guest is Sarah Taylor, an awakening trail guide and intuitive energy healer who specializes in working with people who identify as
1:47.5	neurodivergent and highly sensitive. Sarah Taylor is an award-winning actor and stand-up comedian
1:55.0	who started meditating in order to manage her own anxiety and stage fright. And then the experience of meditation
2:04.9	opened her to a series of spiritual awakenings. In her 50s, she discovered a life-changing
2:15.4	insight that she herself is neurodivergent. She describes herself as being autistic
2:23.2	and having ADHD and how this discovery has been so important. Sarah, you say, and I want to start
2:32.1	here, welcome, that discovering your neurodivergence
2:37.8	was as big a deal in your life as the spiritual awakening process that you went through.
2:45.4	And I thought, really, how is this?
2:47.7	Why was it such a big deal for you?
2:50.2	Almost as big. Almost as, I mean, what can be, you know, more profound than realizing, like,
2:57.1	you're not separate from reality and awakening. But it felt like a really important piece
3:06.5	to the awakening journey, which I find is never
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