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Earth Ancients

Sol Smith: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Live Authentically and Function Effectively in All Areas of Your Life

In this first-of-its-kind book, Sol Smith combines current research, his personal experience as a late-diagnosed autistic adult, and lessons learned as an educator to show how you can transcend common mischaracterizations, overcome shame, and gain the skills to flourish. Sol knows that neurodivergent people often feel that nothing they have been taught relates to how they experience the world. To resolve this conflict, they try to change or mask who they are, which can cause isolation, depression, and anxiety. He advises the opposite: Understand yourself, accept yourself, and reduce conflict. Designed to help you peel away the shell of inadequacy and self-blame that often comes with neurodivergence, The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery offers the necessary tools and knowledge to function effectively at home, at work, and in the wider world.

Sol Smith spent nearly two decades as a college professor, always feeling and doing things a little out of step from everyone else, before realizing that his differences had a lot to do with his being autistic. He works with individuals and offers educational seminars about neurodiversity to business and community organizations. He also manages NeuroSpicyCommunity.com, an online community for adult autistics where they can support and learn from one another. Sol lives in Southern California with his wife and four children.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Destiny.

0:15.5

Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning.

0:19.6

Hey, how you doing? Welcome to Destiny. This is Cliff, your host of the podcast, and I hope

0:25.7

you're doing well today. Sad news, Eric Van Denkin has passed away at 90. I didn't realize that

0:33.4

he was 90. I thought it was in his late 80s. But if you don't know who he is, he wrote a number of

0:39.1

books on aliens influencing ancient Earth. And the most notable book was Chariots of the God,

0:47.4

which was written in 19, published in 1968. And I got to say, it was a big influence on me, not so much for the alien part of it,

1:00.0

but he actually, out of his own pocket and resources, would fly to different parts of the world and look at ruins.

1:09.7

And because the archaeological community

1:11.9

was in his infancy back then,

1:14.1

in the early 1960s and beyond,

1:17.4

he would actually go to Peru,

1:20.7

to various Mayan sites and Aztec sites in Mexico

1:25.5

and Central America and actually go and travel through the jungle.

1:31.6

He would take an interpreter with him and a small team.

1:36.7

And he was taking, and you can see these in some of his early books, he was taking photographs

1:41.3

of temples and pyramids back when it was not even really

1:46.6

vogue to do that.

1:48.0

And I was just fascinated as a kid to see these photographs and all these images that he was

1:57.8

impressed with.

1:58.8

Now, it was later that he interpreted this data as alien cities and pyramids

2:06.9

and later would kind of go off the deep end and even consider the great Giza pyramids,

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