By Jasu Diaz —
Two kids – both autistic – who lived 5,000 miles away from each other and had never met, not even online, knew each other to their surprise of their parents. They had met at “the hill.”
“Oh that’s April,” Cody Nuessle said. His mom had shown him a picture of another autistic kid from Scotland. Cody lives in Arizona.
“How do you know her name?” the baffled mom asked.
“From the hill,” he responded. “She’s known as a worshiper. She belts out glory to God in the highest. Her dad’s name is …”
Cody is non-verbal autistic, but researchers are developing ways for them to communicate, and now Cody emerges from his inner world. His parents go to Pastor Joe Infranco’s church, where they have special ministry to autistic people.
What they’re discovering is on the cutting edge of science and overlaps with the people who went through Near Death Experiences (NDEs).
The idea that souls of the autistic can travel in their dreams and meetup at a common place called “the Hill” and worship Jesus is just now beginning to be documented and studied by Christians and researchers.
In the secular academic world, psychiatrists approach the subject from a different tact. Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell is researching the possibility that autistic people communicate telepathically.
“They’ve got the camera on them and somebody’s in a different room and somebody asks, ‘What am I thinking?’ And the kid will spell out what they’re thinking or they’ll know names,” Infranco says.
The hill is “ an actual hill with grass, with flowers. There are angels there,” Infranco explains. “They see Jesus there.”
Pastor Infranco, a lawyer who loves pastoring more than law, has made a case study of Cody and written a book Decoding Cody: Secrets of the Spectrum from People with Autism Who See, Hear, and Smell in the Unseen Realm.
Infranco’s church in Scottsdale calls its ministry to autistic people “Hidden Gifts Ministry.” They are hidden to non-austistic who tend to write off autistic people and not take the time to discover their unique personalities and giftings.
The book suggests that the material scientific view may miss some aspects of reality. It also challenges rigid theology that doubts how God might be dealing with people with other abilities.
Sources: Imagine Heaven Podcast with John Burke
