There are a number of things that go on in the brain that no one seems to notice.
Historically, Neurology’s greatest interest has been in pathology, since abnormalities are the easiest features to find and study, since the treatment of illness is the purpose of medicine, and since the improvement and repair of the human condition is the primary job of mind itself. Now the expanded field has turned its attention to normal brain/mind features such as learning, memory, language, attention, and emotions associated with thought as opposed to non-conscious instinct. Yet amidst it all, (but in no way surprising or amiss), even this fresh, vibrant undertaking totally ignores a wart the size of Arkansas on a flea’s ass, (modern neuro lingo).
People feel that their most pressing and persistent calling in life is to effect a change in their consciousness. No matter how strong the urge to try and cut it otherwise, this would be to effect a change in the activity of their brain. A most useful lesson from what is going on in these contemporary, scientific investigations of the mind, (assuming you are up to learning actual lessons), is that by making their own privately funded study of their own privately experienced mind – then comparing what they find to what the experts are doing. Perhaps finally one fine day, to suddenly realize what it is that goes on in the brain that normally goes unnoticed.
Once you see what is being referred to – just once – after that, there are no more questions about anything. No more books, no more lectures, no more discussions without end. All that’s left to do then is run with the wind – and figure out how to keep from looking away from what you already know – and getting yourself against the wind, so that your own spit flies back in your face.
J.