Imagine we take a brain and strip it of all surroundings. What’s the brain worth? Nothing.
A brain only exists in relation to other things, and only has value because of that. A brain in itself is nothing.
A brain is like a railroad station. It’s beautiful, but when the trains stop going in and out, it’s useless.
Therefore, when you look at a brain scan, you should see it as trains going in and out of the station. The station itself is less relevant.
The problem with neurology is focusing too much on the train station instead of the relationships with the surroundings. If somebody is depressed, it’s far more likely that a relationship in their life is messed up: having a bad upbringing, living in isolation, lacking meaning. If somebody has anorexia, it’s a broken relationship with emotions, and with food. It’s not a brain disease—calling it that only makes things more confusing, as if somebody truly has a defective brain.
Of course, some people will have acute brain trauma and a messed-up train station, but for virtually everybody else, no matter what the brain scans say, we are fine. That’s how it should work. And that is how the brain scan should look.
If you follow the rhythm of your body, it’s not symmetrical.
Every organ has a different pace and produces a different sound.
Following one movement in your body—one beat—is like a full circle with different heights. If you were to draw it, it would look like a rollercoaster, or symbolically, like a radiant crown or aureole.
Consciousness is seeing your whole body simultaneously, all at once. You’ll see that your brain is a part of that—no more, no less.