Synaptogenesis, a new innovative word to me. I found the word in the book Pavlov’s Trout, essays from neuro-psychologist Paul Quinett. Paul is obsessed with fishing, both the real adventure and the metaphor. I am interested in catching fish and understanding new concepts. It is an anatomical understanding of what happens in the brain when acquiring new information, “…about growing new neural tissue, increasing the complexity and richness of connections between neurons, and structural changes in the fundamental operations of the brain itself. This process is called synaptogenesis.”
I heard that the brain ‘snaps to creation. ’ The genesis “the origin or mode of formation of something” when we learn.
My inner movie screen began showing PAC-MEN© grabbing knowledge, increasing intelligence and our connections to life, the universe, and everything. A movie of newness and hope was showing as the gray matter expanded into the unknown. I began to appreciate how we are wired to expand, to move past our habits and enter new, undiscovered territory and connect it with what we know.
Seemed both an epiphany and an ‘oh yea, that’s how it’s done.
I turned toward the epiphany and how I can use this new info to grow my attention. I felt a great comfort in knowing that we are wired to expand unless we stop reaching, stop looking, stop being aware that everything is new, and our system is set to snap to creation.
There was nothing to change, just some stuff not to pay attention to; distraction, SOS (same ole stuff), my ego being right and already knowing everything!
The concept is akin to the discomfort of paying attention to what I don’t have, versus paying attention to what I do have. The extreme spectrum of what we don’t want feels real, BUT what is real is that it is my attention AND I CAN focus it wherever I want.
Half empty.
Half full.
It’s all good,
So snap too!
Genesis can be any creation you want.
