Documentation
In March 2015, a quantitative electroencephalogram recorded brain states that the attending neurologist described as unlike anything encountered in ordinary clinical practice. The data, the photographs, and the instruments do not have opinions. They simply show what was there.
"March 2015. I was sitting very still in a clinic in Sarasota, Florida. My hands were cold against my thighs. And the question I had been trying not to think kept surfacing anyway, quiet and insistent: what if they're right? What if this entire thing — every experience, every certainty, everything you've staked your credibility on — is just a story you're telling yourself inside your own skull?"
"A neurologist was preparing to map my brain using a quantitative electroencephalogram — a qEEG. The technology is elegant in its directness: sensors placed across the scalp measure the brain's electrical activity in extraordinary detail. It doesn't interpret thought. It doesn't care about belief. It simply shows the brain at work."
— from the Preface, Infinitely Simple
State One — Baseline
Brain at rest.
Where a healthy, unremarkable mind belongs.
State Two — Concentrated
Already beyond the upper boundary of what standard scales account for.
State Three — Expanded
Seven times the upper boundary of normal human experience. Not elevated — categorically outside the scale.
Normal human brain amplitude — across the full spectrum of waking states, from deep rest to peak concentration — runs between 50 and 100 microvolts. Seventy is exactly where a healthy, unremarkable brain at rest belongs. Seven hundred is not on that scale.
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Your topographic brain map showing amplitude distribution across scalp regions.
Inter-regional coherence patterns — the communication between brain regions during the expanded state.
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All qEEG data recorded March 2015, Sarasota, Florida. Neurologist documentation on file.
Clinical Observations
Beyond the amplitude readings, the qEEG session documented additional anomalies in other metrics — patterns in inter-regional communication described as striking and unusual.
The expanded state produced over 700 microvolts — categorically outside the 50–100 μV range of all normal human waking states from deep rest to peak concentration. Not elevated on the normal scale. Off it entirely.
The data revealed striking, unusual patterns in how brain regions were communicating with each other during the expanded state — described as unlike anything encountered in the course of ordinary clinical practice.
The states were not spontaneous. They were entered through deliberate, conscious intention and sustained through practice — not random neurological events, but a capacity that could be trained and reproduced.
Like sustained physical effort, these states carried physiological cost. What the body expended, the body needed to recover. This is not transcendence of physical law — it is law, operating at a level most people never access.
"I drove home that evening no longer wondering. The instruments had seen what I had felt. What I had been experiencing was not a narrative I was constructing to comfort myself. It was not mysticism. It was not self-delusion. It was measurable, physical, and real — documented in the most literal and empirical and gloriously undeniable sense of those words."
"The question I turned over the entire drive home was the only one that had ever really mattered: what is actually happening here, and why?"
— from the Preface, Infinitely Simple