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Had a non fiction book on my shelf for a while that I couldn't get the audiobook for, but now I'm traveling I'm finally able to get into it
It's called The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (And Other Clinical Tales) by Oliver Sacks
It's a collection of real clinical cases and the reflections of the attending neurologist (the author)
It's both a fascinating insight into the nature of experience and how that can be affected by a brain injury or disease, and a series of touching stories about helping people find peace when nothing makes sense around them
@chris_e_simpson Sacks writes amazing books. An Anthropologist on Mars is good too.
Ah, ja!
And one of the books by neuroscientist V. Ramachandran would be your next non fiction book on the shelf. Wouldn't matter much which one of his books, as they are largely identical. But he has a good writing style and his cases are fascinating too.
If you're keen, have a look on youtube for some documentaries with him.
One is of The God Spot, if I recall correctly. Where one of Ramachandran's patients gets epileptic seizures in a part of his brain's right hemisphere during which he dives into a god-like or prophet-like personality.
Somewhere in the right hemisphere apparently is where our propensity for magical thinking and gods is produced. Jill Bolte Taylor, another neuroscientist, has a famous TED talk on YT about her left hemisphere being temporarily cut off during a stroke which had her experience Nirwana.
@anlomedad ooh sounds great thanks