Myelin Mastery Manifesto
Dr Jack Parry 5 May 2026 keywords: education pedagogy myelin répétition productive struggle skill acquisition language music drawing animation AI screen time accumulated condition intentional arc Every human
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The Myelin Medical Manifesto
Dr Jack Parry 5 May 2026 keywords: manifesto myelin mind therapeutic direction PTSD schizophrenia Alzheimer’s stroke depression chronic pain addiction white matter oligodendrocyte accumulated condition The Myelin Mind
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Mind and Culture
Time
Dr Jack Parry 5 May 2026 For Jack Reynolds, on his birthday. keywords: time Bergson duration Einstein Husserl Heidegger Merleau-Ponty Sartre Deleuze Derrida Dreyfus Reynolds chronopathology myelin chiasm
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Mind and Culture
Idiocracy or Mastery: Why Artists Must Lead the AI Charge, Not Flee From It
Dr Jack Parry 3 May 2026 keywords: AI animation industry artists Disney layoffs stochastic bull accumulated condition répétition struggle pedagogy future A student came to see me last
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Mind and Culture
What Animation Knows That Language Does Not: Eidetic Animation as a Research Tool
Dr Jack Parry 3 May 2026 keywords: eidetic animation phenomenology Husserl Bergson practice-based research mimetic bridge cross-disciplinary methodology visual epistemology A journal rejected this paper on the grounds
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Mind and Culture
Harnessing the Stochastic Bull: On the Methodology of This Site
Dr Jack Parry 3 May 2026 keywords: stochastic model AI methodology moderated stochastic harnessing grace durée animation pedagogy accumulated condition chiasm Every article on this site was produced
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Biology
The Weight of the Screen: Text Neck, Cervical Stenosis and the Generation That Has No Comparison Point
Dr Jack Parry 3 May 2026 keywords: cervical stenosis text neck forward head posture screen time ligamentum flavum migraine tinnitus tech regulation white matter oligodendrocyte I have upper
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Biology
The Narrowing: Spinal Stenosis, Epidural Injections and the Accumulated Condition Under Pressure
Dr Jack Parry 3 May 2026 keywords: spinal stenosis ligamentum flavum epidural corticosteroid oligodendrocyte myelin compression pain access healthcare Someone close to me has degenerative spinal stenosis. Her
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Biology
Tooth Hurty: Time for a Different Perspective
Dr Jack Parry 3 May 2026 keywords: tooth pain bruxism trigeminal nerve root canal central sensitisation myelin white matter dental I grind my teeth. Not consciously, not deliberately,
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Biology
Screen Time and the Myelination Window: The Importance of a Difficult Upbringing
Dr Jack Parry 2 May 2026 keywords: screen time children white matter DTI myelination Hutton ScreenQ language development critical window In February 2026, Associate Professor Mike Nagel of
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Philosophy
Existenz and the Chiasm: Karl Jaspers Through a Myelin Mind Lens
Dr Jack Parry 3 May 2026 keywords: Jaspers Existenz boundary situation Grenzsituationen positive suffering myelin chiasm accumulated condition becoming Karl Jaspers published Reason and Existenz in 1935. It
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Biology
The Emptied Mind: Water Fasting and The Myelin Mind
Dr Jack Parry 3 May 2026 keywords: water fasting prolonged fasting autophagy oligodendrocyte myelin ketosis sleep mind phenomenology boundary situation For thirty years, once a year, I have
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Mind and Culture
Whose Behaviour Is It? Pharmacological Coercion and the Myelinated Self
Dr Jack Parry 2 May 2026 keywords: dopamine agonist Parkinson’s restless legs compulsive behaviour impulse control legal responsibility pharmaceutical pharmacological coercion myelin accumulated condition Sally Gardner Sally Gardner
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Biology
The Law Knew First: Legal Responsibility and the Myelinated Self
Dr Jack Parry 2 May 2026 keywords: legal responsibility white matter maturation signature age of consent criminal responsibility insanity drunk driving intentionality myelin The law did not wait
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Mind and Culture
The Mark That Outlives You: Drawing, Animation and the Signature as Myelinated Self
Dr Jack Parry 2 May 2026 keywords: drawing painting animation myelin white matter practice talent signature identity embodiment visual art Every child draws. They do it before they
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Biology
La Répétition: Music, Myelin and the Embodied Self
Dr Jack Parry 2 May 2026 keywords: music practice repetition myelin white matter pianist jazz improvisation talent embodiment corpus callosum The French word for rehearsal is répétition. Not
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Biology
The Well-Stocked Chiasm: Anxiety, Meaning and the Road to Happiness
Dr Jack Parry 2 May 2026 keywords: happiness anxiety meaning myelin white matter uncinate fasciculus insomnia smoking alcohol Happiness and sadness are understood by every living creature that
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Mind and Culture
Retrogenesis in a Glass: Alcohol and the Myelinated Self
Dr Jack Parry 2 May 2026 keywords: alcohol myelin white matter oligodendrocyte retrogenesis stress demyelination cognition culture Let me be frank and honest with you – I like
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Mind and Culture
Under
Dr Jack Parry 30 April 2026 keywords: opioids anesthesia pain consciousness myelin oligodendrocyte kappa opioid receptor white matter There are two things opioids do that the Myelin Mind
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Biology
Mille Plateaux: schizophrenia and unfinished business.
Dr Jack Parry 29 April 2026 keywords: schizophrenia adolescence myelin clozapine haloperidol cannabis montelukast Deleuze plateau white matter The child of a close friend of mine has schizophrenia,
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Mind and Culture
A Rereading of Oliver Sacks Through The Myelin Mind Lens
Dr Jack Parry 28 April 2026 keywords: hallucinations Oliver Sacks Charles Bonnet syndrome chiasm myelin white matter Oliver Sacks published Hallucinations in 2012, three years before his death.
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Biology
Hallucinogens Through the Myelin Mind Lens
Dr Jack Parry 28 April 2026 keywords: hallucinogens psilocybin ketamine ibogaine DMT mescaline myelin oligodendrocyte hallucination chiasm The Myelin Mind thesis proposes that consciousness arises at the chiasm,
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Biology
Two Cigarettes: Nicotine, Hemp and White Matter
keywords: nicotine hemp cannabinoids myelin oligodendrocyte white matter Two plants. Rolled in paper, smoked legally or illegally for most of the twentieth century. One carries nicotine, the other
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Biology
Nicotine and the Myelin Mind
There is a molecule that has been smoked, chewed, snuffed, and metabolised by human beings for centuries, that is demonstrably addictive, increasingly shunned by society and yet simultaneously
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Biology
Spirited Away: Contemplating Your Navel and the Doorway to the Original Chiasm
I came to Dr Zhao Ming Shao with neck pain.Dr Shao trained at the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, healed himself through Qigong after a severe spinal
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Biology
Five Thousand Years of Solitude: Finding the Meridian
Every two weeks Dr. Lee puts needles into my body and twists them. Not stabs. Twists. The distinction matters more than it sounds.When the needle rotates at the
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Biology
A Note to Neuroscientists: What is The Myelin Mind Hypothesis?
keywords: neuroscientist, neuronal If you have arrived here through a colleague or a patient, or simply through curiosity, and your first instinct is scepticism, that instinct is reasonable.
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Mind and Culture
Gliodivergence: Autism Through a Myelin Mind Lens
Keywords: autism, gliodivergence Oliver Sacks titled one of his most celebrated collections An Anthropologist on Mars. The phrase came from Temple Grandin herself, one of the most articulate
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Mind and Culture
Fybromyalgia: The Silent Weight of a Full Life
keywords: fybromyalgia, sophrologie M has lived through more than any living person could or should be asked to endure in one life. Her losses were not singular but
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Biology
The Myelin Rap: doing tha’ brain buzz
You down with ATP? (yeah you know me) – the myelin rap For most of the twentieth century, the nerve impulse was understood as an electrical event. An
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Mind and Culture
The Spider-Verse Method: Myelin in Action
Learning a language is not learning about a language. This distinction sounds obvious. It is almost universally ignored. Most language learning systems, from classroom grammar instruction to sophisticated
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Biology
The Rogue Arc: Tourette Syndrome Seen Through a Myelin Mind Lens
A tic is not a mistake. A recent incident at a major televised awards ceremony brought Tourette syndrome into sharp and uncomfortable public focus. A man with TS,
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Mind and Culture
Lorenzo’s Oil: Following the Myelin When Nobody Else Would
There is a particular kind of knowledge that belongs only to parents.Not medical knowledge. Not diagnostic knowledge. Something more intimate and more precise than either. The knowledge that
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Mind and Culture
My Gut Feeling: Why does Myelin Play No Part in the Enteric Nervous System?
There are roughly 100 million neurons in the human small intestine alone.That figure deserves a moment. The human spinal cord contains somewhere between 100 million and 1 billion
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Biology
Biological Time Travel: Just Follow Your Nose
keywords: time travel Time is in the eye of the beholder. We experience time as a line because we are creatures of the eye. The eye projects from
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Mind and Culture
The One and the Zero: Meditation, Absolute Consciousness and the Myelinated Mind
keywords: one, zero, meditation & singularity Pour Hélène et Jérôme, qui ont vu la lumière avant que j’aie trouvé la myéline. In 1993 Hélène and I were standing
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Mind and Culture
Signal to Noise Ratio: Why a Meaningless World is Metabolically Exhausting
There is a particular kind of tiredness that most people recognise and nobody has adequately explained.It is not the tiredness of physical exertion. It is not the tiredness
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Mind and Culture
Undocumented Side Effects: Prescription Medications and the Myelin Mind
Disclaimer A note before you read further. I am a doctor. A Doctor of Philosophy, not of medicine. Nothing in this article constitutes medical advice and I am
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Mind and Culture
Happy Little Vegemites: How to heal your mind with food
Oliver Sacks, in a footnote to the case of Christina the Disembodied Lady, noted something that most readers pass over without stopping. Vitamin B6, he observed, in small
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Mind and Culture
The Pleasure Principle: On Resonance, Alignment and the Biology of Wanting
Henri Bergson did not write about pleasure in the way that Freud wrote about pleasure. He wrote about grace.In Time and Free Will, published in 1889, thirty-five years
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Mind and Culture
The River of Consciousness: On Chiasmic Forms
Oliver Sacks called his final, unfinished essay collection The River of Consciousness. He chose the title because it captured something he had been circling his entire career: the
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Biology
The Neurological Neurosis: Why Neuroscience Got Its Own Prefix Wrong
keywords: neuron prefix myelin There is a prefix that has colonised the study of human difference so thoroughly that we have stopped noticing it is a choice. Neuro.
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Pharmacology
Medicating Meaning and the Myelinated Struggle
keywords: antidepressants meaning myelin Modern medicine has but three first aids. 1) Antibiotics for infection. 2) Analgesics for pain. 3) Antidepressants for depression. The three conditions that a
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Biology
The Myelin Mind on Drugs: Why Huxley Saw God and Sartre only got Crabs
keywords: drugs hallucination myelin In 1953 Aldous Huxley took four tenths of a gram of mescaline in his Los Angeles home, sat down in his garden, and watched
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Philosophy
Lost in Translation: Why You Can’t Translate a Mind… and What Myelin Can Do About It
keywords: being mind myelin translation The Myelin Mind : The Genesis of MeaningL’Être Myélinique : La Genèse du SensEl Ser Mielínico : La Génesis del SentidoDas Myelinische Sein
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Mind and Culture
Splashing in Spirals of Serendipity
keywords: platypus mind Pedro is my Peruvian PhD student currently living in Tasmania writing his PhD by practice-led research (animation) – Splashing in Serendipity. He is Peruvian, which
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Biology
The New Theory of Relativity: Curling Space and Time
Keywords: Bergson Einstein Time You know the theory of relativity. You accept it as one of the most important ideas in the history of science. You have probably
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Biology
The Time Crystal: Myelin and the Spiral Structure of Being
keywords: time crystal myelin There is a moment in the history of philosophy where three great accounts of time converge without knowing it. Husserl describes the living present
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Biology
The Body That Remembers: Phantom Limbs, Embodiment and Pain as White Matter
keywords: embodiment phantoms myelin Maurice Merleau-Ponty opened his account of the phantom limb with a soldier. Not the soldier’s missing arm, but the soldier’s insistence that the arm
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Biology
Do we even need neurons to be conscious?
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is briefly restoring lost memories in Alzheimer’s patients. But only while the magnet is on. The Myelin Mind asks what that tells us about where
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Biology
The windmills of my myelin mind: nystagmus and migraine
keywords: nystagmus migraine myelin I have suffered visual migraines since adolescence. Not the kind that announces itself with pain and retreats quietly. The kind that arrives first as
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Philosophy
The Echo in the Cave: A Philosopher’s Note on AI and the Phenomenology of Making
Keywords: AI Authorship I am going to tell you something that most writers using AI will not admit: I wrote this article with one. Not despite that fact,
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Biology
The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s, Myelin and the Brain’s Immune System
Keywords: Alzheimers and Myelin We have been looking in the wrong place. For thirty years, the dominant theory of Alzheimer’s disease has pointed at amyloid plaques: the sticky
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Biology
The Myelin Method: How to learn a language properly as an adult.
keywords: Myelin Language Method There is a theory, stated with great confidence in most introductions to linguistics, that after the age of twelve or so, the window for
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Biology
What Waking Up Looks Like in a Petri Dish
keywords: myelin waking up consciousness When we wake up, it is not like a lamp being switched on. We feel groggy, confused, slow, clumsy. Feeling sleepy is the
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Biology
Persistence of Vision: confabulation, tinnitus and the dreaming brain – my first hand experience of stroke
keywords: anton confabulation hallucination I have had tinnitus for fifteen years. I have been told it is either a hearing problem or something wired badly in my brain.
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Pathology
Last orders please: Alcohol and the Myelin Mind
keywords: alcohol skill myelin There is a familiar arc to an evening of drinking that everyone recognises and nobody has adequately explained. The first glass brings ease. The
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Biology
The Octopus’ Dream: why do we sleep?
keywords: sleep dreams myelin “Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel” Noel Harrison There
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Biology
The Rainbow Connection: Stroke, the Intentional Arc and a New Logic of Rehabilitation
keywords: stroke rehabilitation myelin “Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me.” — Kermit the Frog, 1979 There is an image that captures
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Biology
Stroke, White Matter and the Lactate Signal
keywords: stroke recovery myelin When a stroke occurs, the standard account of what has been lost and what might be recovered is framed almost entirely in terms of
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Biology
How to fix a broken back: myelin’s role in overcoming paralysis
keywords: paralysis myelin spinal cord repair In 1981, a young neuroscientist named Albert Aguayo made a discovery that should have changed everything. He demonstrated that damaged axons in
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Biology
Why Does Pain Travel Slowly?
keywords: slow pain myelin There is a curious anomaly hiding in the standard account of myelin. The received wisdom is straightforward: myelination speeds up signal transmission. The myelin
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