The Ghost in My Brain, and Spiritual Insight

Started reading the recent book "The Ghost in My Brain" a week ago.

This book and the last one I read about science, "The Folly of Fools," elicit many insights into my being.  This is new for me to gain so much value from the reporting of others about their observations and ideas of how we work. 

Is it because the writing is different, is it that I am different?

The other two books that profoundly influenced me in life were "Atlas Shrugged", then a long (8 year?) dry spell until I found "The Fourth Way" by Ouspensky. Now it has happened twice in two months!

My History with Logs and Blogs.

Blog, Web Log, Log.

My first experience with a log was in 1965 as Officer of the Day as a child at Camp Morgan YMCA near East Washington, New Hampshire. Since I lived in the area I was the first camper to arrive when they opened in the summer of 1965. The camp director said you are the first camper to arrive so you are appointed officer of the day. He gave me a list of my duties, a lanyard with a large lead arrow head shape hanging from it, and a log book on the podium/table next to the entrance of the dining hall. He told me what to log in the log book, start of meals, raising and lowering of the flag, any important events, hourly inspections of the dining hall. (Best I can recall that is what the duties were.)

Then there were the logs of the Company Mate of the Deck, CMOD, at Bancroft Hall, 1973/4.
Then the logs on board Yard Patrol, YP, craft during our cruises around the Chesapeake Bay. I don't think I was directly involved in any of those because on the YPs I managed to avoid the duties that involved log keeping. Maybe an occasional entry at the direction of the OOD.

The first "real" logs for me were during the process of becoming an Engineering Officer of the Watch, and later an Office of the Deck, or Office of the Day, and Engineering Duty Officer.

The essence of all these logs was a real time recording, in ink, printed in CAPITAL LETTERS, of significant events as they occurred.

Changes after the fact or writing were not allowed. If a correction was made it was neatly lined out with a single line and initialed so that it would remain legible and who made the change was known by the initials.

Blogs in current day of evolved (or devolved) to point of being any thing and every thing from short comments to literary masterpieces.

I prefer the short real time style because it provides a running record of impressions at the time.