About Me edit
I am a retired academic and lecturer living in Oxfordshire, England. I have a particular passion for unearthing people, places, and subjects that are under-discovered or neglected, investigating them, and presenting factual information in an accessible form.
My main broad areas of interest and knowledge are psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and applied arts. I am specifically interested in the means by which subjective experience, such as that precipitated through meditation, prayer, and other contemplative practices interfaces with objective observation of neurocognitive processes, such as that made possible through instruments including fMRI and EEG.
I try to remain mindful of the need for a multicultural perspective on the human condition. I am very slow by nature, and tend to take a long time to bring anything to fruition, which makes me utterly unsuitable for any time-critical work.
When I was young, there was no money for books, and no internet. Therefore, being hungry for knowledge, I treated any free information, accessed mainly at the local library, as highly valuable. I like to think that Wikipedia is making a difference to all those people out there, trying to improve their opportunities through learning, as I did. And I would like to make a tiny contribution to that. Also, having been exposed to an educational system that charges exorbitant fees for information that is often sparse and poorly presented, I must confess that there is perhaps some rebellion in my intent.