It has been 7 years but I still have pretty good memories of the moment. I was in a multi-year sabbatical. Several important reasons for that: 1) I was compelled to completely rebuild my home here on the Pacific Ocean, the structure, as it was apparently built by criminals [1979-1981] – that is what Sonoma County told me in 2015 – and this would take me [one of my sons, Christophe, born in 2000 would help me] almost 3.5 years to finish 2) I thought it would be very useful to “play dead” for a good while – many years – so that the Ashkenazi Jews [Israeli Intelligence, using Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara County CA] who were targeting my family for destruction [also for controlling the considerable wealth of my family] would begin to think I was totally defeated 3) I was a little weary from working 7 days/week and 16 hours/day for a little over 11 years on World Affairs Monthly [worldaffairsmonthly.com] writing thousands of articles [about 3700] and doing hundreds of interviews [about 500]. 

[I have plans to republish all these articles as well as the interviews on my 5 new web sites.]

So the sabbatical was pretty cool. It was required. It worked out great, my son and I did an awesome job on the house, it is totally rebuilt – and for the marine environment of the Pacific Ocean. I also apparently persuaded these Jewish criminals that they had hammered me into submission because when I emerged from my fake beaten down state I came out blasting. Have you noticed that Silicon Valley Bank suffered a catastrophic bank run and was liquidated? Then Credit Suisse went down. Also First Republic Bank, just this weekend. Hilarious. Yes I am very powerful. Messing with me is unwise.

It was a morning in April 2016. We were right in the middle of the house rebuild – and living in the house while undertaking the work. We had little choice but to do this, for both financial reasons and for security. I woke up in the morning with a thought about epilepsy. I had realized what epilepsy is. The reason I had been thinking of epilepsy is because I had been getting emails from an outfit in Maryland called The Epilepsy Foundation [epilepsy.com]. I think they were soliciting donations. I had figured the pharmaceutical industry funded the Epilepsy Foundation and I was right.

It was a pretty extraordinary moment. I said to myself, epilepsy is the brain's effort – certainly an emergency effort – to correct the configuration of the neural network. Epilepsy might be called a radical and desperate effort to undertake reconfiguration of the 100 billion neural network. Initiated by the brain. The brain's tool is called a “seizure” and obviously it is sort of a freaky and frightening event – both for the individual having a seizure and also for any onlookers.

Suppressing the seizures is a very profound error. You are suppressing the brain's effort to correct problems.

That morning I looked at the Epilepsy Foundation's web site and saw that it had a “Scientific Advisory Board” and so I took a screen shot of it. There were about 15 prominent members, many of whom had both a MD as well as PhD. Robert Fisher MD PhD at Stanford University Medical School was up at the top as co-Chairman. Also Dan Lowenstein MD at University of California San Francisco. I called both gentlemen and emailed them. Both responded almost immediately. I proposed to Mr Fisher that we talk and he agreed and I made an appointment to call him and I did. Lowenstein appeared to agree in principle to talk but vacillated and then declined. I was forced to go through the University's media officers.

Fisher and I talked for about 20 minutes. I did not record the conversation. He asked me, “what do you want to talk about?” I told him that I wanted to discuss brain function, human brain function, and that I had redefined what epilepsy is. So then he said that sounds fine and we started. I launched my spiel and he listened, it [my thesis or theory] was presented pretty cogently. Several minutes. Then when I concluded he said to me, “you mean epilepsy is a reboot?” I said yes. He did not say holy shit but close to it, he was flabbergasted. He said I was probably right. He then also asked me, "you mean we need to update the definition of epilepsy?" Yes, I replied. Fisher said the definition was from the 1870s, I think I recall. 150 years.

Fisher is pretty much the most respected expert on the brain and epilepsy in the United States. He told me he got his PhD at Caltech and his advisor was Roger Sperry PhD [winner of Nobel Prize and pioneer of research on the two hemispheres of the brain]. Left brain – right brain research. Fisher then said I knew as much if not more about the brain than he did. He suggested that he was in awe of my aptitude as a scientist and told me that he was like me in that he did not acquire this aptitude from Roger Sperry but that it is simply within us. He then said that this was really all about the thrill of science. I was flattered of course but I am never seeking flattery, which will be obvious to everyone. I do not give a hoot what anyone thinks. I will do what I need to do, that's all.

Fisher used the word “reboot” and I confessed to him that I had planned to use the word myself but I was worried he might be put off by me using it – but he beat me to it, using it himself. Not long after talking to me he resigned from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation. Amusing, isn't it? He appears to have been immediately persuaded that my assessment of the etiology of seizure activity in the brain is correct. 

Lowenstein was at the time Vice Chancellor and Provost of University of California San Francisco. He ran the Neurology and Epilepsy Center at the University. He has resigned, in late 2022, so months ago. He evidently resigned because of me. I recall he earned something like $800,000/year.

I asked Fisher to co-author a paper on epilepsy. He said that he could not do that. "You are going to have to do this all on your own," he told me. In the past months I have attempted to do an interview with him but Stanford University will not let me talk to him. UCSF has been more accessible and reasonable, they have told me they are going to organize an interview with a senior scientist there. I am waiting to hear from them. I expect I will hear from them and I think the interview will be worthwhile, perhaps even valuable and important. Published below is a list of issues/topics that I want to discuss. They asked me for such a document.

By the way, I called/emailed all of the members of the Epilepsy Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board and only 4 responded: Robert Fisher, Dan Lowenstein, Jacqueline French [Dr. Jacqueline French is a professor in the New York University (NYU) Department of Neurology and Comprehensive Epilepsy Center] and Gregory K Bergey. I never did talk to French but she appeared willing to do it, then declined. I spoke for 30 minutes to Bergey's assistant [she was friendly and now we are pretty much friends] but Bergey has yet to agree to talk to me. The Scientific Advisory Board has been disbanded, they all evidently resigned because of me. I do not know when this happened but probably recently.

How do I feel about all of this? It is obviously a good question and an appropriate one. I do not think of myself as a scientist, that is a pompous description. I do not think of myself as a neuroscientist. What am I? OK yes I am a scientist and neuroscientist [as well as a journalist and diplomat] but I think you got the meaning. I am doing my best to understand the brain, the human mammal brain. My job is to put forward theories as to how this brain functions. And I have done this. Whether I am generally correct or not is too early to tell. I would argue that I am likely to be correct but we will have to see.

It is distressing that only Fisher agreed to talk. He is the only real scientist there. Quackery prevails and it is in fact a pretty serious institution [quackery] here in the United States. I do not know enough about what Europe is like. It is probably better. I am scornful of Stanford University for refusing to allow me to talk to him – with the recorder on. So my answer to the question I posed above is: most of these people are criminals and I have nothing but contempt for them. The American science enterprise is really a joke. Creeps and criminals appear to be in charge.

That is due to change. I will not tolerate that this garbage goes on for much longer.

There is another statement and argument I can make to answer the question I put forward above. Mr Robert Numan PhD, a neuropsychologist at Santa Clara University, was a friend of mine. He was the first formal "teacher" I had with an expertise in the mammal brain. I found school to be a waste of time but he and I got along, he was a great guy. I met him in 1977. Took his courses, several of them. We would have some pretty interesting discussions about the mammal brain. I mention him to pay tribute to his honest approach to science, he was noble and very hard-working. I liked him a lot.

His wife, Mrs Diane Dreher, also at Santa Clara University, told me several weeks ago that he died suddenly several months ago. I was quite upset to hear that. I got agitated because there are so few of us with an intense interest in human mammal brain function. When I was at SCU Numan and I did some studies of rats. Numan did a great thing by introducing me to Mrs Marian Daimond PhD, a famous neuroscientist and considered one of the founders of modern neuroscience. I did an interview with her about 10 years ago which I will republish when I get around to it. Great lady, she and I got along well. She had a great sense of humor. She is also dead. 2017. 

So this is my assessment of brain siezure activity in the brain. The Greeks called it the Sacred Disease. Obviously the Greeks were pretty smart. Sacred is valuable, right? From the Oxford American Dictionary: "sacred is too valuable to be interfered with".