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What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness
After the trauma of brain surgery, Big Think writer Eric Markowitz discovered a kind of consciousness that lives in presence.
Her body rose and fell beneath a cotton sleep sack, rhythmically, gently — life announcing itself in the smallest of gestures. The surgeon — a man I had met just that morning — explained how he would remove part of my skull, gently push past healthy tissue, and reach the mass buried deep within my cerebellum. The surgeon calmly explained how he would remove part of my skull and reach the mass buried deep within my cerebellum, like someone describing how to access the pilot light on a furnace.
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