Charted, versus Uncharted Territories

Here's a flash for those who may be a bit, let's say, late to the party: The world, for the most part, is a mostly finite space, and for us today is Charted Territory, and what humans are doing (i.e., yakking, blabbing and yammering on about stuff, day in and day out to themselves, their friends and even strangers, into Facebook, Yahoo, and Google walls, groups, forums and chat rooms, etc.) is attempting to Chart, for themselves, that external world inside their own tiny brains (i.e., setting, and connecting dots, neuralistically speaking). People are made to do that, and THAT is right order and we couldn't survive well without it. And humans everywhere today, know a tremendous amount about those charted territories, even if objectively speaking it wouldn't really even fill one thimble - in a planet-sized container of thimbles - even on a good day. But, even still... "Good on ya, Nature" (i.e., the Life Force that drives our every thought, feeling, action).

Now, for the UNcharted Territories: there is a nearly infinite space in that 3 pound ball of goo between the ears and behind the eyes (the brain) that most people have absolutely NO CLUE about, even after living with, and within it, for many decades! Believe it or not!

Yeah, right, I get it: ISIS is an interesting topic; the upcoming American Presidential election is an interesting topic; gun violence in our cities and towns is an interesting topic; and there are thousands of others to "think about" (if you can really call it thinking, because it is mostly echoing and ruminating over what other people have said or written before us, and then reacting to it). But, in any case, it is precisely because of those external topics that attract and distract most human brains for most of every single day of their short, short lives, that they FAIL (miserably) at investigating, exploring, or discovering a damn thing of significance about their own vast and uncharted internal territories, that have - in all humans - the inherent capacity to produce glorious mathematical, scientific, musical, artistic (and many other kinds of) "masterpieces", sometimes even before the age of TEN or TWELVE, and often by the age of about twenty-five or so, and there are too many examples of such things to mention here (but it's an enlightening idea to Google, in depth).

Investigation of the UNcharted territories - in here, where the real action is (or CAN BE, when you've learned HOW) - is a pastime/occupation/advention that people should be taught at an early age, the earlier the better, if only there were people around them who could DO THAT... but, sadly, there aren't any to be found out there in the Charted Territories.

One last bit: we all know about the existence of what are called "Idiot savants" who are amazing in one particular part of their neural processes but at the extreme expense of simple thoughts, feelings and actions that even preschoolers, and certainly young adults are already quite adept at without giving any of it a second thought. Then, there is the idea of "Prodigies", who exhibit similar extraordinary skills and talents, but without the debilitating aspects of mental retardation or autism spectrum disorder in "idiot savants". Well, try if you can to consider the less known, but still quite possible (though extremely RARE!) "Genius Savants", and what that has to do with what is being suggested herein. One possibility is the equally rare (found only in the few of the few - of the few) but precious ability to truly "KNOW ONESELF" for what ONE IS... not in pumped-up, hyperbolic, imaginations/thoughts/delusions of grandeur, fueled by stories from out there in the Charted Territories... but in the OTHER THING. You know... the blood-and-gutsy, where the rubber-meets-the-road... i.e., the "other thing".

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Idiot Savant: a person affected with a mental disability (as autism or mental retardation) who exhibits exceptional skill or brilliance in some limited field (as mathematics or music) —called also, savant. And, a person who is highly knowledgeable about one subject but knows little about anything else.

Genius Savant: how about, Prodigious Consciousness at the highest level possible in that human "in his own time", "in his own place". Hey... Believe it or not!