"Once I am complete with something, it's over for me as a gift, and it drops, letting a new gift evolve. If I meet someone who could do what I can do better, I stand aside and let them do it, and develop a service that is missing in the world."
[So says David Deida....] At one time Deida was considered one of the world's top neuroscientists. He worked at Ecole Polytechnique and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. When that career was complete, he knew it. Neuroscience held no more interest or attraction. He then co-invented a new form of calculus, publishing articles about it in mathematics journals. Then, when he knew that life was over, he moved to Hawaii and taught Hatha yoga for many years. In the mid-1990s he started to write about sex, relationship, and spirit, since he didn't see anyone else doing that in the way he wanted to see it done. "I'll be moving on from the whole sex/relationship/spirit thing," he says, "as soon as someone gets up to speed."
(quote & snippet from The Translucent Revolution)
Although it's a really good quote, I disagree with his thoughts on neuroscience. In fact, I think that field will grow only more important, not less in the nearest future. There's still much to be discovered...
Posted by: Irina | Oct 04, 2005 at 10:06 PM
David meant that neuroscience held no more attraction for him, personally. Not that it wasn't important of itself. It's about following what is now unfurling for you regardless of what you were doing before.
I spent about 10 years in the computer graphics field - and then one day I left and went to the Internet industry. And then I just dropped hands-on technology work (i.e. building digital boards, VLSI chips, software programming) altogether. I guess my right brain and feelings and interpersonal and heart-centered activity were now wanting a chance to be explored. Anyway, it's growing wherever your inner voice leads you.
Posted by: Evelyn Rodriguez | Oct 05, 2005 at 12:56 PM