When the Soap Slips: Brain Injury, Madness, and the Tainted Pathway of Conscious Thought
A Psychextric Analysis of the Harmonic Genome
BY: OMOLAJA MAKINEE
Human behaviour, at its deepest level, is the continuous dialogue between two theatres of the brain:
the diencephalon, where subconscious meaning is crafted, and the cortex, where those meanings are displayed as conscious behaviour.
In the harmonic genome of psychextrics, these two theatres are connected by delicate pathways through which emotional, sensory, and cognitive signals must pass with precision. When those pathways are disrupted, distorted, or tainted, we encounter two terrifying yet revealing phenomena: brain injury and madness.
To understand them, psychextrics uses an analogy simple enough to visualise yet powerful enough to illuminate the neuro-behavioural chaos beneath them.
1. The Bar of Soap: The Nucleus of Behavioural Neurotypes
Imagine the subconscious nucleus of the diencephalon — the factory of meaning, memory integration, instinctive interpretation, and inherited neurotype — as a bar of soap.
It is clean, structured, solid, and internally coherent.
This bar of soap contains:
- the genetic neurotype of behaviour (GIM).
- the genetic blueprint of emotion (HIM).
- the epigenetic library of behavioural experience (EIM).
- and the epigenetic resonance of emotional structures (HFI).
Whenever the brain wants to produce thought, meaning, or behaviour, it reaches for this bar of soap.
In a healthy mind, the hand that reaches for the soap is clean. Whatever is produced from the subconscious is faithfully translated into the conscious display on the cortex.
But what happens when the hand is covered in oil?
2. Palm Oil: The Distortion of Brain Injury
Now imagine that the hand accessing the bar of soap is coated in palm oil.
Palm oil in this analogy represents brain injury — physical trauma, neurological insult, oxygen deprivation, neuro-inflammation, or environmental shock that disrupts the conscious interface of behaviour.
Here is the critical insight in psychextrics:
“The subconscious bar of soap remains intact. But the conscious output becomes tainted.”
The person still understands subconsciously. They still interpret meaning internally with precision. Their emotional and logical reasoning — at the level of pure neurotype — may still function perfectly.
But by the time thought travels from the diencephalon to the cortex, the message becomes smeared, distorted, inconsistent, or incoherent — not because the origin was faulty, but because the pathway is coated in palm oil. Thus the conscious expression of words, actions, understanding, and behaviour emerges:
- fragmented,
- disorganised,
- contradictory,
- or empty of the meaning that exists beneath.
This is why a man who once wrote with clinical precision — who worked for years assisting university students with dissertations — can later, after severe sensory trauma and subsequent paralysis, write a book devoid of coherent meaning.
The soap is fine. The hand that picked it up is not. This is the psychextric signature of certain forms of brain injury.
3. Groundnut Oil: The Distortion of Madness
Groundnut oil represents something different: madness, or psychosis-spectrum disorders arising from harmonic breakdown at the HFI–EIM interface.
Whereas brain injury taints the expression after meaning is formed, madness taints the pathway with a different quality of distortion — one tied to perceptual resonance, emotional overheating, and disharmonic memory retrieval.
But both palm oil (brain injury) and groundnut oil (madness) share a key property:
“The subconscious bar of soap is still accessed. But the conscious expression does not match what the subconscious produced.”
Madness does not always mean the subconscious is damaged. Rather, the cognitive oils taint perception as it rises to consciousness.
This is why many individuals suffering madness often display moments of striking clarity — brief windows where the oil thins out and the true meaning from the bar of soap reaches the cortex cleanly.
In these moments:
- they recognise their own suffering,
- they understand their distorted behaviour,
- they reconnect with reality,
- they re-experience self-awareness.
This “momentary window of sanity” is simply the absence of oil — the brief purity of transmission from subconscious meaning to conscious expression.
4. When the Oil Clears: Windows of Lucid Awareness
Both in brain injury and madness, the psychextric observation is the same: Lucidity emerges when no oil interferes. Some windows last only seconds. Some minutes. A rare few last hours.
During these windows:
- behaviour matches meaning,
- the cortex displays reality accurately,
- the individual becomes emotionally congruent,
- the internal and external worlds realign.
These moments often haunt both the sufferers and their loved ones, because they reveal the intactness of the subconscious self — the untouched bar of soap beneath the chaos.
5. Case Study: The Autistic Man and the Coma
Consider the autistic man who, overwhelmed by environmental noise, collapsed into a coma. He awoke to paralysis and permanent mobility impairment.
After the brain injury:
- his subconscious thinking remained structured,
- but his conscious expression became tainted,
- his writing lost coherence,
- his meaning-making diverged between the subconscious and conscious theatres.
What came from his cortex was not what came from his diencephalon. This is palm oil at work. A clean bar of soap. A tainted hand.
6. The Psychextric Distinction: Subconscious Integrity Versus Conscious Distortion
The power of the psychextric model is in recognising that:
“Not all dysfunctions originate from the HIM–HFI genetic nucleus.
Some originate from the cortical display window.”
This is the key difference between:
- neurotype divergence (HIM/HFI variants),
- brain injury (palm oil),
- madness (groundnut oil).
The first shapes who we are. The second corrupts how we express who we are. The third warps how we perceive who we are.
Thus, a person may:
- think clearly subconsciously,
- feel correctly subconsciously,
- interpret meaning accurately subconsciously.
…yet still appear irrational, incoherent, or confused because the cortex receives the meaning in corrupted form. This is why behaviour alone is never an absolute measure of inner cognitive truth.
Conclusion: The Soap Never Lies
The soap — the subconscious nucleus — retains its purity unless the HIM–HFI structure itself is fundamentally damaged.
Brain injury and madness do not necessarily damage the soap. They simply change the hand that touches it. And in that contaminated contact lies the tragic beauty of human fragility: the possibility that a person can remain whole on the inside while broken on the outside.
Psychextrics teaches us to distinguish:
- the internal meaning from the external behaviour.
- the subconscious integrity from the conscious distortion.
- the clean soap from the oily hand.
Because understanding this difference is the first step toward compassion, diagnosis, and the science of reharmonising a fractured mind.
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