Theres a few things I put together.
The first was when I was a kid I read a book from Dr. Edward De Bono called "Teaching Thinking" which opened up my mind to meta cognitive processes. I was immediately able to tinker with the way I processed information and it became an obsession. I only read the book once and I was like 11 at the time but I still use his presented exercise for leveraging visual, abstract, and spacial memory to demonstrate the ability of apply metacognition.
One came from a TV show I watched called "Stan Lee's superhumans" where he covers people with crazy unique abilities. One episode was called "The Human Calculator." You could throw big numbers at him like "whats 4123 times 1389" and he would instantly spit out the answer. The show is about understanding 'why' someone is superhuman so they ended up hooking him up to an MRI machine. They found he was simply processing mathmatics using a part of his brain that preforms complex depth perception calculations.
After the war I ended up doing pretty much every PTSD therapy I could find. I felt like there had to be some way I could restructure the mess I made of my mind and a few things worked. One of the first ones that shocked me in how effective it was is called EMDR or "Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" therapy. Before I did that I would freak the fuck out when I smelled burnt hair. The sessions basically just had you process stuff while moving your eyes. To my supprise a month later I was in a bar and drunk guy burns his beard lighting a cigarette. I smelled the burnt hair and it took a moment for me to realize I was unaffected. No feelings of terror, sweating, shaking or anything. That shit really worked so I started obsessing over how it worked.
I read a bunch of medical journals on it and eventually came across Neuro-linguistic programming. I had actually received a small bit of training on the subject in my counter-espionage training but this really connected the dots. The practice basically relates a connection between the direction of eye movement and the parts of the brain being used. (Its really cool if you study a bit but you HAVE to keep in mind the locations are idio-syncratic. There is no "eyes move right means X" for everyone and a study very clearly demonstrated that.)
Then I understood that EMDR was simply a reverse process of that. Eye movement was used to access different parts of the brain while processing trauma allowing for the mind to process it differently.
So then I put it all together:
-If Eye movement stimulates different parts of the brain and makes people process information with those parts
-If 'Scott Flansburg' uses a different part of his brain to be a human calculator
-Then I should be able to use VR to stimulate depth perception making mathematics processed similarly to how Scott Flansburg does.
One very significant issue I have come across is that it is absolute hell to re-map something already mentally established. Here is a really cool video that demonstrates this with a 'reverse geared bicycle' and how higher neuro-plasticity in children allow them to remap their mind while adults cant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0 After understanding that I started to focus specifically on teaching children.
I spoke to Rev a year or so about it and he was interested but I havent figured out how to network the concept into motion. I figured if I created a proof of concept I could easily get things moving but that in itself is difficult. Because its dealing with children that creates a lot of problems and I have a true hatred for the academic community at this point in how they function. What they have done to education greatly offends me.
Where I am at right now is I plan to use a VR video game console and code up something super basic then hook up with some NPO that travels to third world country to educate children and such and try my concept. It cuts all the red tape and if I am able to get one or a few children I can use that proof of concept to shoot for a research grant.
I may be delusional but I do feel that if I am right it could change the way we look at overall education. The conversation would shift from 'This is a thing and here is how it works' into 'this is a thing, here is how it works, and this is the part of the brain that is most effective at preforming the function.' That is really what I believe education should be anyways. I think its disgusting that medicognitive processes are only taught by accident in education and I feel like I can have a 10 minute conversation with a person and have a greater impact on their underlying memory function that they get in their first 12 years of schooling in America.