It is often claimed that we use only 10% of our brain. It would be more accurate to state that the average efficiency of the average brain is around 10%. Each brain constituent presents some degree of functionality most of the time. The key to functional efficiency of the brain, as a whole, lies in the degree of interactivity of its functional constituents.

The degree to which the information processing performed by one part of the brain is recognized as significant to the related operations in the other parts of the brain, dictates the level of synergy achieved between these constituents and therefore, the level of overall functional capacity attained.

When sufficient coordination between the various information processing centers of the brain is achieved, a shift in the quality of consciousness reflects this synergy at work. This expansion of consciousness has been referred to as: "an altered state, a religious experience, Cosmic Consciousness, and many other terms as well.

Since one's consciousness is experienced as "the still point around which one's world turns", a shift in consciousness appears as a change in the attributes of one's surroundings. Expanded consciousness reveals greater possibilities and potentialities in all that is beheld and thereby in the beholder as well.