Why do some in these comments believe that this woman's beautiful subjective experience is any less valid than normal, mundane life? Seems they "say that there's no truth, and who cares, yet they say that like they're right". Don't they see that within this logic lies a contradiction? The thing itself is entirely different from the mechanism - do you think that a neuroscientist understands love better than someone in love as well?
I had a stoke a my freshman year of high school. I called my journey of connecting and disconnecting, my stroke mindstorm. It changed my life forever. I connected deeply with my spirituality and began looking at everything in a new perspectinve. I am a better person. It truly was a gift. This lady broke my heart, because I understand too. Thank you Dr.Taylor!
Kind of a shame. Just about everything her field is about is dissecting and analyzing these experiences and recognizing them for what they are: altered perception or straight up delusion. She even references them as such several times, but seems more keen on embracing the result of a damaged, failing brain over what reason and her education might tell her.
Not that her message isn't good. Not that these kinds of illusions are bad. I think everyone should meditate and visualize. But be honest.
@NiteSaiya I'd like to know more as to why you're opinion seems to lean towards her experiencing and embracing delusional ideas versus a momwent of incredible insight that indelibly changed her consciousness forever in a positive way? Ok, you are talking about education and reson, I have a Bsc, but I'm also willing to open upp to the idea that there is a lot scientists do not know and education and reason are not all that there is...
@BluesMastery Well her brain was undergoing severe, life-threatening trauma at the time. What's more likely: That she was having intensely real delusions as her hardware failed, or that somehow the damage allowed her to perceive "special insights" into the nature of our existence? I personally think the former is much more likely to be accurate. I do think we know relatively little about the brain and there's much to be learned and gamed within it. But I don't think delusions are helpful there.
@NiteSaiya I agree she was definitively tripping balls. However she did experience what you might say is an "ego death". When she lost her identity she felt that she was more than her personality and of course she is right there. We are our intellect but our cells too and we are connected to what is around us. Even if she went saying a way more than that in her presentation I still think there is a grain of great insight beneath the new-agey mumbo jumbo.
@NiteSaiya Why do some in these comments believe that this woman's beautiful subjective experience is any less valid than normal, mundane life? Seems they "say that there's no truth, and who cares, yet they say that like they're right". Don't they see that within this logic lies a contradiction? The thing itself is entirely different from the mechanism - do you think that a neuroscientist understands love better than someone in love as well?
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I think by the end of this century, considering the research in cybernetics, brain computer interfaces, and advancement in medicine and technology, and after watching this lecture, Americans will invent a switch near the left brain, which can hand over the consciousness either to the left or right brain. But I will not want that happen. It will be like fast food, fast consciousness.
the world is going to be a better and peaceful place soon and i am surprised its going to be Americans who will make it. (it was anyways the americans with their inventions and all, but it got nasty with consumerism and greed)
Sounds like DMT or Ayahuasca. It's amazing to be disconnected from the brain chatter.. or the chattering ape as some call it. Get the Monkey off your Back. Meditate. Inhale. Drink up. Explore natures medicines and experience the Truth. :))
The way everybody laughs at the 'insights' coming from the Right Hemisphere is SAD. ""LALA LAND"??.....this is half of our reality, and we spend one third of our lives asleep, but these facts are ignored by the left brain-washed majority, which shows how the more feminine right brain is marginalized. They stopped laughing as this great lady continued.
@IvoryGuru dumbass, having a stroke isn't compulsory. she didn't have a spiritual journey, her brain fucking turned off, missfired, and caused her to experience strange visions.
deliberately destroying your brain is a federal offence for a reason, holy shit
@1Delu I don't think you paid attention to the video. Considering she had a hemorrhage, it's astonishing she can speak so eloquently as she did in this video.
this does sound a lot like tripping with the losing your body barrier and getting lost in a stack of papers and/or a drawer seeing the oneness of the energy that surrounds you and feeling expansive way beyond that of the concept of individuality. this is one of the best videos i have watched in awhile and I agree that if the title was perhaps different it would get more views
She's pretty out there. Some interesting facts along the way, but honestly way too overdramatized. She can relay how a stroke feels without starting to chant and use the word 'energy' as if it's the only sufficient word for sensing.
@LightWthoutTheStatic i think because its the only one in her perception that fits. if you think about it she is trying to make something that is so abstract that its much harder to do in just words.
@TheBushidovski She does speak a bit strangely but it may have something to do with the huge stroke she suffered from a blood clot pressing against the language centers in her brain..
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Interesting talk, I liked the part when she described what happened when she woke up. However you can truly tell that she is a Buddhist and the talk is so influenced by her belief...
@Supermassively typical coward tactic. thats all you got. personal attacks are the lowest form of intellectual debate. 'ugh when were we having an intellectual debate duh', just in case you wanted to act again like a 12 year old heckler, i tossed that in. sad. half a nation of idiots raised on the simpsons that talk like you. your actions and comments will now be recorded since you think you are a doctor and continue to stalk me with your defamation tactics. enjoy the illusion civilian.
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I believe you lady. I've experienced something like this. Not as intense. I'm a changed man now, life is good. My wife has changed too. It rubs off on other people. I'm pretty sure my cat has also changed for the better lol.
is just sad how some of you think but if you compare what she actually is saying on a basis from the works of lets say krishnamurti or adyashanti you find that she is dead on.
this vid will get many more views with a different tilte.
something like: enlightened neuroanatomist on left brain vs right brain
i'm sure if u bother to repost, u can think of a better title. but it's a start. I would have never clicked on this video based on the title but was fortunate enough for it to autoplay in a playlist
the way she contrasts the functions of the hemispheres is brilliant. It also draws paralels to awakening experiences, entheogen trips, advaita. need better title.
@prinzdubs The proper title is Who are We? or Who am I? This is the actual title of the presentation which is displayed at the very end of the video. It is the correct and most enlightening title.It is what she chose herself and what she answered at the end.
Discovering the answer to Who are we? or Who am I? is what the stroke of insight was truly about, and what prompted her to write the book and give this presentation. You might look up Atma Vichara
Took 1400 mg of dxm and experienced everything Jill went through, to a lesser degree (Light didn't burn afterwards, but I had one hell of a headache, most likely from the raging flow of life through my senses during the peak hours).Death is a gorgeous thing, abandon all your fears and uncertaintys about your death. The blissfull, loving energy that awaits us after death, that surges through us all, that connects everything and everyone, infinite beauty, infinite complexity, awaits us all
it bothers me that she gets emotional with the tale of the out of body experience, as a neurologist, doesnt she know this experiences can be a product of chemichals released by the brain? also how much credibility can we give to these experiences or their interpretentions, after all, her brain was failing?
@sanriver12 The purpose of her presentation is to promote humans becoming more emotional than analytical. The credibility comes from other people who are alive with one half or their brain damaged and the way they interact with the world.
@sanriver12 I believe the point of that entire presentation that only half of her brain was failing...she tapped (in those few hours) very heavily into her right hemisphere because she had no choice: the other hemisphere was shutting down
this is nooo drug ! and no one can touch this ! its pure reporting iq. eq logic . drugs are for a preconception of what you want to happen then love trip then only recall the bad whitey. tip its in her sound . no one can fake that .
@ism3c I dare say there, I dare say, I do, I do, YOU have everted the function of the human brain, itself -as if, when the Good GOD said "who wants a brain," ye said: "Not I, give me a drain, and down it send the brain!" Now then, what nonsense do you speak: that it is deficient to sort matters out, to analyze a puzzle, seek to put the pieces together with an eye to ascertaining what little truth be had in the condition known as humanity? I shall rather talk 2 myself, thank ye kindly.
@Theagenthollyhock Brain chatter is the continuous running commentary going in our minds. It consists mainly of two parts. One of them is when we think words in our mind, like talking and thinking in our minds, which occasionally expresses itself outwardly as talking out loud to ourselves. The other is our automatic habit of categorizing everything we see, putting everything we experience with our senses in their place, including our thoughts, giving them name and form
I really resent this talk. I've read parts of her book too. It comes across as very spiritualist and devalues rational thought. It irks me that she's so sure what each hemisphere of the brain is associated with. I mean no disrespect, but you had a stroke, do you really think that you can objectively draw conclusions from an experience that messed with your own brain?
I wish people would think more critically about what they hear instead of just buying in to feelgood messages. This made me sad.
@Yony42 nevertheless I find it an interesting medical artifact - describing ages-old alpha -theta states and other drug induced/meditation states thru the experience of brain damage, essentially - as potentially shedding scientific light on such states which have existed throughout time. Not to mention the ABILITY to articulate what happens - it's got to have some value to it. I was digging it until she decided to use a diseased state as a basis for a sound moral/ethical foundation.
@Yony42 It is common knowledge what the hemispheres function as. Her experience as an intellectual gives her great credibility as well. You are basically fighting on what she just lecture you with. You wanted a rational, serial explanation and she was giving you a spiritual parallel experience. She is an expert on rational thought and she focused on the contrast of the discipline her PhD provided, hence this presentation.
@Yony42 Your statement seemingly assumes rationality is the only means of explaining existence in its entirety, is that honestly what YOU believe? And while it's true, it is difficult and even more likely impossible to draw an objective conclusion from any experience, let alone one during a stroke, it seems a little presumptuous to discredit her presentation unless you yourself have had a stroke. Do you not agree?
@DylanGalvinMusic That is honestly what I believe, since by definition explanations have to be coherent, reasoned statements to have any value.
I agree that it is difficult to draw objective conclusions from a stroke experience, which is exactly my point.
Lastly, I do not agree, I will discredit her presentation on the grounds of pretending to be objective and scientific when it is not, as you yourself have said.
@DylanGalvinMusic Lastly, why would I have to have a stroke myself to discredit her presentation? My whole point is that I don't think you should not trust your own brain to analyze your own stroke, and that she is not approaching her presentation objectively and scientifically. I don't need a stroke for those criticisms to be legitimate. It's the same reason why psychologists don't diagnose themselves, due to inherent personal bias. That my friend is the *whole* point. So not, I do not agree.
@DylanGalvinMusic Also, sorry to keep bugging you, but strokes come in many different forms. If I had a stroke, my brain may have been damaged in a completely different way than hers, so even on that level it is nonsensical for me to have had one in order to criticize her presentation.
it is funny what happens when a person that is educated in the matters of the anatomy of the brain, philosophy and psychology and also has a good imagination when they have a stroke :) it seems like a well put together story....although i doubt its validity... nevertheless entertaining
@okzon I don't wan't to sound insulting, but you typify a lot of the people who make drug related comments. Do you understand what she means at17:05 - " RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere..." She can enter into what you know as a drug induced state, from a state of sobriety under full self-control. The process can be learned, and in her opinion it is the result of unconscious choices that we are ignorant of this. Where does DMT enter into this?
I had one in May. I just don't get the speaker. Strokes destroy lives. I would say she got of very lucky. Almost like she is promoting that having a stoke is a wonderful experience.
@fatpigiam@fatpigiam I hear ya - this talk to me just emphasizes the major problems I have with all the new agey pseudo spiritual claptrap out there in the world - the gist of which seems to be 'ignore outside reality' and (in the case of this talk) 'enlightenment = a state of physical disease'
i dont think she even realizes what she has just opened up to the world, as im sure none of you do. if you dont believe, im most certain you will when you pass away
I had a stroke and to be honest i cannot relate all all to this performance. To me this person is babbling on like a typical boring American. For some reason Yanks love talking about them selves. How many times do they say “I'. So self absorbed. I can't even watch it anymore and have had enough at 12.44.
@fatpigiam Talk about self absorbed, you cant watch past 12 minutes to get the full context of what she is talking about, which is, the EXACT opposite of "I".
@Drumwave008 12 minutes of loud mouth fodder is too much to ask to take when you find it hard to concentrate due to ongoing stroke recovery. I found this woman to be an annoying bore. No apologies required.
@jamesykt69 I was just about to comment, "She wasn't having a stroke, she was having an excellent experience from LSD, peyote, DMT, or some other kind of wonderful."
@onefortyandwiry yeah sure is, anyone who has taken these type of drugs knows what shes describing. I guess they just shut of your left part of your brain and turn on the right side
@JohnF30Music just saying, like im a full time weed smoker. I can feel this happen to my brain at times, only occasionly, ill be sittin somewhere and ill just be able to do nothing, ill be looking at something and i wont be able to "see" it even tho im looking directly at it, and my body feels like it literally exapands within itself, my brain feels content and at ease. and then ill realise what is happening, and i could literally feel my brain function come back. I used to dream.
There are people on this earth who participate in other realities and energy systems. Its nothing new. One might wonder why people with such experiences don't share them. Why don't they just "prove" it is the ignorant cry heard over the centuries.It just ends up being something you don't talk about, except to others who are able to understand. I have personal experience, yes that experience is subjective(in most cases). Perception is fundamentally subjective as well, But scientists still use it
@QCBEC yeah but it's the way she described it in retrospect after the incident already happened (so without the effect of DMT or w/e caused the different state of mind). Chiefly, it bugged me that she kept saying energy flow as if it were some fung-shui nonsense.
....she was having a subjective experience of the effects of whatever was happening to her brain.
I am sure that there will be unfavorable comments towards my comments which was the result of what I have observed through watching this video and reading the other posts, but it will not be something new, I'm sure. 80)
Also In the New Age mind set there are no such things as; sin or Judgement, so therefore, no need for Redemption.
I have to say that as remarkable as her experience is, her interpretation of it leaves much to be desired. The first problem for me is that she gives the false impression (not intentionally misleading I'm sure) that her interpretation is firmly rooted in the scientific study of the brain. But the fact is, she wasn't studying her brain at all during the stroke....
Which really is a dangerous place to be. In the New Age mind set there are no such things as a One True God and Creator of all, but rather, we are all gods or as she has noted: "I AM—the life force power of the universe" that is the very lie that The Serpent told Eve in the garden when he said, "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God..."
....whenever she chooses and be "one with all that is." Her talk concludes with a call to make this choice ourselves:"
She says; "I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are—I AM—the life force power of the universe,...."
This has a lot to do w/ the "New Age" philosophy that she now feels compelled to communicate. One of the many names of The God of the Bible is "I AM", and just like all other philosophies of the world, it is detrimentally opposed to Christianity.
She now feels "called" to communicate the message that people "could purposely choose to step to the right of their left hemispheres and find this peace." She had experienced "Nirvana" and lived to tell about it. "And if I have found Nirvana and I'm still alive, then everyone who is alive can find Nirvana." She now says that she is a new person who "can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere" ....
But still, what does this gives us? I mean, which would be the right choice and how to enter these spheres. This video doesn't really tell that much...
This Ladys brain exploded and she wonders why she was thinking they way she was?
Her brain short circuited.. If you short circuit a computer or an electrical system it will act very strange, That doesn't make it the ACTUAL REALITY.
She didn't choose anything, she had a massive blood clot in HER BRAIN.
Telling people "its simple, it all comes down to choice", is bull.
Great job filling ALL THESE VIEWERS with a sense of false hope.
-WE, along with everything in the universe is PURE energy!
- We ARE all connected in the terms of how our energy affects one another, especially the nervous system and the brain
-Go take a nap or watch an hr or two of your favorite comedians,THAT is the ultimate therapy for your mind. Not being disconnected from reality Brings me to my next point. REALITY DOESN'T EXIST.Mood generates thought, there are millions of moods, and no one is in the same EXACT mood at one time
I agree with your comment. I had a stroke and it was horrible. Still recovering and discovering the consequences. What pisses me off is that when i have put down my thoughts of this speech all i get is negativity sent to me. Strokes destroy lives. Period.
04:08 If you ever watched Symphony of Science and want that part in the video, anywho its a awesome song, if u havent listend to it its called Ode to the Brain
So paradoxically language itself, thought to be a means for communication, might just be part of this whole left brain isolating function... Therefore one should pay more attention while talking (right brain): checking if it's not the calculating mind just parroting itself. Robot talk... Yet like other tricky stuff of that sort, it must stem from true honest will: not from yet another left brain paranoid monitoring...
Woah, it put me on such an emotional state, it's as if I could feel what she felt, if I could connect to her on some level. I guess that's my right hemisphere working, and I'm a left hemisphere user.
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interesting story, but hmm, energy beings, and planes of reality, and transitions ..... sounds like religious shite to me
spirit soared free ...... ok luv whatever u sayyyy
mikesomething 1 day ago
this was terrible, c'mon guys
bloodlustonly 2 days ago
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BeaudTS 5 days ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
This is one of the most inspirational speeches I've ever heard.
derekxnl 6 days ago 4
@derekxnl I agree!
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olle323 1 week ago
Sorry Mrs. Taylor, but what you have witnessed are the effects of L.S.D. (:
jeebzPB 1 week ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
@jeebzPB That's sorta true because certain drugs unlock the very parts of your brain that mis-firing neurons can. Ya think?
robin56 1 week ago
Why do some in these comments believe that this woman's beautiful subjective experience is any less valid than normal, mundane life? Seems they "say that there's no truth, and who cares, yet they say that like they're right". Don't they see that within this logic lies a contradiction? The thing itself is entirely different from the mechanism - do you think that a neuroscientist understands love better than someone in love as well?
MrHatt7777 1 week ago
sounds like rolling on E
kimdavinci 1 week ago
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sweetpuff101 1 week ago
I had a stoke a my freshman year of high school. I called my journey of connecting and disconnecting, my stroke mindstorm. It changed my life forever. I connected deeply with my spirituality and began looking at everything in a new perspectinve. I am a better person. It truly was a gift. This lady broke my heart, because I understand too. Thank you Dr.Taylor!
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Kind of a shame. Just about everything her field is about is dissecting and analyzing these experiences and recognizing them for what they are: altered perception or straight up delusion. She even references them as such several times, but seems more keen on embracing the result of a damaged, failing brain over what reason and her education might tell her.
Not that her message isn't good. Not that these kinds of illusions are bad. I think everyone should meditate and visualize. But be honest.
NiteSaiya 2 weeks ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
@NiteSaiya I'd like to know more as to why you're opinion seems to lean towards her experiencing and embracing delusional ideas versus a momwent of incredible insight that indelibly changed her consciousness forever in a positive way? Ok, you are talking about education and reson, I have a Bsc, but I'm also willing to open upp to the idea that there is a lot scientists do not know and education and reason are not all that there is...
:)
BluesMastery 1 week ago
@BluesMastery Well her brain was undergoing severe, life-threatening trauma at the time. What's more likely: That she was having intensely real delusions as her hardware failed, or that somehow the damage allowed her to perceive "special insights" into the nature of our existence? I personally think the former is much more likely to be accurate. I do think we know relatively little about the brain and there's much to be learned and gamed within it. But I don't think delusions are helpful there.
NiteSaiya 1 week ago
@NiteSaiya I agree she was definitively tripping balls. However she did experience what you might say is an "ego death". When she lost her identity she felt that she was more than her personality and of course she is right there. We are our intellect but our cells too and we are connected to what is around us. Even if she went saying a way more than that in her presentation I still think there is a grain of great insight beneath the new-agey mumbo jumbo.
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@NiteSaiya Why do some in these comments believe that this woman's beautiful subjective experience is any less valid than normal, mundane life? Seems they "say that there's no truth, and who cares, yet they say that like they're right". Don't they see that within this logic lies a contradiction? The thing itself is entirely different from the mechanism - do you think that a neuroscientist understands love better than someone in love as well?
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lightandbeautiful 2 weeks ago
4:07 sounds weird after watching symphony of science xD
Samovskii 2 weeks ago 2
I think by the end of this century, considering the research in cybernetics, brain computer interfaces, and advancement in medicine and technology, and after watching this lecture, Americans will invent a switch near the left brain, which can hand over the consciousness either to the left or right brain. But I will not want that happen. It will be like fast food, fast consciousness.
xdarkjack 2 weeks ago
the world is going to be a better and peaceful place soon and i am surprised its going to be Americans who will make it. (it was anyways the americans with their inventions and all, but it got nasty with consumerism and greed)
xdarkjack 2 weeks ago
she just had trailer of enlightenment or whats called satori in buddhists texts.
xdarkjack 2 weeks ago
Sounds like DMT or Ayahuasca. It's amazing to be disconnected from the brain chatter.. or the chattering ape as some call it. Get the Monkey off your Back. Meditate. Inhale. Drink up. Explore natures medicines and experience the Truth. :))
20LookInside12 2 weeks ago
And that whole presentation was an incredible use of her right brain...very stunning.
bernlin2000 2 weeks ago
Well that was cool :-)
bernlin2000 2 weeks ago
The way everybody laughs at the 'insights' coming from the Right Hemisphere is SAD. ""LALA LAND"??.....this is half of our reality, and we spend one third of our lives asleep, but these facts are ignored by the left brain-washed majority, which shows how the more feminine right brain is marginalized. They stopped laughing as this great lady continued.
erniemajor 2 weeks ago
thank you for the deeply caring and lovely speech.
Your exprience was terrifying of course but it was also very informative..
thank you again...i am touched by your exprience.
kusgozmete 2 weeks ago
Spiritual journey through stroke = Thunderous Applause
Spiritual journey through mushrooms = Federal Offense
IvoryGuru 2 weeks ago 25
@IvoryGuru dumbass, having a stroke isn't compulsory. she didn't have a spiritual journey, her brain fucking turned off, missfired, and caused her to experience strange visions.
deliberately destroying your brain is a federal offence for a reason, holy shit
super6plx 5 days ago 2
@super6plx sorry having a stroke IS compulsary.. not your decision, out of your control, is what I meant to say
super6plx 5 days ago
@IvoryGuru One is a mistake, the other is blatant ignorance.
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IvoryGuru 2 weeks ago
Psychedelic
YentaY0 2 weeks ago
She speaks in a strange way
1Delu 2 weeks ago
@1Delu I don't think you paid attention to the video. Considering she had a hemorrhage, it's astonishing she can speak so eloquently as she did in this video.
DarkOneRRp 2 weeks ago 2
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franpe1 3 weeks ago
So how does one learn to chose?
karolis685 3 weeks ago
Doesnt sound like a strike more like an lsd trip
hobobanana6575 3 weeks ago
this does sound a lot like tripping with the losing your body barrier and getting lost in a stack of papers and/or a drawer seeing the oneness of the energy that surrounds you and feeling expansive way beyond that of the concept of individuality. this is one of the best videos i have watched in awhile and I agree that if the title was perhaps different it would get more views
oneironautical 3 weeks ago 3
does this not sound like tripping...
chanjasonsk 3 weeks ago
I think she needs to go back to the e.r. and see if shes still not strokin out lol id still pound that tho >:D
whisperingpenis 3 weeks ago
She's pretty out there. Some interesting facts along the way, but honestly way too overdramatized. She can relay how a stroke feels without starting to chant and use the word 'energy' as if it's the only sufficient word for sensing.
LightWthoutTheStatic 3 weeks ago
@LightWthoutTheStatic i think because its the only one in her perception that fits. if you think about it she is trying to make something that is so abstract that its much harder to do in just words.
caciquepadilla 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
'' I have a brother that has schizophrenia, '' waiting for her to turn around and talk to herself:
''Shh! we musnts tells them! ''
Thundurhurdur 4 weeks ago
@Thundurhurdur Schizophrenia isn't Multiple Personality Disorder.
Dumbass.
Supermassively 3 weeks ago
3:50 5:02 wow so new to me the info of her
seemlyme 4 weeks ago
take notice how she pronounces the word "brain"
"bhhhhrainnnn"
TheBushidovski 4 weeks ago
@TheBushidovski She does speak a bit strangely but it may have something to do with the huge stroke she suffered from a blood clot pressing against the language centers in her brain..
RosariaDF 4 weeks ago 3
@freshwind Who cares what her 'beliefs' are? Did you not receive the wonderful gift she gave? Perhaps I shall speak in tongues here...Matt 25:33 " And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand, but the goats on the left." Do you wish to be One with I AM or do you wish to Be I AM? This woman has experienced The Truth as few have...The left hem of fear can not contain The Truth...but the right one longs for it...
Firewalker2609 4 weeks ago
Interesting talk, I liked the part when she described what happened when she woke up. However you can truly tell that she is a Buddhist and the talk is so influenced by her belief...
freshwind 1 month ago
@freshwind Yeah, she's a real nut.
Supermassively 3 weeks ago
228 people think there is a spoon and that the sun is coming up tomorrow for them.
Psy0psAgent 1 month ago
@Psy0psAgent Shut the fuck up.
Supermassively 3 weeks ago
@Supermassively Dirty little coward. Enjoy ww3 prick. See you on the other side.
Psy0psAgent 3 weeks ago
@Psy0psAgent lol, mental illness must be a real bitch.
Supermassively 3 weeks ago
@Supermassively typical coward tactic. thats all you got. personal attacks are the lowest form of intellectual debate. 'ugh when were we having an intellectual debate duh', just in case you wanted to act again like a 12 year old heckler, i tossed that in. sad. half a nation of idiots raised on the simpsons that talk like you. your actions and comments will now be recorded since you think you are a doctor and continue to stalk me with your defamation tactics. enjoy the illusion civilian.
Psy0psAgent 3 weeks ago
@Psy0psAgent Fake account. Probably a wife beating cop serving a saturn worshipping pedophile judge. Sadomasochistic pup who cant form a coherent arguement that doesnt include neener neener neener and yo momma crap. Dirty little civilian freak or shill that believes the illusion I was paid to learn about.
Psy0psAgent 3 weeks ago
@Psy0psAgent Why are you talking about yourself like that?
Supermassively 3 weeks ago
@Psy0psAgent It's not a personal attack. It is a statement of fact, and that reply simply reinforces it.
Supermassively 3 weeks ago
good vid tho
CentralRapMusic 1 month ago
marijuana yummm
CentralRapMusic 1 month ago
I believe you lady. I've experienced something like this. Not as intense. I'm a changed man now, life is good. My wife has changed too. It rubs off on other people. I'm pretty sure my cat has also changed for the better lol.
socksnundies 1 month ago 27
The devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. Sort of like the hemispheres of the brain. Get it? :D
Copperfoilhat 1 month ago
Made me cry because I know it's true because I've experienced it.
phillyprodigy09 1 month ago
is just sad how some of you think but if you compare what she actually is saying on a basis from the works of lets say krishnamurti or adyashanti you find that she is dead on.
and313 1 month ago
Crazy woman is on drugs. Hippie.
waqqashanafi 1 month ago
@waqqashanafi aka lonely guy thinks it cool to insult someone way mature then he ever could be.
guess whos the asshole now
the lonely guy who watches the womans video or the woman whose 17 mins speech has 1,713,907 veiws
slimjijo123 3 weeks ago
rubbish.
sstuddert 1 month ago 2
@sstuddert describing yourself?
bernardomarinho007 1 month ago
@bernardomarinho007 no, but it's an excellent headline to your biting wit.
sstuddert 1 month ago
this vid will get many more views with a different tilte.
something like: enlightened neuroanatomist on left brain vs right brain
i'm sure if u bother to repost, u can think of a better title. but it's a start. I would have never clicked on this video based on the title but was fortunate enough for it to autoplay in a playlist
the way she contrasts the functions of the hemispheres is brilliant. It also draws paralels to awakening experiences, entheogen trips, advaita. need better title.
prinzdubs 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks 17
@prinzdubs Dumb comment.
Supermassively 3 weeks ago
@prinzdubs The proper title is Who are We? or Who am I? This is the actual title of the presentation which is displayed at the very end of the video. It is the correct and most enlightening title.It is what she chose herself and what she answered at the end.
Discovering the answer to Who are we? or Who am I? is what the stroke of insight was truly about, and what prompted her to write the book and give this presentation. You might look up Atma Vichara
sporo2000 1 week ago
Took 1400 mg of dxm and experienced everything Jill went through, to a lesser degree (Light didn't burn afterwards, but I had one hell of a headache, most likely from the raging flow of life through my senses during the peak hours).Death is a gorgeous thing, abandon all your fears and uncertaintys about your death. The blissfull, loving energy that awaits us after death, that surges through us all, that connects everything and everyone, infinite beauty, infinite complexity, awaits us all
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Yony42 1 month ago
it bothers me that she gets emotional with the tale of the out of body experience, as a neurologist, doesnt she know this experiences can be a product of chemichals released by the brain? also how much credibility can we give to these experiences or their interpretentions, after all, her brain was failing?
sanriver12 1 month ago
@sanriver12 The purpose of her presentation is to promote humans becoming more emotional than analytical. The credibility comes from other people who are alive with one half or their brain damaged and the way they interact with the world.
XYZreveals 1 month ago
@XYZreveals "promote humans becoming more emotional than analytical" ha no thanks, i wouldnt want to live in that world
sanriver12 1 month ago 3
@sanriver12 I believe the point of that entire presentation that only half of her brain was failing...she tapped (in those few hours) very heavily into her right hemisphere because she had no choice: the other hemisphere was shutting down
bernlin2000 2 weeks ago
this is nooo drug ! and no one can touch this ! its pure reporting iq. eq logic . drugs are for a preconception of what you want to happen then love trip then only recall the bad whitey. tip its in her sound . no one can fake that .
suened 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Let's all get strokes/cut out the left halves of our brains and attain nirvana.
YawnGod 1 month ago
wow, that's one heck of a stroke.
lilteenyweenytuna 1 month ago
Could someone kindly explain, what is "brain chatter" ?
Theagenthollyhock 1 month ago
@Theagenthollyhock When you talk to yourself and decide your priorities and good or evil
ism3c 1 month ago
@ism3c I dare say there, I dare say, I do, I do, YOU have everted the function of the human brain, itself -as if, when the Good GOD said "who wants a brain," ye said: "Not I, give me a drain, and down it send the brain!" Now then, what nonsense do you speak: that it is deficient to sort matters out, to analyze a puzzle, seek to put the pieces together with an eye to ascertaining what little truth be had in the condition known as humanity? I shall rather talk 2 myself, thank ye kindly.
Theagenthollyhock 1 month ago
@Theagenthollyhock Brain chatter is the continuous running commentary going in our minds. It consists mainly of two parts. One of them is when we think words in our mind, like talking and thinking in our minds, which occasionally expresses itself outwardly as talking out loud to ourselves. The other is our automatic habit of categorizing everything we see, putting everything we experience with our senses in their place, including our thoughts, giving them name and form
sporo2000 4 weeks ago
12:54 XD this is the best speech ever!!
rotateaxis 1 month ago
10:45 - 11:10 Hahaha lol
rotateaxis 1 month ago
I really resent this talk. I've read parts of her book too. It comes across as very spiritualist and devalues rational thought. It irks me that she's so sure what each hemisphere of the brain is associated with. I mean no disrespect, but you had a stroke, do you really think that you can objectively draw conclusions from an experience that messed with your own brain?
I wish people would think more critically about what they hear instead of just buying in to feelgood messages. This made me sad.
Yony42 1 month ago 2
@Yony42 nevertheless I find it an interesting medical artifact - describing ages-old alpha -theta states and other drug induced/meditation states thru the experience of brain damage, essentially - as potentially shedding scientific light on such states which have existed throughout time. Not to mention the ABILITY to articulate what happens - it's got to have some value to it. I was digging it until she decided to use a diseased state as a basis for a sound moral/ethical foundation.
arayamusic 1 month ago
@Yony42 It is common knowledge what the hemispheres function as. Her experience as an intellectual gives her great credibility as well. You are basically fighting on what she just lecture you with. You wanted a rational, serial explanation and she was giving you a spiritual parallel experience. She is an expert on rational thought and she focused on the contrast of the discipline her PhD provided, hence this presentation.
ism3c 1 month ago
@Yony42 Your statement seemingly assumes rationality is the only means of explaining existence in its entirety, is that honestly what YOU believe? And while it's true, it is difficult and even more likely impossible to draw an objective conclusion from any experience, let alone one during a stroke, it seems a little presumptuous to discredit her presentation unless you yourself have had a stroke. Do you not agree?
DylanGalvinMusic 1 month ago
@DylanGalvinMusic That is honestly what I believe, since by definition explanations have to be coherent, reasoned statements to have any value.
I agree that it is difficult to draw objective conclusions from a stroke experience, which is exactly my point.
Lastly, I do not agree, I will discredit her presentation on the grounds of pretending to be objective and scientific when it is not, as you yourself have said.
Yony42 1 month ago
@DylanGalvinMusic Lastly, why would I have to have a stroke myself to discredit her presentation? My whole point is that I don't think you should not trust your own brain to analyze your own stroke, and that she is not approaching her presentation objectively and scientifically. I don't need a stroke for those criticisms to be legitimate. It's the same reason why psychologists don't diagnose themselves, due to inherent personal bias. That my friend is the *whole* point. So not, I do not agree.
Yony42 1 month ago
@DylanGalvinMusic Also, sorry to keep bugging you, but strokes come in many different forms. If I had a stroke, my brain may have been damaged in a completely different way than hers, so even on that level it is nonsensical for me to have had one in order to criticize her presentation.
Yony42 1 month ago
um...no...i don't have a tear in my eye...it's just a lil sweaty is all.
w4r7 1 month ago
She makes it sound pretty fun!
mbobkows 1 month ago
salvia for sure... ive also had open eyed dream states that felt like that
ErectuSET 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
I have similar ideas when meditating
IWantSoundKnowledge 1 month ago
Lisbon at 19:50
Tito23892 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
SPIRIT FINGERS FTW!#@!
DrJackJeckyl 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
This is truly one of the most inspirational talks I've heard. If only everyone would watch this, and learn.... we are all one!
LiandaLudwig 1 month ago
This reminds me of the Fantastic voyage and much more.
yasswah 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
it is funny what happens when a person that is educated in the matters of the anatomy of the brain, philosophy and psychology and also has a good imagination when they have a stroke :) it seems like a well put together story....although i doubt its validity... nevertheless entertaining
crcandea1 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
I must start getting high
MAFiA303 1 month ago
Were all connected to something unknown. Call it a source, call it the divine, whatever it is, its there, and we can tap into it!
GrizzlyFist 1 month ago
Somebody, please give this woman some DMT, or mushrooms.
okzon 1 month ago
@okzon I don't wan't to sound insulting, but you typify a lot of the people who make drug related comments. Do you understand what she means at17:05 - " RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere..." She can enter into what you know as a drug induced state, from a state of sobriety under full self-control. The process can be learned, and in her opinion it is the result of unconscious choices that we are ignorant of this. Where does DMT enter into this?
sporo2000 4 weeks ago
Totally blown away... made me cry. Her way of speaking about this is beautiful and open. And it is VERY much like a psychedelic experience. Amazing.
Macabresque 1 month ago
had my left brain stroke 19th june
TEONE22 1 month ago
I had my stroke in July of this year, 2011.
JessBirdwell 1 month ago
@JessBirdwell
I had one in May. I just don't get the speaker. Strokes destroy lives. I would say she got of very lucky. Almost like she is promoting that having a stoke is a wonderful experience.
It's not.
fatpigiam 1 month ago
@fatpigiam @fatpigiam I hear ya - this talk to me just emphasizes the major problems I have with all the new agey pseudo spiritual claptrap out there in the world - the gist of which seems to be 'ignore outside reality' and (in the case of this talk) 'enlightenment = a state of physical disease'
arayamusic 1 month ago
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tophearthgrl 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
heard this woman speak on kcrw as well. crazy stuff.
tophearthgrl 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
religion suppresses sprirituality
i dont think she even realizes what she has just opened up to the world, as im sure none of you do. if you dont believe, im most certain you will when you pass away
kstromer1 1 month ago
Unfortunate for me that whist i read other peoples comments I continued to listen to this drivel.
Conclusion: She is nuts.
fatpigiam 1 month ago
@fatpigiam
And you have a brick wall in front of your face.
myusernameisluc 1 month ago
I had a stroke and to be honest i cannot relate all all to this performance. To me this person is babbling on like a typical boring American. For some reason Yanks love talking about them selves. How many times do they say “I'. So self absorbed. I can't even watch it anymore and have had enough at 12.44.
fatpigiam 1 month ago
@fatpigiam Talk about self absorbed, you cant watch past 12 minutes to get the full context of what she is talking about, which is, the EXACT opposite of "I".
Drumwave008 1 month ago
@Drumwave008 12 minutes of loud mouth fodder is too much to ask to take when you find it hard to concentrate due to ongoing stroke recovery. I found this woman to be an annoying bore. No apologies required.
fatpigiam 1 month ago
So glad I found this channel! Props!
PrimordialChunks 1 month ago
We saw this video in religion class.
Quillockx 1 month ago
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Sunnyrach 1 month ago
this is the exact same as a psychedelic trip
jamesykt69 2 months ago 40
@jamesykt69 I was just about to comment, "She wasn't having a stroke, she was having an excellent experience from LSD, peyote, DMT, or some other kind of wonderful."
Haha
onefortyandwiry 1 month ago in playlist Top 10 Most Viewed TEDTalks
@onefortyandwiry yeah sure is, anyone who has taken these type of drugs knows what shes describing. I guess they just shut of your left part of your brain and turn on the right side
jamesykt69 1 month ago
Symphoney of Science brought me here
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TheSbtbsm 2 months ago
lets all destroy are left brain and reach nirvana!
Mcnastiest 2 months ago
@Mcnastiest terrific idea!..how about starting with our war loving politicians??? LOL
TheSbtbsm 2 months ago in playlist neuroscience
let's all find nirvana by having strokes. or might as wel just smoke weed, it's a similar experience minus the pain
JohnF30Music 2 months ago
@JohnF30Music just saying, like im a full time weed smoker. I can feel this happen to my brain at times, only occasionly, ill be sittin somewhere and ill just be able to do nothing, ill be looking at something and i wont be able to "see" it even tho im looking directly at it, and my body feels like it literally exapands within itself, my brain feels content and at ease. and then ill realise what is happening, and i could literally feel my brain function come back. I used to dream.
MrSerchOner 2 months ago
There are people on this earth who participate in other realities and energy systems. Its nothing new. One might wonder why people with such experiences don't share them. Why don't they just "prove" it is the ignorant cry heard over the centuries.It just ends up being something you don't talk about, except to others who are able to understand. I have personal experience, yes that experience is subjective(in most cases). Perception is fundamentally subjective as well, But scientists still use it
InhabitantOfUniverse 2 months ago
Wow, just.... wow.
kujal4 2 months ago
such wonderful descriptive powers. she is a true marvel and a fantastic person. glad we still have here here with us :)
65spiders 2 months ago
wow
okaymichellee 2 months ago
She sounded a bit too much like a hippie but still very poetic and insightful look at the human mind.
herpderpmonkey 2 months ago
@herpderpmonkey It seem her stroke caused her pineal gland to release DMT.
She reached a state of mind that you didnt.
QCBEC 2 months ago
@QCBEC yeah but it's the way she described it in retrospect after the incident already happened (so without the effect of DMT or w/e caused the different state of mind). Chiefly, it bugged me that she kept saying energy flow as if it were some fung-shui nonsense.
herpderpmonkey 2 months ago
@herpderpmonkey i see.
QCBEC 2 months ago
@herpderpmonkey
The label really necessary? You are building fences around your mind when you do that.
myusernameisluc 1 month ago
I would hate to have a stroke in my right hemisphere.
darkmouf 2 months ago 3
....she was having a subjective experience of the effects of whatever was happening to her brain.
I am sure that there will be unfavorable comments towards my comments which was the result of what I have observed through watching this video and reading the other posts, but it will not be something new, I'm sure. 80)
Curtlegger 2 months ago
Also In the New Age mind set there are no such things as; sin or Judgement, so therefore, no need for Redemption.
I have to say that as remarkable as her experience is, her interpretation of it leaves much to be desired. The first problem for me is that she gives the false impression (not intentionally misleading I'm sure) that her interpretation is firmly rooted in the scientific study of the brain. But the fact is, she wasn't studying her brain at all during the stroke....
Curtlegger 2 months ago
Which really is a dangerous place to be. In the New Age mind set there are no such things as a One True God and Creator of all, but rather, we are all gods or as she has noted: "I AM—the life force power of the universe" that is the very lie that The Serpent told Eve in the garden when he said, "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God..."
Curtlegger 2 months ago
@Curtlegger Religion is a lie.
eightbowl 2 months ago
@eightbowl ??? prove it.
PooPooOnMyNewShoe 2 months ago
@eightbowl Wow! that is a strong argument (a little sarcasm--just in case you didn't get it). I bet you win all the debates. 80)
Curtlegger 2 months ago
@Curtlegger holy shit you are a moron and nutjob
sanriver12 1 month ago
....whenever she chooses and be "one with all that is." Her talk concludes with a call to make this choice ourselves:"
She says; "I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are—I AM—the life force power of the universe,...."
This has a lot to do w/ the "New Age" philosophy that she now feels compelled to communicate. One of the many names of The God of the Bible is "I AM", and just like all other philosophies of the world, it is detrimentally opposed to Christianity.
Curtlegger 2 months ago
She now feels "called" to communicate the message that people "could purposely choose to step to the right of their left hemispheres and find this peace." She had experienced "Nirvana" and lived to tell about it. "And if I have found Nirvana and I'm still alive, then everyone who is alive can find Nirvana." She now says that she is a new person who "can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere" ....
Curtlegger 2 months ago
fucking onions.
b3l14l 2 months ago
But still, what does this gives us? I mean, which would be the right choice and how to enter these spheres. This video doesn't really tell that much...
ritvarsdortans 2 months ago
Amazing.
MrDuck4321 2 months ago
this should be called how it feels to TRIP ON LSD
kryptonickraze 2 months ago
came across this video by searching "Most influential ted talk ever" and this surely was.. hats off mam..
sahooism 2 months ago
This Ladys brain exploded and she wonders why she was thinking they way she was?
Her brain short circuited.. If you short circuit a computer or an electrical system it will act very strange, That doesn't make it the ACTUAL REALITY.
She didn't choose anything, she had a massive blood clot in HER BRAIN.
Telling people "its simple, it all comes down to choice", is bull.
Great job filling ALL THESE VIEWERS with a sense of false hope.
stealth7769 2 months ago
@stealth7769
THE FACTS:
-WE, along with everything in the universe is PURE energy!
- We ARE all connected in the terms of how our energy affects one another, especially the nervous system and the brain
-Go take a nap or watch an hr or two of your favorite comedians,THAT is the ultimate therapy for your mind. Not being disconnected from reality Brings me to my next point. REALITY DOESN'T EXIST.Mood generates thought, there are millions of moods, and no one is in the same EXACT mood at one time
stealth7769 2 months ago
@stealth7769
meditate and you might find yourself more comfortable with your right hemisphere
mr lefty.
fudge1monkey 2 months ago
@stealth7769
I agree with your comment. I had a stroke and it was horrible. Still recovering and discovering the consequences. What pisses me off is that when i have put down my thoughts of this speech all i get is negativity sent to me. Strokes destroy lives. Period.
fatpigiam 1 month ago
its amazing wowwwwwwwwwww :') :')
TheDidoWhat 2 months ago
04:08 If you ever watched Symphony of Science and want that part in the video, anywho its a awesome song, if u havent listend to it its called Ode to the Brain
pinkeinke2 2 months ago
So paradoxically language itself, thought to be a means for communication, might just be part of this whole left brain isolating function... Therefore one should pay more attention while talking (right brain): checking if it's not the calculating mind just parroting itself. Robot talk... Yet like other tricky stuff of that sort, it must stem from true honest will: not from yet another left brain paranoid monitoring...
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it doesnt make sense at all.
MrCIickHere 2 months ago
NOT Suitable for hypochondriac`S i got so sucked in that i am still trying to finish the video, paused just to write this and relax a little.
MrNarghul 2 months ago
I like this video very much and I think it's best to change the name of the video to "How Jill Bolte Taylor felt when she had a stroke."
barbaradcampbell2 2 months ago
we leave the same way we came in
we are infact infinity
infinitelimitation 2 months ago
Woah, it put me on such an emotional state, it's as if I could feel what she felt, if I could connect to her on some level. I guess that's my right hemisphere working, and I'm a left hemisphere user.
Sleazymush 2 months ago
I don't know why I keep coming back to this. It upsets me too much.It shakes me from my complacency at being an individual. We are all linked.
knolly57 2 months ago 17
I wander which part of the brain comments on youtube and what it would feel like to have a stroke and be left with only that part xD.
machinevos 2 months ago
I think she was dosed on a lsd25
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lightandbeautiful 2 months ago
I love this person
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