Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

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[maaaaaaaaarcel]

Try LSD. No really, try it. Do it for science.

[senseilance]

Aldous Huxley and many of his friends and peers were experimenting with Mescalin, and later, LSD and made exactly the same presentation that this amazing speaker is making.

[Dylan Grant]

I was shocked when this neurologist started saying the words "spirit" and "nirvana". I love when otherwise scientifically inclined people start to tell us about the spiritual reality behind everything. Skeptics may deride her but her story has truth and power.

[aber wee]

My father 14 years ago, when he was 65 had an stroke on the right part of his brain, ever since he became a different person, a true monster with 7 heads, he has done all possible to hurt financially my mother, only his ego and intellectual part is still intact, emotionally he is dead.... , he has destroyed his family in all possible ways, when I think of him I cant help feeling hatred for him and hope he goes soon, a true sad family story with a horrible ending still not over. He´s only EGO .

[Psy0psAgent]

Nope. That was my point. We are one with everything and she went to that 'space' for a moment and is trying to articulate the experience. I think she does that rather well.

[Salamander Diviniorty]

Or maybe this is ancient knowledge and that's just another story to perpetuate it. Why else do you think the church is so ridiculous? They take it for fact.