2 My Stroke of Insight Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959) is a neuroanatomist who specializes in the postmortem investigation of the human brain. She is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine, is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, and is the consulting neuroanatomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Her own personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in 1996 at age 37, and her subsequent eight-year recovery, has informed her work as a scientist and speaker. For this work, in May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. "My Stroke of Insight" received the top "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the Science category from the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on February 23, 2009 in New York City.

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[zelotalot]

i love this vid shes not trying to sell anything but peace...

[MentalAlchemyMatrix]

Im blown away everytime i watch this. It shows seperation and the fear that comes with it Is purely relative to our perception. Profound Insight.

[justinian]

What a beautiful and inspirational story!

[blacktiger805]

wow, thats incredible. It actually sort of depicts what it feels like to be manic. not entirely, of course, but alot of it.

[pfreddyp]

I had the EXACT SAME experience. I didn't have a stroke, though. I ate 5gm of magic mushrooms. I definitely don't want to have a stroke, but I suppose I could learn to meditate. Maybe after forty years I could learn to achieve that 'oneness' with the universe. But hey, why learn to walk on water when the ferry only costs a nickel. 5gms of magic mushrooms for everyone on the planet as simultaneously as possible and there would be peace in this world, in a matter of days.

[JennRighter]

Wow...I don't know if I have ever been so moved.

[PleaseSeeThis]

@tomm174 why would you call him an idiot? have you ever experienced it ~ he was trying to show a similarity and make a lil humor of the situation ~ maybe the body in certain circumstances creates a similar chemical ~

[BaronUnderbite]

Seriously I just think this chick was on acid. This is exactly what happens when your tripping on a shitload of psychedelics