March 20, 2008

Energy Beings: How We Know What We Know

One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness ...

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor on stepping to the right of the left hemisphere: "I felt my spirit surrender. In that moment, I knew I was no longer the choreographer of my life." This is a fascinating and inspiring report from inside a stroke. Well worth the time it takes to watch it.

"I look down at my arm and I realize I can no longer define the boundries of my body."

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Thank you a thousand times for posting that video. That's one of the best things I've seen on the internet ever.

Posted by: Kerry at March 20, 2008 3:35 PM

Incredible. Thanks, Gerard

Posted by: Julie at March 20, 2008 4:21 PM

If the left brain is the horizontal logosphere, then the right brain is definitely the vertical pneumasphere. But the corpus callosum must be like God's finger touching Adam -- it connects time and eternity, logic and translogic, individual and group, etc.

Posted by: Gagdad Bob at March 20, 2008 4:26 PM

OK, on the one hand it is obviously a moving experience...most certainly for her (more about that in a second). On the other hand her "conclusion," to the extent there is one, is disturbing; i.e. the "I" is no good and must be surrendered/extinguished in order to be in touch with the "everything" which is good and will then result in world peace. C'mon, give me a break...sounds like a great foundation for a communist philosophy. We = good, I = bad. Perhaps, just perhaps, her leftist political philosophy (and no I have no idea what her politics are) got projected onto her near death experience. As an aside, it is a stretch to suggest that what she experienced during the stroke was due to any specific part of her brain; i.e. there was alot going on in her brain both physically and emotionally. Lastly, you are you. No matter how romantic or psychologically satisfying it may be to believe you are connected to everything, the reality is you are not. Take some LSD and you can do some wierd stuff to your brain too. Perhaps even take flight into the sky in your "oneness"...until you actually try it.

Posted by: Barnabus at March 20, 2008 7:35 PM

sounds like a long weekend at Esalen to me.....

Posted by: Webutante at March 20, 2008 8:10 PM

It may be "true" in some sense that each of us is "choosing" moment-by-moment which hemisphere to inhabit, but I suspect her enabling training regimen is a bit on the drastic and chancy side. It is noteworthy that left to itself, the right-side-Jill would have died in the shower.

Posted by: Brian H at March 21, 2008 12:29 PM

Given a glimpse, not of her choosing. She came back to the I and the bicameral brain. The problem is not the I, but the great I am.

Oops, there I am again. Still, the quest for balance goes on as I stumble along to find God.

Thanks again for a terrific place on the Internet to come to.

Posted by: Dennis at March 21, 2008 9:19 PM
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