Dear Kristin Blancke has sent me another amazing link, one which she received from a mutual friend of ours who has also lived many years at the foot of the Himalayas.
Please watch this amazing video.
Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain anatomist, had the extraordinary fortune to study her own stroke AS IT WAS HAPPENING. She recounts the experience with enormous passion, fascination, and insight — both scientific insight and human/spiritual insight. An extraordinary tale of direct experience, her story reveals the vastly different ways the two hemispheres of our brains experience, process, interpret, and relate to the world, and also invites us to reflect on which hemisphere we choose to favor. Very moving!
I was also pleased to discover the TED.com site on which the video is featured. It’s full of fascinating speakers speaking on many relevant topics. I think I’ll be spending considerable time exploring it.
I’ve been recommending a book by Jill Bolte Taylor called “My Stroke of Insight” to everyone I know. It’s an amazing story, both uplifting and powerful on three levels: physical, emotional, and spiritual, but the spiritual aspect alone makes this the best book I’ve read all year.
How often do you get to hear a neuroscientist describe having a stroke, nearly dying and finding Nirvana, and then making a miraculous recovery so that she’s back to teaching medical students!?!
I came away with a renewed sense of understanding, wonder and hopefulness about the capabilities of the human brain. I give “My Stroke of Insight” highest marks!
You can get the book for just $16.47 with free shipping from Amazon!
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The New York Times Sunday Newspaper on May 25 had a great two page article on Jill Bolte Taylor and her book, “MY STROKE OF INSIGHT”. Her book is a must read and this NY Times article – called “A Superhighway to bliss” is worth checking out too.
I read “My Stroke of Insight” in one sitting – I couldn’t put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it’s a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I’ve ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity.