This is the most wonderful, inspiring, entertaining, beautiful video on enlightenment I have watched in a long time. Jill speaks from a scientific viewpoint which I love, and yet her experience comes from such a place of knowing that there can be no doubt she's the real deal. Definitely a jaw dropper!
For me it also signals the growing trend of science and metaphysics coming together - right and left brain acknowledging each other and beginning to live in harmony, bring it on :)
Why you should listen to her:
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 ...
Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the "Singin' Scientist."
"How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career."
Jill Bolte Taylor
Click here to watch http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
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