A Stroke Of Insight

The Ultimate Truth series will continue shortly, but I couldn't wait to share with you a wonderful new video called A Stroke Of Insight, featuring neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor. It's more about our left and right brains and the way they affect our perception. I think you will find that it more than repays the eighteen minutes of viewing.

Here's the blurb from the web site: "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." You can see the video here. Let me know what you think!

By the way, Sue Ann Edwards has had/is having a similar experience and regularly shares her invaluable insights at her Always Embraces All Ways blog.

Finally, a couple of footnotes about The Secret Of Life:

The links to spirituality sites concerning Deeksha, Eckhart Tolle etc now have a page all to themselves which you can access here or via the sidebar. I also still have pages of links to some of my favorite blogs (Spirituality & Self Development Blogs here and Other Blogs here).

Plus: I finally succumbed to avarice and installed some Google ads. With any luck, I should get the first payment before I reach retirement age... I was always a bit curious about what sort of ads I would get on the site. The ads for The Secret and Eckhart Tolle I can understand but I'm not so sure about the ones for cute animal pictures. It must be all those giraffes and elephants that keep showing up in my posts...

Comments

[Mark]

Thank-you for sharing this video and the link to Sue Ann's site. The video is powerful, I look forward to watching it again! Thanks for all the wonderful links that you provide.
Hope the google ads work out for you.

[Malcolm Campbell]

Yep, those Google ads represent BIG BUCKS. :-)

Malcolm

[Liara Covert]

To raise one's conscious awareness always has unforeseen benfits.

[Simon]

Malcolm - Big bucks? Hmm. You certainly have to earn big bucks before they pay you anything!

Liara - I'm not sure if you're talking about the video or the Google ads!

Mark - I'm glad you liked the video. I hope other people watched it too. I guess I would have got more response if I'd embedded it in the post, but it seemed to be slow to load. I thought it was really impressive - I think I'll do another post with my impressions of it in a few days time.

Thanks for your comments!

[Sue Ann Edwards]

Thank You {{Simon}}.

The familiarity of the experience brought me to tears as I listened.

I was already in an emergency room when convulsions started. And I was already Self Aware and that's where I was centered during the whole experience.

It effected my left side rather then the right, because of different areas of the brain...uh er...activated. But the altered perception of time and space is the same.

Rather then choose left OR right, I chose synthesis...integration...because it was what I already had been pursuing, due to being born with both sides dominant and equally dynamic.

[Simon]

That is what came across to me from the video, Sue Ann, that we already have all the hardware we need here in our heads to observe reality as it truly is, with sanity and clarity. All we need is that synthesis: to get our brains into balance.

[Karn Griffen]

I love the Google ad for the 4-Stroke Mini-Bike, now that made me laugh. Thanks for a great site.

-Karn
Moderator of www.daily-inspirations.org

[Simon]

Thanks for dropping by, Karn. I'm glad you like the site. I haven't noticed that ad yet - I'm looking out for it!