Zo links to Taylor’s talk at TED. Amazing stuff! Shakes some positive reality into the discussion of the bicameral mind of the individual. Not at all like the cultural anthropology of Jaynes’ pop-science that provided a hook on which to hang the classic, “Sects and Death.”
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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.
Thank you for that. Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight is one of the most incredible stories I’ve heard in a long time. Her TEDTalk video blew my mind wide open to new possibilities. On the one hand, there’s what she went through and how she emerged from it. On the other hand, there’s what she can teach all of us.
I saw the 4 part Oprah interview on Oprah dot com Soul Series and I did learn a lot from that, but I’d like to find our more of how to do what Dr. Taylor did, without having a stroke of course!
Thin how many of us are living too much in the head, and not the heart. And of course, you can’t get more left brain than a Harvard Brain Scientist. Isn’t it ironic that she should be the one to have the stroke and transform from the quintessential left brainer into this “”seen the light”” disciple of finding inner peace?
I hope this movement keeps going. Maybe there will be My Stroke of Insight classes where we can practice what Jill Bolte Taylor is preaching.
@ Derek:
I heard Oprah is starting a new series called “As Souls On Ice”, and the first “show” will be focusing on Taylor’s life changing stroke! I think tickets go on sale next week.
Some of the top figure skaters in the world will be illustrating the actual stroke by dancing on ice, dressed in (as one example is described) fantastic scientifically accurate hand sequined electric blue outfits representing the neurons involved in JBT’s stroke.
It’s a 3 hour (!!!) spectacle choreographed by Tommy Tune with a musical score by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails and costumes by John Galliano. I believe it opens in Chicago, and if it proves successful (how could it not be?), will then move on nationwide to somewhere near you.
I read on someone’s blog that there are now classes on practicing “My Stroke of Insight” as preached by JBT enthusiasts. I think they put out an e-newsletter called “My Stroke Online Zine”. Google it.
Good luck on your path of self-realisation! Finally someone we can all follow! I do have to say that I don’t find it ironic at all that JBT, a Harvard Brain Scientist, had this experience. I see it as the hand of God reaching down and touching her, so that she in turn, may touch us. Namasté.
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That explains my recent case of food poisoning! I never should have stored the butter in the herpetarium.