Thursday, May 8, 2008
You Are The Life Force Of The Universe
Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist, suffered a stroke several years ago. The experience changed her life and compelled her to view herself and the world in a totally new way. Near the end of her YouTube video presentation, her words take on a decided metaphysical tone, indicating a willingness to depart radically from an orthodox view of reality.
The video details that experience with pathos and occasional humor. Ms Taylor stops just short of saying that "we're not our bodies," one of the themes of my previous blog entry on health and healing.
As a scientist, she skirts the issue, but I'm convinced that, if pressed, she would, in all likelihood, suggest that it's a possibility, and worthy of scientific exploration. Instead, she explores the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres, suggesting that the creative, non-linear right hemisphere may be the answer to humanity's preoccupation with the emotions and attitudes that reside in the left hemisphere.
It's her contention that nirvana is just a hemisphere away.
If I might analogize here with a less than accurate comparison, the brain may be liken to a radio. It works fine as long as it's within range of radio signals, and is not busted.
It doesn't work so well the farther away it is from the source of a signal, or if it's on the fritz. The brain, like a radio, works well as long as nothing is interfering with its reception, and its not broken.
In other words, the human body, including the brain, allows the vital body to operate in a physical environment much the same way a deep-sea diving suit allows a diver to operate within the ocean's depths.
God forbid something should happen to the suit--the person that it surrounds might find him or herself struggling to survive intact.
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Hi Domino,
this is amazing! I hope you don't mind if I post this youtube on my blog??
She literally describes the process of meditation! This is so incredible that the world is coming around. Its exciting!
Thanks for that.
BTW-I am hoping to read that email you sent.
Miriam you're always welcome inside The Secret Place, and, if you don't mind, you'll honor me by allowing me to include your blog location on my sidebar.
"I hope you don't mind if I post this youtube on my blog??"
No. Spread the word. I think Jill would like that.
As a scientist, I'm sure Jill's aware that her conclusions are receiving a lot of peer scrutiny, but her stroke experiences can't be denied.
Her conclusions are mind boggling (pun intended), coming as they do from a brain scientist.
Not only does she "describes the process of meditation," but points to two of the leading concepts of New Age thought--the potentiality of choosing individuality (I AM-ness), or oneness With All That Is.
She says that we have the capacity to move into either state of mind almost volitionally--either as singular beings, separate and apart from the whole, and, alternately, as a blended part of the whole where individuality is merged with All That Is without distinction.
Jill even postulates our eternal existence by defining herself as energy, a force.
One of the properties of energy is that "energy is never created or destroyed - this is called the First Law of Thermodynamics."
Heady stuff coming from a brain scientist, although they are premise long accepted in certain philosophical, metaphysical, and New Age communities.
The e-mail is coming. I want to give a little more exposure to Jill's video, and a couple of other blog entries.
It's been my experience that readers rarely delve into past entries, but focus on what is current.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And Live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day,
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
Whil I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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