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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor & the latest discoveries in physics r-10-120

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard University train neuroanatomist who is currently a professor at the University of Indiana school of medicine. Jill survived her massive, left brain stroke, and lived to write about it in her book, My Stroke of Insight (New York: Penguin Group, 2006).

It is interesting to compare her own account and experience to that of  author Carlos Castaneda is an author who wrote a series of books in the late 1960s and early 1970s about his experiences with a particular Yaqui Native American named don Juen Matsu.

Taylor and Castaneda may, at first, seem to be a very strange combination to include in the same sentence. However,  if one examines the experiences their which they write about in their respective books, one is struck by the totally amazing similarity in the observations and descriptions.  Taylor's experiences were the result of a massive left brain hemorrhage, or stroke where Castaneda's experiences were intentionally, if reluctantly at first, sought out.

Here is Taylor's account of her experience



View complete series on these two pages:
http://livingintentionallives.blogspot.com/2009/01/dr-jill-bolte-taylor-video-parts-1-6.html and  http://livingintentionallives.blogspot.com/2009/11/dr-jill-bolte-taylor-video-parts-7-12.html


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