| Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | self improvement, journeys, inspiration, creativity, A Stroke of Insight |
| A stroke of insight | |
Over the weekend, the New York Times had a story about Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist whose stroke changed her perception of the world and her place in it.
Her theory is that most English-speakers are controlled by the left lobe, where language is processed and the source of our logic, judgement and context, over the right lobe, in charge of creativity and empathy. Her stroke rendered her left lobe temporarily incapacitated, so she could experience euphoria - the atoms in her body being connected to the air and living beings around her and the freedom of her spirit moving beyond her body.
While this sounds like a spiritual out-of-body experience, because Dr. Taylor is a neuroscientist her story adds a level of credibility especially useful for non-believers. She can explain what happened metaphorically, physically and scientifically.
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