I was sent this streaming video this morning and just have to pass it on. It is long (18 minutes), but well worth the time. (After all, we senior citizens have a lot of that to spare!) Here it is:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
Enjoy, and let me know what you think.
4 comments:
I have never been good at insight. Maybe you could explain or elaborate to me the point of her message. Thanks.
Wow! The neuroanatomy lesson and the peek into the working of the brain and nervous system is outstanding and my time WAS well spent. Old pragmatist that I am, I guess I just can't relate to the choosing of which hemisphere I wish to inhabit at any chosen moment. So did she need the trauma of a stroke to discover this?
Apparently, SHE did. Those who do intense meditation practices find and explore those territories.
Wayne, I think that she was pointing out that, as Gary said, you can learn to have a choice about which state(s) of consciousness that you experience and when you experience them.
This was particularly interesting to me as I have not only studied the brain functioning and altered states that she described, I have experienced some of the same things without having a stroke. It's fairly easy to get to some of the same experiences with guided meditation, among other methods.
I have added this to my research library on the brain and altered states of consciousness.
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