Wow. Check out this TED talk. Amazing and rare 1st person experience with 3rd person expertise.

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229

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Ambo Suno

Yeah, great stuff!  Fascinating and inspiring. 

Jill Taylor also has a book on the subject called My Stroke of Insight (google books), available in a hard copy or download from Lulu.com.  I ordered the PDF version ($10) and got this auto-reply:

Dear Lulu customer, thank you for your purchase.

I believe in the ability of the brain to recover and heal itself. If
 you have purchased "My Stroke of Insight" because someone you love has
 experienced some type of brain trauma, I am happy to speak with you after
 you have read this book, to help tailor my "recommendations for
 recovery" to your/their situation. If you are reading this book for the
 Stroke of Insight information about your own brain, I wish for you easy
 access to your  joy and deep inner peace. 

I hope you enjoy the ride!

My sincere best,  
Dr. Jill 

I found her offer to talk with someone if they have a loved one with brain
trauma very touching. She's amazing. :)

spiral out,
Arthur

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"I found her offer to talk with someone if they have a loved one with brain
trauma very touching. She's amazing. :)"

Yes, that is very cool.

And it seems from her presentation that she dares to inhabit her expressiveness in a big way. As she was already interested in and representing the association for mentally ill, she may have had already a high level of empathy if not personal experience with the creative dynamics of not falling under the protection of the bell-shaped curve. She appeared to me to be feeling in and maybe remembering certain states and inner conditions as she spoke. She, then, was daring to move from here to there and from left to right, excercising, an active very actual process of richly integrating that deep split. Bold energy. Yeah.

Hey, I'll click on your Lulu.com link.

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Ambo Suno