[...] head rather than in my body and heart, how I’ve been such a thinking person. Then I watched this amazing video which showed me that what I really mean is that my left brain has largely been in control [...]

Left by The God Mind | De Die In Diem on March 14th, 2008

[...] video of Jill Bolte Taylor reminded me of Begley’s book, especially the portions about attention [...]

Left by Choices | De Die In Diem on March 17th, 2008

Do please forward to Jill Bolte Taylor . . .
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Thank you Jill for your courage in expressing what is dauntingly a submersion into the “ineffable”.

It is fortunate for us, and exceedingly fortunate for you, that the informed grounding of your questing mind was in-place, by virtue of your training. And by equally balanced virtue of your compassion for your brother’s specific challenges.

You outline in your account a circumstantial event anchoring your “experience” — the somatic trigger of a stroke occurring to someone who has in effect professionally cataloged abundant premise, base-line for the dynamic immersion which you came to enter that December day.

I have had acquaintance with experiencing “the experience” you relate (though admittedly yours is a qualified perspective unique to yourself alone).

My encounter with similar “epiphany” to yours was just as surprising in its own astonishing way — though if it had (or has) a somatic initiation, I am as yet unaware of it as being predominant to that of more so arriving at a “psyche-contemplative” threshold from which one (I cannot be the only one) gets whisked away (?) into the “immersion” . . .

I have only recently (decidedly now) committed myself to setting down on paper a report — commentary — as to what my particular encounter was, and has been, since spending (what seemed like gigantic-months-amplified-moments) one night in lucid contact (conjoinment?) with a (the?) “seamless-multiplicity-of-individuation” you eloquently mention.

I only just reasserted to my wife two days ago, Saturday, that I would again re-embark on “that book” I have started and restarted (distraction being of course natural being that I also am much too-busy a man) since my initial encounter in 1995.

Right after finishing this Response to viewing your talk on this website i am attending to a thank-you to the dear friend who sent the hyperlink my way to reach my mail box so fortuitously as to re-inform my personal commitment to share, as you have shared, an important encouragement to our fellow “selves” to attempt balance — recalibration — of this joyous dance we dance . . .

Again, thank you, Jill — your friend in this “experience”,

D.E.P.

Left by David Esteban on March 17th, 2008

You can also reach this experience through meditation.
Sit down, be still, go to your inner space and realize what we are.
Eunice

Left by Eunice Aguilar on March 27th, 2008