{"id":875,"date":"2008-11-19T23:28:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T06:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2008\/11\/19\/right-brain-left-brain\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:33:48","slug":"right-brain-left-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Right Brain &#8211; Left Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched an interesting\u00c2\u00a0lecture by Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor; she suffered a stroke and describes\u00c2\u00a0the experience\u00c2\u00a0in detail.\u00c2\u00a0 I found it helpful with my practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been\u00c2\u00a0approaching TSK\u00c2\u00a0with a lot of main stream\u00c2\u00a0reasoning and was\u00c2\u00a0feeling a bit lost.\u00c2\u00a0Her story prompted me to\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;switch off&#8221; my left brain. That reduced the question &amp; answer calamity in my head\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0I was able, as a\u00c2\u00a0silent spectator, to\u00c2\u00a0experience space.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to describe\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0new\u00c2\u00a0experience, but\u00c2\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0hard to find adequate\u00c2\u00a0words as\u00c2\u00a0it takes place in a dimension without dialogue.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00c2\u00a0feels\u00c2\u00a0as though\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0blended with space.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Solid matter appears\u00c2\u00a0neither close\u00c2\u00a0nor far away &#8211; just here &#8211; also blended with space.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Everything<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0stands in a perpetual\u00c2\u00a0stillness amidst infinity.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These words seem terribly inadequate.\u00c2\u00a0 For now I&#8217;ll attempt to feel my experience\u00c2\u00a0rather than think about it.\u00c2\u00a0 The thinking seems to block my path.<\/p>\n<p>Bye for now,\u00c2\u00a0D. Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched an interesting\u00c2\u00a0lecture by Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor; she suffered a stroke and describes\u00c2\u00a0the experience\u00c2\u00a0in detail.\u00c2\u00a0 I found it helpful with my practice. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU I&#8217;d been\u00c2\u00a0approaching TSK\u00c2\u00a0with a lot of main stream\u00c2\u00a0reasoning and was\u00c2\u00a0feeling a bit lost.\u00c2\u00a0Her story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=875\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-tsk-online-fall-2008winter-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}