HELIOLITH

I found this video; downloadable version via Dean’s Sluyter’s Question of the Month page, which he posted in response to the question, “Is enlightenment a scientific reality?*” This neuroscientist, Jill Bolte Taylor, had a stroke. She explains the experience of losing her analytical brain functions, and being plunged into the immediate, holistic perceptual sphere of her right brain. Her lucid and articulate recounting of this unusual yet universally approachable experience is a phenomenal and wholly non-religious testimony to the deeper realities that science (the most revered and holy paradigm of our age) seems to approach but not quite fully hit from any single discipline. (Neuroscience, Quantum Mechanics, and Psychology being perhaps three of the closest so far.** Her direct, deeply sincere offering of this personal epiphany is a beautiful segue from science to spirit; at once eloquent, succinct, and penetratingly wise. Precisely the type of scientist-centric direct experience that the us skeptic seekers of truth in the West need to hear much more of.

The video is just under 20 minutes long. It’s time very well spent.

*Dean’s response (see above link or archives, depending when you read this) gives a great overview of how this fits into the greater picture of world enlightenment teachings.

**See Alan Wallace’s work, especially his downloadable audio, as he works facilitating this accelerating convergence of science of mind, physics, and contemplative inquiry.