I know I talk about brain science and brain function in this weblog a bit more than I should. But it continues to strike me that arts and cultural managers are in the business of fostering meaning, emotion, and human discovery. In that work, it might help us to know how the equipment works.
Which leads to this extraordinary lecture/reflection by neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor. A lifelong student of brain science, Taylor shares with remarkable clarity her own loss of brain function, and what it taught her about her life and ours:
”…we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are — I am — the life force power of the universe, and the life force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form. At one with all that is. Or I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere, where I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you…. These are the ‘we’ inside of me.
Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when?”
Well worth the 18 minutes to watch!
Very powerful and moving film. Taylor, with her scientific background and physical experiences, uses eloquent language and vivid imagery to describe the beauty of our energetic selves and how we’re connected. I’m grateful to know that space through my meditation and drawing. Thanks for the post!
This is absolutely amazing! Dr. Taylor in 18 minutes has expressed so eloquently and scientifically what the Silva Method has been teaching for 60 years now through the course in Dynamic Meditation, which opens the Corpus Callosum so the two hemispheres speak and communicate with each other under the control of the “I AM.”
People learn to control the Alpha waves and experience through Dynamic Meditation this wonderful place of creativity, wholeness and Oneness with the Spirit and all creation. I am also joyful and grateful that I myself know this wonderful level of bliss, enthusiasm and interconnection through dynamic meditation, so I devoted the rest of my life in teaching people how they can experience themselves this Oneness, expanded awareness and magical reality of the spirit within.