Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D, is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, and author of the book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, which tells the story of a stroke which essentially knocked out her left hemisphere and enhanced the functioning of her right hemisphere.
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Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. interview: Nirvana and the Brain
- By Jill Bolte Taylor
- Published 06/2/2008
- Awareness - thinking , Neuroscience
Excerpt from Shrink Rap Radio interview by David Van Nuys, Ph.D., plus video of Taylor at TED Conference. ///
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.: "You have this ongoing brain chatter in the left hemisphere, in the language centers that is designed to have communication, and it helps you retain information about the external world... So it’s always relating me to the information in the external world, and when that circuitry went off – turned off - I found myself flushed in silence, and an unusual silence.
"But in the silence there’s so much! I’m no longer distracted by the details of the external world, and I was captivated by the magnificence of the present moment."
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.: "You have this ongoing brain chatter in the left hemisphere, in the language centers that is designed to have communication, and it helps you retain information about the external world... So it’s always relating me to the information in the external world, and when that circuitry went off – turned off - I found myself flushed in silence, and an unusual silence.
"But in the silence there’s so much! I’m no longer distracted by the details of the external world, and I was captivated by the magnificence of the present moment."