My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Jill Bolte Taylor

A first hand account of Jill’s experience of a massive stroke. She became a silent witness to her body’s breakdown and subsequent healing. Observing her left brain dying she experienced her right brain taking over, with the corresponding feelings of euphoric nirvana, a deep feeling of spiritual oneness and total peace. Because the author is herself a brain scientist her astute observations become even more compelling.

If you have yet to do so, watch her powerful video on YouTube, then buy her book.

Jill states that the stroke is the best thing that ever happened to her, having taught her that the feeling of nirvana is never more than a thought away. Her remarkable insights are, for me, verification of much of the true spiritual/Advaita literature. I found this to be a fascinating book.

“I was, by anyone’s standard, no longer normal. In my own unique way, I had become severely mentally ill. And I must say, there was both freedom and challenge for me in recognizing that our perception of the external world, and our relationship to it, is a product of neurological circuitry. For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination.” —Jill Bolte Taylor

Review by Tony Kainauskas

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