Like Rt. 27 a Highway to Nirvana

One woman who suffered a stroke on the left side of her brain has discovered Nirvana. If you don't remember the left side of the brain is the one that analyses, adds, reasons. The right side is the creative more emotional side. Apparently if you get rid of all that worrying, analysing and adding life becomes more joyful. I for one am sure of this. After all isn't that what all those kids were taking xtc for in the 80's before it became illegal. Wasn't it the psychologist's ultimate prozac (taken in the right doses not at open air concerts or midnight raves) . Here is an accounting of Dr. Jill Bolte's experience taken from the New York Times:

On Dec. 10, 1996, Dr. Taylor, then 37, woke up in her apartment near Boston with a piercing pain behind her eye. A blood vessel in her brain had popped. Within minutes, her left lobe — the source of ego, analysis, judgment and context — began to fail her. Oddly, it felt great.

The incessant chatter that normally filled her mind disappeared. Her everyday worries — about a brother with

schizophrenia

 and her high-powered job — untethered themselves from her and slid away.

Her perceptions changed, too. She could see that the atoms and molecules making up her body blended with the space around her; the whole world and the creatures in it were all part of the same magnificent field of shimmering energy.

“My perception of physical boundaries was no longer limited to where my skin met air,” she has written in her memoir, “My Stroke of Insight,” which was just published by Viking.

After experiencing intense pain, she said, her body disconnected from her mind. “I felt like a genie liberated from its bottle,” she wrote in her book. “The energy of my spirit seemed to flow like a great whale gliding through a sea of silent euphoria.”

"A great whale gliding through a sea of silent euphoria" She found it with a stroke - many others found it in college at a Grateful Dead concert.

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