Jill Bolte Taylor is a neurologist who had a brain tumor several years back. During her time on TED she recounted that experience. To begin she explained a little bit about the brain:
Right Hemisphere: learn though movement, images, experience current/present moment, feel as one with surroundings
Left Hemisphere: past and future, linear thoughts, organizes details, thinks in language, "I am," become an individual, brain chatter occurs in this half
When Taylor had her stroke, she lost awareness of the left hemisphere of her brain. She felt at one with the universe; she was no longer an individual. In a way she found Nirvana. Taylor came to the realization during her recovery that everyone has access to that experience. People can purposefully engage in an experience with only their right or left hemisphere at a time. Knowing that, the information follows that people have the "power to choose where [people] want to be in the universe."
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