Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight

This must be one of the most amazing stories someone has lived to tell. The experience described by Dr Jill Bolte Taylor is doing the rounds on the Web because of how powerfully she delivered her story at the TED 2008 Conference. For me, it was a fascinating talk because it is east meets west, or in her words, left brain meets right brain talk.

This is the kind of story I would hope that makes you think about your own life and your perceptions or interactions with the world. How much are you feeling, or how much are you experiencing? In most cases, a fraction of what’s possible. The more you live in your head, and not in your body, the more you cut yourself off from the universal intelligence, as Napoleon Hill called it, or the Grand Organised Designer (or Design) as Dr John Demartini calls it.

Anyway, here’s one of the best from TED 2008 so you can decide for yourself: