Nirvana may be a right-brain phenomenon

"JILL BOLTE TAYLOR was a neuroscientist working at Harvard’s brain research center when she experienced nirvana. [¶] But she did it by having a stroke."

Read the rest.  [UPDATE: See also the video of her TED talk is here (thanks to commenter 'RedLefty').]

Comments

[Redlefty]

Have you watched her speech at TED.com? Amazing. Perhaps the article links to it, but I'm not a NYT member.

[NewTrollObserver]

I wouldn't say that nirvana is 'merely' a right-brained phenomenon, since that implies that the absence of the right-brain means the absence of nirvana; whereas the doctor's experience indicates that her experience of nirvana continued into her out-of-brain episode on the way to the hospital. I would agree, though, that the realization of nirvana in the body requires that the left-brain's activities be seen through and released.