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I will check it out right now emma.
Jill Bolte Taylor is a Neuroanatomist. She specializes in the postmortem investigation of the human brain as it relates to schizophrenia and the severe mental illnesses. Her brother was suffering from schizophrenia that eventually led her to study Neuroanatomy as she tells us at the beginning of this show.
In this TED talk show, she talks about the day she suffered a massive stroke that completely affected her left brain - the side of the brain that is known for critical thinking, reasoning, language, simple to critical calculations, separation or individuality etc. - basically it's the brain behind our everyday life that makes us 'individual beings'. It took her 8 years to recover her left brain. All this time she was left with the right brain and this show and her book ('My Stroke of Insight') is all about her experience working with the right brain and the insights she had during this time. It's absolutely fascinating especially all the insights she has to give about the right brain.
She shows an actual human brain to show the audience how the two brains are completely separated from each other though they are connected by this thing (I forget the name) and communicate with each other but they function completely differently.
Here's a bit about her from Wiki....
"Jill Bolte Taylor (born May 15, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker. Her training is in the postmortem investigation of the human brain as it relates to schizophrenia and the severe mental illnesses. She founded the nonprofit Jill Bolte Taylor Brains, Inc., she is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine, and she is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center.
Bolte Taylor's personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in 1996 at the age of 37, and her subsequent eight-year recovery, influenced her work as a scientist and speaker. For this work, in May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1] "My Stroke of Insight" received the top "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the Science category from the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on February 23, 2009 in New York City.[2]
Stroke
On December 10, 1996, Bolte Taylor woke up to discover that she was experiencing a stroke. The cause proved to be bleeding from an abnormal congenital connection between an artery and a vein in the left hemisphere of her brain, an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Three weeks later, on December 27, 1996, she underwent major brain surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to remove a golf ball-sized clot that was placing pressure on the language centers in the left hemisphere of her brain.
Bolte Taylor's February 2008 TED Conference talk[3] about her memory of the stroke[4] became an Internet sensation, resulting in widespread attention and interest around the world. It became the second most viewed TED talk of all time.[5]" -
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Here's a much detailed interview with Oprah. This one is better since she goes much deeper into the incident and gives minute by minute account of her stroke - not to mention, her overall insight into the right brain and what it was like to be operated without the left brain. I mean it just had to happen to her of all people. In other words, it couldn't have happened to a better person than her since she's been so interested in this field from the get-go.
The right brain account coincides really well with both near death experiences and out of body experiences. Scientifically we may have stepped onto something really fascinating and perhaps this will unlock the door to the parallel Universe. Spiritually we've always known this of course but scientifically this is still far fetched.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lvyRdkPhI
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flowers for princess Emma, lady TT, Skylar (if she ever shows up), and of course Nikki:
Thank you herc darling. What's the occasion? Did you cheat on us? Isn't that what men do after they cheat on their wives? Give flowers and chocolates completely out of the blue? Well, at least baron would know. muhahahhahaha.
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I like Judy a lot but I cant even get her to follow me on twitter, let alone join us here at Camelot once in a while.
I think you might be able to make an impression on her. you may have to ask her to join Camelot just for kicks.
I mean we know she is very busy but joining Camelot takes 3 seconds.
and making a post takes 3-5 seconds.
I know it takes only a few seconds to join but why would she be here? We have only 3 people who post on a regular basis, you, me and TT. Masterclass clearly wants an audience and baron is very busy family man and Anikh...well, God knows what's going on with him (haha) and Nikki is too busy traveling.
You are not being very realistic, herc darling. I'd rather have Andy here though. I wonder though why Judy never ventured Murray's World. It would have suited her personality. But if you think about it, Judy is far more busy than Heidi ever was. Heidi was basically a housewife whereas Judy occupies herself with many things including silly stuff like Strictly. I don't watch that kind of shows however. They turns me off. -
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Did you know all the high officials be it the politicians, accountants, Government employees and Governments themselves, wall-street traders, bankers, sales people, business officials and associates etc. etc. are mostly left brained people? A lot of the scientists are also left brained.
The right brained people are the artists, singers (by that I don't mean the likes of Miley Cyrus or Beyonce), song writers, painters, writers, actors, athletes (because they can be 'in the zone' when they are fully focused) etc.
The right brained people work in the moment. Now is the only time that exists for them. Take athletes for example, during a match they are never in the past nor in the future. They are always highly focused in the now and they are always here in this present moment. The moment they drift off the moment they lose the focus, the game, the match etc. Same for all the artists, writers, painters, actors etc. In fact, when you ask them they would always say time does not exist for them in the linear sense since they are so present in the moment and the creation they are into. In other words, either time ceases to exist for them or it all becomes an eternal now. They are often judged or referred as 'space cadet' by the left brained people. Einstein himself was known as one and that's why I feel he was more right brained than left. Carl Sagan might have been more left than right.
J.K. Rowling, the writer of the Harry Potter series, herself admitted that the whole Harry Potter series came to her all at once. She didn't think about it for days, weeks, months etc. and didn't come up with the names or the characters or the plots. She was on a train when all this came to her or downloaded on to her brain all at once. Of course she needed the left brain to write it all down since language is the product of the left brain. That's where the left brain is needed and the connection between the two brains is used.
Most criminals are all left brained and by that I mean close to 100% especially those serial killer ones. Anything non-creative or destructive is the product of the left brain.
The left brain is pure human and a survival guide to live as a human being on this planet and it's perhaps impossible to live a physical life without it, but you never want to be too left brained. Not only then you lack creativity but also you become too evil not to mention, a materialist who is unable to see beyond the material world. Right brain is something that is outside the physical universe. -
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flowers for princess Emma, lady TT, Skylar (if she ever shows up), and of course Nikki:
Thank you herc darling. What's the occasion? Did you cheat on us? Isn't that what men do after they cheat on their wives? Give flowers and chocolates completely out of the blue? Well, at least baron would know. muhahahhahaha.
ha ha ha. that was too good emma darling. you are so right.
men tend to do that here in this country after they have done something they probably should not have.
hey were you ever a fan of Gwen Stefani?
I am not a big fan but I do like that one song she did ages ago:
I think it was called "don't speak" or something like that. it was supposed to be based on her true feelings for somebody.
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Did you know all the high officials be it the politicians, accountants, Government employees and Governments themselves, wall-street traders, bankers, sales people, business officials and associates etc. etc. are mostly left brained people? A lot of the scientists are also left brained.
The right brained people are the artists, singers (by that I don't mean the likes of Miley Cyrus or Beyonce), song writers, painters, writers, actors, athletes (because they can be 'in the zone' when they are fully focused) etc.
The right brained people work in the moment. Now is the only time that exists for them. Take athletes for example, during a match they are never in the past nor in the future. They are always highly focused in the now and they are always here in this present moment. The moment they drift off the moment they lose the focus, the game, the match etc. Same for all the artists, writers, painters, actors etc. In fact, when you ask them they would always say time does not exist for them in the linear sense since they are so present in the moment and the creation they are into. In other words, either time ceases to exist for them or it all becomes an eternal now. They are often judged or referred as 'space cadet' by the left brained people. Einstein himself was known as one and that's why I feel he was more right brained than left. Carl Sagan might have been more left than right.
J.K. Rowling, the writer of the Harry Potter series, herself admitted that the whole Harry Potter series came to her all at once. She didn't think about it for days, weeks, months etc. and didn't come up with the names or the characters or the plots. She was on a train when all this came to her or downloaded on to her brain all at once. Of course she needed the left brain to write it all down since language is the product of the left brain. That's where the left brain is needed and the connection between the two brains is used.
Most criminals are all left brained and by that I mean close to 100% especially those serial killer ones. Anything non-creative or destructive is the product of the left brain.
The left brain is pure human and a survival guide to live as a human being on this planet and it's perhaps impossible to live a physical life without it, but you never want to be too left brained. Not only then you lack creativity but also you become too evil not to mention, a materialist who is unable to see beyond the material world. Right brain is something that is outside the physical universe.
fascinating post emma. I did not really now that.
very interesting indeed.
what you are saying about j.k. rowling is indeed amazing. it came to her all at once and she turned that revelation into a billion dollars.
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Yes, I am a fan of Gwen Stefani. I like few of her songs like Cool, Rich Girl, 4 in the Morning, Hollaback Girl etc. but her best song to date is definitely 'Don't Speak' which is based on a personal break up as you mentioned, yes. Truth is, break ups are a universal thing and going on forever since the rise of human being I suppose so it's a very common theme.
But 'The Winner Takes It All' was released in 1980 - 16 years before 'Don't Speak' so the latter one most definitely had its influence from the former one. GS is a global star, yes but Madonna is a much bigger global than Gwen; however, I prefer Gwen much better than Madonna since Gwen's talent is more natural than Madonna. Madonna had to work really for everything she has.
In any case, neither is known as soprano singers as Agnetha. They tend to play safe and stay in the middle vocal-wise. Agnetha could hit B5 note quite easily. Agnetha was known as soprano (high key or highest vocal range) and Anni-Frida as mezzo-soprano (low key). Together they would create this incredible otherworldly sound that I don't think we'll ever see again.
From the current pop/rock/R&B/Soul singers only Christina Aguilera is known as soprano or at least has some songs that hit the high notes. African American female singers are typically soprano (as they are physically quite powerful) but haven't seen one in a long time. Christina Aguilera is really talented in this regard because for a tiny body she has a very powerful vocal.
Here's a high note hit by Agnetha in this live performance which is pretty rare these days. It takes place at 2:50 but worth watching the whole the song to get to that high note.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpAYTGtoR1g
And here she hits B5 at 2.07 - again in a live performance.
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fascinating post emma. I did not really now that.
very interesting indeed.
what you are saying about j.k. rowling is indeed amazing. it came to her all at once and she turned that revelation into a billion dollars.
her creativity has no bounds as a result of that vision that all came to her at once.
Writers are also channelers. They have the ability (and they often do) to tap into the Universal intelligent mind and channel creativity from there. It's the creative field. Right brain is known to be the doorway to this field. Even Einstein's theory of relativity comes from there as well as he used dose off a great deal while thinking about the fields of physics known as the 'prep work' (talked about a bit later in this post). Growing up Einstein was known as very slow and his dad would often tell him that he wouldn't amount to anything. He barely passed Physics in college if you could imagine that and he was very average in maths too. His then girlfriend and later wife helped him a lot to solve a lot of the math problems while both being in school and in the same class. And now he's known as the Scientist of the Century. How does that work - from amounting nothing to almost failing in Physics to Scientist of the Century or ever?
J.K. Rowling couldn't wait to go home as she was flooded with all this stories, characters, names etc. in her mind and felt the desperate need to write it all down. She'd barely sleep, drink, eat etc. during that time as she was worried that she'd lose the momentum or lose the connection and wouldn't be able to finish it.
Dr. Amit Goswami, a world famous theoretical physicist, refers this path as do-be-do-be-do. This means do the prep work and then do nothing and so on and let it be. Rowling was looking for a storyline and she had some ideas (like she wanted to write an epic fantasy book series) but the rest came to her as tapped into the mind-field of creativity through her right brain and it produced it for her. Quite fascinating really but only a few people really know about this stuff. Most people are very ordinary because they tend to be very left brained and can only do so much with such limited capacity. Human perception and mind are both very limited and based on physical reality only. -
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Have you heard of 'ayahuasca', herc darling? It's a psychedelic brew that contains DMT. Western culture treats it as drugs but it's really not a drug. It's a substance that works more like supplement albeit to a much greater effect. Human body produces DMT as well but quite interestingly only at birth (not the mother but the baby) and at death. The reason being, it makes the transition (from non-physical to physical in case of a baby being born and from physical to non-physical in case of dying) smooth and bearable.
It is however a banned substance in suppressed and controlled countries like US and UK but it's legal in countries like Brazil, Switzerland etc. In countries like Canada, Holland etc., it's neither legal or illegal - you can use it but you wouldn't want to brag about it on the streets if you know what I mean.
What it does, once you drink it, it quiet downs the mind or the ego (that chatters away non-stop and tells us what to do all the time be it negative or positive but mostly negative we all know it) and opens up the doorway to different dimensions, realms, realities etc. - both celestial and hellish - in scientific term, negative and positive energy worlds/dimensions. In other words, you become completely right brained. It's not an easy thing to do by any means to experience all these realms and dimensions but the shamans have been doing it for ages now so there's really no real danger to it.
Have you seen the movie The Matrix by any chance? If not then you should. Every person should see it at least one time in his/her life. It's very cleverly done but it's essentially a metaphor. There's a scene where the protagonist was asked to take either a red or blue pill. Each contained a different reality/dimension and he was asked to choose one but he didn't know what it was all about of course. Rest is history. This brew, once drunk, opens up a much grander reality than Matrix but it's pretty similar. You should only drink it if you are very brave because it will open up the reality based on your energy level. If your energy is low then you will experience negative worlds. In order to have very high energy, you have to be very pure in your thoughts and deeds.
Anyway, our human mind is very limited and the 5 senses really restrict us from experiencing the true nature of reality. For example, when we look at a tree, all we see a tree with branches, leaves etc. but in reality it's a complex geometrical figure. The solid world that we live in and this solid Universe that see is really not solid. It's in fact anything but solid. It's all very complex geometrical figures vibrating at different level including human beings. In the movie 'The Matrix' you will see some examples of these. Have you ever seen the structure of a human DNA? You'll know what I am talking about if you see one. It's the highest geometrical figure we have ever discovered. This actually means we are multifaceted dimensional beings. Interestingly, 98% of this DNA is seen as 'junk DNA' or 'non coding'; in other words, they haven't figured out what they do so they call it 'junk'. Let me tell you this, nothing in this Universe is 'junk' - we, as human species, just haven't figured out most of it yet but modern scientists or the materialists, as I like to call it, are too much of a prude to say that.
Anyway, I don't want to go too deep with this so will leave things at that. Ayahuasca tends to cure clinical depression, schizophrenia and other serious mental diseases as you get to understand at first hand, as to why you are depressed and suffering from all these mental disorders. Serious mental disorders are still a great mystery to most scientists. Speaks volumes really especially given the day and age. -
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Oh in other news, our darling Andy has gotten a good win over Pospisil (6-4,6-4) today in Vienna. Tomorrow he plays ... whatshisname.
Anyway, I'd rather he meets with Ferrer in the final than not. There's no reason for him to avoid players where there's a great chance for him to lose as well; in fact, he should play these players more often and slowly get the wins over them. There's no way, no how to gain confidence.
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Andy will be playing a German player today ranked 52. The match will be on in an hour or so.
I noticed every time Murray fans get over confident about Murray's chances and **** about other players at the same time, that's when Andy is soundly beaten by his opponents. I call it Karma. -
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Oh in other news, our darling Andy has gotten a good win over Pospisil (6-4,6-4) today in Vienna. Tomorrow he plays ... whatshisname.
Anyway, I'd rather he meets with Ferrer in the final than not. There's no reason for him to avoid players where there's a great chance for him to lose as well; in fact, he should play these players more often and slowly get the wins over them. There's no way, no how to gain confidence.
Popsicle ---Canadian --- is improving all the time. He is very talented in my estimation.
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Andy will be playing a German player today ranked 52. The match will be on in an hour or so.
I noticed every time Murray fans get over confident about Murray's chances and **** about other players at the same time, that's when Andy is soundly beaten by his opponents. I call it Karma.
Andy removed that German player from the facilities Emma.
Let's hope Andy can run the tables now at this event. -
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Struff, his name is Struff. lol. Anyway, I was able to see the match. I stayed home today as I had a gizzlion things to do but that also gave me the chance to watch the match.
It was a good match. A bit more competitive than the first one against Pospisil. Struff was going all out against Andy and that's probably how he was instructed by his coach. This makes Andy look passive at times but he's really in no position to play that kind of aggressive tennis. He needs to stay cool and wait for his moments. And he did just that.
Struff did break him early in the 2nd set and had a 3-1 lead too but Andy broke him right back. Struff was just too overwhelmed by that fact that he had just broken Andy and didn't have time to regroup himself as he had to play the next game immediately and Andy just capitalized that moment. Andy, in fact, broke him at love taking all 4 points.
Overall good match. Troicki is next. Should not be a problem but he is a more experienced and consistent player than the first two but Andy definitely knows what to do.
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