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A Superhighway to Bliss

by urbanpixie on 28 May 2008

Thanks to moviebuddy for the below NYTimes piece. Hitting the mainstream media, Jill Bolte Taylor’s unusual enlightenment is sweeping the nation:
Jill Bolte Taylor was a neuroscientist working at Harvard’s brain research center when she experienced nirvana.
Dr. Taylor says the right, creative lobe can be used to foster contentment.
But she did it by having a stroke.
On [...]

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Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight

by urbanpixie on 11 May 2008

I’m a slightly traumatized Pixie. Earlier this afternoon, my A train hit and killed a woman who jumped into its path. I really didn’t see “anything” but the platform people sure looked freaked out. They tried to motion to us (the ones stuck inside the car) what they had witnessed and they just kept looking [...]

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