Nirvana, Located in our Brains?

Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor is a remarkable individual who tours the world discussing the devastating and enlightening effects of the massive stroke that annihilated the left hemisphere of her brain.  With only her right hemisphere online for many years she notes, “No longer capable of perceiving temperature, vibration, pain, or proprioceptions (position of your limbs), your […]

Is Your Brain About to Explode?

Our mental, physical, and spiritual self is intimately related to our brain functioning.  Much of what we fuel ourselves with, including our thoughts, can harm or heal this delicate and miraculous command center.  Aspartame, which is structurally similar to glutamate, shows up in many of our foods.  Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter necessary for learning […]

Unity Consciousness Wired into Our Brains

According to the personal account of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s massive stroke recovery in My Stroke of Insight, she notes that during the eight years of living mostly with right-brain functioning that she was constantly in a state of bliss.  “My entire self-concept shifted as I no longer perceied myself as a single, a solid, […]