{"id":3677,"date":"2008-06-03T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/stroke-of-insight\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T11:08:00","slug":"stroke-of-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/stroke-of-insight.html","title":{"rendered":"Stroke of Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I recently was made aware of the interesting experience of <a href=\"http:\/\/drjilltaylor.com\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor<\/a>, who had a stroke that resulted in an experience akin to that described by Buddhists as Nirvana. There is a web page about her work entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/mystrokeofinsight.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">My Stroke Of Insight<\/a>, as well as the video clip below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><p>I\u2019m very interested in discussing and exploring the relationship between my own religious experience, psychology, and neuroscience. I am often in two minds (if you\u2019ll excuse the pun) about what to make of much of the current discussion, which seems to combine some genuinely interesting scientific work with a hodgepodge of New Age terminology. Then again, I suspect that\u2019s what some would say about my own views, substituting \u201cChristian\u201d for \u201cNew Age\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7259408656578451503?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was made aware of the interesting experience of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, who had a stroke that resulted in an experience akin to that described by Buddhists as Nirvana. There is a web page about her work entitled My Stroke Of Insight, as well as the video clip below. 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