Just finished, My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor. It's an account of a stroke and her recovery. She was a brain anatomist, who, as a result of a congenital malformation, bleed into the left side of her brain, losing a lot of the functions created by the left brain. It is a fascinating account of what she experienced, first realizing it was a stroke, losing much of her 'rational' mind, living with her right side dominant, and then slowly recovering over an 8 yr period, the previous functions of her left brain. It could be understood as an adult going through all the developmental stages we went through between the years of 1-5. Her conclusions are a touch too 'new agey' for my taste, but her analysis of how our brain operates from the viewpoint of a scientist whose brain goes awry is worth reading. You'll think of yourself differently.

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Sounds very interesting.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I think she lives in your neck of the woods.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/show/1613

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James 4:8

"...let us put aside the blindness of mind of those who can conceive of nothing higher than what is known through the senses"
-Saint Gregory Palamas, ---Discourse on the Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ


Centrally located in North East Central Pa.

Thanks for that link.
One of the most interesting parts of her experience to me is that she stopped thinking of herself as a solid and thought of herself as a liquid. I'd never considered that possibility.

She doesn't seem aware of the fact that speaking in tongues may accomplish the 'quieting the left brain' that her stroke accomplished for her. She constructs all of her 'spiritual' analysis of the experience in Eastern terms, apparently oblivious to similar possibilities in the West.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13