This video is making the rounds of the various hypnosis and trance related email discussion lists, and for good reason. While others have begun posting it all over the place, some coopting the pointer as their own "discovery", the original headsup post pointing folks to it came from Seth-Deborah Roth (blog, web) who is a delightful source for similar materials of interest to hypnotists as well as a caring warm person with a rather healthy helping of insights of her own.
Part of the wonderful TED series, the video is of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist, discussing her experience going through her own stroke and the insights it provided her with:
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
She does go into discussion of what can only be described as nearpsychedelic experience and the relationship of such experiences to the brain and the mind. As a number of you know, I’ve been working with some of Timothy Leary’s texts as roadmaps to building trance processes so psychedelic and visiontrance experiences are certainly on my familiarity list. I would strongly suggest that certain drugs have been used for millenia to help humans reach these ecstatic trance experiences in a far more effective and safer way than going through a stroke. I would submit that using experiential hypnosis, one can reliably achieve the experience within an even safer context while remaining completely within the realm of that which is legal.
Very interesting and stuff. Some will find it familiar and others will find it eye opening.
You can find the TED page for the video here and a transcript here.
All the best,
Brian
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Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [phillips@nccu.edu.tw]Certified Hypnotherapist
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
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