Euphoria for everyone - 華枝春滿，天心月圓

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Euphoria for everyone

2008/09/22 11:47:21瀏覽601｜回應0｜推薦0

My local public radio seems to scout interesting books well. They interviewed the author of "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey" on how a stroke can be the best thing that could have happened to her, according to her 8 years later. According to the author "When the cells in my left brain became nonfunctional because they were
swimming in a pool of blood, they lost their ability to inhibit the cells in my right hemisphere. In my right brain, I shifted into the consciousness of the present moment. I was in the right here, right now
awareness, with no memories of my past and no perception of the future.
The beauty of La-la land (my right hemisphere experience of the present moment) was that everything was an explosion of magnificent stimulation and I dwelled in a space of euphoria. This is great way to exist if you don't have to communicate with the external world or care whether or not you have the capacity to learn."

The challenge of living euphorically, in the present moment, without a sense of past of future. If only there is a secret switch to turn on euphoria, when we don't need linear thinking - you are already on vacation without having to travel to an exotic place.

As a Harvard-trained brain scientist, she also realizes that "I have much more say about what goes on between my ears than I was ever taught." "We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling." In other words, we are not helpless victims that experience the world, but rather we create our own perception of reality. It takes a stroke for her to realize this, with all her knowledge about the brain function. What does it take for others?

I find it encouraging that scientists start to find relations between 'spiritual experiences' and medical science, brain- and neuro-science in particular. Whether genuine spiritual experiences can be fully accounted for by pure physical phenomena is an open question.

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