when it comes apart you can see how it works

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[OT from cottage renovations]

now and then a convergence of observer and event creates a wonderful opportunity for insight.  like a seismologist who happens to be soaking in a hotel bathtub at the onset of an earthquake or, in this case, a nueroanatomist experiencing a massive stroke.  it doesn't get more real than her view from the inside. 

(also available in flash version)
many thanks to friends in Iowa City for forwarding from a knowledgeable source in Oz. 

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Re: Jill Bolte Taylor

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she's a trained neurologist, and from her experience was able to share an unmatched inside view of the effect on the mind of a partial brain shutdown.  it's one of the best examples of science writing I've run across in a long time. 

it is not inevitable that going through an experience such as hers would lead inevitably to a certainty in one's belief the existence of a God, nor for that matter to its refutation.  my own near death experiences (none as close as yours have been) weren't particularly about that either.  perhaps what one sees in such things is what one has brought along. 

these are the differences that make us human.  my own view is that they are worth understanding and appreciating.  I may not share your faith, but I do have a great deal of respect for it.