This video is great evidence of how one person was able to transform her own brain. The video above doesn't seem to play, click this link to view it: Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight. What she describes is much like a shamanic journey or a near death experience, but from the point of view of a neuroscientist.
Lucid Dreaming
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It must be something about the way my brain came wired.
As a child, I lucid dreamed chronically. And at will. I could drop myself
into a 'day'-dream if I c...
As the world becomes more complex it becomes increasingly difficult to predict what will happen next. This can be disconcerting to people who are raised to expect "order and good government". In fact this "new world (dis)order" is closer in its behavior to natural systems such as biosphere than it is to the orderly machinations we associate with civilization. A study of this kind of chaos reveals it to be the manifestation of a higher order. Although culturally bogged down in linear thinking left over from the now outdated Newtonian "Enlightenment", science, the arts, even religion can provide us with the tools to understand, and benefit from this emerging order. I believe that to adhere to unchanging linear models is to have a fossilized mind. To avoid extinction we must be prepared to co-evolve with our technologies. This site is dedicated to that process. Your comments and observations are welcome on the blog. As a first principle I recognize that no paradigm can claim the ultimate ontology and so we will abide by physicist/philosopher David Bohm's principles of "scientific irony". By this I mean that there is no one truth and and I take everything with a grain of salt.
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