I feel most people are too quick to accept something as complicated as the brain into something spiritual and even god-like. We gain from this a subjective personal experience that provides no real evidence of what was actually occurring in Jill’s brain. Sure, this talk is moving in the fact that she had been inspired to connect more to the collective “other” of the world around her, but I feel as though this has already been expressed plenty of times before Jill’s presentation. The idea of connecting to one another as a means of creating peace is nothing new. Without actual findings or research presented by Jill we are left with nothing but an emotional story.

With meditation, one day I experienced the wonderful enormity of my energy as it expanded to the size of a city block. So, I can relate to her recollection of that feeling. Quite humbling to see the potential and then return to the finite.

I now teach a message similar to what this wonderful woman now shares with us. Heaven on Earth IS possible. It is only up to us to choose it. Consciously.

There is a place for all things in this lifetime — both left and right hemispheres included. Conscious thought from both the left and the right helps to create the totality of our being. Learning to choose wisely which thoughts to follow allows us to create our experiences instead of simply react to those that are created for us.

We all have the incredible power to choose. Will we use it wisely? Jill Taylor’s final questioning begs for our attention (and intention)… will we??

Peace.
Dr. G.

Jill’s recounting of her difficulty in reading numbers rings very true as does the self-examination of her limbs. They just simply don’t feel a part of what “you” becomes a short while after ingestation. As a result of these experiences, I now feel driven to find the “meaning” of it all – even though my rational ego knows that perhaps this is a fruitless task. Through years of reading bother materialist and dualist positions, I’ve come to the conclusion that a universal consciousness
must exist.

Whilst materialist positions seem quite strong at times, I can never fully reconcile that conscious experience and the experiences I have had are purely and solely the result of chemical interactions. The interactions may modify conscious experience but I believe that Jill’s experience is evidence, if not proof, that parts of the physical brain act as filter for this universal consciousness. LSD has the ability to open up this filter but not in the same manner as a stroke. The conflict between the hemispheres is slightly more intense, I’d say. Hence the possibility of a “bad trip”.

Why must a universal consciousness exist then? Is there any proof? Well, I think possibly there is. Often staunch materialist neuroscients will cite brain damaged patients as showing no signs of external conscious decision making or people with slight impairments having poorer motor / cognitive skills as a “proof” that the brain must create all consciousness. Some debunkers of that view like to give examples of faulty television sets in their rebuttals but I think the existence of autistic savants in this world is almost “proof” enough for me. Where do their remarkable abilities come from and at what cost? From what I have read, the savant’s brain is slightly abnormal but how could that result in amazing feats of mental arithmetic where answers appear from nowhere? An enlarged area of the brain which deals with sums seems far too weird. I could go on but this is digressing from the point I wanted to make originally. That was to say that Jill’s talk was inspirational, almost brought a tear of sheer empathy to the eye and should be seen by everyone in the entire world. It was so refreshing to see a scientist not be afraid to delve into realms of the “mystical” and not be afraid of the stigma that her peer group may attach to her.