A Brain Scientist's Personal Experience and Testimony to Our Oneness and Peace
Someone sent me this video. I thought it would just be about how the brain works. But it reaches out in expansiveness to a scientist's personal experience of our "oneness" and inspires a hope for us to find that place within ourselves often and in that place, bring peace to all. It is from the site: TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
May we find those moments upon moments of oneness and peace and spread it out. The oneness is our hope for the future.
Red Herring Alert :) Jilll uses the word "Nirvana" but as a description of a kind of rapture of oneness, not a philosophy. So don't let it be a red herring. I will say, that as I feel a oneness with God and my faith, I feel this indescribable oneness with people. My kids always called me "the recluse." I work, I have teens, I'm exhausted. Need I say more? I don't answer the phone, I don't speak, I don't go out. Or I didn't. Until now. Like the me of hope and youth. And like a me of a new possibility of NOW.
Because in those/these periods of Grace and peace, this time unlike any other, I have become a transformed person. I don't know why. I do know this. When the experience of Grace is bestowed upon me and I feel at one with God, I feel related to everyone. Now, in real life, I feel a sense of being part of a universal love and connectedness to all and our differences melt away. Not always, no Pollyanna here :) But I have found that in the open dialog, there is a oneness that transcends views. It is that place that I have a hope and dream that we can join and "being right" - from the subtle to the extremist - will go away. There is place of oneness.
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.
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This is incredible...thanks for posting!
I too think we all are in a oneness. We are all created in the image of God.
"Let us make man in our image"
One of the hardest things to do is humble ourselves, and behave in words and actions as God has commanded us to. Our flesh always wants to take the lead and prove rights and wrongs. But instead of allowing our flesh to lead, we should approach all conversations in love, in God's love. Also we need to humble ourselves in our reactions.
I did not watch the video because my computer needs to be cleaned, but I do appreciate your words.