the wayfarer en bref

Apr 12 2009: I’d like to help draw together several threads that are being discussed because of this video.

[http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html]

1 Meditation, notably but not exclusively Buddhist
2 Psychedelic drugs.
3 Psychology, id, ego and super ego.

So, 1) Meditators are trying to shut down the left hemisphere chatter to allow access to the sub-conscious in the right hemisphere. Objective, Nirvana and enlightenment. NB Mathieu Richard’s talk.
2) One only has to look at the work of Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (AKA Ram Dass) and Terence McKenna to see they got to the same place as meditators using drugs. ALL of these three talk about a higher state of conscious perception and lectured for many years.
3) Enlightenment, induced by meditation, drugs or otherwise, produces an individual operating from the super ego, they care about the truth and everybody else. In a way they are modern shamen, guru’s & sages. They have ascended beyond the control of their ego. It still has needs but these are easily subordinated.