这本书叫做 “My Stroke of Insight”。作者是个哈佛学者,研究脑神经学的。在她37岁的时候,突然脑溢血中风。出血点在她的左脑,所以她的左脑功能被破坏了,而右脑完好无损。在这样的情况下,她难以理解语言,不能和外界沟通,失去数字概念,身体瘫软,脑中剧痛,但是同时,她体会到了一种无与伦比的深深的喜悦(bliss),感觉到与宇宙合为一体(at one with the universe),顿悟到生命的真谛,虽然知道自己情况危险,但了无恐惧,甚至想到是否值得为了平常人眼中的康复而放弃这样大悟大彻的极乐状态。
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. is a neuroanatomist who is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. She is the national spokesperson for the mentally ill at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the consulting neuroantomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI). Since 1993 she has been an active member of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). She was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008.作者: liver411 时间: 2010-7-22 16:36
吉儿.泰勒(Jill Bolte Taylor)。脑神经解剖专家。美国印第安纳州立大学生命科学研究所博士。因为哥哥患有“精神分裂症”,而走上脑神经医学研究之路。曾为哈佛大学的脑科专家,在美国精神疾病联盟(the National Alliance on Mental Illness, NAMI)服务,37岁盛年中风,亲身经历与病魔搏斗的数年,运用自我专业的医疗知识恢复健康,且巡回各地演讲。