Nirvana: A Stroke Victim’s Perspective

Nirvana: A Stroke Victim’s Perspective

        A lot of people think that places like Nirvana are creations of our imagination, but are they really? What if these places truly existed and could be scientifically explained? Despite all contrary beliefs, a woman named Jill Bolte Taylor was actually able to prove that Nirvana exists under certain conditions.

        When she had a stroke, she was able to feel what Nirvana is. After the left lobe of her brain started to fail her, she began to feel great, contrary to what would be expected. All her worries suddenly just disappeared along with her stress and anxiety. Even her perception of everything around her changed. Her physical boundaries completely changed, and she became able to see things we can’t even imagine. After all of that, she simply felt her mind become independent of her body, and completely leave it behind. The knowledge she got from this experience made her willing to stay alive and live through 8 hard years of recovery, because she wanted to teach others all the knowledge she acquired.

        Even if she really wanted to share what she learned, would people even take time to listen to her? Some people considered her crazy or confused because of her accident. But in truth, she might be right. Dr. Taylor tries to explain what happened to her through science, as she is still a neuroscientist that worked at the Harvard Brain Research Center. The way she tries to share her knowledge, by using science to prove that what happened to her is possible and that it is scientifically explainable is quite effective. Unlike a lot of people who try to make everyone put their trust in them just because they ask for it, she gives others reasons to trust her, and that makes her way more credible than many others.

Our brain is separated in two sections; the right lobe and the left lobe. They work together, but they each have their own goals to what they need to do to keep us going. Most of the time, when we speak and deal with our problems, the left lobe is being dominant. This is especially true for quite a few languages, like English. So if the left brain is the part that’s working the most during these moments, it’s normal to think that we’d deal with these situations like our left brain would ; with logical solutions and answers. If the left lobe is used most of the time, it’s quite normal to think that we’d use it to solve a lot of things. Although, the fact that we don’t use our right lobe as often isn’t necessarily a great thing. That part of the brain is there to give us empathy and creativity. If we use it way less often than the other half, then those capacities of our will be less used, and as time passes, get worse and worse (as can be seen with creativity as we grow up). This leads to us becoming less and less empathetic, and can cause us to be less focused on doing things like, for example, achieving world peace.

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