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A good reminder from Robert Spencer:
What we should be fighting for this July 4.
Muslim Photo Op.
Via Iran's First [Bag] Lady.
And Suzanne Vega on the story behind Luka. Which, of course, is radically more interesting and worthy of respect and attention than anything in the integral/paranormal/woo-woo community.
P.S. You've heard about the "Mini-Me" sex tape, right? Boy, did I call that one!
From A Superhighway to Bliss:
On Dec. 10, 1996, Dr. Taylor, then 37, woke up in her apartment near Boston with a piercing pain behind her eye. A blood vessel in her brain had popped. Within minutes, her left lobe—the source of ego, analysis, judgment and context—began to fail her. Oddly, it felt great.
The incessant chatter that normally filled her mind disappeared. Her everyday worries—about a brother with schizophrenia and her high-powered job—untethered themselves from her and slid away.
Her perceptions changed, too. She could see that the atoms and molecules making up her body blended with the space around her; the whole world and the creatures in it were all part of the same magnificent field of shimmering energy.
"My perception of physical boundaries was no longer limited to where my skin met air," she has written in her memoir, "My Stroke of Insight," which was just published by Viking.
After experiencing intense pain, she said, her body disconnected from her mind. "I felt like a genie liberated from its bottle," she wrote in her book. "The energy of my spirit seemed to flow like a great whale gliding through a sea of silent euphoria"....
Although her father is an Episcopal minister and she was raised in his church, she cannot be counted among the traditionally faithful. “Religion is a story that the left brain tells the right brain,” she said.
