Comments on: Meeting The Mountain: Taoist Poetry & True Intimacy http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/03/30/meeting-the-mountain-taoist-poetry-true-intimacy/ Sacred Poetry from Around the World Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:26:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Jan http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/03/30/meeting-the-mountain-taoist-poetry-true-intimacy/#comment-109 Jan Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:07:31 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/03/30/meeting-the-mountain-taoist-poetry-true-intimacy/#comment-109 Ivan and Silvine, I've just finished reading Jill Bolte Taylor's book--"My Stroke of Insight." It illuminates her talk even more. I put quotes on my blog if you want to look: http://yearningforgod.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-stroke-of-insight-book.html Sorry that I'm not so computer literate as to be able to make a hyperlink. Ivan and Silvine, I’ve just finished reading Jill Bolte Taylor’s book–”My Stroke of Insight.” It illuminates her talk even more. I put quotes on my blog if you want to look: http://yearningforgod.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-stroke-of-insight-book.html

Sorry that I’m not so computer literate as to be able to make a hyperlink.

]]> By: Ivan M. Granger http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/03/30/meeting-the-mountain-taoist-poetry-true-intimacy/#comment-103 Ivan M. Granger Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:29:49 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/03/30/meeting-the-mountain-taoist-poetry-true-intimacy/#comment-103 Silvine, I just finished watching the video -- a fascinating talk! I particularly liked her combination of personal experience and scientific perspective. Personally, I'd rather discover that "la la land" through meditation than through the method she used, though. ;-) - Ivan Silvine,
I just finished watching the video — a fascinating talk! I particularly liked her combination of personal experience and scientific perspective. Personally, I’d rather discover that “la la land” through meditation than through the method she used, though. ;-)
- Ivan

]]> By: Silvine Farnell http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/03/30/meeting-the-mountain-taoist-poetry-true-intimacy/#comment-102 Silvine Farnell Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:20:48 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/03/30/meeting-the-mountain-taoist-poetry-true-intimacy/#comment-102 Art and Intimacy, by Ellen Dissanayake, explores the origins of poetry from the point of view of an evolutionary psychologist who sees the roots of connectedness as deeper in our ancestral past than most scientists realize. If you loved this entry (and I did), you might love this book. Also, if you haven't seen the video of the neuroanatomist who woke up during a stroke, the sight of her dancing her new knowledge of our oneness with the energy that is the world is priceless-- <a href="http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=522358561" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)</a> Art and Intimacy, by Ellen Dissanayake, explores the origins of poetry from the point of view of an evolutionary psychologist who sees the roots of connectedness as deeper in our ancestral past than most scientists realize.
If you loved this entry (and I did), you might love this book.

Also, if you haven’t seen the video of the neuroanatomist who woke up during a stroke, the sight of her dancing her new knowledge of our oneness with the energy that is the world is priceless–
TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)

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