Sometimes nature taps us into her secrets, as when neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor in 1996 suffered a massive stroke, which unexpectedly led to spiritual enlightenment. In a Ted Talk she described her epiphany as understanding that we all have two cognitive minds, of one belonging to the expansive ‘we’ united to all reality, the other, in her case, to the individual scientist. [1]
Taylor’s radical transformation in perception inspired us to feel free, to be as wild as our whimsy when it comes to number, to give up trying to change other people’s thinking and instead simply develop and share our own experience. This is one way to resolve our conflicting experiences, first of a divine order of number, which seems to be a scientifically verifiable, objective reality, and second, of widespread ignorance of same, and even institutional hostility to the idea.
Taylor could not see the numbers on her phone to dial for help, which led to her epiphany. Lessons on ‘seeing’ can come anytime, anyplace.
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