I think it is interesting that her stroke of insight is very similar to what many people experience when they have psychedelic experiences on magic mushrooms. What is particularly interesting is that there is a major link being studied between Zen Buddhist practitioners and the "oneness" that Dr. Taylor was trying to encapsulate at the end of her speech. Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, is known to induce "oneness" with space and time; much the same way that "stepping to the right of our left hemisphere" that Jill Taylor is something that supposedly will bring us to an insight of the spiritual energy of "oneness" that connects all living things in the Universe.

It is something that certainly warrants much attention, but gets very little because of the delinquency of the ways in which illicit drugs are used. I today's fast-paced world, where we are taught that we are INDIVIDUALS and we are raised and brought up to own our OWN POSSESSIONS, how can we possibly experience this oneness that Dr. Taylor is trying to expose us to? How can we have any experience or knowledge of what I can only refer to as more or less of a 'global consciousness'? I'll refer to the Beatles' lyric to explain: "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." If we truly want to understand, we must expand our own minds.

Zen Buddhism is one way to do this.. But it requires a life of devotion to meditation and understanding; also it requires a thorough cleansing of the mind. It requires the desire to live a simpler life free from the delusions that our left hemisphere has built up for us through the years of our western lives. However, it is a path that, as millions have discovered, warrants true investigation.

Until the masses come around and realize how real this global consciousness is; how truly universal the thread of oneness is throughout the universe, we must rely on people like Dr. Taylor to deliver speeches to the public. Maybe then people will see.

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