Playlist
Rogue and riveting bonus talks
I just had to send you these
These talks also offer a new perspective, but they’re so niche and delightfully unexpected, that they didn’t quite belong on the main list.
Unlike the talks on our perspective shifting playlist, which are are all happy bedfellows to the subject of meditation, these are less-so. But our other collective love is that precious mix of wisdom and wonder, right? So I couldn’t let you go another day in life without suggesting that if you like having passionate speakers blow your mind with remarkable stories about stuff you never knew you wanted to know about … watch these.
Love, Anna
How we think about
Strokes
Jill Bolte Taylor
Neuroanatomist
On the remarkable experience of having a stroke, when you’ve built a career studying the brain. And what it feels like to know yourself beyond your physical limitations.
How we think about
Parasites
Ed Yong
Science Writer
On the baffling powers of organisms to affect one another, in ways that sound like pure fiction.
like i said
Nothing to do with meditation
Unless you want to learn how to ask the right questions, or develop the insight to recognise the answers when you see them. Like Ed.
Or how to experience the remarkable transcendent state available to all of us through simple activation of your existing biology. Like Jill.
(without having a stroke)
Or you want to live with oodles of passion. Like both of them.
Maybe something to think about.