When a blood vessel exploded in the left half of her brain, Harvard-trained neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor experienced a “silent euphoria” that she has called a kind of Nirvana.

The Best Links:

1. Dr. Taylor on Oprah’s “Soul Series”
2. “… it is not faith, but science.”
3. Her Official Website
4. Her Book, “My Stroke of Insight”
5. She Explains What Her Stroke Felt Like
6. She’s One of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2008