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Surprisingly, what would normally be considered a harrowing brush with death proved a transporting spiritual awakening. As a result of her stroke, Taylor found herself in a transcendental state, stripped of the burdens of normal consciousness. Freed from the need to worry or analyze, she attained something resembling the Buddhist and Hindu conception of Nirvana: a complete denial of self through the cessation of desire. After a long period of recovery, she now claims to be able to escape the demands of her left lobe at will. Living in a brightly colored house in Indiana, she serves as a prophet...
...story represents a peculiar confluence of Eastern religion and Western science, as Taylor’s spiritual state was achieved not as a result of meditation or prayer, but through the literal destruction of a portion of her brain. Her journey is, in many ways, the ultimate display of materialism—even the ineffable condition of religious ecstasy can be created by neuro-chemical manipulation. The link between the physical and metaphysical serves as a powerful reminder that even the things about ourselves that we consider the most fundamental—our beliefs, our selves, and our basic conceptions...
...fulfill the objective of teaching students the various “modes of inquiry” used in different fields; hence, they forbade any substitution of departmental courses, either basic or advanced, for the carefully designed “case study” courses approved by the committee. The result is that, as under the Gen Ed system, students devote about half their courses to their concentration, eight to the Core, and the remaining quarter to electives. But unlike in Gen Ed, the student with a sincere desire not only to learn modes of inquiry, but also to gain...
...were proving early on that we could be the best,” Hazlett said of the first half of the season. The team remained focused on its goal of winning the Ivy Championship throughout the weightlifting of winter and two trips to Florida in the spring. The result was a confidence-building victory over Dartmouth and Brown in which Balmert finished first, Sheldon second, Bode third, Harvey fourth, and Hazlett and freshman Mia Kabasakalis tied for fifth. A few days later, Harvard was handed another chance to face its main Ivy rivals. The Crimson made a statement...
...often, these failures result in the greatest rewards, and we end up learning from the risks that gave rise to them. When I wrote my application to Harvard, I tried to communicate that I was a happy and confident person. I believed myself happy and confident back then, but the extent to which I know myself is much deeper today. In choosing to come here, I made the decision to take myself out of the environment I was familiar with and go somewhere where I would not know everything. I lived with a diverse group of people I love...