In his essay Accidental Pugilism, Richard Farrell details the “both terrifying and inexplicably peaceful” experience of an epileptic aura, the phenomena that precedes a seizure.
“The heart does rebel against the cold reasoning that those sensations are nothing more than turbulent storms inside my temporal lobe. They seem to speak to something beyond the self, something arcing out into the unknown.”
(Via Utne)
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