which book(s) am I looking for?

Hey guys - aren't there two different books written by women who had sudden awakenings without a practice context? One possibly a neuroscientist who had a stroke, the other a woman who stepped off a bus? I at first was confusing the two stories, but now I'm pretty sure it's two different stories. One of them does TED talks, too, right? Anyone remember names and titles?

www.amazon.com/My-Stroke-Insight-Scienti...rsonal/dp/0452295548

am i right there's a second book by a different woman, too?

Ona Kiser wrote: am i right there's a second book by a different woman, too?

"Collision with the Infinite" by Suzanne Segal, if memory serves.

www.amazon.com/Collision-Infinite-Life-B...rsonal/dp/1884997279

yes! i kept remembering 'infinite' but that's a weak search term on amazon. thanks!

Segal was hardly without "a practice context," however: she had done extensive meditation in the Transcendental Meditation system. At one point I read a book by Len or Les Somebody who did the early research on "spiritual emergencies" and a high proportion of the cases were TMers who got more than they expected by way of experience, and less support from the organization than they deserved.

There's this blog that seems to aggregate info on the subject: spiritualemergency.blogspot.com/

further googling will probably turn up more useful sites

ETA the name I was looking for was "Lee Sanella"

or "Lee Sannella" to be precise. Found this, which is historic...

also, his seminal book, available as a PDF-- www.kundaliniawakeningsystems1.com/downl...or-transcendence.pdf

I thought of Bernadette Roberts, but I guess I was confusing her for Suzanne Segal!