Robert Thurman's When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday

In Robert Thurman's article "Wisdom," published in 2004 in The New Humanities Reader, he explains that the purpose of realizing your own selflessness is not to feel like you are nobody, but to become enlightened. Martha Stout, creator of "When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday", discusses about two of her patients, Julia and Seth, who experience the effects of dissociative disorder. That is, they experience "power outages" every so often for which they would be physically present. This is a periodic activity that the mind creates as a component for managing injury. In any case, at whatever point the dissociative brain experiences any situation that interpret as traumatic, it goes to that finer place every now and again against the person will. This is risky that it causes the …show more content…
Thurman's idea of selflessness, from the beginning, seems similar regarding the issue. Thurman's practice, be that as it may, would not be useful to the individuals who experience the unpleasant effects of dissociative disorder like Stout's patients. Or maybe, it is sadly unable to face the fact that it neglects to address their situation and to give a reasoned arrangement. Robert Thurman writes, “You have a terrorist in your own brain, coming out of your own instincts and culture” (Thurman 452-53). In his opinion, the “self” is holding the mind hostage, keeping it from completing the thing that it needs to do and constantly forcing it to fit in with social standards. Seth’s description of his state of mind during his dissociative relapses is adjusted with Stout’s suggestion than with Thurman’s. Stout tells us, “Everything becomes