Hey there, I just wanted to give my 2 cents on the "Stroke of Insight" video as well.

First off, I should mention that I had already seen that video about 3 months ago, so it wasn't completely new and surprising to me.
That being said, she is clearly describing an extremely unique experience here. She was obviously able to tap into spheres of consciousness that are usually closed to the untrained western average joe (or jill ).
There obviously seems to be a huge correlation between brain function and altered states of mind or spiritual experiences, so it is nice to get a description of such an extraordinary event from a person with scientific background who is using a language most people in our culture can relate to.

I think a lot of people would argue that claiming the brain's function is seperated into left and right hemispheric activity (left as the 'logical' center, right as the 'emotional' center) is over-simplifying things or just plain out wrong. I have no big background in these areas of brain science, so I can't really say if that simplification is valid or not, but I at least wanted to point out that things might actually be a bit more complicated than the brain giving it's processing priority to just one of its hemispheres at a given time.

Anyways, she obviously seemed very enthusiastic about what happened to her that day, so one can imagine what an intense subjective experience this must have been to her. What I didn't really get from the video is how the experience changed her perception of the world afterwards. Was and is she just able now to switch between these different states at will? (I dont think so)

Even if she is, I am still unsure if I want to value this whole story as a full-blown experience of enlightenment. One of the characteristics of a really enlightened person (and I can only talk about book-knowledge here, ldo) is that a complete shift of perception for the rest of one's life is taking place. As long as you are still slipping in and out of this state from time to time, it doesn't 'count'.
A good example of a person who spontaneously entered that state without formal meditation training is the story of Flora Courtois in her book "An enlightenment experience". It is only a small print of 20 pages or so, and it is completely contained in another book called "The hazy moon of enlightenment" which you can get pretty cheaply.
Her story was even more inspiring to me, as she is describing a steady change of her whole mind and her perception of the world (especially her sense of sight underwent a dramatic change), ending at a point where after one life-changing experience of going inwards suddenly all of her questions had been answered and she was basically liberated (in the buddhist sense).

I am not sure if I can put Jill's experience on the same level as that, but it is clear that she was at least able to get a free sample of what extreme possibilities lie in everyone of us conscious beings.

So lets meditate and find out for ourselves what all the fuss is about!