Don't forget Fyodor Dostoyefsky, a rather famous temporal lobe epileptic. It's been conjectured that Paul had fits of TLE on the road to Damascus (it's a Biblical thing). Joan of Arc was a temporal lobe epileptic. Temporal lobe epileptics, writes Thom Jones, sometimes experience a grand satori during the onset of the epileptic fit. I think Walt Whitman had one such experience on that warm June day (or was it July?). Interested parties should also read Thom Jones' collection of short stories, The Pugilist at Rest.