All manner of questions are arising over the recent assassination of a politician in Arizona
officials from both parties are blaming incendiary political rhetoric
the real answer may well lie in the old adage
[i]A little knowledge is a dangerous thing [/i]
the shooter in this incident
who has registered himself as an Independent
charges that the government is brain-washing the nation via the miss-use of grammar
the underlying pathology of conspiracy theories
is that the government and power in general exploits the public unethically
Modern education pays little attention to systematic evocation of spiritual ethics
this is left to the church
where attendance is poor
paradoxically because spirituality is more or less scorned by academics
the general understanding in academia
is that sound social behavior
is simply a matter of rational comprehension
and that policed punishment is sufficient deterrent for trespass
this civic attitude does not take into account
self-righteousness and the vigilante attitude it can engender
it is clear that the assassin in this instant
remained unconscious of the antithetical nature of his solution
the same sense of personal righteousness in dealing out justuce
was present with
the unibomber
the Oklahoma bomber
the anthrax postings
etc etc
going back to Guy Fawks's bombing of the English Parliament
knowledge excites the insecure ego seeking public self-accreditation
and can easily be misapplied
if no spiritually applied ethical training is included
the result is superficial academic rationalizations regarding human behavior
with no deeper sense of understanding and compassion
for our general state of spiritual apathy
so although the assassin's personal sense of outrage has a civic basis for serious action
and public attention is now fully focused on his egotistical needs
until we all recognize the death of our soul
all we can look forward to
is more of the same
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Friday, January 07, 2011
Birth Consciousness/Alien Abductions
The medical profession pays little or no attention to the possible traumatic effects its procedures might have on infant consciousness during hospital deliveries. Its is assumed by all concerned that: Infants are born mindless. Therefore at the moment of birth the five senses register no meaningful input. Consequently, since science believes that consciousness is a by-product of life and only arises gradually, via circumstantial development and later teaching instruction. it matters not where or how or what environment is present when a child is brought into the world.
What is if this assumption is totally wrong? First of all senselessness does not make sense in Nature. For instance, within minutes of birth foals, fawns, kids and lambs are up and running It is a survival imperative that they are born with all their senses immediately on hyper alert. Why should humans be born virtually unconscious? Is it possible that every single incident of the birth moment might be indelibly imprinted on the infant psyche?
Until recently there has been no objective method of measuring the degree of consciousness that might be registered at a birth. But since middle of the 20th Century, as hospital assisted births in the developed nations have become increasingly the custom, a significantly disturbing abnormality has emerged.
Unlikely as it sounds at first, this concerns the huge increase of people reporting on alien abductions. The majority of those people claiming to have been abducted by aliens, basically describe finding themselves lying on an operating table, staring up at a bright light, with shadowy back-lit masked heads staring down impersonally at them; while examining; poking; prodding and pricking them painfully
Sound familiar?
Since the first cases where reported in the 1940's - when hospital births started to become more popular - the increasing numbers of reports of alien abductions have become staggering. The internet references hundreds of thousands. 10,000 cases are reported annually. Nobody knows how many cases remain unreported by individuals too embarrassed to expose themselves to public ridicule to say anything about their experience. The sheer amount of numbers, which continue to increase yearly, are far too many for this almost exclusively western societal phenomenon to continue to simply be dismissed as a laughable pathology of insecure psyches desperately seeking attention.
Do these tens of thousands of reports present enough circumstantial evidence for us to regard them as possible true-to-life accounts of actual birthing experiences, indelibly imprinted on consciousness during hospital deliveries? More disturbing is the very real possibility that all of us who have experienced hospital deliveries may well be unconscious victims of a latent traumatic pathology that could surface at any moment and add our names to the bizarre reports on alien abduction.
What makes this experience seem so real and immediate to those in which the pathology surfaces in consciousness, is the dislocation of time and place, in a false analysis trying to rationalize it to themselves and explain it to others.
What most of us do not know, is the basic fact that the relative nature of time does not register on infant consciousness. Therefore adults who, for no apparent reason suddenly find themselves re-experiencing - what is in reality the past birth moment that took place in a hospital - believe it is a reality happening in present time as adults. And with UFO's as a widely reported phenomenon since the 1940's- can only rationalize the psychological trauma of finding themselves helpless on an operating table, as an unfriendly abduction.
For each of them this is a deeply disturbing life-changing event – made event more so by the outright disbelief of not just the public at large, but also of those nearest and dearest to them. Thus each bizarre report affects entire families – adding to the general trend of modern cynicism regarding human truthfulness in general.
The explanation supplied here is a more rational way of explaining this latent pathology. If generally accepted it would bring a modicum of comfort to victims and their families. Most importantly it would seat a general realization that every fetus is born fully consciously sense-alert and thus put an end to all hospital births unless they are medical emergencies.
What is if this assumption is totally wrong? First of all senselessness does not make sense in Nature. For instance, within minutes of birth foals, fawns, kids and lambs are up and running It is a survival imperative that they are born with all their senses immediately on hyper alert. Why should humans be born virtually unconscious? Is it possible that every single incident of the birth moment might be indelibly imprinted on the infant psyche?
Until recently there has been no objective method of measuring the degree of consciousness that might be registered at a birth. But since middle of the 20th Century, as hospital assisted births in the developed nations have become increasingly the custom, a significantly disturbing abnormality has emerged.
Unlikely as it sounds at first, this concerns the huge increase of people reporting on alien abductions. The majority of those people claiming to have been abducted by aliens, basically describe finding themselves lying on an operating table, staring up at a bright light, with shadowy back-lit masked heads staring down impersonally at them; while examining; poking; prodding and pricking them painfully
Sound familiar?
Since the first cases where reported in the 1940's - when hospital births started to become more popular - the increasing numbers of reports of alien abductions have become staggering. The internet references hundreds of thousands. 10,000 cases are reported annually. Nobody knows how many cases remain unreported by individuals too embarrassed to expose themselves to public ridicule to say anything about their experience. The sheer amount of numbers, which continue to increase yearly, are far too many for this almost exclusively western societal phenomenon to continue to simply be dismissed as a laughable pathology of insecure psyches desperately seeking attention.
Do these tens of thousands of reports present enough circumstantial evidence for us to regard them as possible true-to-life accounts of actual birthing experiences, indelibly imprinted on consciousness during hospital deliveries? More disturbing is the very real possibility that all of us who have experienced hospital deliveries may well be unconscious victims of a latent traumatic pathology that could surface at any moment and add our names to the bizarre reports on alien abduction.
What makes this experience seem so real and immediate to those in which the pathology surfaces in consciousness, is the dislocation of time and place, in a false analysis trying to rationalize it to themselves and explain it to others.
What most of us do not know, is the basic fact that the relative nature of time does not register on infant consciousness. Therefore adults who, for no apparent reason suddenly find themselves re-experiencing - what is in reality the past birth moment that took place in a hospital - believe it is a reality happening in present time as adults. And with UFO's as a widely reported phenomenon since the 1940's- can only rationalize the psychological trauma of finding themselves helpless on an operating table, as an unfriendly abduction.
For each of them this is a deeply disturbing life-changing event – made event more so by the outright disbelief of not just the public at large, but also of those nearest and dearest to them. Thus each bizarre report affects entire families – adding to the general trend of modern cynicism regarding human truthfulness in general.
The explanation supplied here is a more rational way of explaining this latent pathology. If generally accepted it would bring a modicum of comfort to victims and their families. Most importantly it would seat a general realization that every fetus is born fully consciously sense-alert and thus put an end to all hospital births unless they are medical emergencies.
Monday, December 27, 2010
THE HEARTSTART HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM
THE HEARTSTART HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM
Initial Legal Hurdle
Legalities
Nevada State Education Law
Parents who decide to home school their children may only do so if they agree to the following:State education regulations.
180 days per year of compulsory text-book instruction .
Instruction must be via State prescribed textbook syllabus from kindergarten onwards
Students must take State-supervised examinations
Home school parents must register monthly reports on academic progress and allow State officials spot inspections in the home in order to ascertain that State education regulations are obeyed
Law Suit
Global Stewardship Foundation vs the United States of America
The Global Stewardship Foundation, a non-profit corporation registered in the State of Nevada in 1994, sponsor of the HeartStart Home School Dual Brain Education Program respectfully argues that State regulations on compulsory school attendance, including the teaching restrictions placed on parents who wish to home school their children are unconstitutional.
Our Foundation is deeply concerned with the legal, moral and psychological implications when State Education Laws prematurely and artificially interfere with and influence infant/child emotional and mental development
We are equally concerned that these Laws also prematurely and adversely affect healthy parent/child relationships.
Beyond the disruptive effect of interrupting the essential process of family bonding prior to puberty, the attendant artificiality of State-mandated compulsory exposure to prescribed textbook instruction, prematurely influencing the infant/child psyche, for as much as six to eight hours a day, long before the child has developed the intellectual ability to distinguish the difference between systematic mental indoctrination and conscious choice, strips away from the Child of the State its basic human right of independent self-determination.
It is our Foundation's contention that daily compulsory textbook-based instruction, when it is prematurely imposed on the child psyche for a decade or more, especially when made to sit immobile behind a desk for six hours per day for twelve years inside crowded classrooms during crucial years of athletic development, is not only unnatural in the extreme, resulting in a host of adult ailments later in life, but also inhibits the natural imaginative expression of the child's potential creative genius.
We appreciate that there was no premeditated decision by the State to deliberately damage basic family values for its own economic advantage. We seek educational change not compensation.
It is our contention that for optimum emotional and intellectual development, the child psyche requires an initial seven year period of natural right brain intuitive experience, followed by another seven year period of natural analytical experience before both sides of the brain are mature enough to evaluate for itself the educational content of prescribed text books. It is our experience that this late exposure to literacy in no way interferes with intellectual development.
We realize that the current politically mandated education regulations are historically based on a national schooling concept designed and influenced five generations ago by the economic climate of that time, when the industrial revolution shifted employment opportunity from the farm and family workshop to the corporate mass production line. For the first time in the evolution and development of human family values, paternal (and later maternal) influence was artificially removed from the home environment for most of the daylight hours, with the children incarcerated inside classrooms under State control.
At that time there was no precedent regarding the long term emotional and intellectual limitations of a prescribed compulsory mass education system that broke up the family unit in order to focus on producing a literate work force with a basic grasp of science and technology.
There was no way then of evaluating not only on the psychological effect on the individual child psyche, but also on the collective psyche of the nation as a whole.
The State, which five generations ago was only too happy to officially sign dads off from their parental responsibilities and assign them to duties on the mass production line, or be considered dead beats - now sues those same dads, who busted their butts on the line for over a hundred years building up the industrial strength of the nation for now showing "unnatural" indifference towards their offspring.
It is our Foundation's opinion that the continuation of the current antiquated politically-instituted and State-controlled child education system which, after five generations of implementation, is now so deeply self-indoctrinated by its own set policy, to effectively decide on how to best administer the education of the nation's children.
.
Times have changed. The industrial revolution is long over.
The nation is built. Globalization is the new economic and social imperative. A new educational philosophy has to be instituted that can meet with these globally-expanded demands
It is agreed that a common set of educational standards, with literacy, mathematics and science as an essential aspect of the teaching curriculum needs to be maintained.
For the reasons stated above it is our Foundation's contention that it is only the guardian parent and not the State who has the natural right to freely design the educational syllabus which will determine developmental progress and future state of the child's adult psyche.
We contend that the legislation of State-controlled child education regulations was morally corrupt and unconstitutional from the start and were only tacitly agreed to by the parents of the country due the economic expediencies of that era of nation-building.
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Initial Legal Hurdle
Legalities
Nevada State Education Law
Parents who decide to home school their children may only do so if they agree to the following:State education regulations.
180 days per year of compulsory text-book instruction .
Instruction must be via State prescribed textbook syllabus from kindergarten onwards
Students must take State-supervised examinations
Home school parents must register monthly reports on academic progress and allow State officials spot inspections in the home in order to ascertain that State education regulations are obeyed
Law Suit
Global Stewardship Foundation vs the United States of America
The Global Stewardship Foundation, a non-profit corporation registered in the State of Nevada in 1994, sponsor of the HeartStart Home School Dual Brain Education Program respectfully argues that State regulations on compulsory school attendance, including the teaching restrictions placed on parents who wish to home school their children are unconstitutional.
Our Foundation is deeply concerned with the legal, moral and psychological implications when State Education Laws prematurely and artificially interfere with and influence infant/child emotional and mental development
We are equally concerned that these Laws also prematurely and adversely affect healthy parent/child relationships.
Beyond the disruptive effect of interrupting the essential process of family bonding prior to puberty, the attendant artificiality of State-mandated compulsory exposure to prescribed textbook instruction, prematurely influencing the infant/child psyche, for as much as six to eight hours a day, long before the child has developed the intellectual ability to distinguish the difference between systematic mental indoctrination and conscious choice, strips away from the Child of the State its basic human right of independent self-determination.
It is our Foundation's contention that daily compulsory textbook-based instruction, when it is prematurely imposed on the child psyche for a decade or more, especially when made to sit immobile behind a desk for six hours per day for twelve years inside crowded classrooms during crucial years of athletic development, is not only unnatural in the extreme, resulting in a host of adult ailments later in life, but also inhibits the natural imaginative expression of the child's potential creative genius.
We appreciate that there was no premeditated decision by the State to deliberately damage basic family values for its own economic advantage. We seek educational change not compensation.
It is our contention that for optimum emotional and intellectual development, the child psyche requires an initial seven year period of natural right brain intuitive experience, followed by another seven year period of natural analytical experience before both sides of the brain are mature enough to evaluate for itself the educational content of prescribed text books. It is our experience that this late exposure to literacy in no way interferes with intellectual development.
We realize that the current politically mandated education regulations are historically based on a national schooling concept designed and influenced five generations ago by the economic climate of that time, when the industrial revolution shifted employment opportunity from the farm and family workshop to the corporate mass production line. For the first time in the evolution and development of human family values, paternal (and later maternal) influence was artificially removed from the home environment for most of the daylight hours, with the children incarcerated inside classrooms under State control.
At that time there was no precedent regarding the long term emotional and intellectual limitations of a prescribed compulsory mass education system that broke up the family unit in order to focus on producing a literate work force with a basic grasp of science and technology.
There was no way then of evaluating not only on the psychological effect on the individual child psyche, but also on the collective psyche of the nation as a whole.
The State, which five generations ago was only too happy to officially sign dads off from their parental responsibilities and assign them to duties on the mass production line, or be considered dead beats - now sues those same dads, who busted their butts on the line for over a hundred years building up the industrial strength of the nation for now showing "unnatural" indifference towards their offspring.
It is our Foundation's opinion that the continuation of the current antiquated politically-instituted and State-controlled child education system which, after five generations of implementation, is now so deeply self-indoctrinated by its own set policy, to effectively decide on how to best administer the education of the nation's children.
.
Times have changed. The industrial revolution is long over.
The nation is built. Globalization is the new economic and social imperative. A new educational philosophy has to be instituted that can meet with these globally-expanded demands
It is agreed that a common set of educational standards, with literacy, mathematics and science as an essential aspect of the teaching curriculum needs to be maintained.
For the reasons stated above it is our Foundation's contention that it is only the guardian parent and not the State who has the natural right to freely design the educational syllabus which will determine developmental progress and future state of the child's adult psyche.
We contend that the legislation of State-controlled child education regulations was morally corrupt and unconstitutional from the start and were only tacitly agreed to by the parents of the country due the economic expediencies of that era of nation-building.
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Monday, December 13, 2010
WHO IS GOD?
Who is God?
God must obviously be a balanced dynamic
of feminine and masculine principles
epitomized as Yin/Yang in Taoist cosmology
expressed more modernly in QM
as the positive/negative polarities of atomic dynamics
in my personal conceptualization of God
the intuitive conscious nurturing of Creation is, yin - the Goddess Ma
the analytically conscious application of Creation is, Yang - the God - Pa
ie.
the atomic particle expression of the cosmos is feminine
the invisible conscious attribute of radiant atomic energy
busy motivating the evolution of the body is masculine
the loving complement of these two dynamics of the atomic heart
is a Conscious Godhead
imaging the illusion of Form
onto the Void
Why?
That is another question
God must obviously be a balanced dynamic
of feminine and masculine principles
epitomized as Yin/Yang in Taoist cosmology
expressed more modernly in QM
as the positive/negative polarities of atomic dynamics
in my personal conceptualization of God
the intuitive conscious nurturing of Creation is, yin - the Goddess Ma
the analytically conscious application of Creation is, Yang - the God - Pa
ie.
the atomic particle expression of the cosmos is feminine
the invisible conscious attribute of radiant atomic energy
busy motivating the evolution of the body is masculine
the loving complement of these two dynamics of the atomic heart
is a Conscious Godhead
imaging the illusion of Form
onto the Void
Why?
That is another question
Globalization. Adapting to Mass Change
Governments through each of our Ages of development
were created by the exigencies of the economic climate of the Time
and instituted by the will of the collective national family
During each New Age
as expanding population pressures keep impacting
and natural resources keep dwindling
mass adjustments to changing economic conditions
forced us to institute incrementally complex forms of mass management
It is clear to many that the current economic climate
is under-going massive changes
due to the same old population vs environmental evolutionary imperatives
all of us
rich and poor alike
are caught in the same boat
and have to adapt to a New and more responsible Age of planet management
it is up to each parent to recognize the need to reorient their children's future
realize that nation building and corporate exploitation has had its field day
and institute a new global order that best addresses our collective future
right now each of us needs to seriously think things out for ourselves
and put forward original proposals on how to do that
what worries me
is that our collective problem is a chicken and egg situation
All current parents have been indoctrinated from birth
to obey prescribed orders
we bow before the interpretations of professional teachers
we have forgotten how to think and move independently
without an order from a "higher up" to do so
In this indoctrinated manner
the mass surrenders its collective will
to the few similarly indoctrinated few
who graduate enough to be able to decide to control it
and reap the bulk of its rewards privately
but not adult enough to accept any blame
and not educated to be original enough
to see ahead and devise new methods to deal with mass change
so
until and unless some really huge global catastrophe over-takes us
and shakes us out of the artificially indoctrinated mode of childish obedience
that we have been educated into for the past five generations
the whole mass of humanity will continue marching like lemmings
to a dying Age's drum beat
and flounder in the chaos of our own destruction
were created by the exigencies of the economic climate of the Time
and instituted by the will of the collective national family
During each New Age
as expanding population pressures keep impacting
and natural resources keep dwindling
mass adjustments to changing economic conditions
forced us to institute incrementally complex forms of mass management
It is clear to many that the current economic climate
is under-going massive changes
due to the same old population vs environmental evolutionary imperatives
all of us
rich and poor alike
are caught in the same boat
and have to adapt to a New and more responsible Age of planet management
it is up to each parent to recognize the need to reorient their children's future
realize that nation building and corporate exploitation has had its field day
and institute a new global order that best addresses our collective future
right now each of us needs to seriously think things out for ourselves
and put forward original proposals on how to do that
what worries me
is that our collective problem is a chicken and egg situation
All current parents have been indoctrinated from birth
to obey prescribed orders
we bow before the interpretations of professional teachers
we have forgotten how to think and move independently
without an order from a "higher up" to do so
In this indoctrinated manner
the mass surrenders its collective will
to the few similarly indoctrinated few
who graduate enough to be able to decide to control it
and reap the bulk of its rewards privately
but not adult enough to accept any blame
and not educated to be original enough
to see ahead and devise new methods to deal with mass change
so
until and unless some really huge global catastrophe over-takes us
and shakes us out of the artificially indoctrinated mode of childish obedience
that we have been educated into for the past five generations
the whole mass of humanity will continue marching like lemmings
to a dying Age's drum beat
and flounder in the chaos of our own destruction
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
The Mind of God
The Mind of God
and the Mind of Man
are necessarily the same
at all past/present/future levels of self- awareness
If the mind of God were so alien to human consciousness
that basic communication was not possible
with even the most humble sinner
then Man would have no need of such a God
Nor He of us
and the Mind of Man
are necessarily the same
at all past/present/future levels of self- awareness
If the mind of God were so alien to human consciousness
that basic communication was not possible
with even the most humble sinner
then Man would have no need of such a God
Nor He of us
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Why do we have Two Brains?
Why is the Cerebral Cortex Split in Two?
There are several existential questions we need to ask ourselves
as to why we each walk around with two brains housed inside a single head
Why are two cerebral cortex's necessary for our survival?
Do both brains experience the same perception of reality?
If not, what is the basic function of each brain?
How do we process information?
How do we consciously access both brains?
Which side of the brain engages us in dreams?
Why do we dream?
How important are the answers to these questions?
If we can determine the precise evolutionary purpose underlying the need for having two brains
can we, then, evaluate the survival advantages of two separate modes of perception in a more comprehensive manner than we do at present.?
From that position of knowledge we may be able to redefine the enigmatic dynamic of the human psyche – of being both objectively analytic and subjectively intuitive at one and the same time. - and thereby devise and introduce an entirely new methodology designed for a more holistic dual brain education - and in doing so - improve our intelligence and the ethical quality of our lives.
What Science does know about the two brains
Anatomically, we know from split-brain research that the left side of the cortex controls the motor reflexes of the right side of the body and processes mental perception analytically and that the right hemisphere handles the left motor reflexes and is the source of intuitive insights.
Left and Right Brain Modes of Perception
Intellect - intuition
Convergent - divergent
Digital - analogic
Secondary - primary
Abstract - concrete
Directional - free
Propositional - imaginative
Analytic - relational
Lineal - non lineal
Rational - intuitive
Sequential - multiple
Analytic - holistic
Objective - subjective
Successive - simultaneous
J.E.Bogen
"Some Educational Aspects of Hemispheric Specialization "
in UCLA Education 1972
Though not conclusive there is some validity to the argument that the left and rights sides of the brain respectively represents the masculine and feminine principles of the individual psyche
Here are some insights from the I Ching or Book of Changes
Yin - yang
Feminine - masculine
Negative - positive
Moon - sun
Darkness - light
Yielding - aggressive
Left side - right side
Cold - warm
Autumn - spring
Unconscious - conscious
Emotion - reason
After examining data from his split-brain experiments neurosurgeon Professor Sperry made the following statement:
"The main theme to emerge is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and non-verbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively, and that our education system, as well as science in general tends to neglect the non-verbal form of intellect. What it comers down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere."
Roger W. Sperry
"Lateral Specialization of Cerebral Function
in Surgically Separated Hemispheres" 1973
In the forty years since wining the Novel Prize for Sperry's work on the two brains, neither the State nor private educational systems has done anything about that warning from the Nobel Prize laureate and tried to correct the imbalance. The main reason why is because nobody as yet has explained exactly what the value of intuitive input is or even why the brain is split into two separate modes of perception in the first place. Consequently nobody is certain how to devise the exact right brain exercises that could correct the imbalance.
One of Sperry's disciples, Dr. Betty Edwards, devised a system of simple drawing exercises designed to excite the right brain into creative expression. She achieved almost instant success with all her beginner art students within a few weeks they progressed from initial childish sketches to astonishing minor master pieces. Since then her book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" has sold several million copies and remains a perennial best seller
So we know, at least, that the right brain is home to artistic perspective and that with a little stimulus it responds positively and beneficially.
But we still do not know exactly how valuable or how vital that input is - not just in terms of encouraging a more holistic conscious development - but also in terms of how the output of both brains working in harmony could improve the general level of the human intelligence quotient and social behavior in particular
In the next segment
I will post a visual exercise that clearly reveals left/right brain conflict
You can then decide how serious this disconnect is
and whether you want to correct it
Please fell free to comment.
to be continued.....
There are several existential questions we need to ask ourselves
as to why we each walk around with two brains housed inside a single head
Why are two cerebral cortex's necessary for our survival?
Do both brains experience the same perception of reality?
If not, what is the basic function of each brain?
How do we process information?
How do we consciously access both brains?
Which side of the brain engages us in dreams?
Why do we dream?
How important are the answers to these questions?
If we can determine the precise evolutionary purpose underlying the need for having two brains
can we, then, evaluate the survival advantages of two separate modes of perception in a more comprehensive manner than we do at present.?
From that position of knowledge we may be able to redefine the enigmatic dynamic of the human psyche – of being both objectively analytic and subjectively intuitive at one and the same time. - and thereby devise and introduce an entirely new methodology designed for a more holistic dual brain education - and in doing so - improve our intelligence and the ethical quality of our lives.
What Science does know about the two brains
Anatomically, we know from split-brain research that the left side of the cortex controls the motor reflexes of the right side of the body and processes mental perception analytically and that the right hemisphere handles the left motor reflexes and is the source of intuitive insights.
Left and Right Brain Modes of Perception
Intellect - intuition
Convergent - divergent
Digital - analogic
Secondary - primary
Abstract - concrete
Directional - free
Propositional - imaginative
Analytic - relational
Lineal - non lineal
Rational - intuitive
Sequential - multiple
Analytic - holistic
Objective - subjective
Successive - simultaneous
J.E.Bogen
"Some Educational Aspects of Hemispheric Specialization "
in UCLA Education 1972
Though not conclusive there is some validity to the argument that the left and rights sides of the brain respectively represents the masculine and feminine principles of the individual psyche
Here are some insights from the I Ching or Book of Changes
Yin - yang
Feminine - masculine
Negative - positive
Moon - sun
Darkness - light
Yielding - aggressive
Left side - right side
Cold - warm
Autumn - spring
Unconscious - conscious
Emotion - reason
After examining data from his split-brain experiments neurosurgeon Professor Sperry made the following statement:
"The main theme to emerge is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and non-verbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively, and that our education system, as well as science in general tends to neglect the non-verbal form of intellect. What it comers down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere."
Roger W. Sperry
"Lateral Specialization of Cerebral Function
in Surgically Separated Hemispheres" 1973
In the forty years since wining the Novel Prize for Sperry's work on the two brains, neither the State nor private educational systems has done anything about that warning from the Nobel Prize laureate and tried to correct the imbalance. The main reason why is because nobody as yet has explained exactly what the value of intuitive input is or even why the brain is split into two separate modes of perception in the first place. Consequently nobody is certain how to devise the exact right brain exercises that could correct the imbalance.
One of Sperry's disciples, Dr. Betty Edwards, devised a system of simple drawing exercises designed to excite the right brain into creative expression. She achieved almost instant success with all her beginner art students within a few weeks they progressed from initial childish sketches to astonishing minor master pieces. Since then her book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" has sold several million copies and remains a perennial best seller
So we know, at least, that the right brain is home to artistic perspective and that with a little stimulus it responds positively and beneficially.
But we still do not know exactly how valuable or how vital that input is - not just in terms of encouraging a more holistic conscious development - but also in terms of how the output of both brains working in harmony could improve the general level of the human intelligence quotient and social behavior in particular
In the next segment
I will post a visual exercise that clearly reveals left/right brain conflict
You can then decide how serious this disconnect is
and whether you want to correct it
Please fell free to comment.
to be continued.....
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