Today we think we must fit the planet to our whims. We have found seemingly endless power to do just that. Never worrying about consequences. But it is the consequences of our interference with the planetary ecology that now finally begins to concern us.
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Then, recently, I read about left brain, right brain; I saw a movie. <http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html>
The technical term of course is left hemisphere, right hemisphere.
I have known about the two parts of our brains since I studied at universities, half a century ago, I know how strokes on one side have different effects than strokes on the other. But I never made the connection with the quest of my life -- how did we change to what we are now. Our change was not a matter of doing, or learning to do, but a matter of thinking differently.
The following is a clear summing up of what I have read in the scientific papers I struggled through:
The Left Brain
The left brain is associated with verbal, logical, and analytical thinking. It excels in naming and categorizing things, symbolic abstraction, speech, reading, writing, arithmetic. The left brain is very linear: it places things in sequential order -- first things first and then second things second, etc. If you reflect back upon our own educational training, we have been traditionally taught to master the 3 R's: reading, writing and arithmetic -- the domain and strength of the left brain.
The Right Brain
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