i'm cross-posting this from the "willful ignorance tribe" for those of you who aren't on both....
www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
the description of a neurobiologist's massive stroke is utterly fascinating....as is her insistence that we can somehow "choose" to live right-brained.
yet another wrinkle in the "why we are the way we are" continuum......
www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
the description of a neurobiologist's massive stroke is utterly fascinating....as is her insistence that we can somehow "choose" to live right-brained.
yet another wrinkle in the "why we are the way we are" continuum......
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Re: kill your left brain
Wed, March 19, 2008 - 8:43 AMWow. I wanna kill my left brain. -
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Re: kill your left brain
Wed, March 19, 2008 - 4:00 PMhaha! well, that would be the utopian solution. ;-)
while her description is fascinating, and i have no doubt our entire social structure would be impacted by a more right-brain dominant slant, i don't think it's as simple as "choosing" to be right-brained. i mean, she had a major STROKE, fer godsakes. and her message toward the end sounds rather messianic, doesn't it? ripe for oprah, for sure.....
still the implications are intriguing. this morning, we were discussing all the varied ways people have for increasing right brain activity and/or attenuating the left: sex, drugs, art, ritual, etc.....seems to me this message is coming thru on a lot of channels already. and maybe it's happening as we speak.
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Thu, March 20, 2008 - 7:39 AMI'm taking a drawing class at CU and our textbook is Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It has exercises that force you to use your right brain, all the while your left brain is going crazy, trying to get in the way and manage things. I have to admit that in most of these exercises, I seem to let the left brain have sway, with marginal results. -
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Thu, March 20, 2008 - 10:33 AM
speaking of brains . . .
www.youtube.com/watch
so worth the 20 minutes, it just gets better & better,
and for me, a "mental climax" at the end
in-joy!
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Re: kill your left brain
Thu, March 20, 2008 - 5:02 PMWondermous! Thank you aurelia... (eniad, too).
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Re: kill your left brain
Thu, March 20, 2008 - 6:14 PMum...this is the same talk i just posted here, ain't it?
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Thu, March 20, 2008 - 6:30 PM
why it is, sulevay, silly me!
too much internet
not enough inner-net
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Re: kill your left brain
Thu, March 20, 2008 - 7:23 PMhaha! well glad you liked it! -
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Fri, March 21, 2008 - 8:53 AMBlame the confusion on me. When you posted the link, I read the text, and then when aurelia posted it, I watched it, and somehow forgot that it was the same thing! Duh!
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Re: kill your left brain
Fri, March 21, 2008 - 10:18 AM
oh, no, mr bill
there will be no b-lame-ing
we are all in this to-gather
: )
aurelia
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Re: kill your left brain
Fri, March 21, 2008 - 7:49 PMsulevay,
I just got a chance to look at this.
Great vid!
Thanks for posting it.