A crash course in changing the world.
WH*** BRAIN REVOLUTION: Time to individually rebalance the feminine, right hemisphere with the masculine left hemisphere.
“…in a world of constant change, you need to try to connect with the environment around you any way you can; by sweeping your eyes, by opening your mind to uncomfortable ideas, even by trying to sympathize with historically noxious figures. Only then could you improve your chances of not missing the signs that something, something important, was about to change.” Joshua Cooper Ramo
It’s time to rebalance ourselves and only then our world. In a Navajo healing tradition when someone was sick, they were sent to sit in a sand painting often from four to seven days in order that they might reexamine their lives and remember the time when they went koyaaniqatsi (out of balance). Only after identifying this juncture might they then find their way to hozho nahasdlii (to balance restored). Western civilization—arguably the most influential culture on our planet—as our economic/legal/religious system has evolved to dominate the world, is grossly out of balance and the evidence is tangibly stacking up—and has been so, for a long time. We must, not just individually but collectively, go back though our histories and determine at what point we diverged from lives of equilibrium.
Twenty-five years ago in a university philosophy class, a brief reference was made as to how Western Civilization had taken a wrong turn beginning with the Greeks. This mistake had then led us off into a dangerous tangent. I didn’t understand the professor’s specific case in point at the time, but was captivated by the general idea that we had somehow been journeying though history like a boat adrift on the sea with an undetected error in its navigational instruments throwing us catastrophically off course and headed for the shoals.
As a woman, traditionally viewed as the lesser important and the most inferior of the two sexes, I had long sensed and personally experienced the general denigration of the feminine—which has felt like “thousands of paper cuts”—as we are daily disparaged or disregarded, subtly or virulently, in every venue, from religion to politics, business, media, entertainment, the locker room, etc. I recognized that in our world women have not counted as much as men. The recipients’ of the hierarchical arrangements which infuses our world have been most specifically men and especially white men, who unquestioningly have worn their mantles of superiority.
Not until I began studying energy, such as is prominent in traditional medicines, did I come to understand the imbalances inherent within Western religion and philosophy that establish the basis from which we perceive the world. As I began to apply my new understanding of balance gleaned from my studies to relationships between women and men, I fundamentally realized that here was the crucial issue necessary for effectively addressing our planetary instability. Yin/yang, electro/magnetism, masculine/feminine, positive/negative: each polarity pair related to and dependent on the other—neither force superior nor inferior. These are important concepts which characterize the balance we must seek as individuals but perhaps a more easily understandable and tangibly relevant model is found in the hemispheric differences of our brain. As stated most succinctly by Noble Price Winner Roger Sperry, “The main theme to emerge… is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.” This prejudice has been extended collectively against women who are more attuned to the intelligence of the right brain. Click here to read more...
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Tags: Brain, Imagine6, Revolution, Wh***, Women's, importance, recognized, vital
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Comment by A.V.Koshy on April 27, 2010 at 4:59pm -
why rebalance - i like the imbalance lol
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Comment by Catherine Gentry on April 27, 2010 at 5:18pm -
Yeah, and the environmental imbalance is going to take care of you. lol also. Extreme yang creates extreme yin. When I studied ancient healing systems of energy, I learned that chemicals are extreme yin and we've 70,000 to 90,000 of them on the planet now.
Might find this video humorous too:
http://topdoc**entaryfilms.com/the-disappearing-male/
One of our former agents shared it with me before he departed.
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Comment by Chris Ke Sihai on April 27, 2010 at 5:28pm -
Great post! I used to be fairly dismissive of 'touchy-feely new-age garbage,' in fact I still am. But after living in Taiwan for so many years and coincidentally discovering that I probably have Aspergers Syndrome, I've learned to recognise that the western world has an awful lot to learn.
Balance, I think, is the key. You may have hit the nail on the head.
If you're interested in knowing more, the people to talk to are Richard Nisbett and Edward DeBono.
Nisbett has done a lot of work researching the way we think, based on hard science. DeBono has spent decades researching what works best. His Six Thinking Hats method should be taught in schools worldwide. (Actually it is taught in schools worldwide, just not enough of them.)
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Comment by A.V.Koshy on April 27, 2010 at 5:30pm
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six thinking hats is old hat
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Comment by A.V.Koshy on April 27, 2010 at 5:31pm
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hey cath you need imbalance for balance
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Comment by Catherine Gentry on April 27, 2010 at 5:46pm
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I'm happy you liked the article. There is a follow up one you may find interesting as well at: http://www.anneofcarversville.com/sensual-intrepid/back-to-the-gard...
I'm not familiar with Nisbett and DeBono and will check them out. Great.
You might also check out my blog article related to indigenous knowledge: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/traditional-medicines-our
I hope you're truly digging into Eastern knowledge as it's so convenient for you living in Taiwan. My understanding of life, history, health, etc., was quite deepened in the years since I began to integrate that knowledge into my life. It's important information for all of us. Best of luck.
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on April 27, 2010 at 6:17pm -
Catherine, I'd like to challenge you to step out of your comfort zone a little bit, with the goal of giving you an opportunity to grow. :-)
Do you think it's right brained and feminine to blame others and say that they were wrong to have done what they did?
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Comment by Catherine Gentry on April 27, 2010 at 6:56pm
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Actually Turil. I've been outside my comfort zone for the past 14 years as I've grappled with become "conscious" of being a woman on a planet which has so denigrated the feminine throughout history.I've learned to combine both my hemispheres quite well, thank you and that process has been driven by getting in touch with all the repressed emotions related to being a sensitive women in a brutal world. The right brain wouldn't be responsible for blame anyway. It's the universal brain which women have been most limited to through history...it's more akin to taking on the martyrdom role which of course one might see in that the wh*** Age was one of feminine martyrdom (and having been denied education throughout history until quite recently--would have been difficult to develop the left brain.).
I learned very well as a student of history how those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. As a woman, I put off learning women's history until well into my 40's. I found it entirely too depressing as a younger women--it's not easy learning of the victimization of an entire gender to which you belong. Not until I confronted first hand the the unconscious results (on the psyche) of such denigration which is so often expressed toward the feminine did I in fact truly begin to grow. The issues had been there all along in the double standards from my youth, but I had blindly learned to disassociate from them in order to survive; either by accommodation or rebellion--or both. The problem with such is that there is a split in the personality--and thus it is hard to live an authentic life.
I address what I came to recognize as the Lilith/Eve split a little in my post here:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/gender-stereotypes-contin...
So now Turil perhaps you'd like to step outside of your comfort zone...
To shine a light on what has occurred through history toward women on our planet (and continues today: note rape statistics, numbers of women living in poverty, lack of leadership roles and lack of a substantial voice in the every day running of our public sectors, etc.--surely these issues are being looked at but there is yet no parity) is an important exercise if we are truly intent on healing ourselves and our planet--anything else would be denial of the reality of our personal and societal history.
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on April 27, 2010 at 10:18pm
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So you think the blame that you have for others comes from your masculine side?
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Comment by Catherine Gentry on April 28, 2010 at 3:11pm
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It's not about blame. It's about acknowedgement of old wounds that need to be healed. But think what you wish.
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