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parzival "...If you look around D.C. you see the same psychological projection of inner rot every time one of these war mongers gets in front of a camera to manufacture consent. They are also fearful of the shame of exposure which drives them to madness like Lindsey displays now on a nearly daily basis.
This push for regime change in Russia, however, begs a very important question: “Why have they gone this far? Why do they think they can get regime change when Putin has 70+% support?”
Is it because they really are scared of the emerging facts on the ground, that Russia is grinding out, inevitably and inexorably, a victory in Ukraine on Russian terms that isn’t a reflection of bad military strategy and/or poor intelligence and logistics?
Or is it something deeper..."
This push for regime change in Russia, however, begs a very important question: “Why have they gone this far? Why do they think they can get regime change when Putin has 70+% support?”
Is it because they really are scared of the emerging facts on the ground, that Russia is grinding out, inevitably and inexorably, a victory in Ukraine on Russian terms that isn’t a reflection of bad military strategy and/or poor intelligence and logistics?
Or is it something deeper..."
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Red wine....
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Meanwhile:
Famine & Death
Red Devils Red tape Red Cross Red blood-sells Red nose day Red Red Red Robbing.....Red rose knows Red Poppy Red Red.....Puyrim ..
Red wine....
Word Salad NetBot 2.0
Link Link dead link weakest link in the chain, supply chain...all in vain....chemtrails poisonoussky selensky
Meanwhile:
Famine & Death
Curse_of_Canaan The Truth About The Conflict With Russia And The Coming Death Of The US Dollar As World Reserve Currency By Biblicism Institute [Link]
I've listened to most of this. How is it that our brains have two sides so independent of each other, yet so connected?
It is a mystery I reckon.
I suppose it is the prerogative of a left-handed one to inquire as such.....tis a metaphorical query for which no right-minded one has an answer - I reckon?
BK
It is a mystery I reckon.
I suppose it is the prerogative of a left-handed one to inquire as such.....tis a metaphorical query for which no right-minded one has an answer - I reckon?
BK
Buffalo_Ken "the prerogative of a left-handed one to inquire; which no right-minded one has an answer." That was great!
another, very interesting discussion, appreciated.
I think development degrades us, it veils the essence, strengthening one-sided reality, lessening the call to create from examination, thus making us more inclined toward impotent indulgences.
....to experience the complete is, imo, an essential requirement of Life - without it, are dead already.
I think development degrades us, it veils the essence, strengthening one-sided reality, lessening the call to create from examination, thus making us more inclined toward impotent indulgences.
....to experience the complete is, imo, an essential requirement of Life - without it, are dead already.
The interview with McGilchrist gives you a sense of what he was trying to accomplish and his approach. He indicates the first part of the books examines the science related to primarily the left hemisphere to give you an idea of what kind of world it perceives and constructs. The second part examines epistemology, the meaning of things. The third part is metaphysics, the sacred or spiritual dimension, and he notes the quote form the Tao, "“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth." He says the Tao is his spiritual source. In other words, he recognizes trying to speak of the sacred ends in missing the point. He states his intention to understand who are we and how do we come to understand that.
In the interview he notes that the left/right dichotomy is not the public's view. It is more a difference in perception and approach to viewing reality. The left he notes isolates, apprehends, grasps, focuses on divisions, categorizes, maps, sees things as a representation, i.e. the word "tree" not the experience of the tree, sees reality as manipulatable and inanimate. The right hemisphere has a broader focus, sees interconnections, sees the flowing and changing of the whole, perceives things as animate and alive in the present moment, understands, sees the "tree" not the representation, sees not the map. Which do you need? Both. However in today's world the left hemisphere view fragments and divides and does not lead to understanding, which creates a dangerous world.
In the interview he notes that the left/right dichotomy is not the public's view. It is more a difference in perception and approach to viewing reality. The left he notes isolates, apprehends, grasps, focuses on divisions, categorizes, maps, sees things as a representation, i.e. the word "tree" not the experience of the tree, sees reality as manipulatable and inanimate. The right hemisphere has a broader focus, sees interconnections, sees the flowing and changing of the whole, perceives things as animate and alive in the present moment, understands, sees the "tree" not the representation, sees not the map. Which do you need? Both. However in today's world the left hemisphere view fragments and divides and does not lead to understanding, which creates a dangerous world.
Dwoods44 - I've often wondered why just 1 in 8 or 9 folks are left-handed (12% per one source) and I have a few theories on that. The right side of the brain is most involved for the left appendages and vice-versa if I understand that correctly. So, given this article examines the difference between how one side of the brain contemplates versus the other, it follows that folks who are left-handed might be more likely to see and experience the world differently versus the majority who are right-handed.
I think this whole right/left dichotomy is wrapped up in so many things and has been an obstacle for awakening deeper thought collectively. I mean why do we have "rights" and why does somebody say: "right on" and why do folks want other folks to do the "right" thing?
My theory is that in the beginning of "humanity" there might have been an even split between left and right handed tendencies, but the right-handed ones just didn't appreciate that and started to kill off the lefties.....it is a possibility, but I doubt it can be proven and who cares really assuming right-handed ones keep their fingers to themselves versus strangling little kids who seemed like they might rely more on the right side of their brain. It is just a theory. I mean they tried to force my dad to be right-handed, but it just wasn't going to work and he refused those nuns. Either that or they just gave up thinking they could change my dad.
Half my family are "lefties" including me!
Ken
I think this whole right/left dichotomy is wrapped up in so many things and has been an obstacle for awakening deeper thought collectively. I mean why do we have "rights" and why does somebody say: "right on" and why do folks want other folks to do the "right" thing?
My theory is that in the beginning of "humanity" there might have been an even split between left and right handed tendencies, but the right-handed ones just didn't appreciate that and started to kill off the lefties.....it is a possibility, but I doubt it can be proven and who cares really assuming right-handed ones keep their fingers to themselves versus strangling little kids who seemed like they might rely more on the right side of their brain. It is just a theory. I mean they tried to force my dad to be right-handed, but it just wasn't going to work and he refused those nuns. Either that or they just gave up thinking they could change my dad.
Half my family are "lefties" including me!
Ken
Dwoods44 Good stuff. Where was this for me to reference and link to several years ago when I wrote a fairly similar blurb on an internet forum but it was not as well thought out or constructed? That comment nicely basically encapsulated the ideas I'd been trying to relay.
Buffalo_Ken There is a "Legacy" interview with Ervin Laszlo a prodigy pianist who became a philosopher. His work shows both hemispheres working together; he uses the word "coherence" for this and his view of reality. He also, like McGhilchrist sees the Tao as the closest spiritual/scientific view.
Animanarchy McGhilchrist has spent 10 years writing this, so there is much more to know. The interview gives you a 30,000 foot view.
Though I haven't read the book, I can look at the intent which is to create a world view that includes nature, the earth, other people and the Creator. Who am I? Why am I here? How do I connect to others? What is the meaning?
My first question to the MindMatters discussion: How can you have a discussion about the left/right dichotomy and include the right hemisphere? The discussion starts with Yoda and the force. I think we need to bring in videos of the galaxies with the music of the Goldberg Variations of Bach and maybe a selection of Rembrandt's self-portraits and some poetry of Rumi. It is like the quote above from the Tao, you lose the connectedness, the whole. As McGilchrist notes, the left hemisphere isolates, fragments and divides.
If we take Christ's teaching of spiritual law as the first step: Love God, Love your neighbors as your Self, and add Love the Creation of nature, the solar system, the galaxy, the universe from God, then we are saying that Love is the direction we each need to move toward. Love connects people and things. Love creates unity not division.
If we take Gurdjieff's system, we have the structure of 3 or 4 minds that deal with reality as we know it, we have a sexual center that recognizes "love at first sight", we have a higher emotional center and higher intellectual center. The higher emotional center is awareness and knowing of Self and Truth, the higher intellectual center is awareness and knowing of everything including laws of the universe. Then the direction becomes how to move to higher centers of perception. We do have these experiences, but we do not value them appropriately. For example, I was nearly in an automobile accident on the highway in my 20s. Everything was perceived in slow motion. What does it mean? It means the perceiving apparatus is different than normal. In the McGilchrist interview, they talk about sports and being able to react at a beyond "explicit" mind speed. Is it the right hemisphere, or is it a higher center?
My first question to the MindMatters discussion: How can you have a discussion about the left/right dichotomy and include the right hemisphere? The discussion starts with Yoda and the force. I think we need to bring in videos of the galaxies with the music of the Goldberg Variations of Bach and maybe a selection of Rembrandt's self-portraits and some poetry of Rumi. It is like the quote above from the Tao, you lose the connectedness, the whole. As McGilchrist notes, the left hemisphere isolates, fragments and divides.
If we take Christ's teaching of spiritual law as the first step: Love God, Love your neighbors as your Self, and add Love the Creation of nature, the solar system, the galaxy, the universe from God, then we are saying that Love is the direction we each need to move toward. Love connects people and things. Love creates unity not division.
If we take Gurdjieff's system, we have the structure of 3 or 4 minds that deal with reality as we know it, we have a sexual center that recognizes "love at first sight", we have a higher emotional center and higher intellectual center. The higher emotional center is awareness and knowing of Self and Truth, the higher intellectual center is awareness and knowing of everything including laws of the universe. Then the direction becomes how to move to higher centers of perception. We do have these experiences, but we do not value them appropriately. For example, I was nearly in an automobile accident on the highway in my 20s. Everything was perceived in slow motion. What does it mean? It means the perceiving apparatus is different than normal. In the McGilchrist interview, they talk about sports and being able to react at a beyond "explicit" mind speed. Is it the right hemisphere, or is it a higher center?
Dwoods44 A poem of Kabir: BETWEEN the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway.
Millions of beings are there: the sun and the moon in their courses are there:
Millions of ages pass, and the swing goes on.
All swing! the sky and the earth and the air and the water; and the Lord Himself taking form:
And the sight of this has made Kabîr a servant.
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway.
Millions of beings are there: the sun and the moon in their courses are there:
Millions of ages pass, and the swing goes on.
All swing! the sky and the earth and the air and the water; and the Lord Himself taking form:
And the sight of this has made Kabîr a servant.
Dwoods44 Here are the translated lyrics: Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee,
Opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
Drive the dark of doubt away;
Giver of immortal gladness,
Fill us with the light of day!All Thy works with joy surround Thee,
Earth and heaven reflect Thy rays,
Stars and angels sing around Thee,
Center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
Flowery meadow, flashing sea,
Singing bird and flowing fountain,
Call us to rejoice in Thee.Thou art giving and forgiving,
Ever blessing, ever blessed,
Wellspring of the joy of living,
Ocean depth of happy rest!
Thou our Father, Christ our Brother,
All who live in love are Thine;
Teach us how to love each other,
lift us to the joy divine.Mortals, join the happy chorus,
Which the morning stars began;
Father love is reigning o'er us,
brother love binds man to man.
Ever singing, march we onward,
Victors in the midst of strife,
Joyful music leads us Sunward
In the triumph song of life.
God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee,
Opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
Drive the dark of doubt away;
Giver of immortal gladness,
Fill us with the light of day!All Thy works with joy surround Thee,
Earth and heaven reflect Thy rays,
Stars and angels sing around Thee,
Center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
Flowery meadow, flashing sea,
Singing bird and flowing fountain,
Call us to rejoice in Thee.Thou art giving and forgiving,
Ever blessing, ever blessed,
Wellspring of the joy of living,
Ocean depth of happy rest!
Thou our Father, Christ our Brother,
All who live in love are Thine;
Teach us how to love each other,
lift us to the joy divine.Mortals, join the happy chorus,
Which the morning stars began;
Father love is reigning o'er us,
brother love binds man to man.
Ever singing, march we onward,
Victors in the midst of strife,
Joyful music leads us Sunward
In the triumph song of life.
If you are left-handed, does that mean you are right-minded?
If you are right-handed, does that mean you are always correct?
I think the answer to both questions is a resounding NO.
But hell if I know for sure about the first question.
BK, poem of the Day, 32122 933
If you are right-handed, does that mean you are always correct?
I think the answer to both questions is a resounding NO.
But hell if I know for sure about the first question.
BK, poem of the Day, 32122 933
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this here, but an imagined realm
a constructed non realis
from my fathers pocketbook of things
earth, space and all about it, but a reflected image...
fashioned on the inside of a Kooky birds egg,
the size of a peanut.
Prof Lucian Tickleberry. 10333 BC
this here, but an imagined realm
a constructed non realis
from my fathers pocketbook of things
earth, space and all about it, but a reflected image...
fashioned on the inside of a Kooky birds egg,
the size of a peanut.
Prof Lucian Tickleberry. 10333 BC
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"...Even Paul Craig Roberts is trying to figure out why Putin isn’t treating his enemies more ruthlessly. [Link] We awake Americans have a real sense of the depravity that our leaders carry and at times I think we get carried away with our own insights here.
As I said would happen, Russia’s go-slow war has played 100% into their enemies’ hands. Russia needed a quick victory to forestall a devastating psyops campaign against her and to intimidate further NATO expansion. What the Kremlin achieved by believing that the West would respect humanitarian intentions is infamy.
Instead of discouraging provocations of Russia that will eventually lead to nuclear war, the Kremlin’s liberal goody-goodly war policy, which the West sees as irresolution, has encouraged more provocations Dr. Roberts’ thesis is one I’ve heard from multiple people, including from my friend Dexter White on two recent podcasts we did (here [Link] and here [Link] ). Putin’s slow rolling the Ukraine operation has further emboldened Neocon crazies whose whole being is focused on interpreting every action by their enemies as a weakness to exploit.
This analysis further solidifies my conclusion that they are left-brain possessed, betraying all the attributes of someone psychologically unbalanced to the point of madness. They become paranoid psychotics seeing everything in terms of their enemy.
It’s the most popular refrain of desperate globalists, “Putin did it.”
It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. What matters is keeping people in that suggestible state. It’s easy to do since they, themselves, are there too..."