words and hemispheric communication

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frances says:

>>All I can say having been married to a well known

philosopher is that there was a huge misconnect

between what he thought and what he could actually

live! in a new dance now.<<

--I think the verbal brain tends to want to isolate

itself from the emotional brain. That produces a

polarity which can be amplified by cultural contexts

favoring words over feeling. Whichever side you stand

on, you're stuck in one part of your brain, unable to

fluidly connect. Rather than making it a male/female

issue, it might work better to say that men are more

likely to live in words, where everything is clean cut

and abstract, where women are more aware of the

feeling and atmosphere of a group. Given a context

where words are only one part of a web, highly verbal

brains withdraw and create contexts where it's ALL

words, with the complexity of feeling and intuition

screened out. Any institution or system that depends

heavily on text rather than multimedia, music and

other more right brained forms of expression, is going

to have that problem. Words are useful, but they are

deceptive when stripped of context and relationship.

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: The test of any idea or philosophy for me is whether and how it can

be lived. I know only too well how to create and live in a world

circumscribed by words -- that comes only too easy for me. I can be very

sublime living within my art and not give a fig about relationship. Other

people are content to live with their books, have lofty ideals and yet

remain untutored in the contradictions and ambiguities of life. I once

aspired to having great intellectual prowess and even got a good way along

that path. But once Eros came into my life -- all is transformed.

Looking back,living in a reality dictated by pure logic seems to me now an

adolescent fantasy. I'm sure Jung would have glommed onto the multi-media,

digital reality as an alchemy of sorts, where non-linear, intuitive

connections yield up knowledge previously obscured and hidden by the linear

mind. As St. Augustine says, " God is a verb. " Nice chatting with you.

Frances

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> frances says:

>>> All I can say having been married to a well known

> philosopher is that there was a huge misconnect

> between what he thought and what he could actually

> live! in a new dance now.<<

>

> --I think the verbal brain tends to want to isolate

> itself from the emotional brain. That produces a

> polarity which can be amplified by cultural contexts

> favoring words over feeling. Whichever side you stand

> on, you're stuck in one part of your brain, unable to

> fluidly connect. Rather than making it a male/female

> issue, it might work better to say that men are more

> likely to live in words, where everything is clean cut

> and abstract, where women are more aware of the

> feeling and atmosphere of a group. Given a context

> where words are only one part of a web, highly verbal

> brains withdraw and create contexts where it's ALL

> words, with the complexity of feeling and intuition

> screened out. Any institution or system that depends

> heavily on text rather than multimedia, music and

> other more right brained forms of expression, is going

> to have that problem. Words are useful, but they are

> deceptive when stripped of context and relationship.

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