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Bilateral Creative Thinking Sequel

Last half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets: In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable] adequate. As soon as something is [feels] satisfactory our [LeftBrain] thinking must stop. And yet there may be many better [more therapeutic, more confluent, more balanced, more resonant] arrangements of information beyond the merely adequate [reified, deduced conclusion]. Once one has reached an adequate answer then it is difficult to proceed by logical thinking because the [reifying, reiterating] rejection [through entrenched, well acclimated hierarchical nutrition-tree] mechanism which is the basis of logical thinking can no longer function well. With lateral thinking one can easily proceed beyond the adequate [usually with a better understanding of why it empathically feels trusted] by [flooding] insight restructuring. [overpopulating your frame of idea production, RightBrain-storming for feelings of interdependence where LeftBrain only registers aptic ecopolitical emptiness, absence of relationship, correlation] [Bi]Lateral thinking is especially useful in problem solving and in the generation of new ideas. But it is not confined to these situations for it is an essential part of all thinking. Without a method for [revolutionarily] changing [chronic stress problematic climates] concepts and bringing them up to [evolutionary WinWin ecological] date one is liable to be trapped by concepts which are more [eisegetically WinLose] harmful than [exegetically ecopolitically multiculturally] useful . Moreover rigid concept patterns [evolving dynamic-dimensional models] can actually create a great number of [static, stagnation, hoarding, attachment, suffering, slow-burn dissonating, decomposing] problems. Such problems are particularly fierce [chronic-stress dissonant] since they cannot be altered by available [exegetically languaged] evidence but only by [revolutionary co-empathic] insight restructuring. The need to change ideas is becoming more and more obvious as technology [born of human natures and fertile humors] speeds up the rate of communication [transfers of co-valued information as co-languaged exformations] and [co-relational ecopolitical] progress. We have never developed very satisfactory methods for changing [consciousness about] ideas but have always relied on [reiteratively stuck, ruminating] conflict [cognitive-affective dissonance, disassociation]. [Bi]Lateral [cameral, appositional gestalt lensed] thinking is directed towards bringing about [healthier] changes in [regenerating] ideas through [positive nutritional heuristic-empathic] insight restructuring [Poetic-operatic-epic stories change us, create us, recreate us when they articulate incarnating truths with both mindful and emotive beauty, just as my own ego story changes my ecopolitical motivations, ambitions, hopes and fears, and ecological empty LeftBrain absence of Elder RightBrain interdependence, revolving integrity's potential toward internal/external climate health.] [Bi]Lateral thinking is directly concerned with [ecoconsciousness] insight and with [Earth-fed] creativity. But whereas both these processes are usually only recognized after they have happened lateral [RightBrain proportional/symmetrical feeling] thinking is a deliberate way of using [analogical] information in order to [predict, impregnate, implicate, negatively correlate, co-arise, revolve, regenerate, resolve] bring them [us] about. In practice lateral [yin-Right] thinking and [yang-Left] vertical thinking are so [Tao (0) sum-soul-core-primal] complementary that they are [embryonically] mixed together. Nevertheless it is best to treat them as distinct in order to understand the basic [co-empathic attendant-trust] nature of [bi]lateral thinking [within bicameral ego/ecoconsciousness] and acquire skill in its [therapeutic] use. This also prevents [thinking/feeling] confusion because the principles governing the use of [ecopolitically health v pathological] information in [bi]lateral thinking are quite different from the ones used in [more audio-visual language restricted ecological-analogical] vertical [LeftBrain bicameral] thinking. It is difficult to acquire any sort of [nutritionally digestive] skill in [bi]lateral thinking simply by reading about it. In order to develop such [learning to polypathically learn] skill one must practice [ecoconsciousness] and go on practicing [more cooperative nondual mindbody ecopolitical health v pathology] and that is why there has been such emphasis in this book on practice sessions. Nor are [ecological] exhortation and [ecopolitical] goodwill enough. There are specific [co-empathic trust] techniques for the application of [bi]lateral thinking. The purpose of such techniques is twofold. They can be used for their own [creative, regenerative] sakes but more importantly they can be used to develop the [ecopolitically cooperative] habit of [therapeutic] mind[body].... [Bi]Lateral thinking is not concerned with generating doubt for the sake of doubt or chaos for the sake of chaos. Lateral [bicameral regenerative] thinking acknowledges the extreme usefulness of [permacultural] order and of [polyculturally climaxing outcome] pattern. But it emphasizes the need for changing [evolving, emerging] these to bring them up to [postmillennial] date and make them even more [climate of peace with EarthJustice] useful. [Bi]Lateral thinking particularly emphasizes the dangers of rigid [premillennial competitive monocultural ritual] patterns which the [Left]mind is so apt to construct because of the way it handles [and dissonates] information. [for efficient power-over rather than healthywealth optimization of ecopolitical power-within our oceanic climate atmosphere of bilaterally interdependent communicating trust thoughts with co-empathic sensory feelings.]

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