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Left Hemisphere verbal dominance includes a survivalist penchant for either/or thinking, while elder Right Hemisphere nonverbal relationship-feeling thrival prominence is more accessible to both/and complex contrasts. Left Hemisphere may voice an Either/Or oppositional thesis v antithesis while Right Hemisphere feels a Both/And appositional hypothesis. This appears to be the neurological basis for dialectical therapy's success, more resonantly responding to systemic trauma.

From Rob Brezsny, except my own bracketed commentary, Pronoia, p. 274:

I say that the Creator includes death as an essential part of evolution's master plan.
Lifetime after lifetime,
our immortal[ly shared DNA/RNA solidarity] souls take on a series of temporary forms
as we help unfold,
in our own small ways,
the inconceivably complex plot
of the divine [regenerating positively deviant v. negatively deviant] drama.
Each time we die,
it's hard and sad to our time-bound [tragically doomed reductive] egos.
But from the perspective of the part of us that has always been
and will always be [We],
it's simply part of the epic adventure
[divine pronoia comedy].

The abolition of [either self or other-selves] suffering 
is a worthy goal [of positive bothMe-andWe deviance].

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