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Of Two Minds

Iain McGilchrist, neurological psychologist, builds on previous findings of Edward De Bono and Julian Jaynes. Human nature is bicamerally structured for cerebral and appositional specialization, inclusive and sacred empathies from Elder Right matriarchal, with deductive-reductive linguistic natural laws and patriarchal orders from Left hemisphere dominant enculturation. This Left dominant hemispheric and global overshoot has brought us to buying and selling military-industrialized colonization with appropriate tools to get deductive-reductive killing and maiming jobs done, as necessary for justice in self-justifying wars through metaphysical Win-Lose Either-Or cognitive-emotive assumptions, retributive justice. As if punishment were a monopoly of social justice rather than a rather poor suboptimization of restorative therapeutic justice, also both natural and spiritual but for restoring health, inclusive therapy of victims with our predative, colonizing, fear and anger-mongering, commodifying of Earth's greatest sacred grace, gifts of clean air, pure water, sacred healing fire-circles of WinWin intent, healthy MotherLand fertility of forests and virgin oceans now horribly RightBrain lost, depressed, dissonant, irrational pathologies of too many bad boys with sharp law and order enforcing toys, and word choices, and lack of more nurturing WinWin diplomatic options. Fears and fake-divine idolatries of HellFire and Jihad JustWar BrimStones to punish those who dare defy a Great Patriarchal YangGod of Victimization rather than inviting available cooperative bicameral adjustments of ego- with eco-conciousness, to include Elder Sacred MotherEarth born of Grandfather SunGod Radiant Powers. Gaia hypotheses of Sacred RightYin with EcoLogical PolyPaths of SecularLeft Yang, co-arising nondual dipolar, bicamerally dynamic ecopolitical prime relationship of Yang +1Earth and Her Balancing EcoSystems with YinSquared (-,-)0-Soul Theorem equivalent to speed of reverting 4D light, co-arising as also having co-gravitated universal unity of space as also bilateral flow of time, YangHere SecularLeft reweaving YinNow SacredRight, breathing YangLeft here in, breathing YinRight now out, here in, now out, up, down, up and in YangLeft, down and out YinRight...

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