If anyone is curious, we have started a forum discussing the right brain and that movement away from left brain dominance (the cultural norm). For now, the spiritual explanation of the right brain/left brain is mostly a metaphor since the exact physical cause and effect of spiritual experiences are not yet known. We were inspired by Dr. Jill's TED talk and also our own right brain breakthroughs.

www.OurRightBrain.com

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My Father was diagnosed with having 3 brain aneurysms in 2001, and he underwent brain surgery to place a clip around the base of the largest of the 3 which was unsuccessful - the clip slipped off. After the surgery, and the subsequent 3 strokes that he suffered whilst undergoing a follow up angiogram, he became a completely new person. Aside from the left side weakness and physical illness that he endured because of the surgery and the strokes and the ever-growing aneurysms, his entire personality changed. He became an alcoholic, drinking 7-8drinks a night, and started to become increasingly aggressive whether sober or drunk. He would fly into rages for no apparent reason, yelling and throwing stuff around. He lost all of his patience and sense of humour and became so verbally nasty that my sister moved out at 16 and he eventually lost my Mother also.

Its been 6years since his surgery and despite being told he would be dead by 2004 he is still alive, and working and walking and defiantly ignoring the ticking timebombs he carries in his head. He recently moved back in with me (Its his house, I just lived there rent-free to help with uni) and although he has never been the same since his surgery and he still drinks copius amounts every night after work, hes more calm and has a little bit more control over his temper. My sister and him are close again, and the wounds between my Mother and him are slowly healing now so that they can be friends.

But He'll never go back to how he was before the surgery - I think its so fascinating (and sad) that the brain can heal itself to some extent, but theres certain aspects of it that never re-form. Its like he lost a whole part of himself on that operating table, like the synapses pertaining to his personality, to who he was and how he thought and what he believed, just disappeared.

I am dyslexic and have spent my life trying to over come it. Just recently I read a book called "The Gift of Dyslexia" by Ronald D. Davis, I wanted to try to understand why people are dyslexic and also try to understand my own thought process. He talks a lot about right and left brain thought. The author stated that dyslexic people use mostly the right side of the brain and have learned to think in pictures, staring from the time they are infants. Everytime they see a word they instantaneously associate it with an image rather than a sound and by doing this growing up they never develop verbal conceptualization (thinking with the sound of langeuage). The author also states that dyslexic people think in immages so quickly that they are totally unaware that they are even doing it. By the time they start school they have never heard their own inner thoughts, it has all been in pictures. That is why spelling and reading become so difficult for them. Before reading this book it never accured to me that I often think in pictures, because it does happen so fast. This also explains why I have always excelled in art and anything visiual.
The brain is a wondrous thing. Scientests,and doctors have barely scratched the surface of what the brain is capable of.
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"A soul intention, that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, am I"

....but to me, the power in the story comes with her mother going against the medical establishment to intuitively guide her daughter's healing! The power of love........

Tex