Smokey's Instant Nondualism Kit

[smokey]

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Brain scientists say that the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat of the ego -- the awareness of the separate self. The right hemisphere cannot conceive of a separate self.

So forget all this internal and external dialogue about the fictional self and imaginary I. Cancel those subscriptions to nondualegomaniac.com. Smokey has found the ultimate solution to your binary nightmare.

Smokey's Instant Nondualism Kit is an instrument that induces a stroke on the left hemisphere of your brain. (Instructions and tool kit will be available soon on Amazon.) It includes this warning:

WARNING: Since the left hemisphere is also the practical side of experience, and since our society is left-brain-oriented, make sure you have an assistant to take care of all mundane practical nonsense like shopping, banking, voting, and paying bills/taxes.

All kidding aside, this brain scientist endured a stroke on the left hemisphere of her brain which gave her a first-hand look from the inside at what she could only study from the outside. Dr. Bolte-Taylor describes her experience in this video.

Left brain orientation perceives the world as segmented. Therefore, it tends to see itself as a part among other parts.

Right brain inclination sees the whole, so does not see itself as separate.

Since our culture is left-brain oriented, many of us try to achieve wholeness through thought (language and logic). Thought has a sneaky way of convincing itself it can do the impossible --homogenize all the different parts, or I's into one -- like our left-brain school system.

Left hemisphere abilities such as language, logic and rationality do have their place in living a balanced life. However, in our culture based on materialism, the left brain has mutated from a guardian to a domineering guard. This convinces many to believe that desirable thoughts can overcome unwanted thoughts --- that one I can eliminate all other I's.

Unfortunately many of those other I's are right-brain-influenced and as such cannot be eliminated short of a right-brain stroke.

Jill Bolte-Taylor's video suggests that an alternative to this mental mayhem is to establish right-hemisphere dominance. This can be accomplished through developing intuition, playing with creative arts, practicing meditation or prayer, doing selfless service, smokey's personal favorite, hoboing, or many other age-old playful pastimes. It may then be possible to short the left-brain thought circuit sufficiently to quash its tyrannical control.

This may seem outlandish to those who are inclined to use the mind to eradicate the mind's own creations, but it's a whole lot less painful than a self-induced stroke.

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[teetown]

Haha. Smokey, I hope you stick around for a while.

[skyblue]

A creative post Smokey!

I read her book a while back and thought it was phenomenal.

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WARNING: Since the left hemisphere is also the practical side of experience, and since our society is left-brain-oriented, make sure you have an assistant to take care of all mundane practical nonsense like shopping, banking, voting, and paying bills/taxes.


Mundane practical nonsense....like voting!! Hahahahaha. I would say there are lots of folks already out there who vote with their right brains looking at some of the characters that have gotten into office, or almost in office...(cough, palin, cough). Hahahaha.

[ZOE]

Hey Smokey Your Graphics are Great!!
I am familiar with Jill's video, she is an Amazing women.
I have followed your posts, even on other forums.
It appears to me that you are suggesting Observing/Dropping
your thoughts can liberate you from the confines of
the left brain, Yes??
Please elaborate when you have an extra sec, Thanks!!

Cheers, Zoe

[smokey]

Thanks Zoe.

Not interested in the Instant Nondualism tool kit, huh?

Self-observation, meditation, observing silence or anything that breaks left-brain continuity can wake up the dormant right hemisphere.

Books have been written on right brain development through drawing and painting but any creative art can awaken our playful nature. Colors and shapes, tunes and beats, smells and tastes, textures, spontaneous movement -- all the simple stuff you played with as a child. The emphasis is on PLAY.

Selfless service can awaken the right brain's proclivity towards altruism and love while diminishing the left-hemisphere tendency toward greed and selfishness.

Devotion and prayer to a higher power can revive the right-brain humility and innate faith our left-brain culture has destroyed through its obsession to control and coerce.

Getting out of the stifling, left-brain cities and suburbs and spending more time in the wilderness can revive right-brain awareness of the randomness and irrationality of nature. Our left brain culture has programmed us to believe that life should be predictable and rational, then funneled our need for adventure and excitement through corporate-controlled venues like television, movies, concerts, spectator sports and so on. Adventure and excitement is free. Just ask any eagle.

The bottom line is that the left brain takes life much too seriously. Our culture has forgotten how to get out of its own way due to the left brain's habit scaring us so it can save us, then scaring us again in a vicious circle that goes nowhere. The right brain has no fears because it has no self concern.

We need both hemispheres to live a balanced life, however it is time to give the left brain a rest....

A couple of centuries should do it.

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