Notes to Self

Brain hemispheres and their connection to the Left and Right Hand Paths of Spirituality

As the left analytical brain links to the right eye so it also links to the whole right side of the body. As the right holistic brain links to the left eye so it also links to the whole left side of the body.

Left brain's typical MO is the separating things to pieces and then trying to figure something out about about the pieces and of course also of the bigger picture via inductive empirical reasoning and the scientific method of running tests and thus to gather more data and knowledge about the things studied to form new hopotheses to test and so on.

Right brain's MO is the qualitative side of things as in trying to contextualize everything correctly in the bigger picture, the bigger picture being the correct context or frame which relates it to other things in the world. This mindset wants to zoom out and to find the highest context, the meta - frame in and under which all of the other frames under it happen in. The more meta - level you get in a given problem the more you can put all the other frames within this frame in the correct context, so in other words, the more you know what is really what and you see the forest from the trees.

In the center you have the formal intelligence - mindset. I guess it has to do with the brain hemispheres being connected. It condenses things to formulas and formal ideas. It also tries to use the formalised language of logic to get to the bottom of things. It is like the Plato's philosopher king trying to see to the world of the ideas "behind mere appearances". Or like the platonic philosopher king of our times, Stephen Wolfram 🙂. Some people might find him a little off - putting and self - congratulatory but he seems to be sure he has really achieved something in his field, and as intellectual mindsets go he is the perfect example of how the Center Path intelligence ticks at that sort of dry scientific level.

Center Path. I mean there are three types of souls: the Right Hand Path souls, the Center Path souls, and the Left Hand Path souls. You don't get to decide what of these you are, you're just born with it, they're just different windows to the world. They don't have anything to do with ethical right and wrong in and of themselves. How you use the gifts given to you at birth from your proverbial fairy godmothers is what counts.

The higher octave of all of these three is in a way a little like a compensating opposite of the lower. On the right hand side we have (all of these are in the broad yin/yang-sense) the kind of like masculine mathematical - analytic thing compensated by the higher octave of the kind of like feminine love and compassion thing of the Holy Spirit, which is the Right Hand Path. Analysis chops to pieces, Love unites.

On the center we have the spirit of freedom and the arts, where every moment has it's own unique truth and all expression must conform to that flowing nature, to be at the right place at the right time as in for example in the world of stand - up comedy. To compensate this we have the Wolfram Machine reducing everything to deterministic formulas that will crush all of your illusions about free will and such with monolithic mathematical precision. Muwahaha.

I'm not going to go into detail here about the left hand side of things. Somehow too deep for me at the moment it seems, anyway. I am of the left side as a soul type myself, like I would guess something like a third of us are. The overall atmosphere has been kind of secretive concerning the enlightenment and all this of the Left Hand Path, traditionally. But I'll say this: don't trust your intuition!! Don't go by your feelings. Try and keep your head clear and stay in control. Metacognition is ok. Metacognition is not intuition. The difference: with metacognition, when asked afterwards why did you make this holistic decision, you can rewind your rational thinking process within the holistic intellectual perception you had although you didn't have this thought process when you made the decision as it happened instantly. It was still somehow contained within it as a rational consciousness, yet not consciously explicated. Some might call this "trained intuition", but that's going into semantics and it all of course depends on how you want to define a given concept, and I therefore have no problem with that kind of dfinition of intuition.

So to sum up, left hand side of things is the Father, the center the Son and the right side the Holy Ghost. Or the Hindu trinity of Shiva, Brahman and Vishnu. Or the alchemical sulphur, mercury and salt. The transmutations of the energies rise diagonally from the right side to the left side via the center so that the left side is "highest", as energy frequencies go. My former blog post about energy centers has some more intel on the subject of the trinity as well.

And yes, we all in fact do have two hands and also something to go in between them.