October 22, 2008
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Depression and the left Brain
I’ve been considering depression as it relates to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s amazing observations about the brain, which she developed as a result of experiencing a stroke. As a researcher of the brain, she describes the two halves as existing and operating separately….independently….having separate roles….even separate personalities. During the stroke, her left brain was “shut off”…. so she experienced the world as it is apprehended purely with the right brain. She realized that the left half of the brain perpetuates our egoic reality….our sense of a limited self in space and time….our individual existence….while the right half gives us access to the Conscious Energy Field….she suddenly experienced being connected with everything.
Being fascinated by what she said I tried to consciously choose which half of the brain I wished to listen to, or “tune in to”. I found this much easier to do than I had expected….but then it is my brain….we are very close. The left brain was quite willing to subside, and rest when asked. It has been my experience that sometimes the left brain can be overactive….one cannot stop thinking…. Perhaps this is the case in dysthymia, the left brain never gives over to the right brain….a person with dysthymia would then constantly experience themselves as an egoic entity….an entity cut off from the Whole….and depressed….a perfect mechanism for the pain body!
Now, back to the magnetite which the Monarch butterflies use on their migratory flight. I’ve recently learned that we have magnetite in all of our cells as well…..especially in the brain cells. If these magnetite crystals, through vibration, are the link between the physical creation and the Conscious Energy Field, then access to their vibration could be very powerful. Like a two way radio, the crystals can only either transmit or receive. It seems that the left brain constantly transmits….describing the egoic reality ….telling us what we think….our feelings and judgments based on those thoughts….explaining to us who we are in the egoic world, while the right brain receives….information from the Conscious Energy Field.
With the left brain overactive it is impossible to receive. Useless thinking can be an immovable obstacle against all efforts when trying to meditate or access the more subtle vibrations of the conscious energy field. Perhaps this information about the right and left brains is the key!
Comments (11)
This magnetite net you describe is the mechanism by which we experience the Sixth sense people have been describing for centuries. Its existance is real and finding out everything we can about it is vital.
The difficulties in studying the magnetite net is emormous and sadly our scientific community has given this wonder little effort and attention.
Let us pray the few who are making the effort will discover the secrets..
For if we do make this break through …the novelity will change everything we believe.
It is not a surprise to me that geophysics researchers have discovered the the core of the earth is a huge magnetite crystal …I wonder what mother earth will tell us when we finally find the way to truly listen to her.
your brain honestly seems to be quite amazing, i love reading what you write.
never EVER stop writing!
very interesting and amazing…great work..
Happy Halloween Hope you have a fun night. Judi
I heard an interview with this doctor on NPR…she has vision like no other can
sometimes I refer to being depressed as needing deep rest..I dont know, it works for me.just sayin hi to a relative friend
@bodhitree - Yes…maybe a rest from the mind!
@jassmine - very fun, thnx!
@fuzzle213 - I’ve always thought it was neat that we can share our thoughts across time and distance with writing…the internet brings a whole new dimension…I’m very happy to have the connection with you.
Dr. Taylor’s experience has been invaluable in the study of right brain/left brain response. Not since childhood, does the mind respond with that sense of mysticism as a more natural course, and yet we find it still resides within us, only sleeping, as it were. When we experience this mystical response, we come to a return, a recognition, perhaps, to the sum of who we are.
Blessings~
unomangoes also
it take One to understand One blessings beck
or appreciate One
This is quite the interesting article! I am always fascinated with the various ways the brain can function.
After reading, I’ve noticed this reference to magnetite seems to sound like (or at least remind me of) a similar substance called DMT, the chemical that is produced in our pineal gland in the direct center of the brain, which is thought to be responsible for ‘dreaming’, and various other phenomena. It is apparently, not just found in our brains, but is present in every living organism as well (if you’ve ever heard stories about cultists drinking a ‘psychedelic tea’ as part of their ritual, its the same substance found in the tea) There was a book written by a man named Rick Strassman, who was a college professor at the University of New Mexico, who did various experiments with DMT, by extracting it, concentrating it, and testing the substance on patients. The patients immediately were thrown into a psychedelic trip, where they felt as if their spirit had been hurled out of their bodies, and they were in a completely different state of reality/part of the universe. Some experienced that they were being visited by friendly entities, which seemed similar to angels (to their observation), and would navigate them around the space they were visiting. Some experienced wicked entities whose sole purpose was to freighten them, similar to demons. Some experienced other interdimensional beings, such as aliens, and other forms of condensed, sentient energy. This is all written in Rick Strassmans book, called DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
Thought I’d share that bit with you. You seem like a contemplative person in the ways of metaphysics. =)
@Pyronide - Ah, yes. DMT…did you know that an infusion of DMT is naturally released into our bloodstream when we die? We get a shot of it just as our consciousness leaves the body. There’s a “don’t miss” movie about the natural, plant form of DMT on Youtube. The title is, “Ayahuaska”, the one by deadphan04. I’m sure you will enjoy it. Unfortunately DMT is incredibly illeagal to possess, meaning that no one can even do research on it. Strange, since, as you point out, it is a natural substance in our bodies. Is it there to tell us something that someone doesn’t want us to know? The “Secret” of momentary consciousness is one that the egoic mind would like to prevent us from knowing at all costs. Even to the extent of making it illeagal to explore….while people can drink alcohol freely….leading to a resort to the “lizard” brain….leading to a lowering of consciousness….leading to unconscious actions, which are generally….well, unconscious.
I appreciate your writings. They remind one to continue to reach out into consciousness.