I have been focused on the need for right/left brain integration since forever! Knowing, with every fiber in my being, that this (sociologically, psychologically trained) bifurcation is THE ROOT CAUSE of what divides us from both ourselves and one another, leading to all manner of isolation and conflict.

Looking back through this ak.net website, searching for “right/left brain,” I see an enormous number of posts that just scroll on and on. Rather than trying to count ’em (a left brain activity), I just chose the most recent one to repost here:

REFLECTIONS: mostly detailed rant on how long daily walks dissolve left-brain doom-scrolling harm and invigorate right-brain/heart (and soul!)

If I were to go back through the exopermaculture.com archival site, no doubt I would discover the same preoccupation! But I “don’t have time” for that.

The reason I bring this subject of right/brain integration up here again, is thanks to Clif High on X this morning.

Instantly mesmerized, I found myself reading through both the original substack article and all the comments to it that directly address this right/left brain integration issue and brilliantly situate it within both historical, and current polticial and cultural context.

https://wendywilliamson.substack.com/p/the-intellectual-architecture-of-trumpism

And just so you know: Williamson is not “blaming” anyone, including Trump, in her deep assessment of what we western humans have willingly, though mostly unconsciously, subjected ourselves to, seemingly forever. The “blame game’ is part of the architecture she identifies.

Don’t forget to read the comment section. Also deeply informative, offering many perspectives. And the way Wendy Williamson replies to comments is also deeply informative. She is thanking critics; she is seeking relationship; her communication in the comment section offers a living example of what she and I both advocate (though I feel like a fool including myself, a former “violent peace activist,”  within her mastery): left brain logic and analysis working in service to the holistic, loving right brain. She succeeds here in personally exemplifying what she says she wants, HUMAN UNITY, rather than polarity, in this fractionated world where nasty division is still the name of the game.

And in fact, if we don’t wake up soon to what unites us, we’re more and more likely to blow ourselves up.

As we all know.

So let’s not.

 

BTW: her assessment of what we need to do to regenerate this sorry world of ours fits beautifully into the template we have created here in Green Acres Village. Our motto: Growing Community from the Ground Up.

https://www.greenacresvillage.org/