She has an entry about a book called, "Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform." The book talks about Attention Deficit Traits that we have in society today as a result of our hyperkinetic environment. The frontal lobes of our brains are overloaded today with our fast paced world. Our brains don't have the chance to slow down.
In reading her comments it also reminded me of life in Amstrongism. We were/are constantly being bombarded with messages of unworthiness. We are deemed to be creatures of of sin that are lower than the worms in the earth. We have this picture presented to us of a pissed off angry old man sitting somewhere in heaven with his thumb ready to squash us for the latest infraction. Overwhelming lists of do's and don'ts are/were screamed at us continually. We could and never will measure up. Just look at a COG 'Passover' service. It is a service designed to make you feel like dirt and contemptible in God's sight. It is not an uplifting, powerful, glorious celbration of freedom that communion is designed to be.
Check out this amazing woman's story about the battling hemisphere's of her brain and how she actually felt them shut down during a stroke.
I want to leave you with this video, "Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight". Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one.
It's truly an astonishing story, at the end of which she says, with audible emotion and passion in her voice,
"Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world."Is this not the point of prayer? What is the point of religion and the spirituality that arises from a disciplined life of individual prayer if not increased compassion and deep inner peace which will positively impact and ultimately transform the world for the better with things like justice and mercy, reconciliation and walking humbly with God and each other?
"Right here, right now, I can choose to step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere, where I am - we are - the life-force power of the universe. . . at one with all that is. Or, I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere, where I become a single individual - separate from the flow, separate from you."
"These are the 'we' inside of me. Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when?"
"I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemisphere, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be."
