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# Re:Essential meaning

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- Subject: Re:Essential meaning
- From: "peter_reist" <peter_reist@...>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 20:53:35 -0000
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    Dear Rawn,

    >>>Since I have so immersed myself in Hermetic thought, I find no
    need to reference other systems in order to understand Hermetic
    principles. The same with kabbalah. This is how I learn something
    new -- immersion. I immerse myself in the mind-set of what I'm
    learning instead of splitting myself between two different mind-sets.
    But I recognize that not everyone studies and learns in this same way
    and, in fact, most folks learn better by relating a new study to a
    past study and by trying to understand the new through the lens of
    the familiar. The essential problem with this is that one can easily
    miss out on the depth of the new study by not capturing its entire
    mind-set. At some point one must think solely in terms of the new
    study and forego the internal translation between old and new. It's
    sort of like learning a new language. At first each word is
    translated internally, but eventually, one begins to think directly
    in the new language without the internal translation.<<<

    Having started my studies in German last year, I agree completely.
    However, that does not make the possibility of switching between one
    perspective and another impossibile.

    >>>One problem that I, as an Hermeticist, see with the split brain
    theory is that it infers a true split between two discrete types of
    mental function. From the Hermetic perspective however, there is not
    a true split. Instead it's a hierarchy of function. For example, the
    intuitive "left-brain" is *always* active and is a precursor to the
    rational "right-brain" function. In other words, we're *always*
    perceiving essential meaning but we're not always using our rational
    logic. Furthermore, these two aspects of Mind function *together*,
    like hand-in-glove, in our mundane, day-to-day awareness.<<<

    Ah, you see, the shoe is on the other foot it would seem. At least
    from my perspective. While I am working from a psychological
    perspective towards understanding a hermetic perspective, you are
    here working from a hermetic perspective working towards
    understanding a psychological perspective. As such, from where I'm
    sitting I do realize that I have most likely done a great disservice
    to the extensive research done on the split brain theory and
    simplified it down a great deal in my conversations. Though I do
    assure you that it is a tad more subtle than one hemisphere of the
    brain doing one thing while the other hemisphere sits by and does
    nothing. We are both using the right and left hemispheres of the
    brain at any given time. With regards to meditation and the
    perception of essential meaning it would appear that there would be
    less activation in the left hemisphere and more in the right. As
    such, the qualities of intuition, logic, language, and the perception
    of images, are fielded by the whole of the brain.

    Of course, the split brain theory is not meant to be a grand theory
    of everything. But it does apply in certian cases quite well, IMO.
    Even though it certianly does have it's limitations.

    Love and Live well,
    Peter Reist

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    - From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>

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