Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and author of the book ‘The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.’
This animated video narrated by him describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain.
Einstein said, ‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.'”
One friend has asked,
“Everywhere in the world, for some support or to negate something, people are asked to raise one of their hands. Why do you ask us always to raise both our hands?”
A relevant question, but I never do anything which I cannot scientifically explain to you.
Your two hands are connected with your two brains, crosswise. Your right hand is connected with the left brain, your left hand is connected with the right brain, and these two brains have no bridge, no communication between themselves. So when you are asked to raise one hand, it is bound to be the right hand.
A strange fallacy has persisted for centuries, as if right is right and left is wrong. So people are asked to raise their right hand in support or in negation, but that represents only the left brain, only half of your being. Your right brain may not be with your left brain, may not support it.
One hand is half-hearted, that’s why I ask you always to raise both hands. Both hands represent your whole heart, your whole mind, your whole being. Nothing is left out of it.
Raising one hand does not prove that you are totally with the hand. Half your mind, half your body is not with it.
So it is not without reason that I have always asked you to raise both your hands. It is because I want you always to be total. Never be partial; only a total man is an authentic man.
Osho, Yakusan: Straight to the Point of Enlightenment, Ch 1, Q 1 (excerpt)
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