(below is a draft, mostly-finished)
QT:
Yep, had the same thought when I read this this morning. It's actually quite common in yogic circles to talk about the left side of the body as the feminine side and the right side as masculine, and since reading McGilchrist I don't think this is spurious or a coincidence.
Meanwhile for a fleshed out theory of how this relates to the brain hemispheres, check out The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain. I haven't read it myself yet though.
alphabetvsgoddess.comI've also noted that there's a different remarkable resonance between the Aro / Dzogchen perspective & McGilchrist, where the left hemisphere is the dualistic mind and the right hemisphere is the non-dual perspective.
twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1128317947548708865(Parenthetically, I think that monism (in the confused sense) is something like "someone has a non-dual experience with their right hemisphere, then attempts to fixate ")
I don't yet have an integrated view of how those two resonances relate to each other. Off the cuff...
- when the masculine LH tries to dominate the feminine RH, you get, uhh... *points at current fractal dumpster fire*
- when the LH & RH can khandro-pawo dance, 🕺💃🌱🌼🤩🚀
Workshopping this thread with @SarahAMcManus and she's like: yeah, you might map "dualist & LH" and "pawo & LH" but I don't think it makes sense to map "pawo & dualistic". Perhaps integrated discernment of difference?
Me again:
Maybe two modes for the LH?
@SarahAMcManus again:
> Yeah, there's a current default operating system for the left hemisphere that is dualist all the way down. There's maybe a more integrated, fluid operating system for the LH that is more aligned with the non-dual tantric pawo mode.
twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1132420973238657030So this is one lens on the apparent paradox where the LH needs to somehow learn to dance the RH's non-dual dance despite the RH being utterly ineffable to the LH.
There's some mode. What is it? How does one learn it?
twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1136688726694912001My current best guess for "what framework/paradigm would most allow the LH to dance with the RH" is...
Systems Thinking!
Joanna Macy posits in Mutual Causality in Buddhism & General Systems Theory that "dependent co-arising" ≡ "systems thinking"
twitter.com/BuildSoil/status/1105299645427671045