This is my first post on the forums.. so "hello" to everyone. I will go to the Introductions forums next.
This is video reminded me so much of the book
A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie and of Katie's work. I don't think it is impossible to live in the right hemisphere of your brain, and is definitely possible to do without drugs! I don't know of the "how" for everyone else, I am just aware of my journey and where it has taken me. I definitely have not transcended my Ego (the left side) for good. Like Erin, though, I have had many experiences since childhood where I had a loss of self and just felt extreme expansion and the energy vibration of the whole. I don't think that this feeling is an illusion, I believe that our earthly lives are the illusions.
This video relates to Steve's post on the War on the Ego. I don't see a war and I am not sure if Steve is declaring it. Mostly his post made sense, but I disagree with some of the semantics. Watching this video I saw a woman who had an amazing experience that she lived to tell. I could sense her experience in a personal way. Maybe she had been predominantly defined by her left side (Ego) for most of her life. I am not sure. I felt she was saying that her left side did have value and was important she was not interested in ridding herself of it, but that she did have a liking for the expansiveness and peace that is the whole or right side.
Just as our fingers are each important in their own right, their unity as a hand is what creates the ultimate efficiency for the body. They are each vital and important for the greater good. Your hands wouldn't function as peacefully and without thought if you only had one finger.
I think it is important to live without boundaries of "me" and "I" as much as possible for the greater good of the world. However, the understanding that you cannot rid yourself of identification with the material world and "I" is paramount to functioning as part of the greater whole. If one of my fingers decided it had enough with always working for the hands and just quit - the hands would not function as well. The fingers cannot become the hand, either. The finger knows it is important as a "finger" that betters the "hand" and it's functioning. Just as we do not think often of our individual fingers and their preferences, we can also choose to not let our individual stories be more important than the collective functioning. If my fingers had stories, they might be upset that the left ring finger always get's the fancy bling. My right hand fingers might feel overworked and underpaid - upset with the left for getting time off (right-handedness). The left would complain that the right had more responsibilities and more fun.
If we just are and let others just be - we work for the collective. We still
are individuals. Our life purpose is working for the collective using our strengths and talents (fingers have been toes - but never a nose!)
Thanks for letting me ramble on my first post.
