Hi there,
at the beginning I would like to give a small introduction of who I am, because I haven't done so far, but it seems to fit right now to do so…
1 1/2 years ago I found a chapter of "the wave" (chapter XXII) more or less coincidentally via google.
Everything has been strange to me, who are the lizzies, why are they „feeding on us“ and what are densities? But then I said to me, I have to give it a go and so I started reading „the wave“ series from the beginning. Read later on for example the SHOTW and ISTOM.
About three years before I found Laura's work, I have been interested in the „flower of life“ movement and the work of Drunvalo Melchizidek. But all I can say about it, it has been creating more bubbles of wishful thinking, until I plunged into the water that YCYOR is not working…
Through reading the forum, SOTT articles and especially the comments of users, I recognised that my mind is working somehow differently from others, I can't see what many other members can see, to put it straight: I'm naive, a weak-critical thinker and „working“ more or less irrational.
So I started, to do some research on what critical thinking is and and kept wondering why I can't think that way!?
At the beginning I thought it has something to do, because I'm left handed and male, so that I'm „working“ more over the right brain hemisphere (when it can be so easily described) and Candace B. Pert stated in „Molecules of Emotion“: that the corpus callosum is bigger and more developed in women than in men, so that women can „switch“ more easily between the brain hemispheres. But I found than another statement:
_http://www.nysun.com/national/one-election-outcome-certain-a-lefty-will-win/80480/
So, I'm still not sure what it is, why I'm a weak critical thinker. Another point came to my mind, for example Gurdjieff said:
Because my father is also a weak critical thinker and I haven't learnt practical things for example: mawing, building a fence, cooking. To do things in a proper order. My parents have done everything for me, when it is going about housework.
Then it also happens to me, that I'm very, very often (when my mind is not in another way occupied) switching off my mind (daydreaming, perhaps it can be also dissociation). I personally call it: running into maybe-futures.
Or Peter A. Facione calls it (who wrote “Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts”) “the simulation”, that means when I'm imagining how various scenarios will unfold, to think about what will happen and how I will react on a specific situation. (how a conversation will go…) and he describes it further on:
_http://www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/what&why2006.pdf
Sometimes it gets so far unless I'm feeling good, that some chemical reactions get triggered. It also happens now and then that I put myself into a position (in this thinking mood), where I get kind of acknowledged by others. Where I talk to others. That could be because I'm shy and introverted, besides I'm expressing myself in photographing and scribbling/spray-painting, so that I have an output, so to speak.
Having said this, these two things (weak critical thinking and daydreaming) are giving me occasionally really the nuts. It is also a deal of, osit when I look back on my past experiences and how I dealt with problems, escaping from reality as it is, to not face the problems I have…
I would be thankful for any given advice!! And Martha Stouts book "Myth of Sanity" is the next book I start to read, to get an better understanding what dissociation is.
And last but not least thanks to you Laura, for your great work!! And also thanks to the many forum members who are participating here for many years!
Joerg.
at the beginning I would like to give a small introduction of who I am, because I haven't done so far, but it seems to fit right now to do so…
1 1/2 years ago I found a chapter of "the wave" (chapter XXII) more or less coincidentally via google.
Everything has been strange to me, who are the lizzies, why are they „feeding on us“ and what are densities? But then I said to me, I have to give it a go and so I started reading „the wave“ series from the beginning. Read later on for example the SHOTW and ISTOM.
About three years before I found Laura's work, I have been interested in the „flower of life“ movement and the work of Drunvalo Melchizidek. But all I can say about it, it has been creating more bubbles of wishful thinking, until I plunged into the water that YCYOR is not working…
Through reading the forum, SOTT articles and especially the comments of users, I recognised that my mind is working somehow differently from others, I can't see what many other members can see, to put it straight: I'm naive, a weak-critical thinker and „working“ more or less irrational.
So I started, to do some research on what critical thinking is and and kept wondering why I can't think that way!?
At the beginning I thought it has something to do, because I'm left handed and male, so that I'm „working“ more over the right brain hemisphere (when it can be so easily described) and Candace B. Pert stated in „Molecules of Emotion“: that the corpus callosum is bigger and more developed in women than in men, so that women can „switch“ more easily between the brain hemispheres. But I found than another statement:
_http://www.nysun.com/national/one-election-outcome-certain-a-lefty-will-win/80480/
Emphasis mine„Studies have shown that whereas righties favor the left hemisphere of their brain, which controls language, left-handers are more likely to have bilateral brain function, which could allow them to visualize problems more broadly and with more complexity. A higher percentage of mathematicians and scientists are left-handed, and the same is true for artists.“
So, I'm still not sure what it is, why I'm a weak critical thinker. Another point came to my mind, for example Gurdjieff said:
Everything has a hand in this: the involuntary imitation of older people on the part of the child […]
Because my father is also a weak critical thinker and I haven't learnt practical things for example: mawing, building a fence, cooking. To do things in a proper order. My parents have done everything for me, when it is going about housework.
Then it also happens to me, that I'm very, very often (when my mind is not in another way occupied) switching off my mind (daydreaming, perhaps it can be also dissociation). I personally call it: running into maybe-futures.
Or Peter A. Facione calls it (who wrote “Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts”) “the simulation”, that means when I'm imagining how various scenarios will unfold, to think about what will happen and how I will react on a specific situation. (how a conversation will go…) and he describes it further on:
_http://www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/what&why2006.pdf
Emphasis mine.Peter A. Facione said:[…] these simulations, like movies in our heads, help us prepare and do a better job when the difficult moment arrives. But they can also lead us to have mistaken expectations. People may not respond as we imagined, things may go much differently.
Sometimes it gets so far unless I'm feeling good, that some chemical reactions get triggered. It also happens now and then that I put myself into a position (in this thinking mood), where I get kind of acknowledged by others. Where I talk to others. That could be because I'm shy and introverted, besides I'm expressing myself in photographing and scribbling/spray-painting, so that I have an output, so to speak.
Having said this, these two things (weak critical thinking and daydreaming) are giving me occasionally really the nuts. It is also a deal of, osit when I look back on my past experiences and how I dealt with problems, escaping from reality as it is, to not face the problems I have…
I would be thankful for any given advice!! And Martha Stouts book "Myth of Sanity" is the next book I start to read, to get an better understanding what dissociation is.
And last but not least thanks to you Laura, for your great work!! And also thanks to the many forum members who are participating here for many years!
Joerg.