If the right hemisphere of our brains is all about the here-and-now, the “we,” and the unity that is all of us, is this where abundant thinking comes from? If the left hemisphere is about linearality, and the past and the future, what can we learn … or unlearn?
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neural anatomist who “got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one.” In this uplifting talk, she describes the process, including a feeling of oneness with the universe as the left hemisphere in her brain shut down. Listen to her talk at the TED conference…
And of course, the book that comes up often on the subject is “The Brain That Changes Itself”: http://www.normandoidge.com/normandoidge/MAIN.html
The way I think of it is that the right side of the brain is the visionary (what to do) and the left is for operations (how to do). Unfortunately, Western civilization is set up so that the left side decides what to do and the right side is marginalized. In fact, the benefactors of this system, business mostly, support culture as a charity.