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Jaime Jessop's avatar

Good essay. I found the last paragraph the most intriguing:

"We can help other people who are still stuck in chronic defensive nervous system states to wake up, and come back to a calm place. This cannot be achieved simply by argumentation with facts and logic, because this just feeds the defensiveness, so must be done by appealing to the right brain hemisphere via re-connection to love and common humanity, through metaphor, comedy, poetry, music, awe and beauty."

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Cynthia Roberts's avatar

Gary, your words reflect my thoughts and beliefs with so much clarity!!! Thank you!

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