Hi Stevie, Here is a recent Blog on Plasma Physics, Two talks to be precise given by Hannes Alven at the Lindau Nobel meetings of 1979 and 1982. Very well worth listening to. Alven really was quite a package.
Hope all well with you and yours.
Rog
http://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/08/plasma-cosmology-challenging-big-bang.html

James, I’m finding your comment confusing. Many have a belief that the two sides act in a L/R way. You say this is a myth, and go on to say we need both sides to be working. In the link you give, it has a section on hemispherectomy surgery, i.e. one half of the brain is either removed or prevented from functioning.

As I understand it, the operation has little effect on memory, personality, or humor. It may even improve cognitive function. There are side effects, and these indicate a modest L/R function.

So I believe if you had to make a binary choice on the options, the truth is that L/R is largely, but certainly not entirely, a myth, but you only really need one side.

And at that point, I’d suggest further surgery unwise…

I am very interested in all these questions as a psychotherapist, and up to this point at least, you don’t seem to have included this as a perspective, although I note an earlier reference in this thread to Iain McGilchrist’s book, which is not irrelevant to my field.

I see my work as a psychotherapist as transformational, or aspiring to be at least. I have been involved in the training of psychotherapists for many years, and see the process of change in this way. My friend and colleague, Harriett Goldenberg and I co-wrote a book with the title ‘Cradling the Chrysalis: Teaching and learning Psychotherapy’, which, to an extent, approaches the undertaking of psychotherapy as an ethical endeavour. Harriett’s background is Jewish, and she practises as such, while mine is ‘post-Christian’, and as such I was struck by your partnership with Ard in making the films…

I note also your political engagement, in which I am similar, as a local community councillor….

More later, maybe. It’s too late now, and I ‘m going to try to sleep…

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-14/how-mississippi-is-worse-off-than-bangladesh

The joke has been on poor whites and blacks for DECADES.

https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/the-weekend-essay-who-are-the-heirs-of-hitler-trump-and-farage-or-soros-and-brussels/

Phil this is spot on I think. Thanks for posting the link.

Contrast this
http://www.panarchy.org/wells/conspiracy.1933.html

I am speed reading through Wells at the moment.
http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#wellshg

I am currently writing a juxtaposition of Putin De Gloabalisation of Russia, Brexit as a wish to De Globalise Britain with a rear guard from the Boris Johnson wing of the Tories, ínternational Rules Based Order´. And of President Trumps de globalisation of the USA.

http://carnegie.ru/2015/12/16/deglobalizing-russia/in6d?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRouvqjPZKXonjHpfsX56O0rUKCg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YsCTsZ0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t60MWA%3D%3D

´´From the Mass Media perspective, therefore, that which is traditionally Good is re-presented as bad; and vice versa.
People and events presented by the media as Good are always in reality bad; and people or events presented by the media as bad are usually (but not always) Good – and when bad people or events are not presented as Good, then they are condemned as bad for the wrong reasons.
Also, if genuinely Good things happen to be presented as Good by the Mass Media; then it will invariably be the case that they also are said to be Good for the wrong reasons.
Thus, the major output of the modern international Mass Media consists of only four categories:
1. Good presented as bad
2. Bad presented as Good
(That is to say simple inversion)
3. Good presented as Good for a bad reason
4. Bad presented as bad for a bad reason
(That is to say explanatory inversion)
These four categories, which can be summarized as either simple or explanatory inversion, account for all sustained and high impact modern major Mass Media stories without any exceptions.
Therefore those who want to free their minds from the Mass Media must first avoid as much Mass Media output as possible, and secondly develop automatic negativistic behaviour towards the Mass Media output which they cannot avoid.´´

Bruce Charlton.http://addictedtodistraction.blogspot.se/

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/no-hitler-was-not-democratically-elected/19510

http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/kershaws-lesson-from-the-1930s/19516

https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/the-weekend-essay-who-are-the-heirs-of-hitler-trump-and-farage-or-soros-and-brussels/

Were it not for some of the ‘Right wing rags’ many of the most important stories wouldn’t have been broken.

https://letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2017/02/je-suis-fought-leader-je-habite-la-dans.html