Mark Bower's post about callosum and lateralized processes

[Gilles Bronchti]

In article <Pine.3.05.9312161026.C8578-b100000 at cosy.ab.umd.edu> sdaviss at COSY.AB.UMD.EDU (Steven Roy Daviss) writes:
>From: sdaviss at COSY.AB.UMD.EDU (Steven Roy Daviss)
>Subject: Re: Mark Bower's post about callosum and lateralized processes
>Date: 16 Dec 1993 07:41:20 -0800

>I can think of maybe 10 or 12 patients who have clearly expressed the idea
>that they have God and the Devil within them, and that God is on one side
>(or controls one side) and the Devil is on the other.  In *every* case, I
>have found that they report God as being on the RIGHT side and the Devil
>as being on the LEFT.  

>I don't know what to make of it, but it certainly lends credit to the
>notion of left being 'sinister'.

The contrary is much more certain! The notion that left is bad and right is 
good leads the patients you wrote about to believe that God is on the right 
side, and the Devil on the left. Are they thinking that God controls their 
left hand? This concept that right is good and left is bad is responsible for 
all the troubles we, right handed people, did to the left handed people. Even 
pseudo-scientific sects as Tomatis' founded their theory on that. 
Gilles Bronchti