Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00296)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Katinka Hesselink" <mail@k...> 
wrote:
> So that if I am fascinated 
> with numbers and mathematics, even if I am not very good at it, but 
I 
> keep observing, explaining people what I do understand, reading, 
> studying, practicing - then all that effort and energy will lead to 
> my 'gaining' a brain in a next life which is very good at 
> mathematics. 

According to theosophy the linga sarira, which is as it were the 
prototype for a developing fetus before birth, is affected by 
thoughts. This is Blavatsky's explanation of "mother's marks." The 
theory seems to be backed up by empirical evidence since mother's 
marks are a reality. If the notion of the pre-existence of the soul 
is also true, then it makes sense that the thoughts of the pre-
exisrting to-be-incarnated soul could also affect the linga sarira 
and through that the development of the infant body.

Anyway, something that you might find amusing is that I would guess 
you are left handed. A few years ago someone did some research on 
this as a part of the brain hemisphere dominance theory. Women 
tpically refuse to study mathematics, so the researcher took a survey 
of women engineering students to see if left-handedness was 
significantly more common among that group than in the general 
population. She did in fact find the expected effect (don't remember 
the statistics) and checked the history books to see if the Countess 
of Lovelace was left handed. As a mathematician I assume you know 
she was Lord Byron's daughter and practically the only female 
mathematician to achieve major league standing in that community. I 
have no idea how they found this information, but she was in fact 
left handed.

Since the left hand is controlled by the right brain hemisphere, I 
have no idea why people whose left brain is dominant would also be 
left handed. It must work that way, though, because I am left handed.