Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00314)

Hi Steve,

I am right handed. The effects you talk about are only relevant 
statistically - that means the underlying facts are far more nuanced. 
Which would explain the facts you also talk about which counteract 
your theory. This stuff is hardly conclusive yet. Many facts are 
missing. 

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "stevestubbs" <stevestubbs@y...> 
wrote:
> --- 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.