How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future : Why Left Hemisphere Dominance Has Brought Humanity to the Brink of Disaster and How We Can Think Our Way to Peace and Healing

Olson, James

ISBN 10: 157983051X / ISBN 13: 9781579830519

Published by Origin Press, 2017

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• Title: How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future : Why Left Hemisphere Dominance Has Brought Humanity to the Brink of Disaster and How We Can Think Our Way to Peace and Healing
• Publisher: Origin Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157983051X
• ISBN 13: 9781579830519
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.5 pounds

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Synopsis

When facing a tough dilemma, the wise person tackles the whole problem. They don’t just focus on one part and ignore the rest. That’s a matter of common sense, but such holistic thinking rarely occurs in our most consequential organizations. Although women are catching up in the corridors of power, most people in charge today are highly specialized males whose perception is too often myopic. For example, while they may focus well on the immediate symptoms of a problem, they often miss deeper causes, wider effects, and longer-term consequences. Such people, some of whom are also women, are “left-brain dominant” thinkers who tend to miss the forest for the trees. Sadly, these left-brain dominants fail to use all the mental faculties available to them—in particular the holistic and intuitive perceptions provided by their right brain. And this is why our future is now in great peril.

In this multiple award-winning book, James Olson carefully explores these issues and shows us how to minimize conflict by gaining creative control over our two modes of perception. He goes on to describe the left-brain bias in our civilization, revealing it to be the root cause for centuries of war, racism, sexism, exploitation, and hyper-polarization. Left-brain dominance also explains eons of misunderstanding between the sexes and our inability to understand LGBTQ variants—of which there are as many as 32 fluid variations, as Olson shows. While most of our technological and scientific progress is driven by left-brain thinking, the great advances to come, especially in ethics, politics, the arts, and religion, will require that we consciously harness both sides of our brain to greatly improve our thinking so we can more often reach agreement. Independent scholar Olson concludes by explaining how we can achieve greater internal coordination between these two “operating systems,” thus showing us how and why thinking with our whole brains will lead us to peace, justice, prosperity, and to the ultimate healing of our relationships and our world.

About the Author

James Olson is an integral philosopher whose studies haveincluded business, engineering, art, Eastern and Western religion,psychology, sacred geometry, human sexual orientation, and neuroscienceas relating to the study of the effects of brain dominance in our lives.

How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future is Olson's second book, which expanded upon his award-winning first book, The Whole-Brain Path to Peace (2011). Olson's ultimate goal for writing about brain perspectives is to promote the holistic thinking.

In the How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future, Olson demonstrates that we have the freedom to adjust ourperceptions--and harmonize our relationships--by shifting our brainperspectives at will, as each occasion demands.

His motivationfor writing this book was to address what he believes is the mostcritical issue of our time, which goes far beyond the narrow concerns of any science: how we can create an environment of peace in ourselves and in the world--an environment that enhances and enables our best andmost creative attributes--in this time of unprecedented global dangersand insanity.

Born and raised in Oklahoma, Olson starts with acore of conservative farm and Christian values, and into that integrates the complementary perspective of Eastern religion, the liberalperspective of Europe, the wisdom of ancient Egypt, the facts ofscience, the discipline of business, and the unique spiritual insightsoffered by modern revelation.

Having traveled extensivelythroughout Europe; Olson lived in Austria, France, and Germany; andattended Oklahoma State University, the University of Vienna, OklahomaUniversity, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and the KansasCity Art Institute. He holds a degree in business administration.

After living for several years in California, James Olson returned to his hometown and now resides in Oklahoma.