Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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It's hitting the medial portion of your retina and crossing into your right hemisphere.
So what you're doing right now is you're sending light energy photons into the right hemisphere and it is pushing through.
And now this is an easy, easy way for people to control and choose how they want to be between their two hemispheres and really get to know, oh,
But if you look at the anatomy, if you look at the anatomy, this is where light is coming in on the, you can't really see it on here, but that's going to be information from your eyeballs, which would be sitting right here, right there.
Right.
This is fibers.
You're wired for this.
This is how you are wired.
That's why everything about you.
This isn't about a placebo having a behavioral impact.
This is about the anatomy of the brain.
Oh, absolutely.
In fact, they just did a brand new one at Harvard and showed it on fMRI.
Yeah.
Well, even more than that, they're manipulating the light source in different kinds of ways.
I'm not involved with that work, but I know that Marty Teicher at Harvard as well as Frederick Schiffer.
Now, Frederick Schiffer is a psychiatrist who has been doing psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for his whole career.
And he would use these types of glasses with his psychiatric patients and would show the patient that there is a part of them that is less well and one side that is more ill.
And so he would use the relationship between these two different characters, these two different personalities, to find more peace and healing.
Right.