men are more sensible than women

[Andrea Innes-Michailov]

Hello Mr. Sanchez,

I had forgotten about the corpus callosum.  Years ago I used to talk about
that.  It is interesting to know that when we are born the corpus callosum
(sp?) is more open and the communication between the right side and the left
is more active.  This is apparently for learning purposes as all we do is
learn learn learn when we are children.  If I recall properly the larger
corpus callosum in women has one down side and that is indecisiveness.
Because we filter information in both halves of the brain we tend to take
longer to make decisions.  I recall sitting in MacDonalds with my father
explaining the theory of the corpus callosum: while I was talking a homeless
man approached and asked if he could have some of my coffee.  I remember
feeling confused about what I should do, part of me wanted to give him the
coffee, afterall I did not really need it and I could buy more.  On the
other hand society frowned upon homelessness and I felt pressure not to
"encourage" it.  While I was tossing my thoughts back and forth my father
took my coffee cup and gave it to the man.

I said, "see daddy, you made a decision while I was still weighing the
different sides."

My father replied, "It was easier for me because it was not my coffee."
Funny guy...

But anyway, I am most intrigued by your arrival in Trujillo.  I have often
thought that past lives may or may not be real but that their message must
still be heeded.  I myself had a past life experience in Spain, in the
memory I stood on a beach where great boulders led out to a rough sea.  In
real life I burst into tears and began to sob as I sat in the chair in the
hypnotist's office and simultaneously was standing on a beach.  I remember
my current self could not quite understand what I was crying about but my
former self was quite clear about why.  My husband, now and then, appeared
next to me in a frilly shirt (thank you Seinfeld)and was off to secure his
fortune on a ship.  I was being abandoned.

Now that I think of it, I have always assumed I was in northern Spain
because of the rocky beach and the rough sea.  Just now I realize I never
had any reason to "know" that and still don't know why I assumed it was
northern Spain.  It will be interesting to see if I have my own re-birth of
sorts along El Camino.  It is also interesting that I really had not given
that past life much thought until now.  El Camino is something I want to do
to reintegrate parts of myself I feel I have lost in THIS life.  Funny that
Shirley Maclaine has brought up the possibility of more.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Andrea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Felipe Sanchez
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 2:34 PM
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: Re: men are more sensible than women
>
>
> By way of clarification I admit to having a small collection of
> works--titles provided if requested--that scientifically demonstrate that
> women in general are superior to men in every way except physical
> strength.
> One example:  at my age of almost 67, the corpus callosum of my feminine
> peer is 20% larger than mine which has shrunk along genetically
> predetermined schedules.  At least such would be the case if I were the
> representative male.  This provides her with more and better coordination
> between the hemispheres of the brain.  But for some reason I tend
> to have a
> more female psyche than those of male acquaintances (my friends
> are female):
> intuition, emotion, cooperation rather than competition, language
> facility.
> Even so I am still affronted by SM that ambulant purveyor of prevarication
> and deceit.  As a male I can create verbal magic--"What is a day but a
> thought, a mood, a motion and gone?"-and still be objectively rational
> without being classified as hyper-critical, a well-spring of hate, and
> devoid of enlightenment.  Nor do I sense that the proper function of an
> intelligence is to accept without question each and every chimera solely
> based on whimsical appeal.  In my search for truth in the real world I ask
> myself if I would be comfortable with a physician or an airline pilot who
> complied with the demands of their professions while accepting
> and utilizing
> the same epistemological protocols as SM.  Now, before you respond I feel
> impelled to tell you that I, who wrote the above, experienced "deja vu" so
> strongly upon entering Trujillo, Extremadura that I aver to
> having been born
> in the 15th Century--emotionally.  In truth I am a product of
> Southern Ohio
> in 1935.  Please note that my Trujillo birth is pure affect and I do not
> propound it as doctrine but only as any interesting cusp along the way to
> oblivion.  I cannot justify extrapolating "deja vu" into airy, imaginative
> belief-castles that I pass off as reality.  I like to think that my
> attitudes evince mental integrity and this, obviously, is of great
> importance to me.  Felipe Sanchez
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrea Innes-Michailov" <andreaaCORP.IDT.NET>
> To: <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:36 AM
> Subject: men are more sensible than women
>
>
> > Hello Anthony,
> >
> > Of course there was no way NOT to respond to this one.
> > I would say men are more earthbound, more here and now.  Women
> have strong
> > intuitions and other wordly awareness.  Women also have a stronger sense
> of
> > smell and hearing then men.  We are, after all, the new and
> improved model
> > taken from the rib...
> > Andrea
> >
> >
> > riginal Message-----
> > From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage
[mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On Behalf
Of
> Anthony Dyson
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 11:50 PM
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: Re: Shirley Maclaine's book-And a question
>
>
>
>   Leonie Galil wrote:
>
>     Isn't it amazing that by and large women like and understand Shirley
> MacLaine whereas men are critical of her and sometimes express almost
hatred
> for her? Doesn't that tell you anything?
>     L
>   Yes, it tells me that men are more sensible than women. :)-
>