I really appreciate your response, Sunny. It is so difficult to keep my heart open in an election year. My solution has been turn off the television for the duration, to avoid ads and most pundits, though I do watch Bill Moyers, which, I have to admit, stimulates brainstem storming. (Thanks for that term.)

Prayers are in order for our leaders of all stripes and those running for office on all levels of government.
 
In Love. It's all there is,
Jann
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/18/2012 10:00:41 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sunwalker@comcast.net writes:

Now I realize I’VE drunk some Kool-Aid. Ick. How do we purge ourselves and see truer and cleaner/clearer on both sides? No one has clean hands and even each of us harbors some unsavory stuff. I’m working on sending receiving and send love. Sometimes my reptilian brain takes over (gets into a terrible “Brainstem-storming session!).

 

By the way, research has shown this to be true: when viewing political ads, the frontal lobes do not engage. We make decisions not based on what we are seeing, but on what we have already decided. Interesting. So I wonder what good the ads are? I guess only for the truly open and UNdecided.

 

Working to be more open,

 

Sunny