AND WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Those who have had the opportunity to enter the world of biological laws, or even more so those who are disseminators of them, will certainly be familiar with the subject of laterality. It is a body of study that I have already touched upon in this column and have covered countless times in my YouTube channel together with Matteo Penzo. As if that were not enough, you are sure to find dozens and dozens of videos on the net with other prominent and highly educated exponents of the New Medicine explaining their rich and articulate point of view. Precisely in a recent interview with researcher Alessandro Brocculi, new elements were unveiled that add to the enormity of information that already gravitates around the topic of laterality. This is why I will dedicate this article to what is for me a fundamental component in the analysis of biological programmes, but without going into too much detail. At the end, I will also mention a series of video documents available on the net in which you can find information on the subject.
Those who have followed my column since its inception will have realised for themselves that this is not an educational space, as the topics that are addressed are only the tip of an iceberg that should be plumbed in all its majesty. As much as I try to go into specifics, the space I have available for each article is limited and in any case, what you read is always paramount to the knowledge I have acquired over time and which, of course, is still being deepened and developed.
Precisely for this reason, my work on Substack - at least at this juncture - can serve as a 'curiosity catalyst', with the subsequent aim of setting the reader in motion should he or she feel something attracting them to it, just as a magnet does with a piece of metal.
Should this movement occur, know that 'out there' there are mountains of documents, videos, testimonies and books dealing not only with the subject of laterality, but with Hamer's entire Germanic Medicine, which, to all intents and purposes, is still a science in the making.
We first came across laterality in the article introducing the archaic mesoderm.
From the second embryonic leaflet formed in onto- and phylogenetic terms, the ancestor of man begins to develop the first 'relational' conflicts. Before then, we can say that the only 'concern' could be said to arise from the possibility of procuring the nourishment to live, i.e. the 'leitmotif' of the endodermic embryonic leaflet. From here on, the position of an organ involved in biological activation will speak of the relational nature of the conflict - father, partner and peers in the dominant half, mother and children in the 'supporting' half.
Hamer argued that the 'dominant' side of the brain (right or left hemisphere), was deputed to accommodate all conflicts related to the father or partner. The 'supporting' side, on the other hand, would be the one that accommodates conflicts related to the germ line, i.e. mother and children. From a cerebral point of view, we are instead faced with a counter-lateral relationship between the brain areas and the organs that these same areas regulate. This means that, for example, the brain area of the left ovary is located in the right hemicycle of the cerebral medulla, while the area that regulates the right mammary gland is located in the left hemicycle of the cerebellum. This rule - dictated by nature - has only one exception, namely the areas that regulate the ventricles of the heart, as in the course of evolution the heart muscle has rotated on itself (see article on the myocardium for more information).
The dominant side is what determines whether an individual is right- or left-handed, and the myth that needs to be debunked immediately is that of thinking that a person is right-handed just because he or she writes with the right hand.
LEFT-HANDED
I can boast a certain knowledge on the subject due to the fact that I took an exam on left-handedness during my university studies and at the time I had never heard of Hamer, New Medicine or biological laws. I had to analyse Peter Handke's book 'The left-handed woman' (Die linkshändige Frau), a novel about a woman, Marianne, who is married to a wealthy man who, for work reasons, is never very present. The story develops around the relationship between Marianne and her son, and rereading it after almost ten years, I find all the characteristic traits of a left-handed woman: coldness, independence, practicality and determination. Moreover, left-handed women tend to be very good at looking after children. Without 'spoiling' the theme of the book too much, I will only add another small but important detail: when her husband comes home and dedicates a wonderful declaration of love to her, the woman's reaction is anything but predictable. I will go no further to avoid the risk of cutting off your curiosity.
The fact that even years before I started my biology course in Daleth I had already dealt with the subject of laterality in such a precise way is again proof of how everything happens according to logics that are programmed. By the way, I have always been a big fan of the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. I could even say that he was the reason for my intense and lasting passion for the electric guitar. Jimi was a left-handed guitarist and is considered one of the best guitarists of all time, perhaps the most iconic in the world of American rock-blues. An innovative, extremely introspective and brilliant artist. A musician who was able to make the instrument express a true personality. Until 1967, when the first album 'Are you Experienced' was released, no one had ever heard sounds like that. Distortion, fuzz, Larsen effects. Not to mention the famous performance in Monterey where Jimi sets fire to his Stratocaster. From a visual point of view, Hendrix's left-handedness was clearly visible even to a 'layman', as he played the guitar 'backwards'. Since the big guitar manufacturers - in this case Fender - did not conceive of the possibility that a left-handed person could play the guitar, Jimi had to adapt as best he could. He therefore took a 'standard' guitar and mounted the strings backwards. As a guitarist, I can assure you that playing the guitar the way he played it is really complicated, because the potentiometers and the vibrato lever, as in the case of the Fender Stratocaster, become to all intents and purposes obstacles for a correct execution of the songs. In fact, this problem is also present in other operations that left-handers perform on a daily basis.
Just think about writing. A left-handed person has to write while holding his hand slightly tilted upwards, otherwise he risks 'running over' the ink and making it illegible. For this and many other reasons, left-handers have always been seen as 'different' throughout history and consequently left-handedness has been perceived as a kind of 'anomaly'. Contrasting' left-handers are all those left-handers who, for social or 'educational' reasons, have been forced to use their right hand to write or to perform basic tasks.
Also in the field of music, there are many left-handed musicians who have learnt to play instruments as 'right-handers'. Mark Knopfler, singer and guitarist of Dire Straits, is a left-hander who plays the guitar as a right-hander. In one of the first bands I had in my youth, my drummer was left-handed, yet he found himself playing drums as a right-hander. To make the psychological experience better, I can assure you that I first of all perceive a certain disharmony in seeing a guitarist playing left-handed guitar or even more so a drummer playing with all the drum parts backwards.
It is therefore difficult to see where the boundary lies between the perception of something 'abnormal' and the fact that practical expressions of left-handedness in everyday life are to all intents and purposes very rare. It is a classic example of confusion between cause and effect.
Left-handed people would therefore turn out to be many more than we think. This is due to the fact that when we see a person write with his right hand, we automatically exclude his dominance in the left hemisphere. For example, I write with my right hand. When I played football, I mainly used my right foot and the eye that sees best is always the right one. However, when I clap my hands I keep my left hand on top of my right hand. The same when I cross my arms. The first step in front of a staircase is the right one, which means that the leading leg is the left one. When I use the knife to eat, I grip it with my left hand. The same goes for the glass when I have to drink. I always use my left hand. What does all this mean?
The hand with which we write is not the only indicator of the laterality of the body. It is simply one of many aspects with which to analyse whether an individual is right- or left-handed.
From this assumption arises the famous question: why would a left-handed person write with the right hand or more generally perform operations mainly with the right side of the body? One of the reasons I have already listed: social reasons. Think that for some superstitions of religious origin, the left hand has long been considered 'the hand of the devil', while the right hand 'the hand of blessing'. In countries that have developed a lot of religious thinking, such as the Christian, Islamic or Muslim ones, this assumption took hold very quickly, right up to the 1970s, when children were still being 'forced' to use their right hand to write, creating who knows how many biological conflicts. However, even in this case, we are not faced with a single motivation. Left-handed people, in fact, might tend to lean to the right to weigh the lack of a dominant, directional presence such as that of the father, who biologically is represented by the left side of the body - the dominant side. If the main actor on one side of the body is missing, it makes biological sense to look for him on the opposite side. This would explain why many left-handers use the right side of the body for tasks such as writing, holding a spoon, playing an instrument etc. Some might ask why the opposite is not the case, i.e. that the lack of a directional figure can lead a right-handed person to use the left side of the body. The answer is simple: a right-handed person does not need a guide, but we will understand this better in the next paragraph.
AM I RIGHT-HANDED OR LEFT-HANDED?
I could devote dozens of examples to the above, but I find myself forced to veer 'brutally' in another direction. When a person asks me whether they are right- or left-handed, apart from the numerous physical tests that are proposed by many popularisers, my answer is always the same:
I would like to know if there are any events in your daily life that put you or have put you in particular difficulty. For each one, I would like to understand what your emotional reaction was (in the case of past events) or is (anger, fear, desire to escape, defence, etc. etc.).
The way in which an individual relates to everyday events, from my point of view, is the most accurate indicator of a person's laterality.
For the above reasons, any physical test could be misinterpreted, so there is nothing better than to check how a person's character manifests itself when faced with different situations. Sometimes it is interesting to carry out these analyses in groups, so that certain common 'behavioural' patterns can emerge. It is obvious that the way in which each individual manifests his or her emotions will have its own peculiar nuances, but we can 'catalogue' certain aspects that underlie belonging to a certain cerebral hemisphere.
Think, for example, of how you behave in the working environment in relation to the role you hold. Pay the utmost attention to what you do based on the purpose you have in this particular situation and not on what you already think you are. You must always start from a condition of absolute neutrality, otherwise the analysis will be distorted and misleading, as unfortunately often happens. Let us help with an example:
An administrative employee whose role is to draw up the first note has a manager who gives him orders all the time and tends to reprimand him for everything he does, regardless of whether the work has been done properly or not. If the employee tends to be unreactive and take things 'philosophically', I could make the assumption that he is a left-hander.
At that point, I would naturally ask him a further question, namely: 'if you had the chance, would you take revenge? Perhaps by putting a bad word on him or by creating some sort of 'team' within the office that could put him in a difficult position by being in a numerical majority at that point? If the answer is 'yes', this would corroborate my left-handedness hypothesis, as one of the peculiarities of the left-handed person is precisely that of creating strategies to 'outflank' the opponent and catch him by surprise. Clearly, the analysis should not stop at these questions, but should continue deeper and deeper until enough elements are collected to be able to make a concrete judgement.
I specified at the beginning of the paragraph to always refer to the role one plays within a context. It tends to be the case that a right-handed man would find it very difficult to fill a role like that of our administrative employee. This is due to the fact that a man working under the influence of testosterone hardly seeks 'submissive' roles.
The right-handed man does not look for someone to tell him what to do, as a left-handed man would tend to do. This does not mean that a right-handed man cannot be a clerk! That is why one must be very, very careful when analysing laterality, otherwise one runs the risk of making wrong deductions. It is the questions that lead to unhinging what is concealed, not the assumptions and postulates that the investigator on duty takes for granted that he knows.
This seems of little importance, but it is actually what makes the difference. Research, investigation, questioning. Fundamental elements to achieve the millimetric precision to which biological laws have accustomed us. Understanding the laws of life and the mechanics by which these are enacted by nature cannot do without these investigative procedures.
In contrast to the above example, it is not the case that a left-handed person cannot hold leadership positions within an organisation. However, according to Hamer's realisation, a left-handed person tends to need leadership and therefore cannot be one himself.
However, there are situations in life when a decision needs to be made. Let us help with an example:
A left-handed man has just split up with his wife, who is also left-handed. Together they bought a house and were supposed to sign the deed the next day. The left-handed man is left without any reference points because, in such a situation, in the past it was always the left-handed partner who made the important decisions, left-handed women being biologically more decisive and resolute. The left-handed person finds himself forced to make a decision: sign or screw up. In this case, he must shift to the opposite hemisphere and move under the influence of testosterone, a hormone that will make him more precise, practical and inclined to make a final decision.
Seen from this point of view, laterality becomes a way of observing the dynamics of man's survival within society. In a context as hectic as western society, from a hormonal point of view, each individual is stressed daily like the ball inside a pinball machine. Unless he is extremely centred and present, Western man must constantly move from one hemisphere to the other to relate to life events. However, there is a well-defined biological laterality and nature dictates that this must be respected.
This is why, as Matteo Penzo says, nature makes one pay a 'fine' if a left-handed person remains in the opposite hemisphere for too long or vice versa for a right-handed person. It is as if the natural system 'allows' this as man must be able to adapt to the changes taking place in his environment. However, as far as nature is concerned, these are temporary situations - not definitive - and if they should continue beyond what are the limits defined by nature itself, programmes are activated with the aim of making the subject realise that he is no longer in a hormonal context that is 'congenial' to him, altering what are the normal biological processes for which he was configured.
This is why a right-handed woman - thus under the dominance of the left hemisphere where the production of oestrogens is regulated - has to take her place when the man passes away. In this case the woman is a man and will lose 'oestrus', becoming more masculine, to the detriment of her femininity. A left-handed woman is configured to take the right-handed woman's place when the process just described happens, so she will move from the right to the left hemisphere 'gaining' flair and further increasing her femininity and capacity for seduction with which, by nature, she is already perfectly endowed. Nature has already foreseen everything: if there is a shortage of women configured to continue the species (right-handed), here come to the rescue the 'reserve' women, i.e. the left-handed.
SOME ADVICE
As to how the subject can be adapted according to its laterality, there are many points of view within the environment of the new medicine. That is why I emphasise that it is a complex and constantly evolving science, where nothing can be taken for granted and where everything is slavishly defined by the experience of the individual.
I will keep repeating it to the point of exhaustion: never take anything for granted! Every aspect of laterality must be investigated scientifically and this can only be done by questioning the subject. Experience speaks about laterality, not the other way around!!!
I must also make a further clarification for all those who are about to enter the world of the five biological laws, as you will certainly hear about the subject of laterality. As I described in the previous article on Clan Sense, when I enrolled in the biology course I did not know what I was doing. However, I can assure you that I never felt alone in this respect. I do not wish to presume to speak on behalf of others, but it is plausible to think that people who approach this type of course are aware that they have a few pebbles in their shoe that they feel they must remove. Some arrive already very 'centred' or fresh from further bodies of study they have just undertaken. These are people who are aware of the fact that they are on a path to which they need to devote time and full attention. Others, like me, are more bewildered, with undefined goals and the feeling that something is missing in their lives.
It is precisely to these that I turn, as I believe I am an ambassador in my own right. In a situation of great destabilisation, it is easy to look for an anchor outside ourselves. It can be a guide, a book or even a simple label. Being right-handed or left-handed can unfortunately become a fictitious response to that emptiness that many of you feel or will feel. This is not wrong in itself, as discovering hormonal dominance is one of the steps I believe to be fundamental in the search for who we are, however it should not be mistaken for an end point. I have heard many people express themselves with phrases such as 'you have to put up with me because I am left-handed' or 'I am right-handed, I will never be able to run a business!' There is nothing more misleading!
Lateralism is not a badge to hang on your shirt, nor is it an excuse for not adapting to particular situations in life that we perceive as 'uncomfortable'. It is one of the many pieces that make up the individual consciousness and in no way represents a point of arrival in absolute terms.
To conclude, as I promised you at the beginning of the article, I am providing some video documents in which you will find fundamental information for understanding laterality. Everything you will hear or read in these documents should be experienced personally and should not be taken for granted. The moment you are told that a left-handed woman tends to be more attractive, it does not mean that right-handed women are not! Therefore, if you have a colleague who is very beautiful, who wears impeccable make-up and has big full lips, there is no arithmetical certainty that she is a lefty. The survey, once again, is the only tool that is always available - and above all free of charge - to verify the scientific nature of biological laws.