Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

That's so good to see you all. And today I have a topic that's really dear to my heart.

It's very woo-woo, but it's very science-based. And you know I love nothing better than science-y-woo-woo-woo.

And I'm not messing around.

Like I read the science.

I go there.

So I've called this finding second site.

I could have called it using second site.

And it concerns something that I've been muddling about in my head, you guys, for decades.

And that is the way of seeing.

See, I was a kid who drew.

I was one of those kids who draws a lot and I just never stopped.

It was kind of my sanctuary.

Now that I know Jill Malti Taylor,

I know I was moving my attention all into the right hemisphere

of my brain, which is where you feel curious but not fearful,

and you feel the presence of some almighty loving force.

So who would not do that?

So I just drew and drew and drew about 10 hours a day as a kid.

And there was something that happened when I'd go to a certain place and I could feel the shift in my head.

And I called it when I was little, little, like three or four, I called it turning on my eyes.

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