Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friend Dr Kurt Thompson and my friend Pepper Sweeney.

We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.

On today's podcast, we're going to be talking about the horizontal domain.

As you know in this season two of the being known podcast, we were talking about the nine domains of integration.

We spoke about consciousness the first week.

We spoke about the vertical domain, or actually the first week we talked about integration in general.

So go back and listen to that one if you haven't,

because that'll be very helpful.

Then we spoke about consciousness and the vertical domain.

So those are there for you all to go back and listen to if you haven't already and today we were

talking about the horizontal domain. Kurt when I think about sort of this left

brain right brain thing you know the first thing that comes to mind is, do you remember those MAC commercials from like the 2000, early 2000s, maybe 19, maybe the late 90s where it was two guys in a white room and one guys like a cool you know hip kind of guy

he's standing there and the other guys a complete computer nerd with his pocket projection ring.

He's like, you know, the cool guy's like,

I'm Mac, the other guys have, you know, I'm PC, right?

And so I kind of had this feeling of, you know, the right brain is this sort of, you know,

Mac kind of thing, right?

And the left brain is more of a PC.

And then you see these illustrations everywhere where the right brain is just got colors shooting out in every direction and the left brain is like a piece of concrete.

It's like just gray. You know, so let's talk about, you know, as we start today, let's talk about the differences between the right and left brain and maybe how they're similar.

Yeah. Well, I think, Pep, one of the things that is a pretty common misconception is that the right and the left

brain are so starkly different. And we think that the right brain does only certain things

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