RE: [ET2] Tr: LeDoux' dual pathway

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> From: maalberse [mailto:maalberse_at_w16BGWioZwg6NFsUHqTQktu4l1KdW9LujYFQ7KYv4UUJzYHRltWtRyoTey4mg0JSW_hZDPArbpOZsg_-rg.yahoo.invalid]
> Sent: 12 February 2003 15:40
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> Subject: [ET2] Tr: LeDoux' dual pathway
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> apparently this one got lost in cyberspace. So here
> goes again, slightly rewritten:
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> Dear Brian, Gabrielle and all.
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> Here's a very brief summary of LeDoux' "dual pathway"
> model. He speaks about the low road and the high road
> (the one that the cognitive therapists use).
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> Both pathways start the same:
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> Information ("energy") -> senses -> sensory thalamus.
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> >From here the "low" (and fast) road goes directly to
> the amygdala, "allowing information to reach it very
> quickly, but only with minimal processing".
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> The high road goes first to the cortex (-> more
> differentiated processing) and *then* to the amygdala.
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> The information of the "high road" can implement or
> correct the information having first reached the
> amygdala. For instance by stopping emotional dynamics
> started already by the "low road".
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> So along this model the cognitivists aren't quite
> wrong; they just are "too late"; cognitive therapy
> works to *control* emotional processes that already
> have started!
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> Does ET change the "low" road?
>
> Maarten
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That, surely, is in so many other words, Anaga's and the Yellow
Emperors learning with heart first then processing with the head
afterwards as the right road and *only* road to real knowing,
being and doing!

I would say that ET firstly redirects attention to the real road
and then helps answer that eternal question of, "But HOW do we DO
THAT???"

I got an email from some health group a few days back with 21 ways
to happiness.

Each one was along the lines of,

- Learn to forgive
- Find peace
- Let go of the past
- Open up to the universe ...
etc etc

Great. Sure. Cool. And now back to the question of "HOW????????"

I'm kinda hoping that with ET I've gone *some* way to beginning to
show a way towards new ways of answering that in a highly
practical fashion.

Cause we all know what the 101 ways to enlightenment, joy and
ecstacy are, already, don't we.

SF

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Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 08:37:11 GMT