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253 - Left Hand / Right Hand Symbolism

The Symbolic World

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The Symbolism of the Right Hand and the Left Hand

The symbolism of the right hand is, of course, the symbolism of something which is straight. The left hand is often represented as wild, as strange, as exception, as excess and crooked. And so what i'm going to propose to you is that we're looking at a kind of cross over. We're looking at at the two sides, how, depending on your point of view, they cross each other. They seem to look like their representing the opposite of what they were in the first place. It seems like it's just arbitrary, and this is not a big deal, but it's actually going to be very important understanding the relationship between myself and others. That which moves away

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