II. Right And Left Have Meaning in Nature
2007 February 11 Truman Keesey
Some people try to tell you that the meaning of right and left changes, according to the way one is accustomed
to writing. So that if one writes in Hebrew from right to left, then the left side is the future.
That is not so, the right side represents the future, and those who write to the left are moving toward
the past.
Breathing through the right nosterille heatens you and breathing through the left one coolens you.
This will not change if you change the direction of your handwriting.
A person gazes to the right, makes hand movements to the right, they are pleased with what you said to them.
Left is the opposite. This stays the same no matter which way you write.
Eating or drinking with the right hand causes positive thoughts from the energy of the hand entering the
food. Eating or drinking from the left hand negative thoughts. This does not change when you change the direction
of your handwriting.
Therefore we can make constant rules about what means the directions on a page or canvas of art.
If the figure faces to the right, they are developing, if to the left, they are regressing.
There is a modification in this, if you create a rotary figure, such as a Jungian mandala, the top faces
to the right and the bottom to the left because it is rotating in a clockwise direction. This is perceived by the core
perceiver as a movement to the right.
III. Handwriting Analysis Interprets Symbolism in Art
2007 February 11 Truman Keesey
Handwriting analysis divides writing into 3 zones, measured from the baseline. The middle zone is
the one occupied by the letters that have no vertical stems, nor loops or lines beneath them.
The upper zone is occupied by the stems that rise from the taller letters.
The lower zone is occupied by the loops, or the lines that are below the baseline.
These 3 zones symbolize the 3 brains of the body of mankind. The upper zone is the head and neck,
with the brain, and in handwriting it symbolizes intellect and mental activity, as well as idealism.
The middle zone is the area from the diaphragm to the neck, having the heart as its brain. In handwriting
analysis this symbolizes feelings. It also represents your space, your abode, or the space around you wherever you are
in a social situation.
The lower zone is from the coccyx to the diaphragm, with the liver as its brain. It is unconscious
and instinctive, and in handwriting analysis the symbolism is the same. In handwriting it also symbolizes how you behave.
In a painting or drawing, let's say a composition, the horizon represents the top of the middle zone, and
the sky is the upper zone. The lower zone would be beneath the earth or beneath the surface of a body of water.
However, every figure in the composition also has its 3 zones.
In a picture of a room, the floor would be the baseline, the top of the wainscot or the table-top would
be the top of the baseline. The lower zone would be in the basement, out of sight.
If you have a picture with a horizon, but no lake or river in the foreground, and no underground view, then
this is typical of most pictures. You don't see above ground and underground at the same time. The lower zone
is not depicted here. This would be the same as if the handwriting had a weak lower zone.
If you are looking into a cave, you are getting a peep at what is near to the surface of the lower zone,
but not the whole picture.
If there is a lake or river in the foreground, any fish or other creature in the water is in the lower zone.
This is probably true even if the water is anywhere else on the page, even if it is bordered by the horizon.
So you could have a lower zone in the middle of a page, with the middle zone surrounding it. I guess.
That is the way it appears to me. But the interpretation would be different. In a sense you are saying that the
instinctive, reflexive processes are close to the intellect, and that the intellect may be more aware of them, than would
be the case if the body of water were at the bottom of the page.
Yet you can portray the lower zone by making some kind of division that sets off the lower part of the composition,
in the same way that the horizon sets off the sky. Then whatever is below that, is the lower zone.
Jung does not disagree with Christianity.
He said the same things using different language.
True art is not individual self-expression. It is medicine made for others. Yes it is expression of the true
self.
There can be temporary art, made just for one person to see one moment when that person needs to see that particular
symbol at that time.
