For Talks at Google, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin said, “The brain is very good at self-delusion, that’s one thing it’s very good at.” (minute 6:30)

Levitin addressed the delusion of multitasking. It’s a myth, he said. The brain can’t multitask because it works sequentially. And in today’s climate of access to enormous amounts of information, the brain is vulnerable to overload.

Brain overload results in unproductive decision making.

Translating those concepts to the flood of conversations about sexual harassment and assault, brain overload results in decision making as careless as the men who use their penis to think and act.

Studies show the brain switches between two modes, task-engagement and mind-wandering.

When in task-engagement mode, we’re processing linear information undistractedly, causing brain activity in a certain region of the brain.

Alternatively, when we enter mind-wandering mode, another region in the brain lights up.

Despite my apparent self-delusion that mind-wandering looks like not paying attention, studies show that mind-wandering is the critical attentional mode that makes use of non-linear thoughts and allows our most creative acts and problem solving to occur.

When thoughts come to us, they need testing, because some thoughts aren’t useful to humanity. Silence and submission to fear aren’t useful.

Wendy Patrick, PhD, career prosecutor, author, and behavioral expert, wrote online at Psychology Today, “Feelings of confusion, guilt, shame, and divided loyalties often result in an unwillingness to report the exploitive behavior immediately after the incident, if at all.”

Let the conversations continue, however take the time to pause.

We women don’t want to subject men to the same demeaning characters of confusion, shame, and exploitation inflicted on us too often.

Women’s progress won’t come the same way it did or does for men, for the very reason we are different. We have divine Mind guiding us with progress. And women have made progress. Women are the strongest expressions of divine Love.

From 21st Century Science and Health

Abstinence from debauched sexual activity leads to an advanced state of intellectual and cultural development in human society, marked by progress in the arts, science, and religion. Without integrity, there is no social stability and the Science of Life can’t be achieved.

Quoting from science & religion to God

Spiritual growth counters the temptations to either languish in states of indolence and apathy, or jump into extremist actions. We can discover that the human mind, even bulked together with many minds, is powerless before divine Mind.

The mental qualities of dishonesty, lethargy, revenge, malice, and arrogance will not heal the sick. If they appear to, it is temporary and leaves the case worse than before.

We can spiritually discern and live by divine laws. We can outgrow false beliefs that work against progress. We can break barriers in ways that benefit humanity through an understanding of Spirit.