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The Hemisphere Hypothesis
Iain McGilchrist explains how our left hemispheres have gone rogue. The left hemisphere is meant to serve the right hemisphere, but it has usurped its master's position. This usurpation is the essence of modernity. It cripples society and each one of us individually because it disconnects people from full reality: only the right hemisphere connects to the Tao and the full spectrum of reality that it leads to.
"[T]he god who got things done bore the name of Moloch." GKC
Gothic Realism: Right Hemispheric?
The macabre might, in part, be a rejection of the Enlightenment and yet another route to re-energize the right hemisphere and its embrace of the trans-rational, much as the occult is a rejection of rationalism and its left hemispheric overlord.
The Gothic genre is particularly suited to depicting
Nassim Taleb Tore into the Left Hemisphere Before The Master and His Emissary
Can the Right Hemisphere Atrophy?
Darwin thought so
The Gnostic: A Person Controlled by His Left Hemisphere, Plus a Cause
Merely being controlled by the left hemisphere doesn't make a person a gnostic. He also needs a cause.
Three Ways to War Poetically
Language is where our brains hit the world. We need to cultivate it in a right-hemispheric way.
The Hemisphere Hypothesis Changes Everything
And since "everything" is dictated by modernity's rationalist and gnostic presumptions and conclusions, it's a good thing
Off the Grid Since 1693
I live around the Amish. I invited a few to my daughter's wedding last month. I'm currently working on a set of contracts for my largest Amish client. I live within bicycling distance of Shipshewana, which, last I knew, is Indiana's largest tourist destination.
Trying to Figure Out How We Got Into These Rationalist Cocoons
And the cocoons' severe limitations
Leisure is Counter-Conduct
In the modern world of "total work" demanded by the left hemisphere, we need to carve out leisure. It's helpful to understand what "leisure" is.