Eric Scheske

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The Hemisphere Hypothesis

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

Knowledge Through Experience is Still Knowledge

Knowledge Through Experience is Still Knowledge

Nassim Taleb's Assault on the Left Hemisphere's Pretensions: Samples

Nassim Taleb's Assault on the Left Hemisphere's Pretensions: Samples

Black Magic and Scientism

Black Magic and Scientism

Magic has fascinated me since I learned that the high watermark of magic was the Renaissance. The cutting-edge Renaissance thinkers were magicians. Magic and science were intertwined, its practitioners flitting between the two practices (arts) in their attempt to understand and, ultimately, control/manipulate the world, unaware that they are

Why Gardening Matters

Why Gardening Matters

Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813): Left-Hemispheric

Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813): Left-Hemispheric

McGilchrist writes about the left hemisphere's love for abstraction. Because it is the hemisphere of action ("it's tasked with tasks," is my (oh-so-clever) way of putting it), it prefers abstract ideas that give it guideposts for action. It keeps things simple, which makes things

Hemispheres in the Garden

Hemispheres in the Garden

The left hemisphere plans, incidentally. The right hemisphere flows. Carol Deppe draws an autobiographical distinction in The Tao of Vegetable Gardening between "Planning Carol" and "Doing Carol." PC lays out elaborate plans that DC later disregards as she gardens. I can relate . . . big-time. Deppe's

Google and the Hemispheres

Google and the Hemispheres

The Industrial Revolution had been churning for a hundred years. Results were impressive. Standards of living were climbing. Sure, urban slums were miserable, but many historians believe they beat the squalor in rural villages. But industrialization was messy and not just from a pollution standpoint. Labor itself was messy. There

The Cell Phone is a Monkey Trap for the Left Hemisphere

The Cell Phone is a Monkey Trap for the Left Hemisphere

The Left Hemisphere Thwarts Focus: On Art Appreciation

The Left Hemisphere Thwarts Focus: On Art Appreciation

Attention, attention, attention. Everyone is starved for it . . . their own, not others. People want to be able to focus again. Madison Avenue purposefully kills it: The legal scholar Tim Wu, in his book “The Attention Merchants,” notes, “Without express consent, most of us have passively opened ourselves up to the