These Monks Were on a Search-and-Destroy Mission Against Their Left Hemispheres
It's hard to admit this, but here goes:
Back in my twenties, I decided I wanted to be a mystic.
Such a thing is absurd: The goal is foiled by the goal. You might as well decide you want to be a poor man with money (one of
Slay Your Orc, Then Read Your Poetry
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 these elements.
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
Left Hemisphere v. Right Hemisphere. Specific Differences in a Two-Column Format
The Hemisphere Hypothesis Changes Everything
And since "everything" is dictated by modernity's rationalist and gnostic presumptions and conclusions, it's a good thing