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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

Your Opinions Stink

Your Opinions Stink

John of Montmirail liked to fight. He was a leading knight in battle; he jousted in peace. But then he had a religious conversion and dedicated his resources to helping the poor, including the establishment of a hospice in his castle. He once went to help a woman whose dying

First Things' Feature Essay: Resist the Machine Apocalypse

First Things' Feature Essay: Resist the Machine Apocalypse

The March 2024 issue of First Things arrived Tuesday. The feature essay: Iain McGilchrist, "Resist the Machine Apocalypse." It's great. But it's not online yet. When it is, I'll post an excerpt and a link to the full essay, but I suspect

1273: Apex of Western Civilization

1273: Apex of Western Civilization

December 6, 1273. That's the date St. Thomas Aquinas had such an intense experience or vision during Mass, that he stopped writing. For 35 years, Aquinas had used the written word to explain pretty much everything. He provided proofs of God's existence that atheists still struggle

Western Civilization Hit Its Apex During Advent 1273

Western Civilization Hit Its Apex During Advent 1273

A civilization can, indeed, advance and decline at the same time. Eric Voegelin, New Science of Politics, 132. As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Abraham Heschel, God in Search of Man Modern civilization is gnostic civilization. Gnostic civilization is left-hemispheric civilization. Gnosis: Knowledge. Specifically, explicit knowledge, the kind

The Difference between "Reason" and "Rationality"

The Difference between "Reason" and "Rationality"

Reason Greek nous Latin intellectus Reason is flexible. It resists fixed formulation. It is shaped by experience. It involves the whole living being, combining the mental and physical . . . the spiritual and material. It is the intellectual glue of sacramental existence. It is characterized by intuition. Reason is "congenial to

How to Make a Cocktail

How to Make a Cocktail

Don't Let Your Left Hemisphere Ruin Christmas

Don't Let Your Left Hemisphere Ruin Christmas

"I wouldn’t upset my plan for anything. I’d rather upset life than the plan." The Anonymous Schoizoid The left hemisphere doesn't live. It thinks. It plans: "How to do this?" "How to tackle that?" The best way to develop a

Traveling with Your Left Hemisphere

Traveling with Your Left Hemisphere

In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton describes traveling to an island paradise. The first morning, he sat on the beach, coconut trees leaning toward the sea, jungle-covered hills behind him. He then began to think about a sore throat I had developed during the flight, worry over not

Clearing Ground

Clearing Ground

Adam Smith at Front Porch Republic

Paragraph 7 of This Newman Sermon is Stunning (Plus a Thomas Sowell Kicker)

Paragraph 7 of This Newman Sermon is Stunning (Plus a Thomas Sowell Kicker)

"Sermon 13: Implicit and Explicit Reason"