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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

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

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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"

Hemisphere Video

Hemisphere Video

You don't want to read the 500-page Master and his Emissary? You don't want to read the 1,500 pages that flush it all out? Try The Divided Brain. You can rent it for $1.99. In just 80 minutes, you'll understand the Hemisphere

The Difference Between Superstition and Religion

The Difference Between Superstition and Religion

That Inscription at the Temple of Apollo Won't Go Away

That Inscription at the Temple of Apollo Won't Go Away

These Monks Were on a Search-and-Destroy Mission Against Their Left Hemispheres

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

Slay Your Orc, Then Read Your Poetry

Gothic Realism: Right Hemispheric?

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.