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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
That Inscription at the Temple of Apollo Won't Go Away
Pretty much everyone agrees we need self-knowledge. The problem is, our left hemispheres hinder it and we are a culture of left-hemispheric presumptions.
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
Language is where our brains hit the world. We need to cultivate it in a right-hemispheric way.