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The Master and His Emissary
The right hemisphere, in contrast, specialises in connection rather than categorisation. It brings us the richness of the world through being better connected to the body and the senses. Our capacity for empathy and our deepest humanity comes to us through the right hemisphere as well as our feelings of connection to nature. According to
... See moreSue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
the hemispheres are like two contrasting personalities within a single mind. The left half, she writes, ‘thrives on details, details, and more details about those details … [It] looks at a flower and names the different parts making up the whole – the petal, stem, stamen, and pollen.’ The right mind, by contrast, ‘creates a master collage of what
... See moreJeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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