The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
The left hemisphere world is characterised by what is familiar and fully expressible in language; the right hemisphere is more open to and attentive towards whatever is ‘other’, and can be only indirectly expressed. The left hemisphere is less capable of Keats’s ‘negative capability’ – ‘being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any... See more
Iain McGilchrist • Moving on
the main point of hemisphere difference, division versus cohesion.
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
The attention is like a lens of Awareness. If our focus is narrowed or is turned away from what is clearly evident presently, then we are cast into the imaginary, shadowy realms of the mind — but only because there is belief in these concepts — it’s just a habit — a tendency.