divided brain
It would be crazy to suppose that our brains were so perfectly constructed that they could understand and make us aware of everything in the universe.
from The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning by Iain McGilchrist
divided brain
"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back (without mirrors).“
Robert Anton Wilson • Prometheus Rising
McGilchrist brings up again and again that the right hemisphere is more deeply connected with the body than the left one, and that it specializes in broad, open awareness — so our obvious choices are open awareness meditation and somatic meditation .
The go-to options for learning about these are:
The go-to options for learning about these are:
- Reggie Ray
- Loch Kelly
- Judith Blackstone
- My Somatic
River Kenna • Solving McGilchrist's Big Problem
Where the left hemisphere sees things in isolation, the right hemisphere sees processes that are relational. Indeed its disposition towards the world helps us see that relations are, as I argue, prior to relata . It sees relations in which both parties are inevitably changed. It is alert to what I call ‘betweenness’, the importance of context,... See more
Iain McGilchrist • Moving on
RSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain
youtube.comFor active imagination to work, you have to dim the analytical mind, and you have to request it / prime it / coax it.
The right hemisphere, the so-called minor hemisphere, is in fact the one that knows, and more importantly the one that understands, more.
Iain McGilchrist • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
It sees that our understanding has to be participatory , and that the soul and body are not opposed but discernibly different aspects of one reality. It is better at holding together apparently conflicting positions – whereas according to the left hemisphere, nothing can be separate and connected, precisely measurable and intrinsically imprecise,... See more
Iain McGilchrist • Moving on
More than that, physics teaches us that, at the most fundamental level of existence, there simply are no discrete pieces of inert matter. Instead there are clusters of interrelated probabilistic events that change their nature when observed. In the words of the great physicist Richard Feynman, quantum mechanics deals with ‘nature as she is –
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