Sublime

The middle prefrontal region creates links among the following widely separated and differentiated neural regions: the cortex, limbic areas, and brainstem within the skull, and the internally distributed nervous system of the body proper.

The structures along the midline of the brain are devoted to your inner experience of yourself, those on the side are more concerned with your relationship with your surroundings.

“The psyche’s job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we’ll behave in any situation. We’re all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement.

brains give rise to our ability to form relationships and make life meaningful. Sometimes, they break.

there is the reality that, from any one standpoint, only a partial vision is possible. The opposition of ‘standpoints’ is a way of speaking of difference wrought by context. As Whitehead put it, ‘there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil’.29 Each truth conceals another, op

The right side develops early and is the realm of imagery, holistic thinking, nonverbal language, autobiographical memory, and a host of other processes. Our left brain develops later in life and is responsible for logic, spoken and written language, linearity, lists, and literal thinking. If the linkage between the sides is blocked, one side may d