Left-brain mode is the hard one to get out of, and the easy one to fall into. In fact it isn't so much falling, it's more that it takes you over, dominates your mind. It does tend toward tyranny and always thinks it's right, whatever the evidence...
A couple of other factors that can plunge a person into left-brain black-and-white mode are trauma and an argument. At my best, even in a debate, I can remain open-minded and embrace ambiguity rather than reduce everything to two possibilities...
I said at a couple of points above that the right hemisphere is the home of religion and spirituality. That needs to be examined because, like every other part of this, it isn't as simple as it seems. I should say that the core of religion and...
Unified right-brain awareness is really what religion and spirituality have always been about, but of course the materialist and literalist left brain wants to reduce it to something simple and trivial so it can dominate again. That's always its...
And of course many people (men and women both) sometimes see things in the nuanced right-brain way to a large degree, but when their thinking slips into an ideology or a stereotype it becomes rigidly single-track. I believe we're constantly...
I would also say the more a woman becomes today's model of the strong independent feminist, the more she slides toward the masculine (left brain). And the ones known as feminazis are completely trapped in left-brain single-mindedness, aka...
Lol—well, I got back to watching the video last night, right around the 40 minute mark, made a notation I was going to post here, and fell asleep for something like an hour. I woke up in time to catch the end, and it was fascinating. This is some...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IDBoBsmfgi4?feature=share
Well, unfortunately it isn't possible to post Youtube Shorts here (or I don't know how). But if you click on it you should be able to see the video. Somebody was nice enough to post a...
True comes from a word related to faithful. As in being true to someone or something you love for instance. I wondered what it means then that an arrow can be true, or a piece of wood, and I think it means it's faithful to the concept of a...
They just talked very briefly about what imagination is, and that so many people confuse it with fantasy. I've written about this in here before—it's another of the ideas originating long ago. Was Einstein lost in pure fantasy when he did his...
The right is much more open to listening to what the left has to say than the other way around. The left hemisphere is very locked in to its own confabulations and doesn't want to hear that they're not true. My own thought is that when confronted...
Some more notes from the discussion—
The left hemisphere seeks internal consistency in a set of ideas—it's good at creating narratives, but it doesn't really care if they match reality or not. In fact it has a tendency to spin off on its own...
Just as the best art is drawn from life, the same can be said about writing. And while you can't ask people to argue in front of you so you can observe their interaction, you can remember. And if you're able to do that in right-brain mode (don't...
Ok, you can't write directly from reality, but you can work from right-brain mode. This is a new way of thinking for me, I need to explore it. Are you unable to access language in right-brain mode? I don't think so. McGilchrist is making me...
Actually it's more complex than that.
I'd say a deep study thread includes a lot of discovering new territory and exploring it, through reading or deep thinking or videos or whatever, and then making some simplified maps of that so you don't...
I make a lot of maps here on my blog. It's almost all I do here. My massive study threads, and the videos of interesting topics. It's all me working out abstractions of ideas, coming up with usdeful maps, and sometimes fleshing them out in places...
The Map and the Territory
The left brain's main purpose seems to be to create an endless series of maps of the territory of reality. I don't mean literal maps necessarily, showing a down-view of a section of landscape. It does that of course,...
And of course it would be a false equivalence to say that you can't experience a fascinating environment in the city. I often have. I find it especially fascinating to be in downtown St. Louis (called the biggest small town, or the smallest big...
Since these are basically two incompatible modes of thought, I guess it isn't possible to have them both running at the same time, or maybe you can at lower levels? I don't know how it works.
This kind of paradoxical wisdom was around from our...
Right at the beginning they get into the fact that this duality is not a division, not in the strict sense, but that each form of consciousness is rather an aspect of the other, or of the whole. Unity and division, synthesis and analysis—two...
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