The God of the Left Hemisphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The God of the Left Hemisphere write by Roderick Tweedy. This book was released on 2018-05-01. The God of the Left Hemisphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries, such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of these rationalising, law-making, and 'limiting' activities within the human brain has been recorded in the earliest Creation texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, Plato's Timaeus, and the Norse sagas. Blake's prescient insight into the nature and origins of this dominant force within the brain allows him to radically reinterpret the psychological basis of the entity usually referred to in these texts as 'God'. The book draws in particular on the work of Bolte Taylor, whose study in this area is having a profound impact on how we understand mental activity and processes.
The Master and His Emissary
The Master and His Emissary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Master and His Emissary write by Iain McGilchrist. This book was released on 2019-03-26. The Master and His Emissary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new edition of the bestselling classic – published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the ‘rational’ side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master. As he shows, it is the right side which is the more reliable and insightful. Without it, our world would be mechanistic – stripped of depth, colour and value.
The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning write by Iain McGilchrist. This book was released on 2012-07-15. The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this 10,000-word essay, written to complement Iain McGilchrist's acclaimed The Master and His Emissary, the author asks why - despite the vast increase in material well-being - people are less happy today than they were half a century ago, and suggests that the division between the two hemispheres of the brain has a critical effect on how we see and understand the world around us. In particular, McGilchrist suggests, the left hemisphere's obsession with reducing everything it sees to the level of minute, mechanistic detail is robbing modern society of the ability to understand and appreciate deeper human values. Accessible to readers who haven't yet read The Master and His Emissary as well as those who have, this is a fascinating, immensely thought-provoking essay that delves to the very heart of what it means to be human.
Renovated
Renovated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renovated write by Jim Wilder. This book was released on 2020-04-21. Renovated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christianity has tended to focus on right beliefs and right choices as the keys for personal growth. But biblical evidence and modern brain science show that our character is shaped more by whom we love than what we believe. Through conversations he had with Dallas Willard at the Heart & Soul Conference shortly before Dallas's death, Jim Wilder shows how we can train our brains to relate to God based on joyful, mutual attachment--which leads to emotional and spiritual maturity as our identity and character are formed by our relationship with God.
How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future
How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future write by James Olson. This book was released on 2017-01-10. How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our brains have numerous functioning parts, all of which serve us at any one moment. But decades of research reveal the existence of two basic brain “operating systems”—two fundamental ways in which the whole brain processes incoming information. Because of this phenomenon of brain dominance, most of us tend to favor the input of either our “dualistic” left-brain (which focuses on parts instead of wholes) or our holistic right hemisphere. This means that typically only half of our innate intelligence informs our thinking—and since the left-brain operating system dominates most males, our culture has itself become left-brain dominant. How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future explores this left-brain bias in our civilization, revealing it to be the root cause for centuries of war, racism, and political polarization—and eons of misunderstanding between the sexes. While most of our technological and scientific progress is driven by left-brain thinking, the great advances to come will require that we consciously harness both sides of our brain to greatly improve our cognition. Award-winning author James Olson goes on to explain how we can achieve greater internal harmony between the two operating systems of the brain—both as individuals and as a culture—thus showing us how ad why thinking with our whole brains will lead us to peace and to the ultimate healing of our relationships and our world.
