Tom LA Books | THE POWER OF METAPHORS - from "The Master and His Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist @tomlabooks3263 | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Iain McGilchrist's book "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" makes the case that the left hemisphere has taken over our minds and reshaped the world in its image in a way that is good for neither humans nor the planet and everything that lives on it.
"A way of thinking which is reductive, mechanistic has taken us over," said McGilchrist in The Divided Brain. "We behave like people who have right hemisphere damage.
"The left brain pays sharply focused attention to detail and sorts and organizes people and things into neat, orderly categories."
But McGilchrist says the left brain doesn't understand relationships. It's the right brain that understands context and the big picture — our relationships with others and how we fit into a complex, non-linear world in which everything is connected.
"Einstein said that the rational mind is a faithful servant, but the intuitive mind is a precious gift, and we live in a world that has honored the servant but has forgotten the gift."
Iain McGilchrist's book "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" makes the case that the left hemisphere has taken over our minds and reshaped the world in its image in a way that is good for neither humans nor the planet and everything that lives on it.
"A way of thinking which is reductive, mechanistic has taken us over," said McGilchrist in The Divided Brain. "We behave like people who have right hemisphere damage.
"The left brain pays sharply focused attention to detail and sorts and organizes people and things into neat, orderly categories."
But McGilchrist says the left brain doesn't understand relationships. It's the right brain that understands context and the big picture — our relationships with others and how we fit into a complex, non-linear world in which everything is connected.
"Einstein said that the rational mind is a faithful servant, but the intuitive mind is a precious gift, and we live in a world that has honored the servant but has forgotten the gift."
