“The left hemisphere’s greatest triumph is the creation of a world that conforms to its own representation—and its greatest tragedy is that it has come to believe that this is the only world there is.” — Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary Three Diagnoses Last week gave us three…
“The heart is the battlefield of the gods.” — Heraclitus Two brothers walk the same fractured earth. Both bring an offering, seeking a connection that feels lost. One is received. The other is not. This is the story of our first system crash—the moment a fractured consciousness applied the transactional…
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin Imagine you are given the complete technical blueprint for Notre Dame Cathedral. For years, you study it. You memorize every dimension, every load-bearing calculation, the precise geometry of the arches, the ratios that…
How the Genesis Story Maps Our Cultural War—And How to Step Out of It “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” — Genesis 3:1 A recent conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Carrie Gress, author of Something Wicked, piqued my interest. Its subject?…
THE DRAMA YOU’RE IN | THE SEPARATION | BONUS “A culture that is locked into the left-hemisphere version of the world is, for all its successes, a tragic culture: a culture that is lonely and lacking in meaning, that is unwelcoming to others, and strangely dead to the beauty and…
THE LOST CENTER OF CIVILIZATION | PART 7 “What you are called to is not a new set of beliefs, but a recovery of memory.” — An Ancient Christian Maxim We have traced the arc of a hollowing civilization. In the first six parts, we witnessed the inversion of social…
A Civilization Built by Half a Brain Author’s Note: This essay is part of a seven-part work in progress examining the spiritual logic of modern civilization. When complete, the series will be revised and submitted for publication as a book. “The brain has a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere…
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