I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away,… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks…time meandered… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share
Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“In the Old Testament, guilt enters the world by way of a bite from a fruit.” — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of gestalts, from… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it. — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
