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 Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share
“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
