Leonard Shlain

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

— Leonard Shlain

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together.…

— Leonard Shlain

Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the…

— Leonard Shlain

Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no…

— Leonard Shlain

When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and…

— Leonard Shlain

Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void.…

— Leonard Shlain

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was…

— Leonard Shlain

“In the Old Testament, guilt enters the world by way of a bite from a fruit.”

— Leonard Shlain

“The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of…

— Leonard Shlain

I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of…

— Leonard Shlain

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

— Leonard Shlain

Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art…

— Leonard Shlain

We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that…

— Leonard Shlain

Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very…

— Leonard Shlain

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to…

— Leonard Shlain

“The Talmud expresses subtle relationship in an apocryphal story of a dialogue between God and Abraham. God begins by chiding Abraham: „If…

— Leonard Shlain

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

— Leonard Shlain