Roderick Tweedy

The God of the Left Hemisphere (eBook, ePUB)

Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries, such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of these rationalising, law-making, and 'limiting' activities within the human brain has been recorded in the earliest Creation texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, Plato's Timaeus, and the Norse sagas. Blake's prescient insight into the nature and origins of this dominant force within the brain allows him to radically reinterpret the psychological basis of the entity usually referred to in these texts as 'God'. The book draws in particular on the work of Bolte Taylor, whose study in this area is having a profound impact on how we understand mental activity and processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429920905
• Artikelnr.: 56835390

Autorenporträt

Roderick Tweedy

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
The Looking-Glass
The origins of Urizen
Urizen and the left hemisphere
The myth of Genesis
The marriage of heaven and hell
Down the Rabbit-Hole
The God of reason
Urizenic religion and Urizenic reason: R1 and R2
The left hemisphere agenda
Twilight of the psychopaths
More than man: the dragon Urizen
The Selfhood & the fires of Los
Conclusion
Appendix