For reasons which Iain well describes, we have devalued Goodness, Beauty and Truth, appreciation and experience of which can be called ‘the sacred’, and instead dedicated ourselves to a limited, literal, left brain dominated approach which prides itself on reducing the complex terrain that is ‘reality’ into a clear, compact map and then goes on to believe that the map is real and what it is mapping, the actual terrain, is largely fictive.
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Layers & Levels Introduction Part Two
The Layers and Levels Series forms a book with three sections.
Article 73: Truth as Value Adding
Values evoke a response in us and call us to some end. They are what give meaning to life: such things as beauty, goodness, truth – and purpose. Science can tell us what their brain correlates may be, but cannot help us understand their nature. It can, though, help us misunderstand them. ….
Article 70: The Invisible Gorilla
So one important point here is that much of what materialist scientists say about the nature of reality is based on a concept-derived fallacy that discounts no end of dynamic processes which they fail to treat as relevant because they don’t fit into their ‘only the physical is real and the physical has no mind’ view.
Left Brain Induced Blindness
Left brain induced blindness, another visual exercise. But the same cognitive blindness can happen with sound, thought and emotion, not just eyesight.
Twin Brain Attention: a Video
Setting the reader up for understanding the next article which will use this material to explain – yet again – why the pervasive over-reliance on reductionist materialism is such a pernicious driver of modern society
Article 69 Of Brains & Location
1. For 10-15 seconds focus only on the black dot below. Put 100% of your attention on it. (Read #2 first)
2. For the next 10-15 seconds keep that attention on the black dot but also now include awareness of the space around, both inner mental awareness and outer physical space.
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