During my teens, I believed that for the past three, four thousand years humans and their general cognitive abilities did not evolve much. As I am listening to Iain McGilchrist’s “The Master and His Emissary,” however, I am moved to reconsider. His exposé of how human thought writ large—most prominently described across the ages in… Continue reading The Pain of Progress
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Mind Games, Left and Right
Oh, how frustrated do I feel at times when my plans (or predictions) do not pan out… I then exist in a state of very difficult to accept anguish. I so wanted something (not) to happen, or believe that it should (not) have happened. Anger and rage are not far away in my conscious experience.… Continue reading Mind Games, Left and Right