1st Edition

The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

By Roderick Tweedy Copyright 2013
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Roderick Tweedy