we are still in the very very early stages of psychedelic research and using blood flow in the brain is a crude way of trying to explain something that is transcendental/mystical.
And unfortunately, the only research that will be done will be to promote medical use leading to government control.
I've read McGillchrists book and it was an interesting hypothesis, but one thing I was never quite clear on was why and perhaps more importantly how human beings might spontaneously switch from a left to right hemisphere dominant cultural worldview and then back again (as in the transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and back to our hyper capitalist consumer culture) in no time at all from the point view of normal biological adaptation?
I think it works the same as any other cultural tipping point - certain habits get amplified and then become self-reinforcing. A generally "wise" culture that values a balance of different things might come to be fixated on achieving one thing when seduced by a new technology/idea. Whether that means it's true is another kettle of fish
we are still in the very very early stages of psychedelic research and using blood flow in the brain is a crude way of trying to explain something that is transcendental/mystical.
And unfortunately, the only research that will be done will be to promote medical use leading to government control.
I've read McGillchrists book and it was an interesting hypothesis, but one thing I was never quite clear on was why and perhaps more importantly how human beings might spontaneously switch from a left to right hemisphere dominant cultural worldview and then back again (as in the transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and back to our hyper capitalist consumer culture) in no time at all from the point view of normal biological adaptation?
I think it works the same as any other cultural tipping point - certain habits get amplified and then become self-reinforcing. A generally "wise" culture that values a balance of different things might come to be fixated on achieving one thing when seduced by a new technology/idea. Whether that means it's true is another kettle of fish