#tweetstorm on Meaningness & McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model
- status: half-draft, half-braindump
- 🧵Thread about how McGilchrist's hemisphere model relates to @Meaningness' work.
I've already written about connections with Buddhism more generally: twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1222017431780184064 - It seems to me based on reading Spectrum of Ecstasy in parallel with The Master and his Emissary, that the dualistic perspective the dzogchen folks are talking about is the left hemisphere's world, and the non-dualistic perspective the right hemisphere's.
twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1128317947548708865 - I'll expand below on that connection, but meanwhile we can provisionally note that, if so, this provides a relatively anticlimatic resolution to the apparent dzogchen paradox of "you are already enlightened":
you already have a right hemisphere 🧠
twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1119314501826957312 - other stuff about "already"
- maybe mention this bit from Ingram about "nothing to do" and "already there" schools: mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-v-awakening/37-models-of-the-sta…
- tweet from Rin'dzin:
> Yes, that’s technically correct, but I think it risks missing that Dzogchen is based in a qualitatively different, non-ordinary experience, so the path is to maintain that state of being, & has many formal and informal practices to support that end.
- Iain McGilchrist hints at a need for ppl to make some sort of figure-ground inversion from the left hemisphere running the show to the RHem... running the show? Leadership, power, control, etc all mean different things to the two hemispheres.
(intro to IM's Ways of Attending 👇)
(IMAGE) - Another lens: the LH's perspective is pretty clearly dualistic by default, & the RH's is non-dual in Chapman's mature sense (meaningness.com/terminology/non-dual). When people try to pin down the RH's world or insights into the LH, this is where monism comes from.
- I was originally imagining I might quote this here, but I'm realizing (A) it reads as if from me, not Romeo & (B) the connection may not be clear
- Scraps
- there's a section in Spectrum of Ecstasy that I think I have marked, that says something really similar
- Decided to omit this
- (And also, inasmuch as the right hemisphere's perspective includes the already-part-of-everything-ness, you were already enlightened the whole time because you were already-part-of-everything before there was even a you to speak of. Not sure how relevant this is)
- Relevant posts on Meaningness
- Relevant tweets, placed here to keep track of them
- 3 poisons one