
Matthew Segall of Footnotes2Plato: An Invitation to Explore Alfred North Whitehead
The Meaning Code
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The Right and the Left Hemispheres of Perception
Bishop Barron said we need to live in the space between that trying to grasp god and running away from him. The right hemisphere has this less conscious global sensitivity and our left brain is focused on well what's important right now. When we see God we are God seeing ourselves but it's very easy to get inflated after you've had such an experience doesn't mean it's not real but each of us can't access that mystical vision so if we grasp after it an attempt to hold it and possess it for ourselves that quickly becomes akin to a kind of evil just rooted in the identification of our own ego with the divine.
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