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Iain McGilchrist, ’We Need to Act’

Rebel Wisdom

CHAPTER

Skitzophenia - The Loss of Spontaneity

The loss of spontaneity, the ability just to no examine everything one is saying and thinking links very much with the difference between the hemispheres. This i actually call the left hemisphere's generated world a hall of mirrors, because it doesn't see anything outside of what it itself has created. It leads to this highly self conscious, an abstracted, decontectualized, disembodied picture of the world which skitzophenic subjects described time and again. And they say, also, very poignantly, they say, i seem to lack something that everyone else has, which is the ability to see things spontaneously. Sense of humour comes from a sense of proportion. If

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