The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.
Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and… - Leonard Shlain
Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and…
- Leonard Shlain
Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the … - Leonard Shlain
Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the …
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament. - Leonard Shlain
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Gree… - Leonard Shlain
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Gree…
I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. … - Leonard Shlain
I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. …
The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The fi… - Leonard Shlain
The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The fi…
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the fore… - Leonard Shlain
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the fore…
When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matt… - Leonard Shlain
When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matt…
Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with… - Leonard Shlain
Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with…
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