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

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

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

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

Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with…

- 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. …

- 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

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

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