Oh man I want to make an "unfolding the flower of life •properly•" joke so bad here but I know I shouldn't But yes, this - "Riffing on this, I continue to be profoundly baffled by any line of reasoning that goes from [Divine] → [this entire book is true]." x 1000
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Like I'm genuinely confused that this has ever seemed like a reasonable line of thinking to anyone who was genuinely trying. Motivated reasoning? Or maybe Anselm had his doubts about the Bible too, but just didn't mention them because politics.
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Genuinely don't know. My answer is: Something something mythopoetics, something something misplaced concreteness, smthng smthng Leonard Shlain's Alphabet & the Goddess, smthn smthn Mircea Eliade, smthn smthn The Written Word as Magical Artifact followed by
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@Malcolm_Ocean have you taken a look at Alphabet & the Goddess? it seems pretty relevant to your hemisphere deep dive1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Oh second that vote, yeah Shlain is a fascinating fascinating thinker. Can't remember if McGilchrist cites him? I have my copy of Master & His Emissary around somewhere, should check that out
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*leans over to bookshelf* Just one, p447. Doesn't even explicitly make a connection to hemispheres, just quotes him talking about curved & straight lines!pic.twitter.com/m5Vn9Rix2l
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Pythagoras update
Leonard Shlain was flowerpilledpic.twitter.com/oAOQinWwXv
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Iain McGilchrist also got a contact-high dose of the flower-of-life-pill from Shlain. McGilchrist proposes an answer to Pythagorean-Zen master Terrence's koan:pic.twitter.com/otemyOoJgb
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McGilchrist: The straight lines come from the left hemisphere! Terrence: ...so the platonic realm of forms uses the left side of our brains to project the straight lines into this plane of reality. That actually makes sense McGilchrist: I did *not* say that
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flowerpilled 
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If anyone wants to explore flowerpill-like psychoactive compounds, the following video is a safe and arthimetically sound way to do so,
I would not recommend going the *full Terrence Howard* and trying to reinvent laws of multiplication
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The other safe entry point into the flowerpill world is Ralph Abraham's work, and unlike Howard, it respects arthimetic as well http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%23146.Mystics/ms146.pdf …
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