Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Summary

About this episode

The episode discusses the dominance of gnosticism and the left hemisphere in modern culture and their implications for humanity.

Modernity is the left hemisphere gone wild. Gnosticism, with its dualistic approach and emphasis on knowledge that gives salvation and control, is a left-hemispheric political religion that thrived during the twentieth century and has today settled in as the dominant cultural disposition that drives public debate. Today’s powerful elites aren’t gnostics, but they ride their left hemispheres like cocaine-fueled jockeys on rabid horses. Because gnosticism and today’s powerful elites are dominated by the left hemisphere, they’re natural allies and they’re coming together in a final effort to do what modernity has been trying to do for centuries: eliminate altogether the Tao part of The Reality Spectrum. It can’t be done, short of eliminating humanity altogether, so the Tao continues to manifest itself in all sorts of ways. Show notes here

Topics covered

• modernity
• gnosticism
• left hemisphere
• cultural disposition
• public debate

Keywords

• Tao
• Reality Spectrum
• elites
• political religion

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