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It argues that left-hemisphere abstraction can distort lived experience, while right-hemisphere understanding fosters genuine connection with self, others, and environment. Using the author’s framework of “Word/logos” and “music,” the paper proposes links to Christian themes such as the Fall, Redemption, the Cross, and Christ as Second Adam, emphasizing holistic truth rather than compartmentalized domains.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":45,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/religion-spirituality/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/from-mcgilchrist-to-christ-a-small-leap-over-a-great-divide/155520/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/from-mcgilchrist-to-christ-a-small-leap-over-a-great-divide/155520.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Connor ","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-07","2026-08-28",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":44},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What does the author take from McGilchrist’s theory about brain hemispheres?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The author adopts the claim that the right hemisphere is central to real understanding and connection, while the left hemisphere tends to impose an abstract, illusory version of the world. 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His recent book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World has had a profound impact on the scientific world but also the worlds of art, literature, and culture in general. His theory that the right hemisphere is the seat of real understanding and of our connection with one another and with our environment is corroborated by neurological research of recent decades. McGilchrist proposes that, since the advent of modernism, the left hemisphere has dominated the legitimation game by imposing upon us its version of the world. This version is an abstraction and ultimately an illusion unconnected with reality, or at least with any profound understanding of it. In the process of using scientific evidence to argue for a more collaborative balance between the hemispheres and their presentations and representations of reality, McGilchrist opens the door for religion and the arts to play a significant role in restoring our brain's hemispheric balance. He accepts the human brain not as a molecular machine with various subcomponents being responsible for individual mental functions (even though all this is an aspect of our biological condition,) but as areverberant whole, which transcends the sum of its individual functions. My own view, extrapolated from McGilchrist, is that our brain can be represented as two variously collaborating but also warring factions, which constantly present us with two distinct versions of reality: one mediated by human language (the \"word\" or \"logos\") and one mediated by \"music\" (in an expanded understanding of this term.) Our response to each other and our environment is conditioned by these two competing versions. Accordingly, the location of our \"I\" may shift from one moment to the next, or it may tip over towards one or the other of these opposing poles during longer time spans, but hardly ever sitting comfortably on the equator that our Corpus Callosum represents.  \nBeing a music composer and a person of strong religious conviction but also an academic committed to an uncompromising quest for Truth wherever this quest may lead me, my interest in music as a\"theology in sound\" has been with me as far back as I can remember. Since I do not believe in\"compartmentalized truths\", in other words in keeping my theological, artistic, and scientific interests segregated as incompatible but parallel understandings of the world, I have seen in McGilchrist's work a navigable path that may ultimately connect all these disembodied quests into one. This primordial hemispheric divide and connection between the \"Word\" (left hemisphere) and the \"Ineffable\" (right hemisphere), and the emancipation and self-determination of the left hemisphere through language, may point to the concept of the original \"fall\" in Christian Theology. It is a sequential enantiodromia which McGilchrist documents from the advent of Greek philosophy to our days but may date as far back as the advent of language itself as a predominately “left-brain” function. The voluntary abdication of the“Emissary”(the left hemisphere) to the \"Master\" (the right), which according to McGilchrist may be the only solution for the continuing survival of our species, may point to the theological concept of the Cross, the voluntary self-sacrifice as the only means of redemption and true emancipation. The \"Logos\"then of the Gospel according to John (translated into English as the \"Word\" even though the original term is more complex and it means also \"reason\" and \"speech\" in addition to \"word,\") which is the Christ of Christian theology and a concept associated with both our primordial Fall but also our  \nRedemption, is a desired end-state for humanity as a whole","cbCaikdhvFMDQMcK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikdhvFMDQMcK","pdf",86546,"English","# Core thesis: hemispheric divide and understanding\n## Left-hemisphere abstraction and “legitimation”\n## Right-hemisphere connection with reality\n# Extending the model into theology and culture\n## Word (logos) vs music (expanded understanding)\n## Fall, Cross, Redemption, and Christ concepts\n# Relationship between science and religion\n## Scientism as derailment symptom\n## Beyond reductionism: language and God-conditioned reality","[{\"question\":\"What does the author take from McGilchrist’s theory about brain hemispheres?\",\"answer\":\"The author adopts the claim that the right hemisphere is central to real understanding and connection, while the left hemisphere tends to impose an abstract, illusory version of the world. 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