‘The left hemisphere of the brain, without sufficient input from the right, is overconfident.’

Arguments about God, says Jacqui Poole, might just come down to the way we choose to think about them

‘The left hemisphere of the brain... needs the right hemisphere to provide the overall grasp of the territory.' | Photo: Alina Grubnyak / Unsplash.

I wonder how many readers of the Friend are familiar with The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist. I ask because the weight of McGilchrist’s arguments, and his overarching purpose in writing the book, seem to me to have a bearing on the dialogues and dichotomies that dance across these pages as week succeeds week.

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