The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from

neuroscience masterworks

Teasing 10 threads fromLeonard Shlain’s …

Thread 1:

“The artist is the antenna of the race.” ~ Ezra Pound

(pg. viii)

Thread 2:

Every ancient culture worshipped goddesses. Then Judaism, Islam and Christianity, founded on a sacred alphabet book, denied the existence of goddesses.(pg. xiii)

Thread 3:

Neurons that fire together, wire together. Neurons that fail to link, fail to sync.

(pg. 10)

Thread 4:

Most people unconsciously know that the right side of their face is best to present to the outside world. The left side is more a reflection of who they really are. (pg. 51)

Thread 5:

“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good. I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it.” (pg. 67)

Thread 6:

“Often we have to get away from speech in order to think clearly.”

(pg. 85)

Thread 7:

Think of the right and left hemispheres as Siamese Twins joined at the corpus callosum. In the process of generating a major creative insight, a dis- connect must occur between thetwo halves. This is called “hemispheric bisociation.”(pg. 92)

Thread 8:

One theory: the corpus callosum integrates information from each hemisphere, functioning as a third brain, producing some- thing qualitatively different from what each side generates individually.(pg. 93)

Thread 9:

“In women, the measurements of the corpus callosum, measured as a whole, or for specific measurements of any seven subdivisions of the callosum, are larger.”

(pg. 1611)

Thread 10:

A heightened alertness, a burst of energy, and an increased clarity of thought are common to both fear and creativity.

(pg. 97)

Image Credits:

Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 3 - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/artists-statements.html

Slide 12 - http://andreahannah.com/category/fear-solutions/

Slide 2 - http://http://likesuccess.com/729076

Slide 6 - https://www.pinterest.com/explore/beautiful-people/

Slide 5 - https://www.pinterest.com/explore/brain-cortex/

Slide 11 - http://femininepeace.org/the-colossal-commissure-corpus-callosum

Slide 10 - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/brain-mapping----on-acid

Slide 9 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/36099234491380201/

Slide 8 - http://bit.ly/2kgyNdK

Slide 7 - http://listverse.com/2013/03/26/ten-unusual-etymologies/

Slide 4 - http://rborozan.deviantart.com/art/Medusa-in-Denial-102692686

Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Mark Brady, PhDTheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com

to Subscribe or receive the Powerpoints for Free

Thank you for viewing !