Using the 'Two Minds' in our One Brain
To Inhabit the 'Spiritually Material' World

Revealed by Systems Science
 

Two Hemispheric Minds, Two 'Ways Things Happen,' and a Numinous Sense of the Sacred

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• evolution of animal agency involved bi-lateralization of brain to provide two contrary ways of attending

• The left hemisphere's localized, exclusive 'point focused' and the right hemisphere's global, inclusive, field awareness

• The left mode facilitates practical grasping and manipulation of things

• The right mode tracks the broader field of a larger environment and enables animals to identify what is alive

• Though contradictory, these must operate both independently and cooperatively

• Human adaptation through technological means elaborated these 'cognitive attitudes'

• The left enables us to think in reductive abstractions, to 'see parts,' and understand predictable causality

• The right to understand interdependent relationships, perceive agency, experience empathy

• Thus the right allows us to conceive 'spiritual agency' and represent it through metaphoric symbolism

• We require both modes but the right is essential to appreciating the autonomous agency of complex adaptive systems

• By giving us a numinous experience of 'spiritual agency' and the means to symbolize its role in reality