Neuroscience
From Thought to Speech
Sentience from laddered minerals
The Lucifer Myth and the Brain's Hemispheres
I’ve always found it interesting to speculate on what kernels of truth underlie some of humanity’s most-ancient and culture-crossing myths: e.g. the flood, the lost idealized garden, the couple that re-starts life from seeds. Could the flood have been the effects of an ice age ending and raising the sea level to swallow old settlements? Was the garden a primitive grasp of climate change triggering desertification to turn a grassland into an arid waste? Further afield, could life have been seeded from an ark of cells? In the age of alchemy, many writers saw these ancient stories as symbolic manuals for helping man understand and thus perfect himself.
One story whose truth, I speculate, might be alchemical-allegorical in nature is the Lucifer myth. It might be a poetic story to explain hard science about neuroanatomy and psychology and how we might smelt away our lesser natures to become purer, more godly beings.
In the myth, Lucifer seeks to deceive and falsely supposes himself to be equal to the most High (Isaiah 14:14). That’s poetry. But it resonates with recent research done by Dr. Ian McGilchrist. Perhaps this is what the alchemically-influenced artist Michaelangelo understood when he chose to paint God-the-Father in the shape of a brain.
