The body, the soul and art

The body, the soul and art are the three domains where, for things to work properly, the left hemisphere must defer to the right hemisphere's grounding capacity. 

Each of those three domains has an immediacy that can bypass the left hemisphere's rationality and its control of language. The left hemisphere systematically keeps trying to flatten each of these three modes of experience. The institutions of miqdash, Shabbos and brit serve to interrupt the effects of that flattening. 

1. Technology mechanizes the body; 
2. Fetishes mechanize the soul; and 
3. Spectacle mechanizes art's combining of body with soul. 

Put another way, in terms of brain function:

1. Consciousness is shaped by the body. 
2. Collective consciousness is shaped by the mythos. 
3. Balance is shaped by art. 

"My bet is that our age will be viewed in retrospect with amusement, as an age remarkable not only for its cynicism, but for its gullibility. The two conditions are not as far apart as they may seem. The left hemisphere having mechanised the body, and ironised the soul, it seems to me, has here set about neutralising or neutering the power of art." (The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist, 2009; page 442). 

Behind the experience of the treaty between the divine domain and the mundane lies the impulse to keep art honest and able to shape our ability to exercise proper judgment.