Brilliant essay. Thought-and-feeling provoking. Many, many resonances with my own influences and heroes. (And I also walked the Camino Portugues last year, though without an amp on my back, and only from Ponte de Lima, where I live.) May I offer one tiny correction? I hope you won't think I'm nit-picking--but it's the over-reliance on left-hemisphere thinking that McGilchrist laments so rightly in our society. Believe it or not, literally moments before I read your essay my eyes had grazed my copy of Hopscotch, which I've started several times but never finished (in any direction), and thought: I really must have another go at that. Synchronicity? I think so.
Gary, I have to tweak that typo. I noticed it the other day as I’d printed all the posts out and was going through them. Thanks for the reminder! I’m a big fan of McGilchrist’s rallying against reductive materialism & managerialism etc, but also for his gesturing towards re-enchantment. He actually goes as far as to say much if what is going off mirrors right-hemisphere brain damage. As for Portugal, the walk hasn’t really left me. I hope to visit again soon.
This post is pure gold. So much to unpack. Thank you.
Thank you, Robert!
Brilliant essay. Thought-and-feeling provoking. Many, many resonances with my own influences and heroes. (And I also walked the Camino Portugues last year, though without an amp on my back, and only from Ponte de Lima, where I live.) May I offer one tiny correction? I hope you won't think I'm nit-picking--but it's the over-reliance on left-hemisphere thinking that McGilchrist laments so rightly in our society. Believe it or not, literally moments before I read your essay my eyes had grazed my copy of Hopscotch, which I've started several times but never finished (in any direction), and thought: I really must have another go at that. Synchronicity? I think so.
Gary, I have to tweak that typo. I noticed it the other day as I’d printed all the posts out and was going through them. Thanks for the reminder! I’m a big fan of McGilchrist’s rallying against reductive materialism & managerialism etc, but also for his gesturing towards re-enchantment. He actually goes as far as to say much if what is going off mirrors right-hemisphere brain damage. As for Portugal, the walk hasn’t really left me. I hope to visit again soon.