One of the difficulties is that we, as a culture, have become unaccustomed to thinking metaphorically. We are left-brain, analytically heavy. The modern age is responsible in large part for that. I was introduced to this book, “The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World" by Iain McGilchrist. It’s in my ever-growing TBR pile, but he talks about the reasons for this from a brain physiological perspective. One of his antidotes, he proffers, is to learn how to read poetry. I would add to that, working on the skill of interpretation of art, both literary, musical and visual—all of the arts. In our church tradition in particular, looking back at our history shows a heavy reliance
on a left-brain analytical view of scripture. This is why we have this problem. But…the good news is that for those who want to, the skill of learning how to think in a different way, to learn to recognize symbols and metaphor can be nurtured.
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One of the difficulties is that we, as a culture, have become unaccustomed to thinking metaphorically. We are left-brain, analytically heavy. The modern age is responsible in large part for that. I was introduced to this book, “The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World" by Iain McGilchrist. It’s in my ever-growing TBR pile, but he talks about the reasons for this from a brain physiological perspective. One of his antidotes, he proffers, is to learn how to read poetry. I would add to that, working on the skill of interpretation of art, both literary, musical and visual—all of the arts. In our church tradition in particular, looking back at our history shows a heavy reliance
on a left-brain analytical view of scripture. This is why we have this problem. But…the good news is that for those who want to, the skill of learning how to think in a different way, to learn to recognize symbols and metaphor can be nurtured.