“I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.” WayTwoWould BeValuesCultureLeftLanguageTakenRightsManifestPrincipalWomens RightsAlphabetAdoptingReceptionAbomination Author:Leonard Shlain
“Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell.” WorldTwoFormEvilHeavenChristianityHellCenturyElementsUltimateReasoningGood And EvilDivisionVoidStrictAdoptedFifthReductionHeaven And HellDualism Author:Leonard Shlain
