29 Quotes by Leonard Shlain

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be more balanced and more feminine. It's already happening. And I think that the good news is that it's coming just in time.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

When the time comes to change a paradigm – to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another – the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust.