Comments by "Aga" (@aga5109) on "Dr. Allan Schore: How Relationships Shape Your Brain" video.

  1. Dr. Ian McGilchrist. Please get him ! He is brilliant! Pre - conscious , selective perceptions and interpretations according to autobographical - narrative and according to what you pay attention to in the world ( here comes lateralisation phenomenon - what Dr.Iain McGilchrist is rightly stating, in my opinion, after 30 years of studying left and right hemispheres functions - on different ways in which left and right hemispheres see the reality according to the type of attention, which is at play). We don't have access to unlimited data we extract from the world. Perception is a micro-narrative. We co-construct and co-create the reality. There is also where comes the unconscious bias, heuristics, faulty logical thinking and preconceptions constructing illusions of the reality according to confirmation bias as well as the unconscious including "defence mechanisms", which protect us from being overwhelmed by powerful, unpleasant emotions, especially from childhood traumas and by a definition are creating a distortion of reality. Thus, working on autobiographical narrative and "defence mechanisms" to access and process raw emotions are an important part of psychotherapy. Cognitive Science, psychology recapitulates theology. I think the claim jungian psychologists make is correct. Over 90 % of processes that govern the workings of our brains are pre-conscious or sub-conscious ( not conscious ). What uncounscious presents to us in the dreams, symbols, implicit content, intuition, feelings, etc.might constitute an important structure of reality we comprehend with the right hemisphere. Whereas the left hemisphere has no access to it. The reality might be structured in a way the right brain sees and processes it. This embaded structure emerges in symbolism, narratives, and archetypes that stand the test of time. It doesn't mean that the incarnation of God, salvation, and ressurection didn't happen. It is very likely that it happened because the Logos imbeded in reality became man and presented the most important story in the flesh to make our eyes open and to pay attention to what constitutes the deepest structure of reality. Namely the structure of meaning and purpose. That's why Jacob's ladder clearly symbolises the top-down movement - God guides His creatures like a crain lifting up and transforming "the clay."
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