The Neurosomatic Circuit is responible for Gestalt thinking and awareness
Neurosomatic Circuit awareness is “non-linear” and “global.” That is, it is not limited by the one-thing-at-a-time sequences of the Semantic Circuit; it thinks in Gestalts. This is why it is so often connected with “intuition,” which is a way of thinking between and around data-points on the perceptual screen—sensing what total field the points must be part of. The great musician has developed a remarkable feedback between Neurosomatic Circuit Gestalt-ing and the Semantic Circuit function of coding such “coherent structures” into the inspired symbolism of music. Music always leads to some right hemisphere activity in listeners, and the Neurosomatic Circuit almost certainly involves the right hemisphere.
Beethoven, we remember, was left-handed. Since the left hand is neurologically linked to the right hemisphere, one might say he was genetically inclined to right hemisphere ways of thinking, that is, to sensing coherent wholes, to plunging into Neurosomatic Circuit bliss almost “at will,” and to sensory-sensual raptness and rapture. Everybody “knows” that the Sixth Symphony is “pantheistic,” but whether Beethoven was an ideological pantheist or not, that way of responding to nature is normal and natural Neurosomatic Circuit functioning. That is, anybody on the Neurosomatic Circuit will “talk like a pantheist” whether or not he has developed a “philosophy” about pantheism. The miracle of Beethoven is not that he felt the universe that way—a few thousand Neurosomatic Circuit types throughout history have also felt and sensed nature that way—but that he mastered the Semantic Circuit art of music with such skill that he could communicate such experiences, which is precisely what the ordinary “mystic” cannot do.
References
- Wilson, A., Robert. (1983). Prometheus Rising Chapter 11 The Holistic Neurosomatic Circuit (Location 2184). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press.
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