that in modernity, we exchanged meaning for power in early modernity, which is to say, if we decide that there is no meaning outside our heads, only the meaning that we choose to give it to the material world, then we can do whatever we want with the material world. And that is the basis of the scientific revolution. And that has given us immense practical power over the world. It's made us rich and power, all of these things. But it has now, in the 21st century, it has left us on a blasted heath to use Shakespeare's phrase, where we don't know what to believe. We've lost a sense of purpose. We've lost a sense of wonder, and we are falling apart. So I would say to sort of wrap this up, that to think about there being two ways to understand truth, I mean, all truth is one ultimately. But McGilchrist says that there are truths that can only be known through the senses, like the truths that come to us through music, through dance, through liturgy, through art, through religion, through a (26/57)
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