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"the brain is just the weight of God"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 9:44am.

Many thanks. I've been using/thinking about that Dickinson poem for a long time, without having a way to make sense for myself of the third stanza. And you've given me one. Yes, its NOT parallel to the first stanza. One DOESN'T fit inside the other. Instead they are the same: brain/God as "the creator and source of all reality." It would be interesting to look at the critical literature on Dickinson to see to what extent that reading has/has not been proposed/generally recognized.

Delighted, of course, to have further conversation about the relation between religion and mental health. Religions and spiritual traditions, of course, are themselves pretty diverse, some having a God, others gods, and stil others making do without any concept of a supernatual, a divine, or an eternal. I suspect that diversity too is relevant for thinking about mental health.

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