So the Western concept certainly of mind for a long time was that there's this core

thinking entity at the absolute epicenter and that this rational thought process was orchestrating the mind at its behest and that if things got in the way such as those pesky emotions and feelings and

neurosis, that those were like kind of outer forces getting in our way and that we were really, when we are at our best, we were this rational thinking ongoing process of discursive thought that maintains its belief in its rationality.

So it's not coincidental, of course, that thought which is in,

is a product of the left hemisphere which is largely where consciousness is also situated.

It's not surprising that thought would nominate itself and define itself as the epicenter of our personality, of our self, of our identity.

And it's not surprising, therefore, that philosophers such as Descartes would even go so far as to say that existence is

founded on the very notion that I think, therefore I am.

I, in other words, am entirely dependent on thought. It turns out that this is very, very, very similar to another deeply misguided delusion for of thousands of years and still in some pockets to in the world and populations there was

this belief that Earth is at the absolute epicenter of the universe and that the sun revolves around the Earth.

And it's not surprising that this belief was so fixed because at first it appears that way.

To us on Earth, because we are on Earth, it looks like the sun is revolving around us.

And so when the Copernician Revolution, especially indebted to Galileo's work with Copernicus is I believe.

Gary, am I right?

Am I close?

Okay.

I think Copernicus came up with a way to observe the telescope in Galileo was the one who

used it and wound up paying the price for showing definitively that we are

not at the epicenter of the universe. The result of this was the placing the centrality of human beings as above and all of creation and therefore also the belief in theistic universe

began to fade with this revolution.

It required a whole new organization of thought

the moment we realized we were not the absolute epicenter of it all.

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