ABSTRACT
The characteristic functions and processes of Urizenic consciousness are part of an integrated operating system, a coherent mode of running which is concerned with the manipulation of the world and a compulsive drive towards dominion and power. This concern with power is central to its agenda and a clue to its character. ”The left hemisphere is competitive,” observes McGilchrist, “and its concern, its prime motivation, is power”. Indeed McGilchrist notes that this will to power “is the agenda of the left hemisphere”, and he sees in the eighteenth-century development towards greater forms of bureaucratic and economic control the extending reach of this program. Urizenic forms of “referential language” and the development of sophisticated tool use, but increasingly through controlling and divisive, abstract, law-based moral systems: “the will to control the environment” included controlling and manipulating other humans, as part of its landscape.
