Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture?: Brockwood Park and Gstaad 1975 - Dialogue 9

'Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture? - 6 August 1975

• Can there be a total perception which completely heals the brain?

• What benefit has culture?

• Does speech come before thought?

• Is it possible to say something without the operation of thought?

• Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture?

• Is attention a conscious process?

• Is love the factor of profound change?

• You explain all this, and you say that whatever the damaged brain – which is

the result of thought and tradition and all the rest of it – whatever it does will produce further damage. So, because you point it out, I realise that. That is the first necessity – I realise it. Then, after I’ve realised it, you talk to me at a depth which thought has not touched. You planted a seed.'