the god complex

«From our perspective, hochmah is that "higher wisdom" that some
systems call primordial Awareness. [...] Binah, meaning understanding,
is a kind of partner to Hochmah. The sefirot are often gendered
(sometimes multi-gendered), and their interaction is often depicted as
a series of erotic interchanges. In this case, Hochmah is the male and
Binah is female, the Divine womb, the generative principle of the rest
of the universe. [...] Binah and Hochmah map easily onto "left brain"
and "right brain" thinking, even though the Kabbalists presumably had
no scientific knowledge of the brain's internal structure.»
--http://learnkabbalah.com/keter_hochmah_and_binah/

I've been attempting to redrawing the standard "tree of life" as a
phase diagram in three dimensions. It's quite tricky to get the
drawing right, partly because Beauty is adjacent to nearly
everything... :)

One of the striking characteristics of the figure is that the Tower
and Strength/Lust form a very noticeable division between the two
"hemispheres", perhaps playing a role something like the "corpus
callosum" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum)? This is
mirrored again by the Empress, but in a way that seems structurally
different. In my drawing, Binah/Understanding, Hochmah/Wisdom, and
Kether/Crown are projected "inside" of Tifaret/Beauty. For
comparison, the hippocampus appears deep within the temporal lobe...

I'm hand-selecting a picture of the brain with just about the right
number of components (accounting for left and right side):
http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brain-anatomy.jpg -- but
developing well-thought-through correspondences in a coherent fashion
will have to wait for a later date.

For the moment I'm just intrigued by the idea of Malkuth/Kingdom as
the nervous system *outside* of the brain. What if the
World/Universe corresponds to the corticospinal tract (motor), the
Moon to the posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway (fine touch,
vibration sensation and proprioception), and The Aeon to the
spinothalamic tract (pain, temperature, itch and crude touch)? This
all makes a certain amount of sense to me...