The effects of central, or foveal perception, and peripheral, or global perception, not only occur in all sensory modalities, the effects seem to appear in memories as well as in real-time perception. A lot of attention on one item at a time, perceiving a great deal of detail. Habits are programmed in with focused attention, but aren't automatic until they run in the background, as a peripheral or global background process. Peripheral, or global attention appears to be useful for global awareness, fast and automatic response, such as getting out of the way of a moving object. Also useful for contextual awareness, connections with other contexts, etc.
Habitual responses seem to occur almost automatically, with peripheral or little focused attention.
This gives a valuable key to the healing of disassociated parts of personalities so that wholeness can be experienced. So far we've covered global and focused awareness as elements of this model, and some of the characteristics of each. There is a third element, having two parts or poles. Our brain seems to operate that way, too. These two characteristics bring in the quality of experience that people often call sacred.