Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
What if Everything is Conscious? | Dr. Iain McGilchrist Explains – ‘On the Way’ with George Thompson
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This is what we were born for | Iain McGilchrist & Martin Shaw : The JAWBONE with Martin Shaw
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Iain McGilchrist | Part 1 | Western Civilization in the Grip of Left Brain Thinking
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Iain McGilchrist | Part 2 | Consciousness and Meaning in Our Lives
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Philosophy, Cultural Evolution, and the Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Lecture and Dialogue between Iain McGilchrist and Steve McIntosh
March 27, 2025 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PDT Webinar from Center for Process Studies, Institute for Cultural Evolution featuring Andrew M. Davis, Iain McGilchrist, Steve McIntosh Join the Center for Process Studies and the Institute for Cultural Evolution for an...
Human Needs in Politics The Charter
Laughter is the Very Heart of Life: John Cleese & Dr. Iain McGilchrist (Episode 22)
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The Future of Humanity: Lecture One The Sovereignty of Truth with Dr Iain McGilchrist
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St John’s Cathedral Podcast ‘On the way’ with Iain McGilchrist: A Distorted Reality
Iain McGilchrist with Humphrey Hawksley – Understanding our place in the world
Sunday 16th March, 2025 2.00 - 3.00 pm UK (via Zoom) Iain McGilchrist is a leading psychiatrist with a vast body of work and connections around the world. He is a pioneer in the way we think, why we think, who we are and how we understand our place in the world. In...
Members Q&A – 13th March
Thursday 13th March 2025, 6.00pm to 7.45pm UK time This event is open to Channel McGilchrist members only. As a Channel McGilchrist member, you have the unique opportunity to put a question to Iain for a live Q&A session via Zoom. These Q&As take place every...
Conversation of Michael Levin with Iain McGilchrist #2
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PS on works of art – Iain’s Substack
I forgot to mention in the post I have just finished that Simon McBurney’s Figures in Extinction, a dance trilogy choreographed by the Canadian dancer Crystal Pite, is enjoying rave reviews. His theatre and dance company is called Complicité, and you can find out more...
Metaphors can make you blind – Iain’s Substack
Friends, I am new to Substack, so thank you for being patient while I work out how to do what I would like to do! And what is that? Just to add pieces from time to time. No schedule, and therefore no payment required. If you wish to subsidise me, then by all means be...
Bread cast on the waters – Iain’s Substack
Boring stuff first: since a number of people have been kind enough to make a gift pledge, I have activated payments (I think!), so that others can, should the mood take them. It is enormously kind of those who are generous enough to do so; but I do want everyone to...
Nate Hagens & Dr. Iain McGilchrist – Why Contemplation & Wonder Are Essential for the Future of Humanity with Iain McGilchrist | The Great Simplification #165
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‘What We Were’ podcast #26 – Dr. Iain McGilchrist on The Master With His Emissary
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Iain McGilchrist, Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness, God, Truth, & The Purpose of Life
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The Matter with Things: Peterson and McGilchrist | #278
Running Time: 1:54:56 The two hemispheres of the human brain are explicitly different and both incredibly complex. Dr. Iain McGilchrist joins to discuss and explore the science of philosophy, covering everything from our ability to reason to how art can cross...
Larmor Society – Dr Iain McGilchrist Lecture – 20 February, 2025
Thursday, February 20 2025, 3.00pm (UK) Larmor Society - Dr Iain McGilchrist Lecture 'The Significance of Brain Asymmetry' (in person, Lightfoot Room, St John's College Cambridge) The Larmor Society is pleased to host Dr McGilchrist's Lecture 'The Significance of...
Iain McGilchrist has a Warning for our World – The ‘What We Were’ Podcast #25
What We Were #26 – A Conversation with Dr. Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist and Jordan Peterson – Wisdom, Delusion, Consciousness & the Divine – EP 436
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Iain McGilchrist, Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness, God, Truth, & The Purpose of Life
Iain McGilchrist & Mattias Desmet in conversation: The Modern World, Totalitarianism and the Brain
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 5.30 - 7.00 pm UK (via Zoom) £10 - public Free for members and patrons of Channel McGilchrist This fascinating conversation with Dr Iain McGilchrist and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Professor Mattias Desmet explored The Modern...
Intelligence in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Charles Eisenstein
Let’s start with the obvious. When human beings outsource any physical or cognitive function to other people or to machines, that function may atrophy within themselves. New functions may open up, but at a price. Is the price worth paying? Maybe it is; but let us be...
A Conversation with William Blake: Iain McGilchrist, Malcolm Guite & Roger Wagner
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Cerveau, Conscience, Libre-arbitre et Spiritualités : Une Conversation avec Iain McGilchrist
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The Education of Iain McGilchrist, Part I: From Winchester College to All Souls
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The Education of Iain McGilchrist, Part II: Medical School and Beyond
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The Sophia Lectures with Dr Iain McGilchrist – Lecture 1: Division and Union
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Exploring the Marvelous Mystery of the Human Brain – Illuman Event
Thursday, February 20 2025, 3.00pm (UK), Larmor Society - Dr Iain McGilchrist Lecture 'The Significance of Brain Asymmetry' (Lightfoot Room, St John's College Cambridge) Larmor Society - Dr Iain McGilchrist Lecture Dr McGilchrist's Lecture 'The Significance of Brain...
The Sophia Lectures With Dr Iain McGilchrist – Lecture 2: Symmetry and Asymmetry
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The Sophia Lectures With Dr Iain McGilchrist – Lecture 3: Finitude and the Infinite
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Remembering Jacobo Grinberg at 30 – Iain McGilchrist at the Pari Center
Sunday 8 December 2024, 7.30pm (UK) The Pari Center (online) Curated and Chaired by Àlex Gómez-Marín The Mexican neurophysiologist and psychologist Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum disappeared in strange circumstances exactly thirty years ago. His theoretical, empirical,...
Dr McGilchrist on the Cultivation of Wisdom
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Members Q&A – 5th December
Thursday 5th December 2024, 6.00pm to 7.45pm UK time This event is open to Channel McGilchrist members only. As a Channel McGilchrist member, you have the unique opportunity to put a question to Iain for a live Q&A session via Zoom. These Q&As take place every...
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
Friday 4th April, 2025 6.00 - 7.00 pm UK (in person - Sheldonian Theatre) Neuropsychologist Dr Iain McGilchrist talks about his two-volume work, The Matter with Things, in which he addresses major questions about who we are and how we can understand consciousness,...
How we Value Music (A land without music?): The Sound World Podcast
What are the downsides of digital? Iain McGilchrist talks to Fraser Battye
Better use of analysis and decision making, Inequalities, System thinking and system working, Wider determinants of health and prevention October 2024 Photo by Giu Vicente on Unsplash Making a list of ‘pros and cons’ is the first analytical technique most of us...