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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...

How the brain works – Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Jack Light
Running Time: 01:04:59

Whole Brain – Whole Body, expanding the horizon of our being
Monday 20th March to Friday 24th March 2023 Event description. Our fragmented view of ourselves is reflected in our fragmented world. Bringing together science, traditional wisdom and direct experience, we will explore the realms of our inner and outer ecologies, to...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 26: Chapter 26 Value
Running Time: 1:21:41

Iain McGilchrist and Caroline Ross in conversation
Running Time: 00:51:05

HOW OUR BRAINS MODEL REALITY & THE TRUE NATURE OF THE WORLD | IAIN MCGILCHRIST

Imagination and Truth – Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Roger Wagner and Malcolm Guite
Running Time: 01:09:41
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 25: Chapter 25 Matter and consciousness
Running Time: 1:59:25

Kinship, a 6-week online course exploring community, relationality and belonging in a world of islands.
31st January 2023 to 7th March 2023 Event description. We inhabit a world of islands… Our pale blue dot; a constellation of archipelagos buoyed amidst an even greater cosmos of celestial atolls. Like the billowing ocean tides, our terraqueous isle undulates toward the...

The Scientific & Medical Network present Dr. Iain McGilchrist – What is the Matter with Things?
17th April 2023 Europe/London 7.30pm to 9.30pm Event description. Many of us are aware that the mindset of reductionist materialism is inadequate, but may find it harder to articulate why. My latest book, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the...

God as Eternal Becoming: McGilchrist’s Hemispheric Process Panentheism with Andrew M. Davis
Running Time: 00:20:44

Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversation
Running Time: 01:10:55

The Matter with Things: A day’s seminar with Dr Iain McGilchrist: In person event in London
Event description This exclusive day with Iain McGilchrist live on stage is his only full day's seminar in London of 2023 and will not be repeated. This event celebrates the launch of the paperback edition of The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 24: Chapter 24 Space and matter
Running Time: 1:10:35
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 23: Chapter 23 Flow and movement
Running Time: 1:12:08
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 22: Chapter 22 Time
Running Time: 1:17:13

What Happens with the Mind when the Brain Dies? by Alex Gomez-Marin
Abstract: A neuroscientist reflects on his near-death experience to ponder the nature of the human mind and the survival of consciousness after death. Ancient traditions, manifold personal experiences, nuanced philosophical views, and recent scientific evidence, all...

‘HowTheLightGetsIn’ HAY 2023
26th May 2023 to 29th May 2023 Event description. Debate is the beating heart of HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2023. From Nobel Laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, HowTheLightGetsIn is home to world-leading thinkers pushing their disciplines forward. Explore our wide-ranging...

The Shocking Truth About How The Brain ACTUALLY Works | DR. IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Unlock Your Potential #235 with Jeff Lerner

Iain McGilchrist – Rediscovering Wisdom in a World Gone Mad – with Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Local Futures Podcast

The Brain, the Sacred and the Soul – evolve LIVE! online event with Dr Iain McGilchrist
Friday, February 3rd 2023, from 18:00 - 21:00 CET Event description. An online event with Dr Iain McGilchrist, a British psychiatrist, received global attention for both, Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and his new book...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 21: Chapter 21 The one and the many
Running Time: 1:00:21

Iain McGilchrist and Michael Levin in conversation
Running Time: 00:56:22

The Realisation Festival (St. Giles, Dorset, UK)
29th June 2023 to 2nd July 2023 Event description. Realisation is a gathering that is part retreat, part symposium at St Giles House, Dorset. It is for those actively working at the interface between society and soul, and who feel the gravity of our times. Over the...

“The Matter With Things” by Matt Segal
"I’ve just finished reading The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (2021), Iain McGilchrist’s two volume follow-up to The Master and His Emissary (2009). Volume 1 of TMWT focuses on “the ways to truth,” revisiting the...

A Revolution in Attention – a talk by Dr Mark Vernon
Running Time: 01:33:04
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 20: Chapter 20 The coincidentia oppositorum
Running Time: 1:23:07
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 19:Ch.19 Intuition, imagination and unveiling
Running Time: 1:16:11
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 18: Ch. 18 The untimely demise of intuition
Running Time: 1:11:45

Will Beharrell from the Fathom Trust Interviews Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:10:05

FREE Thinking: Christopher Harding talks to two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world.

Left Brain, Right Brain – or BOTH? with Dr. Iain McGilchrist (S3, Ep19)

On Spaciousness, Wordsworth and the Soul – Interview by David Lorimer of the Imaginal Inspirations Podcast

Love Itself – Interview by Cressida Bonas
We discuss the divided brain, and why it has such and important meaning for us today.

Sam Harris – The Divided Mind: A Conversation with Iain McGilchrist
Running time: 55:00
Our Divided Nature & Reasons for Hope: A Conversation with Dr Iain McGilchrist

Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things – Pari Center Anniversary event
Running Time: 02:09:16 This online event celebrated one year since the publication of The Matter with Things. Reflections on The Matter with Things begins with an in-depth interview with Jonathan Rowson from Perspectiva Press, the book's publisher, followed by...

AI World Summit 2022 Dr Iain McGilchrist on Artificial Intelligence and The Matter with Things
Running Time: 00:24:48 Dr Iain McGilchrist gives the keynote speech at the AI World Summit, October 2022 in Amsterdam, organised by Inspired Minds. In relation to artificial intelligence, he draws on his latest book, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions...

Iain McGilchrist & Nigel McGilchrist on The Greatness of Pythagoras
Running Time: 01:26:17 Dr Iain McGilchrist talks to art historian, Nigel McGilchrist, about his new book, When the Dog speaks, the Philosopher listens - A guide to the greatness of Pythagoras and his curious Age. This book can be purchased via this link...

Dr Iain McGilchrist and Rebel Wisdom, ‘We Need to Act’
Running Time: 00:41:47 Iain McGilchrist has been outlining for many years that a fundamental problem in the way we are perceiving the world is likely to lead us into trouble. Now in 2022 he believes the situation is reaching a crucial turning point and we need to...
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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...

How the brain works – Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Jack Light
Running Time: 01:04:59

Whole Brain – Whole Body, expanding the horizon of our being
Monday 20th March to Friday 24th March 2023 Event description. Our fragmented view of ourselves is reflected in our fragmented world. Bringing together science, traditional wisdom and direct experience, we will explore the realms of our inner and outer ecologies, to...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 26: Chapter 26 Value
Running Time: 1:21:41

Iain McGilchrist and Caroline Ross in conversation
Running Time: 00:51:05

HOW OUR BRAINS MODEL REALITY & THE TRUE NATURE OF THE WORLD | IAIN MCGILCHRIST

Imagination and Truth – Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Roger Wagner and Malcolm Guite
Running Time: 01:09:41
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 25: Chapter 25 Matter and consciousness
Running Time: 1:59:25

Kinship, a 6-week online course exploring community, relationality and belonging in a world of islands.
31st January 2023 to 7th March 2023 Event description. We inhabit a world of islands… Our pale blue dot; a constellation of archipelagos buoyed amidst an even greater cosmos of celestial atolls. Like the billowing ocean tides, our terraqueous isle undulates toward the...

The Scientific & Medical Network present Dr. Iain McGilchrist – What is the Matter with Things?
17th April 2023 Europe/London 7.30pm to 9.30pm Event description. Many of us are aware that the mindset of reductionist materialism is inadequate, but may find it harder to articulate why. My latest book, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the...

God as Eternal Becoming: McGilchrist’s Hemispheric Process Panentheism with Andrew M. Davis
Running Time: 00:20:44

Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversation
Running Time: 01:10:55

The Matter with Things: A day’s seminar with Dr Iain McGilchrist: In person event in London
Event description This exclusive day with Iain McGilchrist live on stage is his only full day's seminar in London of 2023 and will not be repeated. This event celebrates the launch of the paperback edition of The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 24: Chapter 24 Space and matter
Running Time: 1:10:35
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 23: Chapter 23 Flow and movement
Running Time: 1:12:08
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 22: Chapter 22 Time
Running Time: 1:17:13

What Happens with the Mind when the Brain Dies? by Alex Gomez-Marin
Abstract: A neuroscientist reflects on his near-death experience to ponder the nature of the human mind and the survival of consciousness after death. Ancient traditions, manifold personal experiences, nuanced philosophical views, and recent scientific evidence, all...

‘HowTheLightGetsIn’ HAY 2023
26th May 2023 to 29th May 2023 Event description. Debate is the beating heart of HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2023. From Nobel Laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, HowTheLightGetsIn is home to world-leading thinkers pushing their disciplines forward. Explore our wide-ranging...

The Shocking Truth About How The Brain ACTUALLY Works | DR. IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Unlock Your Potential #235 with Jeff Lerner

Iain McGilchrist – Rediscovering Wisdom in a World Gone Mad – with Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Local Futures Podcast

The Brain, the Sacred and the Soul – evolve LIVE! online event with Dr Iain McGilchrist
Friday, February 3rd 2023, from 18:00 - 21:00 CET Event description. An online event with Dr Iain McGilchrist, a British psychiatrist, received global attention for both, Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and his new book...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 21: Chapter 21 The one and the many
Running Time: 1:00:21

Iain McGilchrist and Michael Levin in conversation
Running Time: 00:56:22

The Realisation Festival (St. Giles, Dorset, UK)
29th June 2023 to 2nd July 2023 Event description. Realisation is a gathering that is part retreat, part symposium at St Giles House, Dorset. It is for those actively working at the interface between society and soul, and who feel the gravity of our times. Over the...

“The Matter With Things” by Matt Segal
"I’ve just finished reading The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (2021), Iain McGilchrist’s two volume follow-up to The Master and His Emissary (2009). Volume 1 of TMWT focuses on “the ways to truth,” revisiting the...

A Revolution in Attention – a talk by Dr Mark Vernon
Running Time: 01:33:04
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 20: Chapter 20 The coincidentia oppositorum
Running Time: 1:23:07
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 19:Ch.19 Intuition, imagination and unveiling
Running Time: 1:16:11
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 18: Ch. 18 The untimely demise of intuition
Running Time: 1:11:45

Will Beharrell from the Fathom Trust Interviews Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:10:05

FREE Thinking: Christopher Harding talks to two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world.

Left Brain, Right Brain – or BOTH? with Dr. Iain McGilchrist (S3, Ep19)

On Spaciousness, Wordsworth and the Soul – Interview by David Lorimer of the Imaginal Inspirations Podcast

Love Itself – Interview by Cressida Bonas
We discuss the divided brain, and why it has such and important meaning for us today.

Sam Harris – The Divided Mind: A Conversation with Iain McGilchrist
Running time: 55:00
Our Divided Nature & Reasons for Hope: A Conversation with Dr Iain McGilchrist

Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things – Pari Center Anniversary event
Running Time: 02:09:16 This online event celebrated one year since the publication of The Matter with Things. Reflections on The Matter with Things begins with an in-depth interview with Jonathan Rowson from Perspectiva Press, the book's publisher, followed by...

AI World Summit 2022 Dr Iain McGilchrist on Artificial Intelligence and The Matter with Things
Running Time: 00:24:48 Dr Iain McGilchrist gives the keynote speech at the AI World Summit, October 2022 in Amsterdam, organised by Inspired Minds. In relation to artificial intelligence, he draws on his latest book, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions...

Iain McGilchrist & Nigel McGilchrist on The Greatness of Pythagoras
Running Time: 01:26:17 Dr Iain McGilchrist talks to art historian, Nigel McGilchrist, about his new book, When the Dog speaks, the Philosopher listens - A guide to the greatness of Pythagoras and his curious Age. This book can be purchased via this link...

Dr Iain McGilchrist and Rebel Wisdom, ‘We Need to Act’
Running Time: 00:41:47 Iain McGilchrist has been outlining for many years that a fundamental problem in the way we are perceiving the world is likely to lead us into trouble. Now in 2022 he believes the situation is reaching a crucial turning point and we need to...