Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
Join Iain McGilchrist at Harald Walach – Transhumanism: Next Step in Human Development
Tuesday, 15th July, 2025 5 - 7 PM (UK) Online Harald will give an overview of his report, which will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Gregg Braden, Iain McGilchrist and Anne Baring, chaired by David Lorimer. We will then take questions from the audience....
PsychoBabble Ep.41 – Dr Iain McGilchrist talks about Hemispheres and the Rise of the Medical Administrative Complex :
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Iain McGilchrist and Mark Vernon on William Blake: Imagination and Inspiration, Science and Soul
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Members’ Q&A 24th July 2025
Thursday 24th July 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...
A Revolution in Thought? How Hemisphere Theory Helps us Understand the Metacrisis by dr Iain McGilchrist
Carved into the stone of the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi was the injunction to ‘know thyself’. Without such knowledge we are tossed this way and that by forces we neither suspect nor understand. Knowing ourselves helps explain our predicament; and doing so is...
The Sacred Power of Story | Marc Gafni & Iain McGilchrist moderated by Zak Stein
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Dr. Iain McGilchrist: Contend with a Better Future, Episode 935
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Iain McGilchrist SABOTAGING The True the Good and the Beautiful
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Philosophy, Cultural Evolution, and the Hemisphere Hypothesis | Iain McGilchrist and Steve McIntosh
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Right and Left Brain Explained: Iain McGilchrist on Attention, Self, and Meaning | FitMind Podcast
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Activism and the Divided Brain – Iain McGilchrist and Anthea Lawson
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IAIN MCGILCHRIST Does Science tell us The Truth
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UnHerd with Dr Iain McGilchrist and Philip Goff: The mystery of the mind
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Activism and the Divided Brain – Iain McGilchrist and Anthea Lawson
Activism and the Divided Brain Iain McGilchrist and Anthea Lawson Thursday 19th June 2025, 6-7.30pm UK time FREE online event by Channel McGilchristA discussion between Anthea Lawson, author of The Entangled Activist and Dr Iain McGilchrist, about the implications of...
St John’s Cathedral Podcast ‘On the way’ with Iain McGilchrist: A Distorted Reality
Dr Iain McGilchrist and Philip Goff – The Mystery of the Mind – UnHerd Club
Wednesday 4th June, 2025, 7 - 8.30 pm UK time SOLD OUT Are we our brains? Or can science only tell part of the story? Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and author of the widely lauded book The Master and His Emissary: The...
Dr Iain McGilchrist – We need to talk about God
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Iain McGilchrist at the ‘BrainBar’ Festival
Thursday-Friday, 18th-19th September, 2025, at the House of Music Hungary Brain Bar is Europe's largest future festival, where scientists, entrepreneurs, politicians and cultural personalities debate the most important issues of the 21st century. Since 2015, our...
The Triumph of the Machine – Lecture Two from The Future of Humanity with Dr Iain McGilchrist
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IAIN MCGILCHRIST CHALLENGES RICHARD DAWKINS ON THE VALUE OF TRUTH IN SCIENCE
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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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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...
Dr Iain McGilchrist – Why Brain Asymmetry Matters to Our Civilisation and the Plight of the Humanities. – A live event in Poland
Friday 6th June, 2025 5.30 pm GMT+2 (in person - Aula Lubrańskiego, Collegium Minus in Poznań, Poland) On Friday, June 6, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., in Lubrański Hall at Collegium Minus, Dr. Iain McGilchrist will deliver a lecture entitled: “Why Brain Asymmetry Matters to...
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...