Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.

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...

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 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

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...

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...

“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...

Of Sound Mind: Sound and Betweenness – Dr Iain McGilchrist & Professor Nina Kraus
Running Time: 01:21:28 In this conversation Dr Iain McGilchrist and Professor Nina Kraus draw on their respective books, McGilchrist's The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, and Kraus' Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs...

Look Out. Orlando Wood on the brain, advertising and a world that’s turning inwards.
Running Time: 00:51:55 Orlando Wood talks to Mary Attwood from Channel McGilchrist about his latest book, Look out. Look out is an advertising guide for a world that’s turning inwards and which draws on the work of Dr Iain McGilchrist. Look out is a study of attention...
Dates for 2023 will be posted soon.

Asymmetry and Symmetry – Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 0:28:25 Dr Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the most widely misunderstood ideas about asymmetry and symmetry. Drawing on his latest book, the Matter with Things, he explains how asymmetry is the greater of the two. Some of the questions he addresses...

Personal Reflections on a Sacred Text – Iain McGilchrist and Shira Nayman
Running Time: 01:36:47 Shira Nayman Psy.D talks to Iain McGilchrist about the sacred. This interview is part of a larger interfaith project exploring personal relationships with sacred texts. Shira Nayman interviews scholars, religious leaders, and lay people, across...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 17: Chapter 17 Intuition’s claims on truth
Running Time: 1:01:31

Dr Iain McGilchrist and Rebel Wisdom: The Matter With Things
Running Time: 1:30:17 In ‘The Matter with Things’, Iain McGilchrist tackles the big questions: Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? What happens if we neglect the sacred and divine? He argues that we have become...

“Balancing the Brain” with Iain McGilchrist and Satish Kumar
Running Time: 01:32:52 In this Earth Talk the respected psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist discusses the hemisphere hypothesis and his latest work the Matter with Things with the founder of Schumacher College, Satish Kumar. Who are we? What is the world? How can...

Dr Iain McGilchrist and Russel Brand: Why Do We All Perceive Reality Differently? Here’s the ANSWER!
Running Time: 00:11:20 Russell Brand talks to author, psychiatrist and former Oxford literary scholar, Iain McGilchrist, on Under The Skin, where they discussed perceptions of reality and how your personal approach to the world is what truly matters.

Can we Unmake the World we have Made? Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 00:06:19 Can we unmake the world we have made? Iain McGilchrist draws on his most recent book, The Matter with Things and discusses whether we can unmake the world we have made and unknow what we know. This clip is from an upcoming documentary film by...

18th November 2022 AIMA Conference – New Zealand
Friday 18th November and Saturday 19th November 2022. Event description We are excited to invite you to the (fully in-person!) 2022 AIMA Conference on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th November 2022 at the Auckland University of Technology in central Auckland, New...

The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist
Richard Gault reviews the magnum opus of an extraordinary thinker who lays out a detailed argument for the unity of the world

Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist – New Zealand
18th November 2022 Event description Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist. Renowned psychiatrist, author, thinker, and former Oxford literary scholar. Friday November 18th - 6pm - The Matter with ThingsOur Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World....

The Matter With Things – Review by Takashi Baba
Our memories are often fuzzy and people sometimes make up stories after the fact. We are governed by irrational biases and can be easily fooled. I like to read books on brain science and behavioral economics and have gathered knowledge on this and that about the...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 16: Chapter 16 Logical paradox
Running Time: 1:00:08

The Coincidence of Opposites with Dr Iain McGilchrist – The Fintry Trust
Saturday 12th November 2022 2:00-3:15pm UK time.