Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
A Sense of the Sacred
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In conjunction with the Centre for Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred.
In this seminar, Dr Iain McGilchrist draws on his new work, The Matter with Things, and addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that have a practical urgency for all of us today.
Our Brain is Divided | Maudsley Learning Podcast with Dr. Alex Curmi
Running Time: 1:34:57
The Meaning of Having “No Self”
Running Time: 2:55:36
Jordan Peterson in Conversation with Iain McGilchrist
Running Time:29:51
The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
Running Time: 59:34
Daily Poetry Reading #1 ‘A Spell for Creation’ by Kathleen Raine
Running Time: 2:16
Daily Poetry Reading #2: ‘Proud Songsters’ by Thomas Hardy
Running Time: 1:07
Daily Poetry Reading #3 ‘Coming’ by Philip Larkin
Running Time: 1:16
Daily Poetry Reading #4 ‘The Solitary Reaper’ by William Wordsworth
Running Time: 2:32
Daily Poetry Reading #5 ‘Canopus’ by Bert Leston Taylor
Running Time: 2:32
Daily Poetry Reading #6 ‘I So Like Spring’, ‘Sea Love’ and ‘A Quoi Bon Dire’ by Charlotte Mew
Running Time: 2:25
Daily Poetry Reading #7 ‘Good and Clever’ by Elizabeth Wordsworth
Running Time: 0:52
Daily Poetry Reading #8 ‘The Self Unseeing’ by Thomas Hardy
Running Time: 1:28
Daily Poetry Reading #9 ‘The Hammers’ and ‘Stupidity Street’ by Ralph Hodgson
Running Time: 1:47
Daily Poetry Reading #10: ‘The Sun Rising’ by John Donne
Running Time: 1:55
Daily Poetry Readings #11: Two Untitled Poems by Emily Dickinson
Running Time: 1:57
Daily Poetry Reading #12: ‘The Relic’ by John Donne
Running Time: 2:15
Daily Poetry Readings #13: ‘To Sleep’ and ‘This Living Hand’ by John Keats
Running Time: 2:42
Daily Poetry Readings #14: ‘The Hardness Scale’ by Joyce Peseroff
Running Time: 2:56
Daily Poetry Reading #15: Two Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Running Time: 3:42
Daily Poetry Reading #16: ‘London Snow’ and ‘Spring Goeth All in White’ by Robert Bridges
Running Time: 4:07
Daily Poetry Reading#17 ‘Simplify Me When I’m Dead’ by Keith Douglas
Running Time: 2:16
Daily Poetry Readings #18: ‘There Are Bad Times Just Around’ the Corner by Noel Coward
Running Time: 3:24
Daily Poetry Readings #19: ‘Two in the Campagna’ by Robert Browning read
Running Time: 4:27
Daily Poetry Reading #20: ‘At Castle Boterel’ by Thomas Hardy
Running Time: 2:39
Daily Poetry Reading #21: ‘The Cool Web’ by Robert Graves
Running Time: 1:36
Daily Poetry Reading #22: ‘Short Ode to the Cuckoo’ by W.H. Auden
Running Time: 1:21
Daily Poetry Reading #23: ‘The Sorrows of Werther’ by William Thackeray
Running Time: 2:10
Daily Poetry Reading #24 ‘Fern Hill’ by Dylan Thomas
Running Time: 4:00
Daily Poetry Reading #25: ‘The Trouble with Poetry’ by Billy Collins
Running Time: 2:06
Daily Poetry Reading #26: ‘Ignorance’ by Philip Larkin
Running Time: 1:06
Daily Poetry Reading #27: ‘Farewell to Kurdistan’ by Rosemary Tonks
Running Time: 5:04
Daily Poetry Reading #28: ‘Thoughts About the Person from Porlock’ by Stevie Smith
Running Time: 3:39
Daily Poetry Reading #29: ‘Vergissmeinnicht’ by Keith Douglas
Running Time: 1:58
Daily Poetry Reading #30: ‘Strange Meeting’ by Wilfred Owen
Running Time: 4:40
Iain McGilchrist in Conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge (Local Futures)
Running Time: 1:41:39
How Puritanism Works
We have had here this night past a marvellous stir, – all the churches, chapels and houses of religion utterly defaced, and no kind of things left whole within them, but broken and utterly destroyed; being done after such order and with so few folks that it is to be...
Attention Is Not A Resource But A Way Of Being Alive To The World
This article was originally published at Aeon. Dan Nixon is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Economist and The Guardian, among others. He also leads Perspectiva’s initiative into the workings of the attention economy and is a senior researcher at The Mindfulness Initiative. He lives in London. ‘We are […]
Salon London: ‘The Master and his Emissary’
Running Time: 59:55
Tuesday Talks: ‘The School of Nothing Buttery’
There is a strong reductionist element in popular science and some brands of philosophy which presents itself as speaking for science and the thinking person. It doesn’t.