Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
The Psychology Podcast – Right Brain, Creativity, and Meaning in Life with Scott Kauffman and Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:01:56
THE DIVIDED BRAIN AND WAYS OF BUILDING THE WORLD: PARALLELS IN THE THOUGHT OF IAIN MCGILCHRIST AND CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER by Or ETTLINGER*
Abstract: What might have led to the fundamental changes in the built environment during the 20th century? While factors such as postwar reconstruction, urbanization, industrialization, shifts in style, or socio-political changes are surely involved, there may be...
Dr Rupert Sheldrake and Dr Iain McGilchrist – In Dialogue. Saturday Morning – Beyond the Brain 2023
Running Time: 01:20:21
The Psychological Drivers of the Metacrisis: John Vervaeke Iain McGilchrist Daniel Schmachtenberger
Running Time: 03:21:54
The Master and his Emissary – A conversation of Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Charles Eisenstein
Running Time: 01:28:05
Jubilee Day Dialogue – Iain McGilchrist and Federico Faggin
Running Time: 00:46:05
Switzerland Series 1: Perspectives on the Nature of Reality to Inform Systemic Change, Dr Iain McGilchrist, CERN, Switzerland
Running Time: 01:01:20
Switzerland Series 2: The Matter With Things: The Case for Shifting Our Attention, Dr Iain McGilchrist – Geneva, Switzerland
Running Time: 01:27:08
Switzerland Series 3: Panel discussion: Hemisphere lateralisation hypothesis & our approach to basic research, Iain McGilchrist at Basel, Switzerland
Running Time: 00:58:48
Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Meaning of Life (The ‘How to Academy’ with David Malone, Audio Podcast)
This podcast (courtesy of the 'How to Academy' is taken from the members recording - 'A New Philosophy of Life' which can be found in the library section of our members area. To find out about becoming a member click here, or visit...
Oxford Renaissance: Dr. Iain McGilchrist
Tuesday, 6th February 2024, 17.00 - 18.00 (in person event) Event description. We are excited to be hosting our first Oxford Renaissance event with Dr. Iain McGilchrist. The event will take place this Tuesday 6th February at 5PM in Dorfman Room, St Peter's college. ...
All day seminar at Royal College of Psychiatrists Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group, London
5th April 2024 - further details to follow
John P McGovern Lecture, Duke University, USA
2nd & 3rd April 2024 - further details to follow
The World is Under a Spell with Iain McGilchrist and Jordi Pigem
Tuesday 30th April 2024, 6.00pm to 7.30pm UK time Online event, via Zoom £10 public FREE for Members and Patrons of Channel McGilchrist (you will still need to register for this event)We have more knowledge than ever, and yet the world is getting worse. Isn't it as if...
The Consciousness of Neuroscience by Alex Gomez-Marin: Published in eNeuro
Feynman’s Birds: Richard Feynman is notorious for his witty quotes, including that “philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” Indeed, some neuroscientists would look perplexed in front of analytic accounts of their own...
Switzerland Series 4: Lecture – The hemisphere lateralisation hypothesis & our approach to basic research by Dr I. McGilchrist, Basel, Switzerland
Running Time: 00:40:52
Iain McGilchrist and D C Schindler: Is Love the Source and Sustenance of Everything in the Universe?
Running Time: 01:20:02
Mahon McCann with Dr Iain McGilchrist: use NEUROSCIENCE to master your ATTENTION
Running Time: 01:02:20
Uncensored CMO – The divided brain, attention and how we see the world with Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 00:48:35
The ‘Beaconsfield Podcast’ #18 The Call to Repair with Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 00:53:18
Beyond the Brain 2023 – Online Conference
Friday, 3rd November to Sunday, 5th November, 2023 onlineEvent description. I regard consciousness as fundamental, matter is derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing,...
Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain and Perceiving the Sacred
Running Time: 01:22:39
Bringing the world into being: •Episode 5• Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:32:36
What inspired you? Iain McGilchrist, a contemporary spiritual thinker – by Dr Michael Evans
I begin with this quotation from the Introduction to The Matter with Things. In recent years I rejoined the Scientific and Medical Network in search of contemporary thinkers, outside the Anthroposophical Society, who appear to be awakening to the spiritual in the...
A New Philosophy of Life – Iain McGilchrist In Conversation With David Malone (live event)
Thursday, 2nd November 2023 6:45pm to 8.00pm (in person event) Event description. Join the philosopher and neuroscientist for a profound new story of what the world is and who we are. Iain McGilchrist’s book The Master and His Emissary was that rare thing: a...
The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion, Q&A on The Matter with Things with Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:18:23
Local Futures – Planet Local Summit, A celebration of the worldwide localisation movement
Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October 2023 Event description. About The Planet Local Summit is a project of Local Futures, an international nonprofit and pioneer of the localisation movement. The Summit will shine light on localisation as a solution-multiplier...
Iain Mcgilchrist and the dilemma of right brain romanticism – by Sir Jonathan Bate
Nearly thirty years ago, Iain McGilchrist published a book called Against Criticism. What he was really against was the dominance of literary theory, as it was taking hold of the academic study of English at that time. The fashion was to begin with a theoretical...
Right – Left Brain Worldviews and the Kabbalah – Iain McGilchrist & Hyman Schipper
Running Time: 01:14:39
The Brain, the Sacred and the Soul – Iain McGilchrist and Thomas Steininger of Evolve
Running Time: 02:17:35
Iain McGilchrist, The Civil Discourse (Season 4)
Running Time: 00:26:45
“Oriente equilibró mejor las visiones de los dos hemisferios cerebrales” – con Jorge Fontevecchia
—¿cómo explica que la división del trabajo entre los dos hemisferios cerebrales pueda proporcionar información clave sobre la naturaleza humana? —Como prácticamente todos los animales, hemos evolucionado para tener dos centros de conciencia, no solo uno. Dos lugares...
Dr. Richard Cocks – References
References for Review of The Matter With Things – Richard Cocks Most references are Iain’s own from the book simply repeated in the review. If all that appears is a number in parentheses, then that is from The Matter With Things. My editor does not like footnotes, so...
Iain McGilchrist con Jorge Fontevecchia – Entrevista Completa – Tiene una implicación moral la forma en que elegimos prestar atención al mundo: Periodismo Puro (Spanish voiceover)
Running Time: 00:59:38
Members’ Q&A – 7th September 2023
7th September 2023 (6.00pm to 7.45pm) Event description 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&A's take place...
In Conversation: Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson – Philosophy of our Time (iai)
Running Time: 00:17:27
Iain McGilchrist: “Oriente equilibró mejor las visiones de los dos hemisferios cerebrales”
Es psiquiatra, filósofo y neurocientífico, dedicó toda su vida al estudio de la relación mente-cuerpo, se formó en medicina y en sus libros intenta explicar cómo los humanos podemos vivir y comprender el mundo real reuniendo la filosofía, la física y la neurociencia...
Iain McGilchrist: “Tiene una implicación moral la forma en que elegimos prestar atención al mundo” con Jorge FontevecchiaIain
Symposia | Episode One: Turning the Tide | Dr Iain McGilchrist – The European Conservative
Running Time: 00:59:43
Dr. Ian McGilchrist in conversation with Dr. Ash Ranpura
Running Time: 00:50:43