Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
Resurgence Talks: Dr Iain McGilchrist, ‘The Value of Values’
Running Time: 01:28:05
Iain McGilchrist, Michael Levin and Richard Watson conversation 4
Running Time: 00:59:46
Iain McGilchrist in conversation with ‘The Nocturnist’: speaking about his book ‘The Master and his Emissary’
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 28: Ch 28 The sense of the sacred
Running Time: 2:13:12
Iain McGilchrist, Michael Levin and Richard Watson conversation 3
Running Time: 01:01:14
Iain McGilchrist, Michael Levin and Richard Watson conversation 2
Running Time: 00:58:22
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...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 27: Ch 27 Purpose, life, nature of the cosmos
Running Time: 1:03:03
Diagnosing the Sanity of our Historical Epoch with Bonnitta Roy
Wednesday 29th March 2023 Event description. Bonnitta Roy is an award winning author, philosopher and insight guide. She currently runs the Pop-Up School, an innovative online educational platform, and has previously held esteemed posts as a Professor in Residence for...
Resurgence Talk: Dr Iain McGilchrist, ‘The Value of Values’
Thursday 30th March 2023, 7.30 - 9.00 pm online, via ZoomEvent description. Values cannot be directly observed or measured, and yet are so powerful that they govern the nature and course of individual lives, as well as the nature and course of a civilisation. What are...
Diagnosing the Sanity of our Historical Epoch with Bonnitta Roy
Wednesday 29th March, 7pm in the UK, online Event description. Bonnitta Roy is an award winning author, philosopher and insight guide. She currently runs the Pop-Up School, an innovative online educational platform, and has previously held esteemed posts as a...
Iain McGilchrist and Michael Levin in conversation
Running Time: 00:56:22
Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist & Jonathan Rowson in Conversation
Running Time: 01:36:55
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
How the brain works – Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Jack Light
Running Time: 01:04:59
HOW OUR BRAINS MODEL REALITY & THE TRUE NATURE OF THE WORLD | IAIN MCGILCHRIST
Iain McGilchrist and Caroline Ross in conversation
Running Time: 00:51:05
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...
‘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...
Imagination and Truth – Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Roger Wagner and Malcolm Guite
Running Time: 01:09:41
God as Eternal Becoming: McGilchrist’s Hemispheric Process Panentheism with Andrew M. Davis
Running Time: 00:20:44
The Coincidence of Opposites (the Beshara Lecture: online event)
9th July 2023 (online event - 14:00 - 15:30 BST) Event description. "If there is Oneness, what are the Many? Are they the same? What do we mean? I suggest that the coincidence of opposites is a truth of unsurpassed importance, but that we have been educated into...
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...
The Matter with Things, Iain McGilchrist at the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Edinburugh (in-person event)
5th August 2023 (10.00am to 4.30pm) Event description. Through this seminar, Iain will explore the relevance of the hemisphere hypothesis in 2023 and ask, what is the matter with things? Where are we now? Can we really neglect the sacred and divine? Why, indeed, are...
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, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversation
Running Time: 01:10:55
Clinical Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Society, London (TBA) 01:06:2024
1st June 2024 - further details to follow
“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