Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
A Conversation with Iain McGilchrist | Rattle Poetry
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The Beshara Lecture – the Coincidence of Opposites
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Iain McGilchrist: “Wisdom, Nature and the Brain” | The Great Simplification #85 with Nate Hagens
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Beyond Our Delusions: On Iain McGilchrist’s “The Matter with Things” by Andrew Louth
Introduction: Book review by Andrew Louth is professor emeritus of patristic and Byzantine studies at the University of Durham; IAIN MCGILCHRIST’S The Matter with Things is a sequel to his previous volume The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making...
Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman, The right brain is essential to creativity: IAINews
Introduction: In response to Scott Barry Kaufman’s article yesterday arguing the right-left brain hemisphere split isn’t true, the main proponent of the view, Iain McGilchrist, responds: Scott Barry Kaufman would appear to be way behind the curve on the topic of...
TO ‘SEE’, OR NOT TO ‘SEE’: THAT IS THE QUESTION. MOVING ON FROM A HALF-BRAINED SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE: The Regulatory Policy Institute Research Group
Introduction: The underpinning thesis of this Essay is that practically useful knowledge concerning economic governance, and governance more generally for that matter, can be acquired by study of the structure and functioning of the human brain. The arguments have...
A Conversation with Dr. Iain McGilchrist – The Future Scientist with Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin in Conversation with Dr. Iain McGilchrist
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Iain McGilchrist & Rupert Read in Conversation: Are We in a War Against Life?
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MANTORSHIFT #44 Brain Matters with Iain McGilchrist
SMN Golden Jubilee Celebration – Visions of Interconnectedness in Science and Spiritual Wisdom (in-person & online event)
5th July 2023 An in-person and live-streamed event to celebrate 50 years of the Scientific and Medical Network Event description. We warmly invite you to come in person or attend online to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Network! We have put together a series of...
Wonder and Enchantment – Iain McGilchrist and Patrick Curry
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A Conversation Between Iain McGilchrist and David Bentley Hart
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The role of consciousness in nature: An interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Part 1
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The role of consciousness in nature: An interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Part 2
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Iain McGilchrist: Schizophrenia, & The Limits of Reason
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The Mind-blowing Impact of “Balancing Hemispheres”: Ideas of Iain McGilchrist & the BioIndividual
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Recovering the sacred, Recovering the Soul: Session 1 of the ‘Recovering the Sacred’ online series – Pari Perspecitve
Abstract: According to Laozi: He who knows does not tell and he who tells does not know. The power of unknowing and not doing is celebrated in Chinese philosophy. Also in the Western tradition. For example, Meister Eckhart in one of his sermons speaks of the...
Iain McGilchrist Λ John Vervaeke: God, Being, & Meaning
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Attention and Worldview in International Development, Iain McGilchrist & Ameer Shaheed
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Iain McGilchrist & Isabela Granic: Intergenerational Wisdom for a World Unravelling
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Dr Iain McGilchrist: We are living in a deluded world
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Beyond the Mechanistic Conception of Reality – Iain McGilchrist & Philip Goyal in Conversation
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Iain McGilchrist in conversation with the Swedish publishers of The Master & His Emissary
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The world is not a problem – Iain McGilchrist and Dougald Hine
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The Realisation Festival (St. Giles, Dorset, UK: in-person event)
29th June 2023 to 2nd July 2023 Event description. Realisation is a gathering that is part retreat, part symposium at St Giles House, Dorset. It is for those actively working at the interface between society and soul, and who feel the gravity of our times. Over the...
THE MATTER WITH THINGS: OUR BRAINS, OUR DELUSIONS, AND THE UNMAKING OF THE WORLD (in-person event)
28th June 2023 (17.30 to 18.30) Event description. Iain McGilchrist will address some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that have a practical urgency. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time?...
Festival of Writing & Ideas (in-person event)
16th June to 18th June 2023 Event description. 2023 will be the eleventh edition of Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas, and we are proud to have weathered the last few years to bring you another intimate and invigorating weekend, in a place as beautiful as...
Wonder and Enchantment – Iain McGilchrist and Patrick Curry
FREE online event in which Iain and Patrick will be discussing the phenomenon of enchantment, especially the experience of wonder that is at its heart. Why does it matter? And what are some of its attributes and dynamics? We shall also look at how it relates to the two modes of right and left brain hemispheres, and why it might be a possible effect of their integration, and therefore a life of sanity.
Imagination: A Way to Remake the World – Iain McGilchrist & Phoebe Tickell
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Are we unmaking the world? Iain McGilchrist & Bonnitta Roy in Conversation
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“The Matter with Things” – Dr Iain McGilchrist on epistemology and metaphysics
Running Time: 01:28:31
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 29: Epilogue
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The Matter With Things: The Case for Shifting Our Attention – in person event
9th May 2023 (in person event) Event description. In person at: La Fabrique de la Paix - Geneva Graduate Institute Maison de la Paix (Petal 2, 4th Floor) Chemin Eugène-Rigot, 2 1202 Genève On the 9th of May the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Fabrique de la Paix will be...
Perspectives on the Nature of Reality To Inform Systemic Change – in person event – in person event
8th May 2023 (registration 5th May latest due to limited spaces) Event description. The event aims to share an innovative and trans-disciplinary thesis addressing the nature of reality, from the perspective of the human brain and philosophy. It hopes to bring a fresh...
The Master’s Theory of Everything: A review of Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World – author Marius Dorobantu, from ‘Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology’, 2023, 2-1, pp. 6-17.
Abstract: When pointing towards inanimate objects, chimpanzees use their right hand, whereas when pointing towards living creatures, they do it with their left. Such a striking difference can, to some extent, also be noticeable in humans: for grasping things, we...
Two Minds – by Wendell Berry
Abstract: Human orders – scientific, artistic, social, economic, and political – are fictions. They are untrue, not because they necessarily are false, but because they necessarily are incomplete. All of our human orders, however inclusive we may try to make them,...
Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel? by Iain McGilchrist – from the Marginalia Review of Books
Abstract: In the lecture series given in Cambridge in 1951 that formed the basis of his book Science & Humanism, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger observed: It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of...
The Matter with Things: A day’s seminar with Dr Iain McGilchrist: In person event in London
A special thank you to all attendees for making this such a wonderful event, both in person and online. The recording of this event is now available for purchase using the form below.TrailersPurchase the recording Event description This exclusive day with Iain...
Valueception: What does it mean to ‘see’ value? with Zak Stein
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Iain McGilchrist, Michael Levin and Richard Watson conversation 5
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