Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
Where Denial, Self Deception and Rationalisation Come From
Running Time: 5:37
Why High Self Esteem is a Hallmark of the Psychopath
Running Time: 3:38
Is Our Internal Moral Compass Being Destroyed?
Running Time: 3:28
How Trust Has Been Eroded in Society
Running Time: 5:24
The Value of Guilt, Shame and Sadness
Running Time: 1:34
The Brain’s Left Hemisphere is Literal and Doesn’t Understand Metaphor or Context
Running Time: 2:03
Our Culture is Becoming ‘More Autistic’
Running Time: 2:09
Why We’re Losing Our Most Important Source of Wisdom
Running Time: 2:59
Why the Social Justice Movement No Longer has Anything to Do With Empathy
Running TIme: 3:00
The Left Hemisphere is Arrogant and Hubristic
Running Time: 1:59
The Belief That Led to the Two Iraq Wars
Running Time: 1:10
Why Identity Politics is the Left Hemisphere Gone Too Far
Running TIme: 3:45
Why Equality and Fairness are Not the Same Thing
Running TIme: 1:31
The Problem with Rationalistic Arguments
Running TIme: 2:10
The Three Overarching Relationships That We’re Losing Today
Running Time: 8:26
Is Modern Society Schizophrenic?
Running TIme: 4:09
Dismissed Religion? The Blindness of the Left Hemisphere
Running Time: 3:37
Why WHAT We Say is Less Important Than HOW We Say It
Running Time: 1:21
Society’s Loss of Wisdom and Why We Need Both Hemisphere’s of the Brain
Running Time: 3:46
Why Traditional Treatments for Schizophenia Worked
Running Time: 2:12
What Ancient Cultures Knew About Our Minds and We’ve Forgotten
Running Time: 5:28
An Exercise to Balance Your Brain’s Two Hemispheres
Running Time: 4:29
Why Reasonableness Beats Rationality Every Time
Running Time: 2:19
Why Insanity is NOT Irrational, But Hyper-Rational Instead
Running Time: 2:19
Why Psychosis is a Left Hemisphere Dominant Condition
Running Time: 2:24
One Thing You Need To Do To Be Wise
Running Time: 2:54
Why Our Pursuit of Meaning is Going Wrong
Running Time: 3:16
How Ultra-Capitalism Destroys Meaning and Damages People
Running Time: 6:08
What is Consciousness?
Running Time: 2:57
Why Are We So Miserable When We’re So Affluent and Free?
Running Time: 2:57
On Death, Mortality and Boredom
Running Time: 6:10
On Beauty (And the Coming Together of Opposites)
Running Time: 11:16
Wisdom as a Harmony of Opposites
Running Time: 9:58
How Education and Government are Suffering From the Loss of the Right Hemisphere
Running Time: 15:52
The Movement Between Heaven and Earth: William Blake’s Image of Jacob’s Ladder
Running Time: 5:40
Metalearn Episode #192 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter with Things, Paths to Understanding and Answering Big Questions
Running time: 1:30:30
How the Light Gets In Festival – in-person event
An in-person event. Saturday 17th September 2022, Hampstead Heath in London, UK.
Two discussions: Our Brains, Our Delusions at 1:30pm and The Key to Consciousness at 4:00pm.
Live Q&A with Iain
MEMBERS ONLY
The live Q&A Zoom session with Iain will take place on Thursday 3rd November 2022 from 6:00 to 7:45pm UK time.
World Summit AI : Iain McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
12 - 13th October 2022, Amsterdam. What’s World Summit AI? The world’s leading and largest AI summit gathers the global AI ecosystem of Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science, the brightest brains in AI as speakers every October in Amsterdam to tackle...
The Divided Brain Conference Retreat
Saturday 8th October – Tuesday 11th October 2022 Tewkesbury Park Hotel – UK
This four day event has been organised by Field & Field and aims to bring together like-minded people immersed in the work and ideas of Dr Iain McGilchrist