Contemporary Articles
This area of Channel McGilchrist is dedicated to articles of interest on contemporary topics as chosen by Dr Iain McGilchrist.
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

A Revolution in Attention: perceptual awakening in Iain McGilchrist’s work – a talk by Dr Mark Vernon
Introduced by Iain McGilchrist. 6th October 7:00pm-8:30pm UK time.
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 12: Chapter 12 The science of life
Running Time: 1:07:47
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 11: Chapter 11 Science’s claims on truth
Running Time: 53:21
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 10: Chapter 10 What is Truth?
Running Time: 1:07:27
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 9: Chapter 9 Schizophrenia and Autism
Running Time: 1:12:24
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 8: Chapter 8 Creativity
Running Time: 1:21:22
Understanding The Matter With Things Dialogues Episode 7: Chapter 7 Cognitive Intelligence
Running Time: 49:16
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 6: Chapter 6 Emotional & Social Intelligence
Running Time:54:23
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 5: Chapter 5 Apprehension
Running Time:1:00:53
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues: Episode 4: Chapter 4 Judgment
Running Time:1:22:41
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 3: Chapter 3
Running Time:47:22
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues: Episode 2: Chapters 1 & 2
Running Time:59:50
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues: Episode 1: The Introduction
Running Time: 1:01:42

Demystifying Science with Michael Shilo

The Jim Rutt Show – EP 154 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things

Scottish Daily Mail
Genius from Skye who’s written one of the most important books EVER published.
By Jonathan Brocklebank, April 2, 2022

The Master, his Emissary & the Meaning Crisis, Iain McGilchrist & John Vervaeke
Running Time: 1:19:47 Iain McGilchrist is the celebrated author of the revolutionary work, The Master and His Emissary, all about how the structure of our brains and perception creates a divided world, and has a central role in our struggle to perceive reality...

The Matter with Things – Prospect Magazine Review
Iain McGilchrist and the battle over the left-brain, right-brain theory.
If we are to see the world as it truly is, the divide between the brain’s hemispheres needs to be healed.
By Nick Spencer, March 3, 2022

Insights from ‘The Matter With Things’
Why is this worth your time? Regular readers will be aware that I think Dr. Iain McGilchrist is one of the most consequential minds of our times. Last month he published a monster 1,400 page book, The Matter With Things. It’s his masterpiece, and an attempt to comprehensively expand on a thesis that has changed my life. I had the privilege of interviewing him last week.

Adam Smith on Self-Deceit
The University of Virginia Center for Politics, led by Larry Sabato, provides polling results that show deep social, political, and psychological divides between Biden voters and Trump voters. Nowadays, it is common to think that large swaths of other people must be in denial.
In the old days, we argued good policy. Now we theorize one another.
Adam Smith had things to say about denial and self-deceit. Here I draw exclusively from The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Applications are in your hands—and breast.

Falling Into The Song Of Gaia
Enchantment is essentially an experience of wonder, and like the experience itself, the subject is hard to pin down. So think of this essay instead as a wander through one corner of it, with glimpses farther afield.

Tocqueville’s Dystopias: The Bad And The Very Bad
Daniel B. Klein September 6, 2021[A version of this piece appeared originally at City Journal.] Alexis de Tocqueville “The entire book that you are going to read,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in the Introduction of Democracy in America, Volume One...