The Master and His Emissary
Video Commentaries
Video 1
The Arrogance of Your Brain’s Left Hemisphere
Video 2
Why Everything You Think You Know About the Brain’s Hemispheres is Wrong
Video 3
How Your Brain’s Hemispheres REALLY differ
Video 4
Why You Lose 70% of Your Brain Before You’re Born
Video 5
What the Frontal Lobes of Your Brain Do
Video 6
What Brain Damage Can Teach You About Your Own Brain
Video 7
How the Left Hemisphere Puts People Into Categories
Video 8
How the Analytical View of the Left Hemisphere Can Cut You Off From Life
Video 9
The Dangers of Relying on Your Analytical Intellect Too Much
Video 10
Do You Really Have Two Brains in Your Head?
Video 11
Where Anger, Frustration and Irritation Come From
Video 12
Does OCD Come From the Brain’s Left Hemisphere?
Video 13
Where Sadness and Sorrow Come From
Video 14
Your Brain When Depressed
Video 15
Why Unrealistic Optimism is a Feature of the Brain’s Left Hemisphere
Video 16
Where Denial, Self Deception and Rationalisation Come From
Video 17
Why High Self Esteem is a Hallmark of the Psychopath
Video 18
Is Our Internal Moral Compass Being Destroyed?
Video 19
How Trust Has Been Eroded in Society
Video 20
The Value of Guilt, Shame and Sadness
Video 21
The Brain’s Left Hemisphere is Literal and Doesn’t Understand Metaphor or Context
Video 22
Our Culture is Becoming ‘More Autistic’
Video 23
Why We’re Losing Our Most Important Source of Wisdom
Video 24
Why the Social Justice Movement No Longer has Anything to Do With Empathy
Video 25
The Left Hemisphere is Arrogant and Hubristic
Video 26
The Belief That Led to the Two Iraq Wars
Video 27
Why Identity Politics is the Left Hemisphere Gone Too Far
Video 28
Why Equality and Fairness are Not the Same Thing
Video 29
The Problem with Rationalistic Arguments
Video 30
The Three Overarching Relationships That We’re Losing Today
Video 31
Is Modern Society Schizophrenic?
Video 32
Dismissed Religion? The Blindness of the Left Hemisphere
Video 33
Society’s Loss of Wisdom and Why We Need Both Hemisphere’s of the Brain
Video 34
Why WHAT We Say is Less Important Than HOW We Say It
Video 35
What Ancient Cultures Knew About Our Minds and We’ve Forgotten
Video 36
An Exercise to Balance Your Brain’s Two Hemispheres
Video 37
Why Traditional Treatments for Schizophenia Worked
Video 38
Why Insanity is NOT Irrational, But Hyper-Rational Instead
Video 39
Why Psychosis is a Left Hemisphere Dominant Condition
Video 40
Why Reasonableness Beats Rationality Every Time
Video 41
One Thing You Need To Do To Be Wise
Video 42
Why Our Pursuit of Meaning is Going Wrong
Video 43
How Ultra-Capitalism Destroys Meaning and Damages People
Video 44
What is Consciousness?
Video 45
Why Are We So Miserable When We’re So Affluent and Free?
Video 46
On Death, Mortality and Boredom
Video 47
On Beauty (And the Coming Together of Opposites)
Video 48
Wisdom as a Harmony of Opposites
Video 49
How Education and Government are Suffering From the Loss of the Right Hemisphere
Video 50
The Movement Between Heaven and Earth: William Blake’s Image of Jacob’s Ladder