The Master and His Emissary Conversations
Clinical Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Society, London (TBA)
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 hemisphere hypothesis and unpacking the respective roles of the left and right hemispheres in attention, perception, judgment, apprehension, emotion, creativity, science, reason, imagination, and intuition. Volume 2 then explores the implications of the hemisphere hypothesis for what is likely to be true about the universe itself, including deep inquiries into time, motion, space, matter, consciousness, value, and the sacred…”
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
Will Beharrell from the Fathom Trust Interviews Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 01:10:05
FREE Thinking: Christopher Harding talks to two leading thinkers investigating the nature of mind and its place in the world.
Left Brain, Right Brain – or BOTH? with Dr. Iain McGilchrist (S3, Ep19)
On Spaciousness, Wordsworth and the Soul – Interview by David Lorimer of the Imaginal Inspirations Podcast
Love Itself – Interview by Cressida Bonas
We discuss the divided brain, and why it has such and important meaning for us today.
Sam Harris – The Divided Mind: A Conversation with Iain McGilchrist
Running time: 55:00
Our Divided Nature & Reasons for Hope: A Conversation with Dr Iain McGilchrist
Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things – Pari Center Anniversary event
Running Time: 02:09:16 This online event celebrated one year since the publication of The Matter with Things. Reflections on The Matter with Things begins with an in-depth interview with Jonathan Rowson from Perspectiva Press, the book's publisher, followed by...
AI World Summit 2022 Dr Iain McGilchrist on Artificial Intelligence and The Matter with Things
Running Time: 00:24:48 Dr Iain McGilchrist gives the keynote speech at the AI World Summit, October 2022 in Amsterdam, organised by Inspired Minds. In relation to artificial intelligence, he draws on his latest book, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions...
Iain McGilchrist & Nigel McGilchrist on The Greatness of Pythagoras
Running Time: 01:26:17 Dr Iain McGilchrist talks to art historian, Nigel McGilchrist, about his new book, When the Dog speaks, the Philosopher listens - A guide to the greatness of Pythagoras and his curious Age. This book can be purchased via this link...
Dr Iain McGilchrist and Rebel Wisdom, ‘We Need to Act’
Running Time: 00:41:47 Iain McGilchrist has been outlining for many years that a fundamental problem in the way we are perceiving the world is likely to lead us into trouble. Now in 2022 he believes the situation is reaching a crucial turning point and we need to...
Of Sound Mind: Sound and Betweenness – Dr Iain McGilchrist & Professor Nina Kraus
Running Time: 01:21:28 In this conversation Dr Iain McGilchrist and Professor Nina Kraus draw on their respective books, McGilchrist's The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, and Kraus' Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs...
Look Out. Orlando Wood on the brain, advertising and a world that’s turning inwards.
Running Time: 00:51:55 Orlando Wood talks to Mary Attwood from Channel McGilchrist about his latest book, Look out. Look out is an advertising guide for a world that’s turning inwards and which draws on the work of Dr Iain McGilchrist. Look out is a study of attention...
Dates for 2023 will be posted soon.
Asymmetry and Symmetry – Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 0:28:25 Dr Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the most widely misunderstood ideas about asymmetry and symmetry. Drawing on his latest book, the Matter with Things, he explains how asymmetry is the greater of the two. Some of the questions he addresses...
Personal Reflections on a Sacred Text – Iain McGilchrist and Shira Nayman
Running Time: 01:36:47 Shira Nayman Psy.D talks to Iain McGilchrist about the sacred. This interview is part of a larger interfaith project exploring personal relationships with sacred texts. Shira Nayman interviews scholars, religious leaders, and lay people, across...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 17: Chapter 17 Intuition’s claims on truth
Running Time: 1:01:31
Dr Iain McGilchrist and Rebel Wisdom: The Matter With Things
Running Time: 1:30:17 In ‘The Matter with Things’, Iain McGilchrist tackles the big questions: Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? What happens if we neglect the sacred and divine? He argues that we have become...
“Balancing the Brain” with Iain McGilchrist and Satish Kumar
Running Time: 01:32:52 In this Earth Talk the respected psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist discusses the hemisphere hypothesis and his latest work the Matter with Things with the founder of Schumacher College, Satish Kumar. Who are we? What is the world? How can...
Dr Iain McGilchrist and Russel Brand: Why Do We All Perceive Reality Differently? Here’s the ANSWER!
Running Time: 00:11:20 Russell Brand talks to author, psychiatrist and former Oxford literary scholar, Iain McGilchrist, on Under The Skin, where they discussed perceptions of reality and how your personal approach to the world is what truly matters.
Can we Unmake the World we have Made? Dr Iain McGilchrist
Running Time: 00:06:19 Can we unmake the world we have made? Iain McGilchrist draws on his most recent book, The Matter with Things and discusses whether we can unmake the world we have made and unknow what we know. This clip is from an upcoming documentary film by...
18th November 2022 AIMA Conference – New Zealand
Friday 18th November and Saturday 19th November 2022. Event description We are excited to invite you to the (fully in-person!) 2022 AIMA Conference on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th November 2022 at the Auckland University of Technology in central Auckland, New...
The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist
Richard Gault reviews the magnum opus of an extraordinary thinker who lays out a detailed argument for the unity of the world
Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist – New Zealand
18th November 2022 Event description Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist. Renowned psychiatrist, author, thinker, and former Oxford literary scholar. Friday November 18th - 6pm - The Matter with ThingsOur Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World....
“The Matter With Things” – Review by Takashi Baba
Our memories are often fuzzy and people sometimes make up stories after the fact. We are governed by irrational biases and can be easily fooled. I like to read books on brain science and behavioral economics and have gathered knowledge on this and that about the brain. Has it given me the ability to discern what is real or a good guidance to lead a better life? Unfortunately, I have no such confidence.
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 16: Chapter 16 Logical paradox
Running Time: 1:00:08
The Coincidence of Opposites with Dr Iain McGilchrist – The Fintry Trust
Saturday 12th November 2022 2:00-3:15pm UK time.
Dr Iain McGilchrist: The Brain And A Sense Of The Sacred
11th November 2022. Dr Iain McGilchrist: The Brain And A Sense Of The Sacred. Modern Church offers you a chance to hear and engage with one of the most remarkable and highly-acclaimed intellectuals of our time. Iain’s talk will be based on his encyclopaedic book The...
Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things – the Pari Centre (Free Online Event)
8th November 2022, 7 - 9pm CET. FREE EVENT Reflections On Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter With Things Anniversary event, hosted by The Pari Center in conjunction with Channel McGilchrist, Perspectiva, The Scientific and Medical Network and The Arthur Conan Doyle Centre....
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 15: Chapter 15 Reason’s progeny
Running Time: 1:17:43
Recovering the Sacred – the Pari Online Series
5th - 27th November 2022. with Anne Baring, Bernard Carr, Matthijs Cornelissen, Alex Gomez-Marin, Jeremy Lent, David Lorimer, Iain McGilchrist, Peter Reason, Mary-Jayne Rust Curated by John Pickering Pari Center Online Series November 5 – 27, 2022 9:00am PST | 12:00pm...
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 14: Chapter 14 Reason’s claims on truth
Running Time: 0:52:06
Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 13: Chapter 13 Institutional Science and Truth
Running Time: 1:15:11
