Dr Iain McGilchrist on Psychedelics, depression and the brain | With Sir Philip Pullman
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- This is part 4 of an exclusive How To Academy event.
Philip Pullman’s novels are a testament to the power of the human imagination and a celebration of our capacity for wonder. It is an ethos shared by the neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, whose book The Master and His Emissary was that rare thing: a bestselling classic of modern philosophy with genuine relevance to human life. In this event, the two men will come together to explore questions of the mind, psychiatry, and imagination. It is an unmissable conversation for anyone who feels disenchanted with the contemporary way of living and seeks a richer, more humanitarian, more enlightened way of being.
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a former Clinical Director of the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. His previous book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World reached international recognition and acclaim and has placed him as one of the greatest thinkers and philosophers of our time. His new book is The Matter With Things. On CZcams, his appearances on RSA (on the Divided Brain), Perspectiva (with Jordan Peterson), Jordan B Peterson (on a Brain divided and The master and his emissary), Tom Bilyeu (Everything you know about the brain is wrong), Russell Brand (Left vs Right - is your brain controlled by corrupt systems), Sam Harris (the divided mind), The Weekend University (Matter and Consciousness), Theories of everything with Curt Jaimungal (on Existence, being, the limits of reason and language), Rebel Wisdom (on certainty and flow), Awakening with Russell (why do we all perceive reality differently?) and Ralston College (The coincidence of opposites) - have amassed millions of views combined.
Sir Philip Pullman's first children’s book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982. To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials trilogy - recently adapted by HBO. These books have been honoured by several prizes including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Book Prize, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List for Services to Literature.
Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.
Astonishing book indeed. 600 pages in at the moment....
This talk was so enjoyable and thought-provoking that I'm ready to go back and listen to every part again. Loved the warm and very present moderation too. Thank you!
Wonderful.
Any conversation with Iain and Philip is interesting and thought provoking.
Awesome!!!
Don’t negate from the wholeness of experience to tell yourself who you are. Individuation doesn’t have to be detached. My memory is much more psychedelic than I can handle intrinsically. You don’t have to alter the spectrum of reality to achieve mind states , this is like technology. We don’t always need it although if your face is in a screen you’ll eventually be ignored.
Would answer the religion-sacrifice question as an example of left hemispheric meddling. Religions could start out with spirituality and wisdom but can become corrupted with baggage. In this sense there is no sacrifice, just a lot of bureaucracy and nonsense to wade through to get to the valuable essence
I want to point out that Bernardo Kastrup said the same thing a “Daimon” or larger being, encounter, caused them to write what they did. Comes more and more into focus as you give voice to it. Sounds like the perceival character in the grail stories. Actually to me it sounds like life. Actually like the universe. If you know what I mean. Like when you know what everything is. When you see yourself for the first time.
Also, all religions don’t think women are left out. Look at the universe. The real issue is understanding women and what they are as a mask of god. I’m not fooled by masks. When I look at the world. All I see is one thing. God. Period. It’s so difficult to speak about the things that matter because of the current concepts held by people, but it’s light years ahead of where we were a few hundred years ago. The information acceleration necessary for us to escape from the chaos of misunderstanding is so far successful. But there is a keystone and apogee that everything is leading up to and enamored of all the technology and comfort of the nearing this apogee now is the most dangerous thing standing in our way. The complacency. The wilderness of voices is like chaos entering again in its perennial forms to destroy the “Waldo” the one small voice of the future launched into this world by the manipulation of probabilities in that accelerated period of creation.
So when people don’t try to understand me, or listen to me, then I know it’s an indication of the success of the chaos all around. But I am like the new creation point, which people mistakenly try to put in the past: my first book shows how it happens in the future. How it is actually beyond time. My second book shows how to decode the messages from the future in the life forms and cosmology of the now. I just finished my second book. Then you will see why I needed Bernardo and Ian, and all the rest of the people. Because truly the only war that exists is the one against chaos. When you do not get that message, then you will forever wear the cloak of actual death in war, conflict, darkness and bodily death. A computer allows simulation on something which does not feel so that humans don’t have to die. I know what everything is. I know everything there is to know: why won’t anyone listen? Why don’t people read my book? This is the issue I was born to address. Thank you Ian for your assistance and for having enough courage love and faith to help save the world I love. ❤️🔥💎 Listen to me. Write down and think on what I say. You don’t have to like me or try to force me into the boxes of your old stories or your fears. Just listen. And I will heal the soul of the world. I am the orator and the writer. I am you.
OMG, Rupert Sheldrake?! 🙄🤪🙄
Retrograde nonsense. Profound ignorance of current neuroscience, mainstream or otherwise.
He has a massive volume on Neuroscience called "The Master and his Emissary" which does a very good job of pulling together research on modern neuroscience. The part I'm on is focused on the cortex and the deficits recorded from strokes/damage to various parts of it and the "nomia's" that creates. He is especially focused on how the left hemisphere and right hemisphere are differentiated from each other in what in the world they focus on, ultimately how they interact with and perceive the world (as each are capable of housing consciousness if the other side is lost, though they integrate through the corpus collosum which are mostly inhibitory pathways, to combine and manage those 2 "perspectives")
@@jtzoltan :
Preaching to the choir, pal. I've read his drivel.
@@WalterBurton when did you stop reading? I doubt you read all of Mastwr and his Emissary if you dismiss it so
@@jtzoltan :
I have read it all.
@@WalterBurton you read over 500 pages from a guy who exhibits profound ignorance and have nothing good to say about it. Why did you put yourself through it?
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Without explanation these comments aren't helpful. I'm probably not the only one who is curious re the basis for your critiques more specifically.
@@dennismccracken2401 : You think you've earned the value of my thoughtful critique? 🤣🤣🤣
It seems to me that even an exceptional mind such as Iain McGilchrist’s can miss certain important considerations:-
Christianity is the true CORPOREAL Faith - for obvious reasons to anyone who has read the Bible or seen images of Christ.
As Christ shows - the body, transfigured, lives eternally for each one of His flock.
This is why reincarnation is not Christian.
The individual - if raised to his ideal, perfected self in death by the love of God through Jesus - is as utterly unique as his finger prints or DNA - and is sacred in the eyes of his loving Creator in timelessness… And this is the joyous gift of the Father we give undying worship and praise for.Some of us become artists for this reason.
By grasping this miraculous Truth we see all else…
Life is therefore all miracle once we believe (‘know’ through faith) that we are to be elevated above the worldly presence of evil, pain, sadness, suffering, ugliness, sin, and mortality into the purely sublime.
Christianity is therefore not “one of the world’s religions” at all - as it is purely exceptional. Complete.
There are two types of people in the world - those who believe in God and eternal salvation through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and those that do not.
Ultimately as we are to be judged and perfect justice is to be meted out - perhaps this is the correct division of souls: the wheat - and the chaff.
May God Bless you.