Imagination and Truth - Iain McGilchrist in conversation with Roger Wagner and Malcolm Guite

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  • čas přidán 7. 03. 2023
  • Roger Wagner is an artist and poet who teaches at the University of Oxford in the Ruskin School of Art and is an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College Oxford. www.rogerwagner.co.uk. He has translated and illustrated the psalms, produced several books of poetry, painted the Archbishop of Canterbury’s portrait, and has work in collections around the world. His book The Penultimate Curiosity written with Andrew Briggs, won the 2019 Aréte award and was awarded an honourable mention in the 2019 Joseph Ratzinger Expanded Reason awards. He is currently writing a sequel The Penultimate Image, a history of art in one painting which explores the connections between art and religion. Next Autumn he will be exhibiting at the Stanley Spencer Museum in Cookham, while a permanent gallery of his work will open at The Faith Museum in Auckland Castle.
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Komentáře • 40

  • @peterfrance702
    @peterfrance702 Před rokem +35

    To have stumbled on these three brilliantly drawn Dickensian characters here on CZcams who, far from being stuck in the past, generously share their piercing insight on the current moment, and indeed adding some hope, is a joyful wonder in itself.

  • @johnhare7580
    @johnhare7580 Před rokem +15

    Iain is a genius, we are only starting to come to terms with what he has brought together for us in The Matter With Things. I hope we are wise enough to pay attention

  • @ajtrcbecg
    @ajtrcbecg Před rokem +16

    By God, this is incredibly powerful and meaningful. Thank you so very much!!!

  • @travellerontheway
    @travellerontheway Před rokem +5

    Love love love your final poem Malcolm. All 3 of you come back soon!!!!

  • @joanplastino4385
    @joanplastino4385 Před rokem +5

    My poetry is jamming your machine- what a wonderful poem shared!

  • @skynet4496
    @skynet4496 Před rokem +13

    My thoughts exactly about this quote, scroll after for a similar Robert Anton Wilson quote.
    "Every system of thought is a squint at the truth and the more rigid the system, the worse the squint. " -Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
    “Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.” - Robert Anton Wilson

    • @clarebags
      @clarebags Před rokem

      If you don’t mind I will share these wonderful quotes

    • @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
      @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices Před 10 měsíci +1

      Well, Slave, we all have our own particular BELIEFS, but ultimately, there exists objective truth, which is not subject to our misconceptions and misunderstandings.
      One who has transcended mundane relative truth is said to be an ENLIGHTENED soul. 😇

  • @mcnallyaar
    @mcnallyaar Před 23 dny

    "The two hemispheres of my mind were in the sharpest contrast - on the one side, a many-islanded sea of myth and poetry, on the other a glib and shallow rationalism. Nearly everything I loved I believed to be imaginary. Nearly everything I believed to be real I thought grim and meaningless."

  • @richardstewart9563
    @richardstewart9563 Před rokem +8

    Although Malcom is incredibly interesting it would have been good to hear the others speak more and be allowed to finish their thoughts.

  • @jokodrums
    @jokodrums Před 9 měsíci +1

    Beautiful!

  • @joanplastino4385
    @joanplastino4385 Před rokem +3

    Love the Lin Yu Tang quote from The Importance of Living

  • @paulconn7849
    @paulconn7849 Před rokem +2

    Regarding an early example of recognizing the two sides, with great precision Emerson says; "The perception of this class of truths makes the attraction that draws men to science, but the end is lost sight of in attention to the means. In view of this half sight of science, we accept the sentence of Plato that 'poetry comes nearer the vital truth than history'.

  • @travellerontheway
    @travellerontheway Před rokem +1

    At point 1 hour 9 mins, reminded of Rumi “take one step and then the path will unfold before you..”

  • @sebastiangaete7479
    @sebastiangaete7479 Před rokem +2

    Wonderful wonderful!

  • @travellerontheway
    @travellerontheway Před rokem +2

    At about 47 mins i feel very much that the talk of the ‘ blueprint’ if you like into which antennae grow sits very well with Rupert `sheldrake’s morphic resonance and underlines the opportunity for the new biology which earlier on you indicate is sorely needed….

  • @BcClarity
    @BcClarity Před rokem +1

    Early Clarity? Rushing to a metaphor of duality. Much Love.

  • @TravelingSoul1
    @TravelingSoul1 Před rokem +1

    Wonderful!

  • @alspringham
    @alspringham Před měsícem

    Brilliant.

  • @pkpapers
    @pkpapers Před rokem +1

    1:06:33 - 1:09:09 - Malcolm Guite - STORY & POEM: "My poetry is jamming your machine ..."

  • @Pastaface
    @Pastaface Před měsícem

    Here are our TRIBAL ELDERS. let us sit their feet a while.

  • @scottjones-singersongwrite6193

    Love it!

  • @scorpionsting600
    @scorpionsting600 Před 11 měsíci

    Great conversation!! Listening, I am vaguely seeing coming to life in the Imagination a new College in Oxford, one dedicated to the Arts, Philosophy and Imagination. A bunch of you related philosophers and poets should find a happy billionaire somewhere to help you bring it into Being!

  • @nicholastaylor9398
    @nicholastaylor9398 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Makes me wish I had read humanities instead of mathematics. Imagine being able to have conversations like this every day, and get paid for it! And CS Lewis? His poem reveals to me a tortured mind. Philosophy fills now bowls, and imagination ultimately serves only to guide reason.

  • @Pastaface
    @Pastaface Před měsícem

    Malcom @1hr o1. Love M love Iain!

  • @ChristianSt97
    @ChristianSt97 Před rokem +5

    thought Iain had changed haircut

  • @myleswalsh6854
    @myleswalsh6854 Před rokem

    Wonderful vivanelle! 😆👍

  • @tonykehoe123
    @tonykehoe123 Před rokem +1

    Wow ….three more bookcases to add to the 472,000 I’ve seen in the last two years ! Wouldn’t have a book to sell by any possible chance ?

  • @wordnative
    @wordnative Před rokem

    Call me a dreamer and yet we’re it not for the dreamer reaching out into the unknown and unseen . Ah…we’re it not for the dream.

  • @TJ-kk5zf
    @TJ-kk5zf Před 9 měsíci +2

    God love the internet

  • @maxtroy
    @maxtroy Před rokem

    I think ok going to take out my pipe for this one

  • @gmk2222
    @gmk2222 Před 3 měsíci

    You blokes are actual Hobbits. My word, I lived when Hobbits lived, you blokes should have had credits in the films

  • @nicholastaylor9398
    @nicholastaylor9398 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Truth and consequences. Is that a title for someone's next book? You can claim alternative facts but you cannot manufacture alternative consequences.

  • @indiakhetri
    @indiakhetri Před rokem +6

    The man with the beard talks far to much …difficult at times for Iain to actually get a word in ….let him speak

    • @indiakhetri
      @indiakhetri Před rokem +1

      @@SymbolsPatternsGnosis Clever boy ….It’s called manners

    • @indiakhetri
      @indiakhetri Před rokem

      @@SymbolsPatternsGnosis oops …I stand corrected ..

    • @johnking6519
      @johnking6519 Před rokem +7

      I'd go much further. He - presumably you're referring to the man with the pipe and the beard - pulls so much of the energy over into his own self-absorption that much of the potential of the meeting is drained away thereby.

    • @indiakhetri
      @indiakhetri Před rokem +1

      @@johnking6519 yes agreed

  • @geoffreydawson5430
    @geoffreydawson5430 Před rokem

    Is it just me or did your guests miss the lecture Iain gave on contemporary in-your-face camera angles? But it is like this, so act. For it is a moral responsibility. Conditioning only occurs once you are aware of it (in a human paradigm).