"Balancing the Brain" with Iain McGilchrist and Satish Kumar 

Once again., Iain McGilchrist has pierced the balloon in which our contemporary world moves without gravity. My thanks to him. My Zen master opened my life and Iain sustains me in a different way now that my teacher has died.

One of the greatest thinkers of all of history

Wow. I just love you soo much Iain! I am soo grateful for your clear and passionate voice and perspective and valued attention in this beautiful world. It brings me to tears when I hear you speak, about beauty, the value of the right hemisphere, the balance and both needed. Just your views on the world and the exquisite way you can communicate all of this. It adds richness to my life!! We need more to speak as richly as you. Its important for our evolution and fullness of expression! I will always be grateful...tears again

To Understand, one needs to Listen with ALL senses, in order to Learn, to Think, and Take into account all that has been Learned, in order to say ‘ I’m in “Awe to Know Me”(Autonomy)

"Satish is on a percentage". To which Satish responds: "A percentage of love". So cute. Kumar is fabulously enthusiastic about Ian McGilchrist. Great talk

Alan Schore has contributed tremendously to neurobiological development and learning for the right hemisphere

Iain was on a roll here with such brilliant clarity -- amazing!! I feel like I just received a wonderful, glowing gift :-)

At 82, I now reminisce. Pass my experience on to the younger generation. That is the R in STREAM of education. The Generational Education Cycle.!

excelent exposition as usual by Iain,always enriching. Appreciated comments by Satish and his control of question length. Spot on.TTMWT a worthy investment.Thank you.

I'm halfway through & Iain McGilchrist has blown me away. & he is right.

Thank you both very much for this! I've read "The Master and His Emissary" and am now reading "The Matter with Things" both exceedingly important works and I hope that McGilchrist's research and findings make their way broadly throughout human minds and institutions before it's too late. Here's something that I think underscores exactly what he teaches (and of course there's so many things), while reading his current book I will stop and search online specifically for images of what every part of the brain he writes about. What I found is that almost all brain images (not technology scans but illustrations) as much as 95% show the left hemisphere, even if I am specific in my search, such as "images right hemisphere superior frontal gyrus". Try any "images" for the right hemisphere regions he refers to in his work.

Marvelous indeed! Thank you so very much for sharing this. Blessings to all!

Brilliantly spoken; just say it how it is! At school i was always mortified at having to dissect beautiful poems by means of pages of words of analysis. We could learn from how the Bogomils brought up their children; i'm sure none of their young ones didn't value themselves or got up to detrimental activities. Homo ludens - homo ludificatus... I'm pretty sure you would agree that sometimes being a 'good upstanding citizen by the current norm is nOt the right thing to be. Spirallings: has to be better than going 'round in circles, right? 🌳🕊💚

Full of insight and wisdom 😇

Amazing and as usual Iain brining up so many important things to ponder on!

How you speak Satish remind me Ramesh Balaskar ...Nisargadatta translater...and this is a compliment.

It's wonderful to discover this talk with two amazing teachers. It was distracting however that the camera image was out of focus and there were obvious sound issues as the speakers couldn't hear the questions from the audience..

I enjoyed studying Science. One doesn’t always get the right answer -Just better questions ! --John Green

The Power of Practical Learning is missing from Education

somehow i have a feeling that the general trouble is in what i term "lazy brain" which stops people from questioning things they are comfortable with. it started with general prevalence of laziness in a sense of idleness, hate of any physical labor or activity that takes effort and enthusiastic reliance on ever advancing technology that slowly but surely replaces people in many areas of traditional activity. its good for business as people want newer gadgets all the time and most of them are about "saving time", "comfort", "no stress" etc. which became the most desirable products. it's good for power-thirsty ambitious people too as ruling over the crowd where you know which is a stick and which is a carrot, so to speak. frankly, i see no good ending as more and more people become unemployed and free to follow their instincts and fill their lives with...war and crime. and the skeptics and thinkers are to run for the hills and hide in caves, just like you dear Iain. maybe i am having a bad day, but i can't see a path forward to become more balanced. any examples to prove me wrong are very welcome. thanks for the interesting conversation.

When iain spoke about the Jacob's ladder , is that the same as the fibbonaci sequence? Sounded very much the same

To end suffering overcome fear which separates our mind body. The trinitarian union with our ground is bliss the antidote to suffering

The constituents of things is matter. Blocks of Life’s Matter build Things.! How does Shifting Baseline Syndrome fit into this discussion ? Put one hand in iced water, and the other in hot water, then place each hand in turn into tepid water and make the decision as to whether the tepid water is hot or cold. Which hemisphere provides the answer ?

Que bien ... !

Oh ok, most people hold or held their phones when speaking to a caller against their right ear. I can see the disturbance for the right sided brain in development. And now with all those earplugs and headphones imagine the disturbance for both sides. Just a thought..

I thought i knew but wood im glad to fin d you man, how can I get more

The hemispheres functioning is the result of the mind body split. The functioning is egoic ,which has the ability to deny reality. You must understand the mind body split before understanding the hemispheric dysfunction. Does this make sense?

“That’s the way things are now !” Is the most wasteful statement in use today !

that only 989 people have watched this is very sad

Hope is like Soap-on-a-Rope. It disappears under Political Showers ! and one is left holding the ROPE( Relying On Personal Evolvement)

When asked, from which parent did I inherit each lobe of my brain, my answer is “I don’t know, but they are very well connected 😂!

I wish there was a way to actually ask a question to Iain (knowing that he must get hundreds or thousands of comments and questions).

Very interesting - but should not the issue be about the Mind? Ancient teaching is that we should be mindful of our *thoughts*, and this does not just involve the brain (within the skull) - this brain is a component. Therefore, being a component the brain should not - I suggest - be looked at in isolation. I think that Mr/ McGilchrist accepted that in response to questions from the audience, but why or why did he not address the Mind and also the Heart ? I suppose it is essentially because Mr. M. is a scientist, albeit one who is open-minded.

“Conversations” is the most Charitable word in the English language !

Yin and Yang

I hereby nominate Kumar as the Indian Carl Jung. He looks and sounds a lot like him.

New Priest of the cosmic university- helping us become the cosmic man-woman-a rib of the body in ratio - most with least- man -woman in the phi - yes a way to stair way to heaven or for more equal matter - anyone who loves another is in the phi .logos- ratio -symmetry - measure . How about if really the mind divine is really a spiral relationship - maybe a invisible pattern that emerges out of the opposites falling in love. Light day meets night in the beautiful twilight . Yin meets yang - ohm . The chaos theory - Lorenz attractor - left swirl meets right swirl and there is no chaos about the chaos theory but a beautiful falling in love at one dot .

Satish: Its 3000 pages. Ian: NOoooo =D

Isaac Newton had nothing to do with falling in love !

A mother giving birthday today, should be mindful of giving life to a future pensioner with dementia!

"Everything good has a dark side" - Iain M. I think that is an overreached assumption, and not scientifically proven. Surely not all goodness yields a counter negative. Like a baby suckling from its Mother's breast.