Dr Iain McGilchrist discusses his new book, 'The Matter With Things' 

"Just a small undertaking really" LOL!!! I am excited for the first 2 sections, but for the final 3rd section, I would literally kill for (hard to find words to express my excitement).

I first read master and his emissary about 10 years ago. It is not an understatement to say it changed my life far more than any other book I’ve read. Basically, after reading it I became a psychologist/neuroscientist with primary expertise in hemispheric asymmetry. The underlying philosophical questions in MAHE have guided my research even though peer reviewers don’t let me talk about them in academic psych/neuro journals.

I am SO excited to read this book!!!! Love this man and Master and his Emissary!

I can't wait to read and even share the book...So blessed to have someone talking of the profound beauty and expansiveness of implicit matters in such explicit manner...

So much looking forward to reading this book!! Can't wait :)

I can’t wait to read this book! It seems to address so much and it will be extremely interesting to read, reflect upon, addressing and perhaps readdressing my own ideas, creativity and how I see and understand the world up until now. I love listening to what you have to say and enjoy thinking about it, trying to visualise it and pondering over your ideas and questions. Thank you.

I'm so glad this is coming out. TM&HE was life changing and this book would seem to open up the dialogue for those who stumbled over the habitual response to the science of the divided brain. McGilchrist's ideas are far more resonant than a debate about neuro-science, which is actually part of the limit case we find ourselves in. There are definitely strong resonances with the work of Deleuze and Guattari (multiplicity) here concerning the need to remodel the idea of thought itself to escape the gilded cage of the Strange loop version of perception. Massumi too "the skin is faster than the word". Very grateful that Mcgilchrist is making his nutritious helpful insight open to everyone and not just academics!

I cannot Wait to get my hands on this book, but I’m in Canada. All I can think as I hear you is that you would have had the most wonderful conversations with my now- deceased Zen teacher. There would have been great space for silence between you. He transformed my life when I nearly accidentally attended a workshop with him at the public library. I was an embittered former Catholic and had virulently renounced all religion. I had no idea that Zen was a school of Buddhist spirituality- my ignorance led me to him.

I can't wait to read this book. You have put so much thought into it's structure taking us on a real journey of exploration. Thank you for all your hard work 🙋🏼‍♀️

This book is going to change everything.

Oh thanks for explaining the meaning of ‘buttery’ in that sentence, it was neither of the things I had previously considered when I saw it as a title of another interview of yours. (I immediately discounted buttery as in what goes on toast and decided it must refer to the buttery meaning the kitchen/dining halls of university/college, so that I imagined the conversation was going to be the kind one might have in the dining hall of the School of Nothing!) I really enjoyed that conversation.

there is nothing.. but processes and patterns. I want to read this book.

I have so much to read! It gets me excited. I still have to read TMAHE, and after that I will surely read this up-and-coming one. For now I have a book that sounds to have a similar theme somewhat, which is Husserl's 'Crisis of the european sciences.'

Thank you so, so much.

Looking forward to the release of the book.

Wonderful, Dr McGilchrist, thank you for your work, including your daily poetry readings at a time when others offer 'left hemisphere' ways of 'coping' with present difficulties. And no, 'delude' is not too strong a word - one used by Buddhists (among others) for centuries, for the situation you describe. Very much looking forward to your new book. When will it be published, please? 🙏🏻

This is so exciting

I have my copy coming from Wordery any day now!

I just checked and it's not possible to preorder your next book. That's too bad because I'm constantly looking for something new to read I would love to see a discussion between you and Raymond Tallis who said, _Reasons do not grow out of some putative biological substrate but are a forward-looking affirmation of, assertion of, expression of, myself._ It would be fun to see you two explore Darwinitis and the misrepresentation of humanity. Can't wait until 2021.

Iain, Is this the book on process ontology? The one where you write about Schelling?

Maybe Ian you should consider that jung was onto something when he talked about the collective psyche in the deep past having a harmony that was lost due to some collective trauma. Possibly what Randall Carson talks about. And what has taken place in the major events through out history is the collective psyche attempting to callobrate that pre established harmony. I had an experience in 2004 where I started writing with my right hand, having wrote with my left for 34 years. We're I wood switch from feeling of chaos to feelings of total connection to something that was deep inside me. But I have never really spo

I am a big fan of your work and I have recently made a video on my channel discussing (based on your research) how the interaction between the two hemispheres gives rise to the ego; namely, how the left is responsible for our sense of will and the right holds the concept of ourselves.

Interesting... a conversation between you & Prof. Robert Salporsky would be intriguing perhaps. Also perhaps Darwin made the most profound difference of time as we experience it. Before the enlightenment, religious intuitions caused havoc, and still does, quite often.

"The thought and the thing are the same." - Parmenides (paraphrased)

Name of the book???

Iain - I just (April 7 2021) checked you title against amazon. It recognizes the title, but lists only 'the Master' - no expected publication date or anything! Has its production been delayed by COVID, or have you withdrawn it for modification? I can't wait to get it - but, dammit, will have to! Patience is a virtue - I'm told. But I don't believe everything I'm told! Good luck and progress with it, anyhow.

It seems to me that man is sleep walking through life, living in a world of blaming or giving credit to his unfolding circumstances for the quality or lack quality of his/her reality's. Sadly failing to understand that it is not circumstance alone that determines the quality of our realitys but rather it is the emotional reaction to the stories we create around our unfolding circumstances (reality's) that determine the quality of our experience of reality (LIFE) When we begin to explore and understand what I have written a great change comes over us in that our addictive state begins to dissipate and a kindness of mind replaces severity of mind. Our desires begin to harmonize with our real needs, and we move into relationship with life. We stop being subservient to our stories (thinking).We start to take responsibility for our lives, and in taking responsibility for our lives their is freedom... Freedom from blaming our circumstances and more importantly ourselves. A gentleness of spirit takes hold in us, and we do not suffer from any sense of loss. Kind regards Eamonn Leonard

01.05 Firstly, thank you. Twice.

Critical thinking has been trumped.