McGilchrist - Hemispheric Asymmetry and the Approach to the Divine 

This may be the best Mcgilchrist lecture I've heard. And believe me, that is saying something. #Sublime

I can't believe this kind of content is free.

Iain McGilchrist is the greatest thinker of our time. He explains modern reality of mind and brain. If we understand what he says it is our only chance of finding a way through the black hole that modernity has created.

Iain McGilchrist is certainly a giant intellect of our times, growing and expanding the great tradition of mind sciences pioneered in recent modernity by the likes of Freud, Jung, Neitzche, William James, Wilhelm Reich etc etc.. He is a rare treasure in a sea of profane mundanity. His books, lectures and discourses should be made essential learning in every educational institution worldwide. We are really, really fortunate to come by all this knowledge for free. Gee !! Thank u Iain & thank u U-tube. 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼.

Absolutely loved this! The distinction made between knowing as an object (Wissen), and knowing in relationship (Kennen), is crucial. Language simultaneously enables and hinders communication. Ian’s description of the divine as bringing the world into being, rather than having made it, brought to mind a quote by Goethe which I have on my kitchen wall: “Ich bin ein Teil des Teils, der anfangs alles war, ein Teil der Finsternis, die sich das Licht gebar. “ (I am a part of that which in the beginning was everything; that darkness which gave birth to light.)

Absolutely superb. Thank you SO much for sharing this. Can't wait to read 'The Matter With Things'.

Thank you for posting and thanks to Iain McGilchrist for his insight and indepth knowledge. His work has put so many of my mental puzzle pieces together. The need for the left hemisphere to ignore and/or eradicate what doesn't fit does remind me of the seemingly neverending quest of "developed/developing" countries to destroy native cultures that seem to be much more rooted in the right hemisphere.

This was exactly what I’ve been waiting to hear. Thankyou!! ❤️❤️❤️

Oh wow; I'll have to watch this again very soon.

I love that Iain has Process and Reality lying right there on his shelf.

Thank you!

Wonderful, a tide is turning, the shattered vessels are being remade, and more beautifully than before! This man is a Good Academic and so well read.

Dr. Ian, I am truly thankful for this lecture on the right and left hemisphere and the many frameworks for explaining these ways we think. Over the past two years. God has opened to me through the right hemisphere and allowing me to overcome the legalistic form of Preaching, and now allowing me to operate and function in this life with a total new way of being. This has helped me place into words and thoughts the often unexplained spiritual experiences along this new path. Thank you for your work.

Thank you. Profound truth being expressed x

Thank you, Sir.

I learned about the word solipsis, which I needed deeply to explain the philosophy of non-dualism; thank you!

The catch is, if what he says is understood within the realm of language and reason then we are creating the illusion that we have understood. The trick is not to force understanding using reason but to wait for the understanding to take place on its own.

I saw a nature program where the tiger was struck by a poisonous snake. He sat there almost like in a very intentional ferocious meditative state. Somehow he purged the poison. It was as though he was tapping some external force or “will.”

Great to hear these lectures ...

Thank you very much Dr. McGilchrist.

The One, & the idea of The One, are already two..

Listening to McGilchrist is like a therapy session every time.

What a great talk. This guy should write a book or something

Wow. What a remarkable body of work this man is

This is just divine!!!!!Thank you❤ David Bohm and Krishnamurti, talks. Beautiful. ❤️Thank you, Dr. McGilchrist all the books and poetry! Rumi , Milton, " Paradise Lost" Eastern Philosophies unbelievably so lit up.

I'm fairly sure I don't have a right hemisphere. I wish I could get a brainscan, it would explain why I've sat in a room for twenty five years.

I'm very grateful for the lecture format you've shared with us Iian, For it seemed to allow your unique soul to fly more freely, rising ever more true to your long sought vision that we were thereby blessed to glimpse. Thank you very much. I hope you'll share more with us soon.

Bravo!

Ian is a brilliant mind on this three dimensional matter reality, trying to understand existence that can only be known on higher planes. When he passes onto the next plane, he will understand more. I hope so will us all.

Really amazing condensed lot of wisdom!

Incredibly important point at the end about the culture wars.

Thank you ⚘⚘⚘

Thanks great idea!

The books was a great which the example of the Rabbi. Yes, I see it. There is two methods. Leterial and legalistic which is left hemisphere and imagination and metaphor right hemispher. This is like the left side of brain that see’s language, category and order which the right hemisphere sees things as they are as in nature and they aren’t defined that is for the left side. Great insights. Thank you.. Downey California

Brilliant, but there is no mention of The Heart in this Union of opposites, The active Heart Centre is part of the Left & Right brain harmony. The Heart is third component as The Longing is a physical inner sensation of the seat of the soul. This is my experience. 💗💗💗💗💔❤️‍🩹♥️💝

Thank you

Tis' better to find "balance" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Nevermind requiring one hemisphere to dominate the other. If anything, the right hemisphere is exceedingly deceitful. Beware of what you wish for.

The difference between an explanation and understanding... If I understand (haha) McGilchrist correctly, the analytical, singular-linear left hemisphere looks for explanations: simplified, often reductionist models which are therefore graspable and manipulatable, like objects. Understanding, on the other hand, is more of the right hemisphere, and is more like being open to the pattern of the situation itself. Not grasping it, but making oneself open to it. It is therefore not quantifiable, but closer to John Vervaeke's Perspectival and Participatory knowing: knowing what it is like to BE a given thing in a given situation, and knowing what it is like to DO a given action (often including a metaphorical or as he calls it Religio experience).

Does Mcgilchrist remind anyone else of Roger Scruton?

The Cloud Of Unknowing. …Oh, it is hard work. Everyone knows that it is hard work.

I was surprised when Dr McGilchrist spoke about Kabbalah and the depth of Judaic thought. Judaism has been so tradused in the Christian West to the point of near extinction. A gift that has been left unwrapped. A book by Rabbi David Cooper , " God is a verb" unwraps the idea of God as process. A big subject written with a light touch.

I’d like to get Dr McGuilchrist’s view on my observations of patients with Parkinson’s (not mentioned in Master and Emissary) what appears to be right brain deficit: increasing paranoia and fixations and freezing - inability to take the next step (unless asked to step over a drawn line) but ability to dance to familiar music.

Polish language has the same "to know"distinction: "znac" (=be familiar with) and "wiedziec" (=to have knowledge of).

I’m lost. I got lost about half way through this lecture. I tried!

Shattering, then putting together again more beautifully than before (Tikkun). Define "more beautifully than before". The Great Reset people have their very specific idea of shattering and of "building back better" (define "better"), "more beautifully than before".

I understand his emphasis on the unifying potential of religious ritual. However, as a survivor of religious ritual abuse, I would caution that there is a very dark side to this- when ritual is used to harm and manipulate the believer. There can be that left brain reductionism (of the object to a function of the agenda of authority leaders) masking as the unifying ritual.

Anyone else grok the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference he slipped in there? #clevermeow

Trauma is stored only on one side it’s the physical substrate of the body/subconscious mind

I do like McGilchrist i have to say

Very helpful. Thank you. As I try to talk to a flow of twenty somethings that come through my youth Hostel about God, the central issue is usually about the exclusivity of Christianity, that is, the claim that in some way Jesus life, death, and the historical resurrection are unique, and that belief/trust in that uniqueness is requisite for being Christian. The Bible seems to support that view. If we are to be in conversation with the multitudes of these "spiritual but not religious" people, and with those who lean toward taking the exclusivity of Christianity seriously, we have to talk about how the Bible can be interpreted less exclusively, and the relationship bt christianity and world religions. Does anyone know of a good resource for that?

You can dissect a frog 🐸 But then all you've got is a dead frog 🐸

Just as the dynamic interaction of Yin and Yang expresses the Tao, so does the dynamic relationship of Attention and Intention express the Awareness, the Psyche. The great advantage of the latter conceptualization is that it is in individually personally familiar terms. You can operate Attention and Intention from the vantage point of Awareness to do real personal work, of your own design! So, I'm not finding the left/right hemisphere interpretive framework especially illuminating.

"What are we to make with the cosmos and our place in it?" Can you imagine how big (from the perspective of what we know about space) the "cosmos" is? And can you imagine how small the space you affect on Earth is, how small the space we can inhabit? "What are we to do with the cosmos and our place in it?" Anyone who asks such a question is somehow not quite right in the head. It shows religious megalomania. I would replace this question with: "What should we do with the space we inhabit on earth?" That is the burning question today. The problem is human megalomania. It seems to be a temporary recipe for success in evolution, but it is threatening to get out of hand or already has.

i spy the whitehead book in the back 🎉❤🎉

Would ‘Hemithesis’ be to clumsy a shorthand for Iain’s Hemisphere Hypothesis? Pronounced like hypothesis, not hemee theesis

I tend to get very upset when something has errors in it. Even myths and poetry. Even art. The way I get around this is by my interpretation. I look actively for the positive message in even the worst art. Because even a urinal in an art show as art can make you think, make you question and learn and grow. It can propel you into action-especially if you really have to go to the bathroom. Which I do right now… see U l8ter 😳😂 I think I am on the spectrum in a meta-sense. People with Aspergers don’t like change, but I’m the opposite because everyone on earth is wrong. So I am like wanting the Kmart underwear and judge wapner of the world to be exactly right and beating my head against a wall. Because people don’t listen and can’t change. The reason it’s so upsetting is because I’m not actually upset because I want control but because they are going to die if they don’t get this. And since I see all the natural laws of information and read the writing on the wall, I can clearly see it. An aeronautical engineer can look at an early flying machine and tell you if it will fly, and stuff like that. Ok now I’m going…. You nearly made me wet my pants.

If you had not already found me, you would not be seeking me. St. Augustine? …via my Zen master.

Every video over 10 minutes should come with a bullet point list to highlight main ideas and information shared. It just takes way too long to sit through these videos.

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This approach needs to guide our education systems; instead, music, art, etc are eliminated, while the emphasis is on left brain enhancement, just more of what is the problem.

32:36 ti Moses.

Aww

Romans, country men, lend him your ears! (only 135 pairs?)

This has 50k views 😢

This is really interesting, but really hard to follow if English is your second language. I need to listen with a thesaurus 😑

Why would a religious person feel the need to be involved

Yeah, he talks real good. It's just the wrong direction if you're looking to get real personal work done. "As soon as you think you've understood it you're wrong" just means you've jumped to a conclusion, which is a procedural error, not a mystical insight! Yeah, "love is a disposition" to, I would say, associate. If you have to get more particular you end up with an assortment of "types" of love, which is actually less useful. Poetry won't get the job done!

GOD appears to Moses in the burning bush - not to Abraham.

Great content but oh so tedious to listen to him endlessly jumping to explanations of meaning of words or references backing that which he is saying. Perhaps the continual elaboration of single points got to me!

It is very unfortunate that Iain refuses to subordinate himself to the Absolute Personal Creator Who is eternal, distinct from space time physical created reality, which is the only real Right Life Ontological Trinity. In the book of Genesis we find created humans have a physical biological life body like the animals, but God breathes in the breath of lives and then the human becomes a created person, living soul. As a created person, man has responsible decision making, so a prohibition is established which he disobeys using The Lie info of Lucifer in the form of the snake, who in Isaish 14 SELF determined "I will make myself like the Most High" This is the same falsehood Lucifer tempts the humans with. The imitation of SELF determination and knowing of reality is a counterfeit, not the Real thing. So Iain here as elsewhere does the same thing, starting/ending/limited to Autonomous Independent SELF, no relationship to the Rightness Life Owner and Controller of reality, hence existing in spiritual deadness because the Personal Creator is Supreme and does not in Authority tolerate validity of rival reality determines. Thus sin identity and sinning functions are condemned to eternal punishment in deadness and darkness of pain. But God loves the human persons He created who need a different identity, so God becomes identity of perfect sinless humanity to take the deadness punishment on His own Perfect Self. Since each human is a person, he must decide for himself if he will receive the free Gift of eternal Right Life Identity and function offered to him, and that is to trust God, Who in Right Life Truth cannot lie in His promise, to save him from his destiny of eternal disconnection of deadness and punishment pain. This is your opportunity and option Right now, will you abandon you imitation in rebellion and simply trust believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? Now the answer to Iain's confusion of not being connected correctly to the Personal-Infinite Right Life Creator as the Ultimate determination reference point of reality is found in RU-vid videos by Gregg Bahnsen and in books by Francis Schaeffer (3 book collection Trilogy) and by Cornelius VanTil and by Rousas John Rushdoony (The One and The Many, By What Standard, and The Word of Flux) all of which I urge you to consult.

I am not sure I have learnt anything new, repeat of first book and some unexpected religion. plotinus god. God of the negative

Again another version of the dark vision. All the academic dog whistles appear on schedule. More programming.

I saw, as his words explained the two hemispheres "Grabbing and getting" and "Understanding and utilising" significant with the merging of demographics in a way that has not merged for thousands of year's in such high numbers and all at once from all corners of the four winds into one direction! That has created in a very short space of time imbalance and chaos that has upended the flow of slow-moving progression and stability hard-earned back to fiefdoms to dislodge it's validity and the signature quite marked.