Dr. McGilchrist’s 30+ years of diligent neuroscience research, and the resulting work(s) he’s produced, might be some of the most important discoveries of our time.

@wolfie71231

5 күн бұрын

He’s bridged the scientific materialist-religious mythos divide. It might be the most important discovery of our lifetimes. If only people would pay attention.

@stoneneils

19 сағат бұрын

Honestly this idololizing every second person is part of soceity's decay. He's just doing his job, stop it. Grow up, you're an adult now not a child looking up to daddy.

I couldn't agree more with Iain, so wonderful and subtle thought, which is the only way to reach what he is saying. The more we become aware of, is the only way to expand our being.

“I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and civilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.” ~ Huck Finn

If I wasn't astonished at the wisdom being shared, I was in relieved agreement. I'd not seen Dr. McGilchrist before, but I'm so glad I have now! Thanks both, for a great conversation.

Recently I found breathing to be a way of uniting the sense of being. I was trying to breath up into my chest, back straight. I found that using the belly as a bellows was much more relaxing- and is conditioning the muscles down there. Memory and concentration slowly improving.

@ambientjohnny

Күн бұрын

Look into various pranayama practices. Anulom Vilom especially.

@KerrieRedgate

Күн бұрын

That’s also the way singers breathe, and moving the chest cavity out sideways. Yogic breathing. The West has much to learn about the ancient traditions of Asia (as do many young West-entrenched Asians!). We are waaaay behind.

We are destroying our civilisation and it is heartbreaking

The importance of getting into nature to connect

The hypothesis that modern western life is analogous to a decontextualised “lab-rat” existence is stunningly attractive. No wonder so many people are miserable when they’ve been untethered from literally anything that could be called a “rooting context”.

The reason this truth is not gaining more traction by scholars as of yet is that the asymmetry is of psychology not of biology. Even though psychology has less impact on biology than vice versa, shouldn't such a fundamental principle of psychology be more widely accepted and referred to by experts in every field of human excellence where psychology matters? This is baffling and can only be understood to be the result of shock and denial by virtually all scholarship that they are victims of this syndrome and still require treatment and recovery. I wonder if there exists any analog in recent history to such a paradigm shift. There have been early adopters who have helped in the identification of every social construction followed by the piecemeal recovery process by the rest of the population. But this isn't being touched by anyone, and it's possible that the reason is that while identity is being addressed in the political sphere, psychology is not, yet.

Dr. McGilchrist your ideas make so much sense to me, in a way that only Jung has done in the past, you validate everything I feel and believe, and you explain it all with such accuracy and clarity, thank you so much, God bless you!! 👏🙏👏

They asked Gandhi "what do think of Western Civilization?" The greqt saint replied' "Western Civilization? A great idea. Someone should try it!" I love the Master and His emissary but to imagine that non-European cultures do not add anything to the human condition is coloniolist nonsense. I love Shakespeare, I also love Rumi. I find much more spiritual truth in Buddhism and Hinduism than in Socrates or the Abrahamic religions. Tat Tuam Asi (that thou art = the real being is the Ultimate Reality).

Thanks so much both of you! 😃 love your work Dr McGilchrist and I look up to you. I’m fortunate to be able to understand a lot of what you’re saying, although not all. Thanks for the wisdom and keep doing what you do.

Brilliant, so interesting and great advice! Thank you! Well done!

Dr. McGilchrist and Niall the best interview I have ever heard❤❤❤, beautiful lessons to think about and bring about in our lifes and on one anothers. Thank you both so so much❤❤

Thorough. Beautiful. Thank you Iain.

Brilliant. Thanks be to all comprehending humans...

Thank you for this conversation....wonderful questions gave Mr McGilChrist wonderful form and flow.....I understand beauty.....

Genuinely informative and helpful - to the end. Sincere thanks to both of you.

Awesome! Do it again!

1st time watching this channel - v amusing!!!! Twas indeed a fabulous championship!

19:18 after 2 years of following him, I didn't think Dr McGilchrist had this in him 😂

...spaceship earth... Peak population. So many opportunities possible... ...so much more to learn!

@lovingyaru

14 күн бұрын

Bucky Fuller 🌎

Excellent, well said Ian I couldn't stop listening! Agree nature is massively important! Gonna have to listen to more of Ian

How can one tell the difference between an era of decay, decline, and collapse and the darkness before the dawn of a new era of reform, renaissance, and enlightenment?

@simesaid

Күн бұрын

The former experience is chaotic, depressing, and marked by a sense of fatalistic foreboding, whereas the latter is marked by idealistic creativity and boundless optimism... yeah, it's the former.

all the bits and connections

"How the "F" did that happen" Ha! ImcG laying it down. ❤

@wuncieadams1352

18 күн бұрын

I do not understand your comment, perhaps because I do not know what “ImcG laying it down” means.

@PromoMIAR

18 күн бұрын

@@wuncieadams1352 Just short hand for "Iain Mc Ghillchrist" and I found it funny he was almost dropping the F bomb when describing Matter.

@bobdillaber1195

17 күн бұрын

​@@wuncieadams1352Nor did I.

So it's not that they do different specialties, they're different personalities that filter the world and you are a synthesis of both

@simesaid

Күн бұрын

Except if you're a split-brain patient.

Your thoughts on relationships are always welcome.

Fantastic!I would love to see a conversation with Rabbi Simon Jacobson. Both brilliant ! Thanks very much indeed .

53:00 obviously the baby is not responding to beauty standards of another culture - it’s responding much more likely to the confidence, that beauty gives - a confidence that is probably reassuring, feels safe and might have to do with how important it is to get the social clues of power. (Don’t want to dumb evolution down to the usual power game, but the example the otherwise mostly brilliant speaker made, doesn’t seem thought through)

This makes me think of Johann Hari's view on addiciton, as explained in his book "Chasing the Scream." He argues that the addict is the ultimate individual because addiction replaces relationship.

Osho nailed this. "The majority of people are left-brained, thus right handed. This is because so-called advanced society has placed so much emphasis on the concepts of rational, mechanical thought and action. If this wasn't so, it would be the case that right-handed and left-handed people would be equal." Now, this man was describing the concept of plasticity and perhaps "collective plasticity", resulting in the "mess", that are becoming increasingly evident. Osho was a mystic, but not lacking in scholarly prowess, having been a Professor in his earlier life. Also, I'm reminded of a "Tao De Ching" with a foreword by the "author", a doctor whose name escapes me, who described our human species as evolving towards connecting and therfore living with a brain which readily communicates bilaterally, and I can't help but wonder if this isn't unlike the tuning of an old analog radio, with static predominating until the station is "tuned in". This might look like siezures of all sorts, where the "solution", if strong enough, would be the severing of this corpus callosum. How can we cooperate with an evolution which is "natural", yet the "we" that don't understand nature's intent for us, consider our evolution pathological, and in need of treatment (our egos)?

59:15 There is a name for this process, 'slippery slope'.

Theses words are ALL his ( EGO )saying " LOOK HOW SMART I AM ". 😢. All flawed only human words . Hear the SOUND of MY soul ❤ ! DON'T DIE ❤

Doctor Iiain, People divide their brain them selves through removing the "I" in their speach to avoid responsability and accountability but that lack of responsability and accountability is also lack of their power and lack of their control in their personal life which in turn they present in speach, they look for answers while at the same time they hide who is doing the actions, it's passive reflexive thinking that has begun to prevail in the world and looks like depression, or in my words "spoiled conciousness". What are your thoughts on this observation?

@gmk2222

17 күн бұрын

Doesn’t say much for my work ethic in school, or of my understanding of language in general. Always trying to learn. But I’m fine with my instincts and I rather like to listen to my intuition. Thanks for the response. ❤

@sabineroach5486

16 күн бұрын

Why do you misspell so horribly in the beginning of your comment and then recover and do well? Were you misspelling deliberately and then forgot.?

@renelovemetal

15 күн бұрын

@@sabineroach5486 So that all the stupid bots that don't get the message have something to ocupy their mind with, I have to think about them also, can't discriminate

Why suggest that religion is helpful? Clearly, from what it's being said, it's not the religion that helps, but the sense of connection. Religion has created at least as much division as it has unity. To each their own, but we will be in trouble until we can distinguish between indoctrination and genuine compassion.

@grantfrith9589

Күн бұрын

Maybe you're looking at it wrong. Religion passes down through the generations knowledge and wisdom through a narrative we can comprehend. That rationalisation described by Iain might be the problem and not Religion at all. I mean we fill that narrative void with something and we're seeing as a consequence of the "Death of God" from a Nietzschien perspective many other deranged narratives creeping into the culture as a consequence. Maybe this is what is meant by Nietzsche when he said that there won't be enough water to wash away the blood. It looks to me as if the "Tower of Babel" story is exactly right when we try to write our own values in the absence of God. I'm not sure but maybe we won't even have a useful language in the wake of the absence of God in the culture. The "What is a woman" documentary is an obvious example of our inability in modern times to discuss the simplest of concepts. Obviously this is not universal because not everyone is engaging with the "woke" culture for want of a better description. Whatever is driving that looks to me to be the same thing that manifests in corruption in the religions. What Iain brings to the table is extremely profound in understanding our nature. As the right hemisphere is filtering information and seeing a bigger picture it's tragedy is that it needs to use the left hemisphere to communicate using the language so maybe all of us are much smarter than we appear to be when we open our mouths. If we are to escape the problem of finding universal values that we can all agree on I strongly suspect we need to be able to recognise the differences between the hemispheres we're using because it's very likely most of the misery inflicted on us through the narratives we follow is precisely the consequence of the Emissary running out of control to use Iains terminology. The most rational of us are probably only worshipping half of our intellect, and not the "right" half. If Iains correct this is true "technically".

@alexdaddario2732

Күн бұрын

Your unbelief in God should not come between you and The Truth of his opinion

@michaelricketson1365

15 сағат бұрын

Why NOT say that religion is helpful? Many people make helpful connections thru religion.

There is meaning … build Heaven On Earth ✔️

safe vs free

I look into these things because I wonder how many people just can't believe religion, no matter what they try.

Bruce Alexander's Globalisation of Addiction gives far more comprehensive (Right Hemisphered) theories of addiction. Dr Mc G is slightly a bit too left sided here

We know about the brain through words: thought is words. Can thought, can the word, touch the dark, natural substrata that produced it? But we are that dark, natural substrata. Does thought even know what thought itself is? Obviously not, yet it thinks it knows what everything else is, including 'you', by simply pointing to something and calling it a word. This is a social process acting through you, because society is the author of the word, the thought, the label, and it imposes it on perception. Know what awareness is. See what is not love. Then there is nothing left to know. The problem of consciousness is the problem of love. Don't touch the former and ignore the latter. You may not like it, being averse to touch as we all are, but they go together. Don't pursue one without the other.

One mans words CAN NOT and WILL NOT fix it , no matter how brilliant he seems . Eyes mind heart and soul wide open. NO FEAR!. Ai will soon take the guess work out of it and all gurus and snake oil salesmen will soon be gone! Don't die, we are coming. See you in 2500.

anything happens just blame technology, the thought is very left hemispheric itself

He has a good intuition, it is materialism, addiction (hard drugs like alcohol and crystal, but also lighter ones like cannabis, even if that plays the smallest role, but even then it is relevant how consciously we deal with it), which also includes highly processed food with hard ingredients. There is also the internet and other media. We can use some of it if we allow it to be used consciously, but it would make sense if it were easier and safer for people to use. I am only dominated by the energy given to me by God, which is why both halves of my brain work simultaneously and in a balanced way and therefore function... Sometimes people are put in the right direction by dogs or similar, which then draw attention to the missing links and can thus bring healing...

@KL0098

17 күн бұрын

"I am only dominated by the energy given to me by God, which is why both halves of my brain work simultaneously and in a balanced way and therefore function..." Can't think of a sentence that better incapsulates Left-brain dominance; the sheer amount of smugness, the flaunting of superiority. The exorbitant CERTAINTY that God is making YOUR brain work better than everyone else's. And this here amply demonstrates why Iain McGilchrist, despite his best intentions, is not going to change the world for the better.

@jolima

14 күн бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@KL0098 being the saviour of the world would by this logic anyways be guided by a leftsided schizophrenic attempt to get control over what is out of control of the individual. But one hubristic comment doesn’t prove, that the efforts of people like Ian McGilchrist are useless - this nihilism is basically the flip side of the hubris you’re attacking

@DnBComplex

6 күн бұрын

​@@KL0098 chill... You're projecting. He never stated to be superior... He even said that other things, like dogs or whatever, can bring you meaning and understanding. ✌️ Peace❤

@KL0098

6 күн бұрын

@@DnBComplex Are we talking about bringing meaning and understanding, or about the both sides of brain working in a balance manner? You're deviating from the matter. Anything can bring meaning and understanding, yes, but it doesn't follow that attaining meaning and understanding makes your brain be balanced. A serial killer's deranged mind finds meaning in certain acts. An atheist scientist is seeking understanding too. What we're talking about is modes of making a balanced brain. McGilchrist is very clear: I am ONLY dominated by the energy given to me by God". That sounds to me like an admission that nothing else can help his brain work in a balance way. Religion, to him, is crucial. I strongly disagree and I deplore the smug certainty.

Only 2% of neurons cross the corpus callosum, but which hemisphere has the greater inhibitory effect on the other? Has anybody looked at that?

@davidbrinnen

17 күн бұрын

In one of his many lectures, I can't remember which exactly, I believe he said that the left hemisphere has the greater inhibitory effect - though the level of that inhibition is dependent to some extent on the over arching culture of the time.

@peteraddison4371

8 күн бұрын

... Same old, Say mould The Earth is fine, we're ?ucked. Feeling the shifty fudge of solidifieDisolution of the paradyMatrix intertwining of eons static fluxtu8ings. We WILL all be giving it our best shot. Many WILL pass, feWill remain, or viser-versa. No matter what, the Spirit (impetus of isness) is the controler. So-Go-&-Glow-&-Flow & ...

Strays.. The land of strays currently. Colonised by suffering people from England...convicts and brainwashed govt officials and busyness folk and leaving the humans local to this unique place with culture proven and strong and kind, growing from one of the last relatively full and generous ecosystems on our magnificent planet.

Maybe the world became dominated by LH thinking because of the need for safety that was provided by social cohesion which was a project that monotheism and religious authority promised and fulfilled. If I am right, then religious authority assimilated us by teaching us to compartmentalize the previous spiritual world views and relationships with reality; and this conversion process found success through compartmentalizing in the RH. Now that we have succeeded in achieving sustainable systems of social cohesion that are systems of identity, we are ready to free ourselves of this compartmentalization which involves the 5 stages of grief and a great deal of remembering wisdom and human nature that is not only 2 millennia old, but has also suffered persecution for the same duration.

The competitive nature of the male of our species, be it on the battlefield or the football pitch, is a major threat to our survival. 🤔

We won't survive because he said we must be trusting of each other. Not possible in a mutli cultural world.

6th. Extinction 😢!

Richard Dawkins' materialistic philosophy seems to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If Dr. McGilchrist is talking about the human brain and its structure as it relates to Western Civilization’s decay, it would seem to me to be a lopsided hypothesis since all human brains must have the same asymmetrical hemispheres. So, the human brain’s structure cannot possibly be used to account for one civilization’s decay……

@PromoMIAR

18 күн бұрын

Have you read any of his work?

@renelovemetal

17 күн бұрын

He fails his semantics by saying that, to use "must" it shows preference not fact and I suspect more and more that they do it on purpose to confuse because language is code and one single error as simple as a dot or a coma or a letter destroys the entire code therefore the reasoning of those humans

@skylinefever

3 күн бұрын

Japan, SIngapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are eastern, and the birth rates are on the bottom 10 list.

@michaelricketson1365

15 сағат бұрын

It's how that structure is used which matters.

I feel sorry that i cant grasp it

@jessicaporter4194

17 күн бұрын

You grasp enough to know that you don't ❤ i find i come back over time and grasp more each time

@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858

17 күн бұрын

The essential thing in learning is the realization you don't know.

@ellie698

17 күн бұрын

I don't know what he's on about 😆

@anthonyphillips2874

17 күн бұрын

Well, one side of the brain deals with thinking and is never satisfied, creates problems and more and more technology taking us away from our connection with stillness, nature, our higher being or however you describe the unknown, the other side of the brain is intuitive, creative and connects with a deeper sense of life and meaning, Dr Gilchrist is saying the side of our brain that is never satisfied and grabs and goes down the rabbit hole of technology has or has developed too much prominence, I guess it's the age old thing of people doing meditation and getting a benefit that others can't understand and others that get caught up in the mind made world that never satisfies and causes us to lose meaning and wonder what it's all about.

@anthonyphillips2874

17 күн бұрын

He is talking about how each side of the brain has a different function and we are being led more and more by the side that can create problems if we are not balanced with the side of the brain that is creative, intuitive and connects with something deeply.

All flawed scientific pappers 😢.

I hate to say it but the problem lies in straight men not runnign the world anymore. Only we have the fortitute to tell people to do their job or fk off and put serious weight behind it. Today you have cops with tattoo sleeves!! That isn't a man at all. This comment alone is probably too masculine for this website..doesn't that say it all. The others can't handle ANY heat.

@michaelricketson1365

15 сағат бұрын

The leader's seat is vacant. 😔

Jews

I’m a lot more intelligent than you and i guarantee you’ve not a clue. so much for your PhD. you are ‘i think’, i am ‘i can prove’.

Thumbs down. everything is orchestrated and this fellow nis still asleep. LOL made it about a minute before it was apparent

@michaelricketson1365

15 сағат бұрын

How was it apparent?