I started reading this book with my father. He lives in South Africa and I live in Israel and I was looking for a way to rebond after more than a decade of limited contact following my mother's death. And this has been the perfect book to reconnect over. Sharing the sections that speak to us and relating what we are reading to our own lives and experiences. Thank you so much for this book. I am really enjoying reading it, and that it gave me a "how" on reconnecting with my father.

@frankwhite1816

8 ай бұрын

What a cool story! Kudos! Thanks for sharing. 🙏

Love it, love it, love it!! Smashing!! Thank you so much for this. I can’t wait to dig into this magnum opus. Blessings!! Mahalo!!

After 500 people with you in real time I hope many many more like me -who read your book covers to covers - changed forever and now hopeful change agents in our small way will enjoy this episode for a long time to come!

I Love this Wonderful Man. I was in tears during some of it. Every Great Work of Art is followed by some sort of breakdown, so well done Iain for bringing this Masterpiece into our lives at just the right time. On a par with Hamlet and Suppers Ready if you don't know Peter Gabriel in his Genesis days. I will even listen to some Bach because your taste in poetry is so good. Loved the Straight Line poem, that was brilliant. Also well done Alex. You 2 are in synch and it's lovely to watch, xxx

@NikoHL

5 ай бұрын

Calm down my friend.. "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy"

I always mute myself when I Iisten to Iain McGilchrist. Speechless 🙊

The bell-casting sequence in Andrei Rublev is one of the greatest experiences I've ever had watching a movie.

Lovely ! 2 hours ! looking forward to it all Alex 🙋🏻‍♀️thank you for your work

Beautiful Anniversary celebration 🎊, I look forward to the 2nd Anniversary! This will be percolating for a long time in many spheres of inquiry. Im a 🎨painter and am enthralled with your work. I have enjoyed the chapter reviews with Alex. I so appreciate the discussion of the relevance of the Orpheus myth in knowledge. I also often hate painting, but love having gotten through each of them- they are vehicles

Many, many thanks Dr. McGilchrist for having and posting this dialogue.

It doesn't "...change the way you see everything," but it does allow you to see things from a new perspective and the result is an ability to understand things you didn't know existed before.

I would really love to hear a conversation between dr. McGilchrist and Canadian developmentalist Gordon Neufeld.

I'm also one of the many who aren't even close to finishing the book after a year, even though it has provided me with real good new insights whenever I read a bit of it. And as someone with attention disorder, who always tries to read 10 books at the same time and in the end barely finishes a couple of chapters, I had to smile about the lady who said that people will be reading this for many decades from now. That's simple: it's so darn long and you never get to the bottom of it 😂 But seriously, this video and the many other KZread conversations with Iain are very helpful to get a better clue for people like me who haven't got the stamina and discipline to read such a long tome completely.

@Krasbin

Жыл бұрын

My approach to the "book" is as follows: treat it as a series of books, with each chapter a different book. Compared to many books that do not go far beyond 100 to 200 pages, this is actually true. And so I pick up the chapter, as if it were a book, and treat it like that, which gives a sense of accomplishment you feel upon finishing a book (while also hopefully understanding the content). And this sense of accomplishment, which I rarely feel for a chapter, but do feel for a book, is what propelled me forward into the last chapter in less than 2 months. One peculiar thing, because I tried to read 10 books on career development (especially Range by David Epstein), I have been stuck for more than 3 months. So I understand what you mean, I read to many different things as well, but by simply treating each chapter as a book, and the book as a book series, the whole enterprise is much more accessible. One other tip: Alex and Ian discuss each chapter (Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues, Iain McGilchrist and Alex Gomez-Marin). It is nice to first listen to them discussing the chapter and then to read it, and also helped me to read on.

I can’t quite believe what I’m witnessing unfolding. Is this the beginning of the boat turning to change trajectory and head for Home at last? ❤️

I heard on twitter that David Ray Griffin died. Major Whiteheadian/process contributor; must thus recommend his books, especially 'Physics and the Ultimate Signifnigance of Time', featuring David Bohm, Prigonine, John Cobb Jr. et al.-a transcript of a conference with emphasis on the thought of Whitehead and Process.

I’d like to congratulate Ian McGilchrist on his commendable exposition of Colin Wilson’s ideas and philosophy.

@nonserviam751

Жыл бұрын

I was actually thinking it unfortunate that Colin Wilson didn't live to see this book, earlier before I saw this comment. But I'm not sure Colin had this covered. Certainly existential aspects. I've only read a few of his novels, some of 'The Occult', and heard a lot of his talks. His focus was mostly existential I take it.

@stephenhogg6154

Жыл бұрын

@@nonserviam751 Yes, and his existential philosophy became infused by split brain theory. ‘Frankenstein’s Castle’ is a good summary. My comment is facetious, but it bothers me how McGilchrist never acknowledges Wilson, while repeating so many of his ideas.

@misspy1153

Жыл бұрын

Maybe he never came across him? I’m a song writer recovering from 6 additions and have been on a gruelling journey of self discovery. I’ve just realised that my lyrics mirror a great deal of Iain’s ideas and I had never heard of him until this month!

Thank you uploading this. And is always so pleasing to experience the relationship of Iain&Alex. Some dismay to hear about Peterson Academy, which brings to mind Andrew Scull's witty ending to his review of MaE ("Down with the left would seem to be McGilchrist’s motto, and not just when it comes to the brain.") and what I see in MwT as some indication of understandable exasperation with 'wokeness' and its accompanying intolerance.

@toby81tube

Жыл бұрын

Not sure you've understood any of this?

“Was the face on the canvas viler than before? It seemed to him that it was unchanged, and yet his loathing of it was intensified. Gold hair, blue eyes, and rose-red lips - they all were there. It was simply the expression that had altered. That was horrible in its cruelty. Compared to what he saw in it of censure or rebuke, how shallow Basil’s reproaches about Silbyl Vane had been! How shallow and of what little account! His own soul was looking out at him from the canvas and calling him to judgment.” I believe Mgilchrist’s Hemisphere Hypothesis presents us with something akin to an ‘inner-self-portrait’. The more it becomes part of standard psychology, indeed popular, discourse, the less easy it will be to lock it away in the ‘attic’ - out of sight, out of mind.

The ‘either/or’, Cartesian dichotomising? tendency is really, I contend, a species of Sartre’s ‘Hell is other people’, particularly in contrast to Solzhenitsyn’s ‘line between good and evil passes through the heart of every man’, it’s really about projecting. That’s not to deny the importance of identifying and judging wrong in others; for instance... I might not go so far as to say hell is other people but I’d certainly say life is largely what others make it. Sartre’s example of Bad Faith, whereby, if I’m not mistaken, the young woman allows herself to be seduced when a man puts his hand on hers, she treats her hand as object devoid of agency, one thing leads to another. Now, that may not be what Sartre’s example was about but it is of fundamental importance because precisely that sort of abdication of agency is prevalent in the world and it is the number one cause of the destruction of western civilisation. Sartre was allegedly himself shameless when it came to adultery, he cared not about traditional morality, only that you are ‘authentic’ and own your actions... but he did not properly live up to this... like Ayn Rand, when ‘authenticity’, fidelity to one’s beliefs, demanded real sacrifice they wanted none of it.

I have only watched a bit of this but I don’t think what Rowson raises wasn’t already obviously presented in Iain’s masterpiece The Master and his Emissary. This is very important, The Master and his Emissary has been successful but it hasn’t had anywhere near the influence it should have done and this is a very serious indictment of academia. In short academia doesn’t do philosophy, they do antisophy, and we see this reflected, with horrifying Orwellian mendacity, re, for instance, the BBC’s refusal to properly cover the Brazilian uprising or Elon Musk’s Twitter revelations; it’s all inextricably linked.

Thanks for the silence Jonathan

What Iain doesn’t know is what he is lacking.