Thank you, Dr. Iain McGilchrist!

Thank you for piece of music Judy Collins and Pete Seager, " Turn, Turn, Turn." It was a beautiful way to open up this morning for this conversation by all of you. With deep reverence and appreciation, Dr. Iian McGilchrist for all you have given our world through your books and lectures. A transformation of our hearts and minds for the betterment for humanity. A hummingbird sings.🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

Good late winter early Spring morning from near Vancouver BC Iain…Thank you for that non verbal moment, a pregnant pause to allow the sacred to form some foundation to your talk…

Thank you for the lovely talks and for introducing me to Turn Turn Turn. It is so delightful to the soul.

A Love Song to This Earth 🥰

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2 ай бұрын

Listen, and try to think if you remember what we will speak of now. Listen,-perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. ²Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular. ³But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you. The notes are nothing. ²Yet you have kept them with you, not for themselves, but as a soft reminder of what would make you weep if you remembered how dear it was to you. ³You could remember, yet you are afraid, believing you would lose the world you learned since then. ⁴And yet you know that nothing in the world you learned is half so dear as this. ⁵Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since. Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. ²And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. ³The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. ⁴The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. ⁵Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. ⁶Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not. This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. ²Here is the sight of him who knows his Father. ³Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined in you. ⁴Accept the vision that can show you this, and not the body. ⁵You know the ancient song, and know it well. ⁶Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love the Son of God sings to his Father still. 10. And now the blind can see, for that same song they sing in honor of their Creator gives praise to them as well. ²The blindness that they made will not withstand the memory of this song. ³And they will look upon the vision of the Son of God, remembering who he is they sing of. ⁴What is a miracle but this remembering? ⁵And who is there in whom this memory lies not? ⁶The light in one awakens it in all. ⁷And when you see it in your brother, you _are_ remembering for everyone. A Course In Miracles (1976) Author: _Jesus Christ_

Thank the Lord someone so utterly learnéd, lovely and full of grace is saying this (from 35:21 to 40:41) to clergy and lay readers. I've been horrified by such an approach since being patronised by clergy at the age of 8. I'm now 56. As he says, no wonder the church is emptying.

I wonder whether Iain would speak the way he does about church services, music, ritual, icons etc. if he was or had been a practicing Christian? It seems to me that so long as these matters are viewed from a distance and maintaining one’s own perspective and interpretation all is well. However, one must remember that all these matters are part of a hierarchical and dogmatic structure and the ritual, music, art, liturgy and buildings are but manifestations of this structure