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.
He’s bridged the scientific materialist-religion/spirituality divide. It might be the most important discovery of our lifetimes. If only people would pay attention.
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.
In over 2300 published pages he’s not mentioned the cerebellum - where 80% of your neurons are found. He only covers the cerebrum - where each inflated fluffy grey mass is home to only 10% of your neurons. The cerebellum is directly linked to autism, depression, Parkinson’s, and addiction - and just about everything else.
He is blaming it on the brain and that is incorrect. The reality is that what we are dealing with is cyclical although we perceive life as linear: past, present, and future it is cyclical. The Precession of the Equinoxes explained in the film ‘The Great Year’. describes the precession from a high age to a dark and up to a high age again. Where we are now in the cycle is on the rise from the last dark materialistic age to an age where inner forces; electricities will be fully understood and put to use. What we are going through is a transition. Dark age energy and mores are still with us and we are feeling their effects but things will get better and have already got better in many areas. If we see consciousness as fundamental and mind as elemental; emerging with quantum events with intelligence increasing as we advance in the cycle we can be optimistic rather than pessimistic. Steven Piinker posits progress based on evolution, not realizing that evolution responds to what is fundamental consciousness and intelligence, not the physical brain which is just a conduit for consciousness, intelligence and mind as a lamp is for light. Reducing life; consciousness and mind to biology leads to misinformation and makes no sense. The hard problem of consciousness for philosophy is clear proof that biological reductionism is wrong and ultimately does not add up.
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.
Fantastic! As I get older and hopefully wiser, I have often pondered how the world’s governments, corporations (basically those in power) are run by people who are obviously left brain dominant. I struggle in their black and white world.
Dr. McGilchrist, thank you for confirming what I have always suspected all my life. I am the child of immigrants who came to Australia as an infant, and I've always believed that the Anglo culture as the first industrialized peoples lost a chunk of their Humanity a bit earlier than other cultures. The loss of faith in all, except what can be seen by the naked eye. The loss of family values and connection, which provide meaning, purpose and a sense of belonging. This obsession with "Individualism". As if it is weak to need others. The disrespect for a woman's traditional role, as if it was something to despise. The complete obsession with materialism and economics, as if it is the only thing that has importance. The near total disregard for the natural world. These characteristics describe very well the left brain thinking that pervades our culture and perspective of life, and its single-minded obsession with getting and acquiring, at all cost. As a child who loved nature in all its forms, it was an excruciating and painful experience to grow up immersed in this culture. Although, I am aware that to differing degrees this is present in other European cultures. I can't speak to what extent other cultures are affected by this phenomenon. But it is apparent that the world is in the grip of this distorted and unbalanced view of what life is about and how to live a life worth living. That is why there is this exponential growth in mental health issues and all the other signs of a decaying society. Who can change this trajectory if not us? I can tell you it's not easy thinking for yourself and it's mostly not valued or appreciated. However, something in me refuses to yield to this diseased mentality. Thank you again for the work that you are doing! They can't see the forest for the tree's. I am also hopeful because as much as we are a force for destruction. We have just have lost our way. Know thy self! We are nature. We must come back to ourselves.
LindaRodriguez Thank you for posting your thoughts, which I wholeheartedly agree with. It is encouraging to know there are some people out there who feel the same way! I think this is why some of us feel we don’t belong in this world - because we don’t think the same way as the selfish greed-obsessed corporate entities that currently run everything. There is a need to reconfigure the way we live.
Have always felt the same and (!) also arrived in Australia as a small political refugee from a European culture. Have suffered psychically here all my life. You’ve described the problem profoundly, thank you.
I agree with your general view. But there is also the component of reactionary politics in the modern West. You say that, "The disrespect for a woman's traditional role, as if it was something to despise." On the other side, there is the nostalgic fantasies about the past that often have no resemblance to historical reality. Modern reactionaries, in replacing tradition with invented traditions, use historical revisionism to obscure how radical are their views. The moment one hears the notes of nostalgia, one knows one is in the territory of the reactionary. Traditionalists were less likely to get lost in nostalgic fantasies. It's easy to forget that the modern right isn't traditional emerged in opposition to what was perceived as the failures of traditionalism (see Corey Robin).
@@MarmaladeINFP profound misinterpretation of that which was written. The “modern west” is merely a clone of that which Corporate Capitalism dictates. The comment writer was on the mark with regard to common sense, resilient belief systems that severe the function of protecting people from a large degree of the mental health issues that have proliferated in the afore mentioned society. Nothing to do with nostalgia, everything to do with creating meaning, the very thing Corp Capitalism has so effectively destroyed. You’re welcome.
“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
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!! 👏🙏👏
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.
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.
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”.
You've been never apart from nature. Otherwise the biological functions 9f the organism would stop. It's your left brain trying to make u think you're disconnected. And this misconception causes a vicious circle of greed and fear.
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.
Aware of what exactly? And what do you mean by expand our being? What does expanding our being look like? If you are reaching Iain by wonderful and subtle thought, what have you reached in what he is saying?
That was such an intriguing interview I now feel more. Ignorant than I imagined 😂 still hang on in there as this man is fascinating .. and addictive ( in terms of me wanting to learn) being an Artist I am in my own bubble most of the time .. but have my moments of connection in the moment of looking into the eyes 👀 of the people I come across in everyday life .. connecting is Beautiful …. Loved this even if I can only observe and absorb tiny bits at a time , need to search out one of his books 😍😎😜
Understanding that all things with a beginning have an end without exception might help with your heartbreak. Dr. McGilchrist refers to "hope" as an appropriate attitude in the face of such pessimism, but I think "faith" is better.
@@juang4618 faith is blind hope is not, by their own nature. so, the argument that "faith" is better where thoughtful deliberation, planning, anticipation and practice is needed collapses by itself by the very nature of faith as it's culturally understood. hence hope is indeed the better term & concept here, it allows and entails significantly more freedom and flexibility.
@@horasefu1438 Faith is surrender. hope is desire/aversion based. No one of true wisdom has ever advocated for hope over faith. Not "thoughtful" deliberation, but "mindful" deliberation with no anticipation or planning for an outcome. Man's hubris of the fearful illusion of being able to control anything beyond his state of mind is why we are in the predicament we are in.
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❤❤
My left dominant roommate hates his humanity and all imperfection. Yet he can't see how this compartmentalization of matter contributes to it in a devastating manner.
Bravo! for saying so clearly and succinctly what's taken me a lifetime to learn. And for underscoring my present goal of preparing for new life "after the deluge."
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.
This all makes perfect sense of what is happening in our society now. Very impressive interview! It's also of concern about where we are headed if we don't learn to appreciate skill in simple crafts.
IM's description (16'30"-24') of what a left-brain-dominated world would be like describes pretty closely what the USA is now like in its behaviour towards the rest of the world, and how the USA is largely viewed by the RoW.
So wild. I was using the brain’s hemispheres and political parties in the US acting lobotomized last night in a comment. Now, this vid is the first I see this morning. First time listening to him on this. This is a case where I’m glad tech is monitoring my behavior and content:)
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.
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".
Its more about the inner journey within and reconciling oneself than being part of 'a movement of conformity'. One can draw from the well of wisdom and look at the values to live life by.
Bravo. very interesting. Something that came up in my mind when listening is the it would be intersting to hear McGilchrist talk about role of initiation and initiatory rituals (like how Boys in some cultures undergo) in "recentering" our brain function... meaning rebalancing the way the brain functions across the two hemispheres. While i'm sure it differs according to personality type, in my son's case, i noticed a strong left hemisphere inclination (literal mindedness..unwise decision making), especially as he moved through early adolescence. This created a real problem as he was unable to see the bigger picture and he made some very poor decisions. So his mother and i pulled him out of school and the world and sent him off to a Wilderness Program in Vermont for four months....i think it's a sort of correlate to the initiatory processes that i've observed as an anthropologist in Africa. We followed that with two years in a outdoor school. Over time i've noticed his ability to observe the greater reality, the nuances, the world in which he's embedded and live a much more circumspectly. I'm sure that these initiatory rituals and experiences both expand the personality but also rebalance the ways in which we see the world. I think that perhaps this is what the great mystery rituals were about in ancient Greece...
We are responsible for everything as far as I can tell. Owning that is a political question through the experience of society and decision of the same class; what is crime, what is punishment, what is forgiveness and redemption!
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.
Don’t you agree it is happening primarily in western countries? Not all the world bases their thinking on western fallacies, which derive from the left brain.
I always thought McGilchrist was a materialist but I was mistaken. He is in the money in so many ways. His views are in alignment with the work of Tim Freke and the International Community of Unividuals. It is time to nurture right brain influence and integration.
And you have infinite thoughts that no one can ever know and you have just expressed one. No one has stopped nor could anyone stop you from thinking? You do make a fascinating observation however I am utterly bemused as to how such an obscure shoe-horned theory has anything to do with how an understanding of hemispheric differences in perception and attention may assist health professional work with addiction? However, I may not be attending to the same detail as yourself?
A simple solution to divided brain is to cultivate the feeling of love and perceiving things as whole, connected and interdependent, things a s they really are behind surface appearences. Also develop both logical and artistic, imaginative, musical and intuitive side.
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.
I respect this good man, and impressive intellect, (similar to all the auld Caledonians). And I need to meet with him, over Dinner, to sort out some details, of where us homo sapiens sapiens are heading, and who carefully controlled our ‘evolution’. Thank you sir.
Many thanks! Extremely important thoughts and conclusions from Dr. Iain McGilchrist! Mathematician Vladimir Arnold: “In the middle of the 20th century, the highly influential mafia of “left-hemisphere mathematicians” managed to exclude geometry from mathematical education (first in France, and then in other countries), replacing the entire content side of this discipline with training in the formal manipulation of abstract concepts. All geometry and, consequently, the entire connection of mathematics with the real world and with other sciences was excluded from mathematical education."... "Despite this, the “left-hemisphere patients” managed to raise entire generations of mathematicians who do not understand any other approach to mathematics, and are only able to teach the following generations in the same way. The disgust for mathematics on the part of ministers who were subjected to the humiliating experience of such teaching in school is a healthy and legitimate reaction. Unfortunately, this disgust of theirs extends to all mathematics, without exception, and can kill it entirely." (V. Arnold "Anti-scientific revolution and mathematics", 1999) Mathematician, philosopher, theologian Pavel Florensky: “The problem of space lies at the core of the worldview in all emerging systems of thought and predetermines the composition of the entire system.” With certain limitations and clarifications, one could even recognize space as the proper and primary subject of philosophy, in relation to which all other philosophical topics must be assessed as derivative. And the more closely this or that system of thought is worked out, the more definite a unique interpretation of space becomes as its core. *We repeat: worldunderstanding is spaceunderstanding."* Fields Prize winner mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky (1966-2017): "What we now call the crisis of Russian science is not only a crisis of Russian science. There is a crisis of world science. Real progress will consist in a very serious fight between science and religion, which will end with their association." I think that the "very serious fight" will be here: *_MetaAxiom "In the Beginning was the Logos.../ Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος..." VS. Hypothesis "In the Beginning was the Big Bang...",_* where "LOGos" - "MetaLAW/Absolute LAW" that governs the Universe (in the spirit of Heraclitus) - for the "sciences of nature" and "The God's Law of Justice" - for the "sciences of the spirit" and religion.. Cognition of the FirstLaw of the Universe (Logos= MetaLaw/Absolute Law) provides a single basis for science and religion. Religion, Science and Society are based on LAW. Fundamental science requires a Big Ontological revolution in the metaphysical / ontological basis of knowledge. Physics must move from the stage "Phenomenological physics" to the stage "Ontological physics". The paradigm of the Universe as a WHOLE must come to the aid of the “part paradigm” that dominates science. The New Information Revolution is also pushing for this. Today, the "problem No. 1 of the millennium" is the ONTOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION of mathematics (ONTOLOGICAL BASIFICATION), and therefore knowledge in general, the construction of the New Extended Ideality - the ontological basis of knowledge and cognition for the New information age: ontological framework, carcass, foundation. Mathematicians sweep the problem of the ONTOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION of mathematics (ontological basification) “under the rug”. D. Bukin in "CRISIS OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS AS A CRISIS OF ONTOLOGY" : "The crisis of the foundations of mathematics is, first of all, the crisis of ontology, the essence of which is the inability to describe objects, the fact of being or becoming of which goes beyond the usual ideas about the world. Way out such a crisis state should be sought not so much in the improvement of the methods of mathematics itself, but in the renewal of the cognitive means of ontology, which do not deny the classical paradigm, but can go beyond its framework. is a historically proven method of comprehending the existence of a mathematical object in its development and relationship with objective reality." A.N. Whitehead: *_"A precise language must await a completed metaphysical knowledge."_* V. Voevodsky: *_“Material reality is the absolute judge of truth.”_* Kurt Gödel: *_“Matter will be spiritualized when the true theory of physics is found.”_* Philosophy is the Most Rigorous and Joyful Science, “mother of all sciences.” Who's against it?
Dr Christ YOU are the One who talked about Humanity Brain and it's Asymmetry. Children and young people are victims of oppression and present situation Globally. I think I was a Robotic brain.I felt in my 80th year I felt that I am a frog in the well. Everyone of us should learn to develop and Realise that Healthy Relationships with Healthy Boundaries with Respect Responsibility Resilience Relience HONESTY Dignity with Integrity Discipline and Order Discernment Unconditional emotional support focused Committed Honoured Attitude Behaviour Thoughts Streamlined in Oneself Primarily and ONE Another Obeying the COMMAND "LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF" "DISCERN" Please enlighten if you can. Thank you.
I'm dead curious about this whole left/right hemisphere business. If the left is so ---- basic---- in its identification of things... basically emotionally driven... then why are the 2 sides of the brain more or less equal size? There is the limbic system that is pure emotion as it evolved earliest... then the frontal lobe and then the prefrontal cortex last (it's also the smallest) - (hope i got those the right way around.) The frontal lobe is more emotional and prefrontal cortex is more calculating. I don't know how to gel those things together with the notion that left hemisphere is dedicated to basic emotions (is that not the limbic system?) and the right is calculating (is that not the prefrontal cortex?) I wish he'd talk about that - along with where things like languages sit, visual acuity etc. He makes such a stark contrast between left/right that i don't know how to gel those with findings from brain surgeons who have to look for which part does what in the brain whilst the patient is still awake and label them with little "post it notes". It's a proper mindfuck. And maybe the combination of all our research suggests that we have become so focussed at being specialised in one thing that forgetting the 'whole' is a mistake and everything we see as evidence is actually only a tiny part of the story and you can't come to any real conclusions without considering all other manner of evidence.
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?
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.
I get that distinction. It might apply in some cases to separate the two. But I know of historical periods where the two existed in close proximity. Consider the End Times feeling in the early 1800s United States. There was hyper-partisanship and the 1816 year without summer (thousand starved and froze to death). With the last of the founders retiring and dying off, the upbeat post-revolutionary mood was waning. Apocalyptic preachers were out in force and some declared the American experiment to have failed. Things settled down again. Early industrialization and expanding capitalism, as the population spread westward (i.e., genocide and land theft), created an economic boom. The scientific mentality was taking hold, discoveries and improvements were being made. People were seeking out seminars by scientific experts to teach them modern ways of living, as more an more people abandoned traditional rural lifestyles. America was becoming 'civilized' and fresh waves of immigrants brought in people hoping for a better life. The mood began to sour again as regional conflict grew and then erupted in the Civil War, followed by a post-war political backlash. From the mid-1800s to late 1800s, there was conflict, distrust, foreboding, malaise, moral panic, and culture war. Along with public health panics about tuberculosis and neurasthenia, it included many who saw it as the End Times or something like the End of History, in that the West had come to dominate and it's rule had grown decadent. There was genuine concern at the time if the elite were any longer fit to rule. Then in the early 1900s with an emerging Progressivism, in concert with mass urbanization and industrialization, there was creative boom of culture, science, technology, education, and public health. Only to be followed by another down period of seeming decline and apocalypse with Spanish Flu, Prohibition, Great Depression, and two world wars. Following that period of mass fear and destruction, in the post-war period, it switched back the other way again into "idealistic creativity and boundless optimism." It appears to go in cycles. Some have speculated that it follows a fairly regular pattern over recent centuries (see Neil Howe & William Strauss). There was only a slight interruption in the cycle during the Civil War. But the shifting back and forth between optimistic growth and pessimistic decline has repeated over and over again. And with every down period, there are always the same worries about decadence, corruption, collapse, and destruction. If you live long enough, you'll experience the full cycle.
Energy has an equivalence to matter. We don't know the nature of either. Mind is apparently some result of syncronized order whose nature is perhaps even more obscure. Speculation on such mysteries may be beyond language or perhaps even beyond humans.
Industrialization helped break the barrier between haves and have nots. But, if you look at the life in west, constant worry about economic conditions, loosing spouses easily, the amount of psychological traumas and sleeplessness and suicidal rates went up too. Even in Asian cultures you can see the disparity between Japan and the rest of the orient.
MATTER BECOMES SACRED And let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being “in Christ” or of Christ being “in them,” this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts-that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body. And perhaps that explains one or two things. It explains why this new life is spread not only by purely mental acts like belief, but by bodily acts like baptism and Holy Communion. It is not merely the spreading of an idea; it is more like evolution-a biological or superbiological fact. There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. -from Mere Christianity For reflection 1 Corinthians 10:23-31
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
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?
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 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
Personally I much more prefer the neuroscientist here talking about his observations and conclusions than the psychologist trying to sell virtues, purose and "beauty". The latter are concepts invented by the brain for the brain to keep its overload of neurons nicely firing. AND the idea of a _longer lifespan_ has to be investigated more rigorously. But anyway, thanks for presenting this very interesting interview. I'm a left handed carbon unit.
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.
If you hate to say something then why hurt yourself by doing so? I’m not sure, given the mis-type whether you’re suggesting straight men not ruining or not running the world ? Either way what a bigoted and mis-informed thing to suggest. I fail to see how your comment is too masculine, unless of course you suggest that masculinity to linked to ignorance? You have managed to make me smile though so thank you.
Beauty, if judged and discerned by the left hemisphere, is not absolute. That something or someone actually exists implies that their existence carries an imbued beauty. This is a very spiritual/contemplative requisite attitude. Suffering comes from desire and aversion says the Buddha. In other words, judging ( left hemisphere) that isn't based on an immediate survival situation for an organism, is a negation of the intrinsic beauty of God or creation.
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.
His work with the left and right sides of the brain are very interesting. It's even more interesting that he doesn't provide any real solutions. He doesn't talk at all about the role diet and nutrition play in mental illness, how they cause and cure it.
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...
"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.
@@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
@@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❤
@@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.
@KL0098 see irony or even hypocrisy as your closing sentence does the EXACT thing you claim the naive comment above from Dr Ian does. Wow. But I intended to point out you are A LIL hung up on applying YOUR version of " God" and thus constructiNG your interpretations of what "God" is or rather is not, from, your perspective. I suspect he understands that God is the infinite consciousness, universal all, unknowable creative agency. Not an old man w white beard and robe busy laying out rules like some greco roman prison warden. Which most ant " religists" or athiests seem stubbornly incapable of grasping as they define all reality/ God as relative to themselves, rather than themselves relative to God/ reality
Without even listening the answer is Trauma. That divided the Brain further. Men leaned to the left physical 3d side while most women navigated toward 5d elements of emotions and spirituality. Remember how they were always ones to push everyone to church. Well 75% of narcissists are men. Why? I believe as I said, men gravitated to left brain, and when left brainers get Trauma, they become narcissists, women too, but there are less. I had physical left side brain injury as a small child, so lucky me, I was a right brainer. Very quiet, sensitive, teased, weird and Autistic. In my opinion this Trauma has been going on for centuries and can pass to the children. Then you add War, negative news, Covid, social media, and we're all stuck scrolling our phones for a dopamine hit, which is what caused the imbalance in the first place. We don't have addictions; we have dopamine deficits from not being loved and protected properly or inheriting that trait. None of it is an accident. This was their centuries long plan to totally dominate. I don't think they got quite as many narcissists as they needed to get it done last time, now I don't see it. 5d is here and always has been. Right brain is the non-physical spiritual side and connection to God is possible through Alchemy. Jesus did it first that's why they call it Christ consciousness. It's really divine consciousness. I connected in 2010. I also received that Cain and Abel was really a metaphor for when the Trauma started, and when they also may have gotten rid of the ancient wisdom and teachings and started Christianity. Cain was the left brain, the farmer, farther from God, always working and envious of Abel. Then Able being the right 5d brain, the Shepard, the one closest to God. Since we're talking about the metaphor here, 3d couldn't even access the father in 6d. It had to be done from the 5th. The 5th is heart centered and you have to be in the frequency of unconditional love, and I think there's one more key that has to do with Jesus. Like having the same soul frequency or something. Whatever it is, I had it that night that God reached down with the assistance of the Holy Spirit and touched my forehead. I'm not just flying off the handle here. I was born a target. They must have been expecting a prophet, based on all the awful treatment happening to Empaths in the late 60's and early 70's. There was the Lamb who appeared slain. That could easily be me, because of the left head injury, and the lifetime of Trauma that I was never supposed to survive. That Lamb is also the one that opened the 7 seals, which I believe I have translated in the 7 stages of Alchemy, although both sides focus on the first four. Even Jungs theory had seven total stages, yet he only talked about the 4. The backup plan, according to the 4 males up my father's side, all died at 55 with internal stomach issues. My dad had gang green in his stomach organs. I was single at 55, so I probably dodged a bullet there. Intentional Trauma spread by good old you know who. Yes, we have become very left-brain dominant. It's not an accident, it's an invisible prison. Then the Wars and that generational Trauma, and the negative news. Mixing up different Traumas into marriages. For some reason those narcissists seem to know how to target us Empaths. The officials know how to influence the narcissists, and they love to torment the Empaths. I went through 6 years of covert narcissism. The 3d Matrix is becoming very exposed, and 5d is back along with access to source. The answer to the personal Trauma is to meet in the middle. We are supposed to have balance between 3d and 5d. They hid 5d from us and our access to God. 3d people have to get more spiritual and into their emotions, and the right brainers might have to take it back left a bit. Besides, heart center, if you do it right will also open the flow of divine energy to flow through you. I've hit that twice and it's an indescribable pleasure and peace. It's going to be something to see if we get out from under this 3d matrix. The negativity effects everything on the planet. You might even see animal violence drop too almost none. That's what we are up against. I've said a lot in a few days, but I wanted to get out what I have so far, just in case. I'm guessing there was one group waiting for me, who don't want to believe it's me. I get that, but not still. I even heard a social media group was contacting a record company about me. All I know is they keep saying, "how did he know that? He's not supposed to know that"! So, my guess is these idiots are trying to find out if any music recordings state the secrets I have revealed. There aren't any. However, I get tons and tons of confirmation from a lot of the music I'm into like Tool and Rush. But even then, it's in metaphor. You'd still have to give me credit for decoding the metaphor like Cain and Abel or the 4 Horseman and a whole lot more. That Blog is just the objective big picture. Lots of details to uncover. Looking at your timestamps, I'd say I've given you a lot to chew on. It's all about frequency, and they got 3d locked low so no one can raise up and get out. It can be done though, as I did it. We have to continue identifying and shining lights on things in the 3d that tend to lower your vibration. Get rid of what no longer serves you, which means anything that lowers your vibe and wouldn't stop if you told them. I had to go no contact with all family and spent 8 years in isolation. I know I know, hopefully I found some shortcuts in there. This Trauma program and low vibe 3d society and consciousness have to be our primary focused. If we come up with a fix to society without addressing those issues, we just better figure it out sooner rather than later.
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).
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.
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Interesting and I see your analogy but you are not taking into consideration handedness. The speech centers in Left handed persons are on the opposite side of the right handed. So I would imagine the roles you describe would also be opposite hemispheres.
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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.
He’s bridged the scientific materialist-religion/spirituality divide. It might be the most important discovery of our lifetimes. If only people would pay attention.
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.
In over 2300 published pages he’s not mentioned the cerebellum - where 80% of your neurons are found. He only covers the cerebrum - where each inflated fluffy grey mass is home to only 10% of your neurons. The cerebellum is directly linked to autism, depression, Parkinson’s, and addiction - and just about everything else.
He is blaming it on the brain and that is incorrect. The reality is that what we are dealing with is cyclical although we perceive life as linear: past, present, and future it is cyclical. The Precession of the Equinoxes explained in the film ‘The Great Year’. describes the precession from a high age to a dark and up to a high age again. Where we are now in the cycle is on the rise from the last dark materialistic age to an age where inner forces; electricities will be fully understood and put to use. What we are going through is a transition. Dark age energy and mores are still with us and we are feeling their effects but things will get better and have already got better in many areas. If we see consciousness as fundamental and mind as elemental; emerging with quantum events with intelligence increasing as we advance in the cycle we can be optimistic rather than pessimistic. Steven Piinker posits progress based on evolution, not realizing that evolution responds to what is fundamental consciousness and intelligence, not the physical brain which is just a conduit for consciousness, intelligence and mind as a lamp is for light. Reducing life; consciousness and mind to biology leads to misinformation and makes no sense. The hard problem of consciousness for philosophy is clear proof that biological reductionism is wrong and ultimately does not add up.
Mr. McGilchrist may not be blaming the brain (which is blameless). At least he perceives the Sacred which few see today, or acknowledge.
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.
I only became aware of him about 6 months ago. One of the greatest discoveries of my life.
Fantastic! As I get older and hopefully wiser, I have often pondered how the world’s governments, corporations (basically those in power) are run by people who are obviously left brain dominant. I struggle in their black and white world.
Dr. McGilchrist, thank you for confirming what I have always suspected all my life. I am the child of immigrants who came to Australia as an infant, and I've always believed that the Anglo culture as the first industrialized peoples lost a chunk of their Humanity a bit earlier than other cultures. The loss of faith in all, except what can be seen by the naked eye. The loss of family values and connection, which provide meaning, purpose and a sense of belonging. This obsession with "Individualism". As if it is weak to need others. The disrespect for a woman's traditional role, as if it was something to despise. The complete obsession with materialism and economics, as if it is the only thing that has importance. The near total disregard for the natural world. These characteristics describe very well the left brain thinking that pervades our culture and perspective of life, and its single-minded obsession with getting and acquiring, at all cost. As a child who loved nature in all its forms, it was an excruciating and painful experience to grow up immersed in this culture. Although, I am aware that to differing degrees this is present in other European cultures. I can't speak to what extent other cultures are affected by this phenomenon. But it is apparent that the world is in the grip of this distorted and unbalanced view of what life is about and how to live a life worth living. That is why there is this exponential growth in mental health issues and all the other signs of a decaying society. Who can change this trajectory if not us? I can tell you it's not easy thinking for yourself and it's mostly not valued or appreciated. However, something in me refuses to yield to this diseased mentality. Thank you again for the work that you are doing!
They can't see the forest for the tree's.
I am also hopeful because as much as we are a force for destruction. We have just have lost our way. Know thy self! We are nature. We must come back to ourselves.
LindaRodriguez Thank you for posting your thoughts, which I wholeheartedly agree with. It is encouraging to know there are some people out there who feel the same way! I think this is why some of us feel we don’t belong in this world - because we don’t think the same way as the selfish greed-obsessed corporate entities that currently run everything. There is a need to reconfigure the way we live.
That was beautiful
Have always felt the same and (!) also arrived in Australia as a small political refugee from a European culture.
Have suffered psychically here all my life.
You’ve described the problem profoundly, thank you.
I agree with your general view. But there is also the component of reactionary politics in the modern West.
You say that, "The disrespect for a woman's traditional role, as if it was something to despise." On the other side, there is the nostalgic fantasies about the past that often have no resemblance to historical reality. Modern reactionaries, in replacing tradition with invented traditions, use historical revisionism to obscure how radical are their views.
The moment one hears the notes of nostalgia, one knows one is in the territory of the reactionary. Traditionalists were less likely to get lost in nostalgic fantasies. It's easy to forget that the modern right isn't traditional emerged in opposition to what was perceived as the failures of traditionalism (see Corey Robin).
@@MarmaladeINFP profound misinterpretation of that which was written.
The “modern west” is merely a clone of that which Corporate Capitalism dictates. The comment writer was on the mark with regard to common sense, resilient belief systems that severe the function of protecting people from a large degree of the mental health issues that have proliferated in the afore mentioned society.
Nothing to do with nostalgia, everything to do with creating meaning, the very thing Corp Capitalism has so effectively destroyed.
You’re welcome.
“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
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!! 👏🙏👏
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.
Look into various pranayama practices. Anulom Vilom especially.
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.
Yes, Breath work has brought me great Connection with ‘myself’.
Totally agree 👍
Just physiologically speaking, breathing in the upper respiratory track is a "fight or flight" response. You are on the right track!
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 importance of getting into nature to connect
You've been never apart from nature. Otherwise the biological functions 9f the organism would stop. It's your left brain trying to make u think you're disconnected. And this misconception causes a vicious circle of greed and fear.
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.
Aware of what exactly? And what do you mean by expand our being? What does expanding our being look like? If you are reaching Iain by wonderful and subtle thought, what have you reached in what he is saying?
Possibly one of the most important videos on RUclips Thank you for expanding my mind and thoughts This calls for deep reflection
That was such an intriguing interview I now feel more. Ignorant than I imagined 😂 still hang on in there as this man is fascinating .. and addictive ( in terms of me wanting to learn) being an Artist I am in my own bubble most of the time .. but have my moments of connection in the moment of looking into the eyes 👀 of the people I come across in everyday life .. connecting is Beautiful …. Loved this even if I can only observe and absorb tiny bits at a time , need to search out one of his books 😍😎😜
We are destroying our civilisation and it is heartbreaking
What civilisation ? Take it literally and you'll find there isn't any.
Understanding that all things with a beginning have an end without exception might help with your heartbreak. Dr. McGilchrist refers to "hope" as an appropriate attitude in the face of such pessimism, but I think "faith" is better.
@@juang4618 faith is blind hope is not, by their own nature. so, the argument that "faith" is better where thoughtful deliberation, planning, anticipation and practice is needed collapses by itself by the very nature of faith as it's culturally understood. hence hope is indeed the better term & concept here, it allows and entails significantly more freedom and flexibility.
@@horasefu1438 Faith is surrender. hope is desire/aversion based. No one of true wisdom has ever advocated for hope over faith. Not "thoughtful" deliberation, but "mindful" deliberation with no anticipation or planning for an outcome. Man's hubris of the fearful illusion of being able to control anything beyond his state of mind is why we are in the predicament we are in.
Civilization is destroying us.
Thank you for this conversation....wonderful questions gave Mr McGilChrist wonderful form and flow.....I understand beauty.....
"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” · -G. K. Chesterton
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❤❤
My left dominant roommate hates his humanity and all imperfection. Yet he can't see how this compartmentalization of matter contributes to it in a devastating manner.
Bravo! for saying so clearly and succinctly what's taken me a lifetime to learn. And for underscoring my present goal of preparing for new life "after the deluge."
Dr. McGilchrist speaks facts and he speaks the truth. This truth is something we can verify in every moment by observation of our surroundings.
Brilliant, so interesting and great advice! Thank you! Well done!
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 interview., with profound insights. Thank you! 💖💕💖💕
This all makes perfect sense of what is happening in our society now. Very impressive interview! It's also of concern about where we are headed if we don't learn to appreciate skill in simple crafts.
Genuinely informative and helpful - to the end. Sincere thanks to both of you.
Thorough. Beautiful. Thank you Iain.
Excellent, well said Ian I couldn't stop listening! Agree nature is massively important! Gonna have to listen to more of Ian
Wow. Cannot be more trie. I truly need to hear his words today. Thank you❤❤❤
Iain is really in top form in this one.
IM's description (16'30"-24') of what a left-brain-dominated world would be like describes pretty closely what the USA is now like in its behaviour towards the rest of the world, and how the USA is largely viewed by the RoW.
Brilliant. Thanks be to all comprehending humans...
1st time watching this channel - v amusing!!!! Twas indeed a fabulous championship!
Thank you for the important work that you do on behalf of Humanity. You are a blessing to us all.
Awesome! Do it again!
So wild. I was using the brain’s hemispheres and political parties in the US acting lobotomized last night in a comment. Now, this vid is the first I see this morning. First time listening to him on this. This is a case where I’m glad tech is monitoring my behavior and content:)
Magnificent, thank you!
"How the "F" did that happen" Ha! ImcG laying it down. ❤
I do not understand your comment, perhaps because I do not know what “ImcG laying it down” means.
@@wuncieadams1352 Just short hand for "Iain Mc Ghillchrist" and I found it funny he was almost dropping the F bomb when describing Matter.
@@wuncieadams1352Nor did I.
Thank you,. explained Beautifully ❤️🌞
Fantastic!I would love to see a conversation with Rabbi Simon Jacobson. Both brilliant !
Thanks very much indeed .
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.
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".
Your unbelief in God should not come between you and The Truth of his opinion
Why NOT say that religion is helpful? Many people make helpful connections thru religion.
And you are right in saying so.
Its more about the inner journey within and reconciling oneself than being part of 'a movement of conformity'. One can draw from the well of wisdom and look at the values to live life by.
Wonderful swimming analogy! Thank you!
I really like this doctor alot.
...spaceship earth... Peak population. So many opportunities possible... ...so much more to learn!
Bucky Fuller 🌎
As a right hemisphere dominate person, i strongly agree with Dr. Mcgilchrist...
Bravo. very interesting. Something that came up in my mind when listening is the it would be intersting to hear McGilchrist talk about role of initiation and initiatory rituals (like how Boys in some cultures undergo) in "recentering" our brain function... meaning rebalancing the way the brain functions across the two hemispheres. While i'm sure it differs according to personality type, in my son's case, i noticed a strong left hemisphere inclination (literal mindedness..unwise decision making), especially as he moved through early adolescence. This created a real problem as he was unable to see the bigger picture and he made some very poor decisions. So his mother and i pulled him out of school and the world and sent him off to a Wilderness Program in Vermont for four months....i think it's a sort of correlate to the initiatory processes that i've observed as an anthropologist in Africa. We followed that with two years in a outdoor school. Over time i've noticed his ability to observe the greater reality, the nuances, the world in which he's embedded and live a much more circumspectly. I'm sure that these initiatory rituals and experiences both expand the personality but also rebalance the ways in which we see the world. I think that perhaps this is what the great mystery rituals were about in ancient Greece...
The most toxic, the most destructive idea - The Metaverse.
My life suddenly made sense after I heard Iain .. the leader of liberty
Most excellent interview❤
We are responsible for everything as far as I can tell. Owning that is a political question through the experience of society and decision of the same class; what is crime, what is punishment, what is forgiveness and redemption!
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.
Don’t you agree it is happening primarily in western countries? Not all the world bases their thinking on western fallacies, which derive from the left brain.
I always thought McGilchrist was a materialist but I was mistaken. He is in the money in so many ways. His views are in alignment with the work of Tim Freke and the International Community of Unividuals. It is time to nurture right brain influence and integration.
We traded meaning for fiat profit and control over resources to consume = parasitic consumption.
Racial relativity has displaced everyone but we're not allowed to think it, let alone express it!
And you have infinite thoughts that no one can ever know and you have just expressed one. No one has stopped nor could anyone stop you from thinking?
You do make a fascinating observation however I am utterly bemused as to how such an obscure shoe-horned theory has anything to do with how an understanding of hemispheric differences in perception and attention may assist health professional work with addiction? However, I may not be attending to the same detail as yourself?
all the bits and connections
A simple solution to divided brain is to cultivate the feeling of love and perceiving things as whole, connected and interdependent, things a s they really are behind surface appearences. Also develop both logical and artistic, imaginative, musical and intuitive side.
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.
19:18 after 2 years of following him, I didn't think Dr McGilchrist had this in him 😂
Very informative.
We do need meaning, so why are we such liars knowing that lies suck meaning out.
I respect this good man, and impressive intellect, (similar to all the auld Caledonians).
And I need to meet with him, over Dinner, to sort out some details, of where us homo sapiens sapiens are heading, and who carefully controlled our ‘evolution’.
Thank you sir.
Many thanks! Extremely important thoughts and conclusions from Dr. Iain McGilchrist!
Mathematician Vladimir Arnold: “In the middle of the 20th century, the highly influential mafia of “left-hemisphere mathematicians” managed to exclude geometry from mathematical education (first in France, and then in other countries), replacing the entire content side of this discipline with training in the formal manipulation of abstract concepts. All geometry and, consequently, the entire connection of mathematics with the real world and with other sciences was excluded from mathematical education."... "Despite this, the “left-hemisphere patients” managed to raise entire generations of mathematicians who do not understand any other approach to mathematics, and are only able to teach the following generations in the same way. The disgust for mathematics on the part of ministers who were subjected to the humiliating experience of such teaching in school is a healthy and legitimate reaction. Unfortunately, this disgust of theirs extends to all mathematics, without exception, and can kill it entirely." (V. Arnold "Anti-scientific revolution and mathematics", 1999)
Mathematician, philosopher, theologian Pavel Florensky: “The problem of space lies at the core of the worldview in all emerging systems of thought and predetermines the composition of the entire system.” With certain limitations and clarifications, one could even recognize space as the proper and primary subject of philosophy, in relation to which all other philosophical topics must be assessed as derivative. And the more closely this or that system of thought is worked out, the more definite a unique interpretation of space becomes as its core. *We repeat: worldunderstanding is spaceunderstanding."*
Fields Prize winner mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky (1966-2017): "What we now call the crisis of Russian science is not only a crisis of Russian science. There is a crisis of world science. Real progress will consist in a very serious fight between science and religion, which will end with their association."
I think that the "very serious fight" will be here: *_MetaAxiom "In the Beginning was the Logos.../ Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος..." VS. Hypothesis "In the Beginning was the Big Bang...",_* where "LOGos" - "MetaLAW/Absolute LAW" that governs the Universe (in the spirit of Heraclitus) - for the "sciences of nature" and "The God's Law of Justice" - for the "sciences of the spirit" and religion.. Cognition of the FirstLaw of the Universe (Logos= MetaLaw/Absolute Law) provides a single basis for science and religion.
Religion, Science and Society are based on LAW.
Fundamental science requires a Big Ontological revolution in the metaphysical / ontological basis of knowledge. Physics must move from the stage "Phenomenological physics" to the stage "Ontological physics". The paradigm of the Universe as a WHOLE must come to the aid of the “part paradigm” that dominates science. The New Information Revolution is also pushing for this.
Today, the "problem No. 1 of the millennium" is the ONTOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION of mathematics (ONTOLOGICAL BASIFICATION), and therefore knowledge in general, the construction of the New Extended Ideality - the ontological basis of knowledge and cognition for the New information age: ontological framework, carcass, foundation. Mathematicians sweep the problem of the ONTOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION of mathematics (ontological basification) “under the rug”.
D. Bukin in "CRISIS OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS AS A CRISIS OF ONTOLOGY" : "The crisis of the foundations of mathematics is, first of all, the crisis of ontology, the essence of which is the inability to describe objects, the fact of being or becoming of which goes beyond the usual ideas about the world. Way out such a crisis state should be sought not so much in the improvement of the methods of mathematics itself, but in the renewal of the cognitive means of ontology, which do not deny the classical paradigm, but can go beyond its framework. is a historically proven method of comprehending the existence of a mathematical object in its development and relationship with objective reality."
A.N. Whitehead: *_"A precise language must await a completed metaphysical knowledge."_*
V. Voevodsky: *_“Material reality is the absolute judge of truth.”_*
Kurt Gödel: *_“Matter will be spiritualized when the true theory of physics is found.”_*
Philosophy is the Most Rigorous and Joyful Science, “mother of all sciences.”
Who's against it?
So it's not that they do different specialties, they're different personalities that filter the world and you are a synthesis of both
Except if you're a split-brain patient.
Dr Christ
YOU are the One who talked about Humanity Brain and it's Asymmetry.
Children and young people are victims of oppression and present situation Globally.
I think I was a Robotic brain.I felt in my 80th year I felt that I am a frog in the well.
Everyone of us should learn to develop and Realise that Healthy Relationships with Healthy Boundaries with Respect Responsibility Resilience Relience HONESTY Dignity with Integrity Discipline and Order Discernment Unconditional emotional support focused Committed Honoured Attitude Behaviour Thoughts Streamlined in Oneself Primarily and ONE Another Obeying the COMMAND
"LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF"
"DISCERN"
Please enlighten if you can.
Thank you.
Awesome 🎉
I'm dead curious about this whole left/right hemisphere business.
If the left is so ---- basic---- in its identification of things... basically emotionally driven... then why are the 2 sides of the brain more or less equal size?
There is the limbic system that is pure emotion as it evolved earliest... then the frontal lobe and then the prefrontal cortex last (it's also the smallest) - (hope i got those the right way around.)
The frontal lobe is more emotional and prefrontal cortex is more calculating.
I don't know how to gel those things together with the notion that left hemisphere is dedicated to basic emotions (is that not the limbic system?) and the right is calculating (is that not the prefrontal cortex?)
I wish he'd talk about that - along with where things like languages sit, visual acuity etc.
He makes such a stark contrast between left/right that i don't know how to gel those with findings from brain surgeons who have to look for which part does what in the brain whilst the patient is still awake and label them with little "post it notes".
It's a proper mindfuck. And maybe the combination of all our research suggests that we have become so focussed at being specialised in one thing that forgetting the 'whole' is a mistake and everything we see as evidence is actually only a tiny part of the story and you can't come to any real conclusions without considering all other manner of evidence.
2300 pages on the brain - only discusses the cerebrum - home to 20% of the neurons. lol
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?
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.
I get that distinction. It might apply in some cases to separate the two. But I know of historical periods where the two existed in close proximity. Consider the End Times feeling in the early 1800s United States. There was hyper-partisanship and the 1816 year without summer (thousand starved and froze to death). With the last of the founders retiring and dying off, the upbeat post-revolutionary mood was waning. Apocalyptic preachers were out in force and some declared the American experiment to have failed.
Things settled down again. Early industrialization and expanding capitalism, as the population spread westward (i.e., genocide and land theft), created an economic boom. The scientific mentality was taking hold, discoveries and improvements were being made. People were seeking out seminars by scientific experts to teach them modern ways of living, as more an more people abandoned traditional rural lifestyles. America was becoming 'civilized' and fresh waves of immigrants brought in people hoping for a better life.
The mood began to sour again as regional conflict grew and then erupted in the Civil War, followed by a post-war political backlash. From the mid-1800s to late 1800s, there was conflict, distrust, foreboding, malaise, moral panic, and culture war. Along with public health panics about tuberculosis and neurasthenia, it included many who saw it as the End Times or something like the End of History, in that the West had come to dominate and it's rule had grown decadent. There was genuine concern at the time if the elite were any longer fit to rule.
Then in the early 1900s with an emerging Progressivism, in concert with mass urbanization and industrialization, there was creative boom of culture, science, technology, education, and public health. Only to be followed by another down period of seeming decline and apocalypse with Spanish Flu, Prohibition, Great Depression, and two world wars. Following that period of mass fear and destruction, in the post-war period, it switched back the other way again into "idealistic creativity and boundless optimism."
It appears to go in cycles. Some have speculated that it follows a fairly regular pattern over recent centuries (see Neil Howe & William Strauss). There was only a slight interruption in the cycle during the Civil War. But the shifting back and forth between optimistic growth and pessimistic decline has repeated over and over again. And with every down period, there are always the same worries about decadence, corruption, collapse, and destruction. If you live long enough, you'll experience the full cycle.
I cannot believe that I just discovered him and can actually understand him 🙏❤️✝️🌈🌎
Energy has an equivalence to matter. We don't know the nature of either. Mind is apparently some result of syncronized order whose nature is perhaps even more obscure. Speculation on such mysteries may be beyond language or perhaps even beyond humans.
Industrialization helped break the barrier between haves and have nots. But, if you look at the life in west, constant worry about economic conditions, loosing spouses easily, the amount of psychological traumas and sleeplessness and suicidal rates went up too. Even in Asian cultures you can see the disparity between Japan and the rest of the orient.
MATTER BECOMES SACRED And let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being “in Christ” or of Christ being “in them,” this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts-that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body. And perhaps that explains one or two things. It explains why this new life is spread not only by purely mental acts like belief, but by bodily acts like baptism and Holy Communion. It is not merely the spreading of an idea; it is more like evolution-a biological or superbiological fact. There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. -from Mere Christianity For reflection 1 Corinthians 10:23-31
Your thoughts on relationships are always welcome.
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
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?
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. ❤
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.?
@@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
@@sabineroach5486they might be dyslexic or simply swyping. Either way, we can all understand. Why is it important to you to know?
59:15 There is a name for this process, 'slippery slope'.
We won't survive because he said we must be trusting of each other.
Not possible in a mutli cultural world.
Why? We are all humans, why couldn't we see each other at the basis of deeply and powerfully made and valuable in and of themself?
Sonnds like YOU cannot trust people of other cultures. Maybe you need to go live in another culture for a decade or more
Personally I much more prefer the neuroscientist here talking about his observations and conclusions than the psychologist trying to sell virtues, purose and "beauty". The latter are concepts invented by the brain for the brain to keep its overload of neurons nicely firing. AND the idea of a _longer lifespan_ has to be investigated more rigorously.
But anyway, thanks for presenting this very interesting interview.
I'm a left handed carbon unit.
i am so happy i live in the real world. the virtual world is pathetic.
I agree with this nature is so beautiful
I know this is trivial but I just said after going to Value Village and spending money “who said that you cannot buy happiness” 😇
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.
The leader's seat is vacant. 😔
If you hate to say something then why hurt yourself by doing so?
I’m not sure, given the mis-type whether you’re suggesting straight men not ruining or not running the world ? Either way what a bigoted and mis-informed thing to suggest.
I fail to see how your comment is too masculine, unless of course you suggest that masculinity to linked to ignorance? You have managed to make me smile though so thank you.
Beauty, if judged and discerned by the left hemisphere, is not absolute. That something or someone actually exists implies that their existence carries an imbued beauty. This is a very spiritual/contemplative requisite attitude. Suffering comes from desire and aversion says the Buddha. In other words, judging ( left hemisphere) that isn't based on an immediate survival situation for an organism, is a negation of the intrinsic beauty of God or creation.
safe vs free
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.
His work with the left and right sides of the brain are very interesting. It's even more interesting that he doesn't provide any real solutions. He doesn't talk at all about the role diet and nutrition play in mental illness, how they cause and cure it.
I look into these things because I wonder how many people just can't believe religion, no matter what they try.
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...
"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.
@@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
@@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❤
@@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.
@KL0098 see irony or even hypocrisy as your closing sentence does the EXACT thing you claim the naive comment above from Dr Ian does. Wow. But I intended to point out you are A LIL hung up on applying YOUR version of " God" and thus constructiNG your interpretations of what "God" is or rather is not, from, your perspective. I suspect he understands that God is the infinite consciousness, universal all, unknowable creative agency. Not an old man w white beard and robe busy laying out rules like some greco roman prison warden. Which most ant " religists" or athiests seem stubbornly incapable of grasping as they define all reality/ God as relative to themselves, rather than themselves relative to God/ reality
The divide between mind and matter is a philosophical error.
Jevon's paradox
Without even listening the answer is Trauma. That divided the Brain further. Men leaned to the left physical 3d side while most women navigated toward 5d elements of emotions and spirituality. Remember how they were always ones to push everyone to church. Well 75% of narcissists are men. Why? I believe as I said, men gravitated to left brain, and when left brainers get Trauma, they become narcissists, women too, but there are less. I had physical left side brain injury as a small child, so lucky me, I was a right brainer. Very quiet, sensitive, teased, weird and Autistic. In my opinion this Trauma has been going on for centuries and can pass to the children. Then you add War, negative news, Covid, social media, and we're all stuck scrolling our phones for a dopamine hit, which is what caused the imbalance in the first place. We don't have addictions; we have dopamine deficits from not being loved and protected properly or inheriting that trait. None of it is an accident. This was their centuries long plan to totally dominate. I don't think they got quite as many narcissists as they needed to get it done last time, now I don't see it.
5d is here and always has been. Right brain is the non-physical spiritual side and connection to God is possible through Alchemy. Jesus did it first that's why they call it Christ consciousness. It's really divine consciousness. I connected in 2010. I also received that Cain and Abel was really a metaphor for when the Trauma started, and when they also may have gotten rid of the ancient wisdom and teachings and started Christianity. Cain was the left brain, the farmer, farther from God, always working and envious of Abel. Then Able being the right 5d brain, the Shepard, the one closest to God. Since we're talking about the metaphor here, 3d couldn't even access the father in 6d. It had to be done from the 5th. The 5th is heart centered and you have to be in the frequency of unconditional love, and I think there's one more key that has to do with Jesus. Like having the same soul frequency or something. Whatever it is, I had it that night that God reached down with the assistance of the Holy Spirit and touched my forehead.
I'm not just flying off the handle here. I was born a target. They must have been expecting a prophet, based on all the awful treatment happening to Empaths in the late 60's and early 70's. There was the Lamb who appeared slain. That could easily be me, because of the left head injury, and the lifetime of Trauma that I was never supposed to survive. That Lamb is also the one that opened the 7 seals, which I believe I have translated in the 7 stages of Alchemy, although both sides focus on the first four. Even Jungs theory had seven total stages, yet he only talked about the 4. The backup plan, according to the 4 males up my father's side, all died at 55 with internal stomach issues. My dad had gang green in his stomach organs. I was single at 55, so I probably dodged a bullet there. Intentional Trauma spread by good old you know who. Yes, we have become very left-brain dominant. It's not an accident, it's an invisible prison. Then the Wars and that generational Trauma, and the negative news. Mixing up different Traumas into marriages. For some reason those narcissists seem to know how to target us Empaths. The officials know how to influence the narcissists, and they love to torment the Empaths. I went through 6 years of covert narcissism. The 3d Matrix is becoming very exposed, and 5d is back along with access to source.
The answer to the personal Trauma is to meet in the middle. We are supposed to have balance between 3d and 5d. They hid 5d from us and our access to God. 3d people have to get more spiritual and into their emotions, and the right brainers might have to take it back left a bit. Besides, heart center, if you do it right will also open the flow of divine energy to flow through you. I've hit that twice and it's an indescribable pleasure and peace. It's going to be something to see if we get out from under this 3d matrix. The negativity effects everything on the planet. You might even see animal violence drop too almost none.
That's what we are up against. I've said a lot in a few days, but I wanted to get out what I have so far, just in case. I'm guessing there was one group waiting for me, who don't want to believe it's me. I get that, but not still. I even heard a social media group was contacting a record company about me. All I know is they keep saying, "how did he know that? He's not supposed to know that"! So, my guess is these idiots are trying to find out if any music recordings state the secrets I have revealed. There aren't any. However, I get tons and tons of confirmation from a lot of the music I'm into like Tool and Rush. But even then, it's in metaphor. You'd still have to give me credit for decoding the metaphor like Cain and Abel or the 4 Horseman and a whole lot more. That Blog is just the objective big picture. Lots of details to uncover.
Looking at your timestamps, I'd say I've given you a lot to chew on. It's all about frequency, and they got 3d locked low so no one can raise up and get out. It can be done though, as I did it. We have to continue identifying and shining lights on things in the 3d that tend to lower your vibration. Get rid of what no longer serves you, which means anything that lowers your vibe and wouldn't stop if you told them. I had to go no contact with all family and spent 8 years in isolation. I know I know, hopefully I found some shortcuts in there. This Trauma program and low vibe 3d society and consciousness have to be our primary focused. If we come up with a fix to society without addressing those issues, we just better figure it out sooner rather than later.
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).
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 ❤
Only 2% of neurons cross the corpus callosum, but which hemisphere has the greater inhibitory effect on the other? Has anybody looked at that?
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.
... 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 & ...
If you took the time to read his books you would find the answer to your question.
“Music would be rhythm only” … 🤔🤔🤔
Connection is important.
Religion is not.
Does one negate the other?
Informer's eyes on the prize,
Babylon's program, a web of lies.
New prince on scene, Jah's footprints guide,
Purple reign descends, truth cannot hide.
Warrior heart, mind sharp as steel,
Artful delivery, wounds to heal.
Informer's whispers, secrets they keep,
But fire will rise, from slumber so deep.
Power crumbles, seals remain intact,
Selassie's shield, truth's final act.
Sprinter's marathon, rhythm takes flight,
Roots run deep, reclaiming the night.
Words won't mute, Africa's call,
Truth delivered, standing tall.
Informer's eyes may watch and scheme,
But freedom's fire forever gleams.
Do not love the world or anything in it. For those who love the world the love of the father is not in you.
link up
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Interesting and I see your analogy but you are not taking into consideration handedness. The speech centers in Left handed persons are on the opposite side of the right handed. So I would imagine the roles you describe would also be opposite hemispheres.
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.
I think that was this one man's point. We will need to be more humble and less prideful and be part of intricately linked community.