The Sophia Lectures with Dr Iain McGilchrist - Lecture 1: Division and Union

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  • Опубликовано: 17 янв 2025

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  • @stephenshort5532
    @stephenshort5532 18 дней назад +84

    Thank you Stephen for sharing this wonderful lecture, sitting here by the fire in a wee cottage on a windy dark evening in the west of Ireland, you have made it magical, looking forward so much to the next one, thank you.

    • @johnarunachala
      @johnarunachala 16 дней назад +3

      I like your description of being in a little cottage....

    • @Awareness-d4p
      @Awareness-d4p 13 дней назад +2

      Hello from the South West. Looking forward to this lecture. Stay warm.

    • @31abhay31
      @31abhay31 9 дней назад +1

      👏 for you describe nicely your atmosphere and situation seems real feel like I am there and feel the smell of Ireland however I am in India

  • @ConsciousnessWatch
    @ConsciousnessWatch 5 дней назад +9

    Thank you Ralston College for making this available to us. Wonderful lecture.

  • @gcsalzer
    @gcsalzer 18 дней назад +28

    I was at this speech and have been waiting for this to be released to watch again. Thank you!

  • @gmk2222
    @gmk2222 17 дней назад +24

    And on that lovely end note I just realised it was the dawn of a new year. Many blessings to you all for 2025. Thanks Dr. and Sir Stephen of Ralston 😊

  • @DrNancyLivingCoCreatively
    @DrNancyLivingCoCreatively 10 дней назад +5

    I have long adored Sophia. The Silence before Logos. Philosophia. Yes!

  • @GenevieveJones-k9f
    @GenevieveJones-k9f 16 дней назад +9

    Melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre

  • @MattZaraMusic
    @MattZaraMusic 17 дней назад +10

    Goodness, this was one of the most brilliant lectures that i've seen from Iain. Thank you so much for making this available!

  • @frankwhite1816
    @frankwhite1816 10 дней назад +3

    Thank you for this! I always hear whispers of Alan Watts in Iain's lectures, it's heartening. Love all your work! Grazie mille!

  • @carolenash3234
    @carolenash3234 17 дней назад +15

    A pleasure and privilege to have access to these lectures. Very familiar with Dr.Iain McGilchrist but more exposure is always enriching.

  • @ThomasSimmons-u5x
    @ThomasSimmons-u5x 17 дней назад +13

    I realized after this that my fundamental alienation has been perhaps being right brain oriented in an opposite culture.

  • @visavou
    @visavou 17 дней назад +6

    absolutely great! thank you team at Ralston for making this availlable. love from india.

  • @victoriazajchowski9257
    @victoriazajchowski9257 15 дней назад +4

    Thank you! This was brilliant.

  • @hglatGAIA
    @hglatGAIA 15 дней назад +8

    People who watch this will enjoy reading Gregg Braden's new book titled: THE PURE HUMAN. I think Iain is just THE nicest man and I love these talks of his.

  • @integrativnamedicina
    @integrativnamedicina 17 дней назад +4

    Thank you so much for posting this wonderful lecture! Best wishes, Barbara, Slovenia

  • @waynemcmillan5970
    @waynemcmillan5970 14 дней назад +3

    A fascinating intriguing talk by a true educationalist.

  • @ChrisOgunlowo
    @ChrisOgunlowo 18 дней назад +5

    Brilliant and beautiful as expected.

  • @truepatriot6388
    @truepatriot6388 18 дней назад +14

    FIX SUBTITLES/CAPTIONS - Please add punctuation and correct mispellings in the auto-generated subtitles. You can easily do this by going to your channel (Ralston College) and clicking the "manage videos" button. Select this video and then the subtitles option from the menu on the left. Then make any desired corrections to the auto-generated text, and click save (or publish?). It won't take very long to do this. You could also upload the text of a transcript and the AI will try to synchronize it with the audio (but not very well in my experience, and fixing that takes longer).
    With the brilliance of this speaker, the importance of the topic(s) presented, the careful A-V production, and the beauty of the setting, decent subtitles are called for.
    Thanks to all who made this event possible and for sharing freely it with the world. I look forward to the rest of the series.

    • @truepatriot6388
      @truepatriot6388 18 дней назад +3

      Here's a sample of the auto-generated captions (from the start):
      you're all very welcome to tonight's first Sophia lecture of the
      2024 Sophia lecture series it's my privilege briefly I promise to introduce
      you tonight to roson college to the Sophia lectures and most importantly to
      our distinguished Sophia lecturer Dr Ian melist Rolston college is a Revival and
      a reinvention of the University it seeks simply speaking to emulate the greatest

    • @RalstonCollegeSavannah
      @RalstonCollegeSavannah  17 дней назад +8

      Thank you for this suggestion, and we apologize for the oversight. We have gone in to correct errors and the changes should be live shortly. Thank you also for engaging with this content.

    • @truepatriot6388
      @truepatriot6388 16 дней назад +4

      @@RalstonCollegeSavannah Ralston again shows us that the pursuit of excellence is not dead. How refreshing!

    • @RalstonCollegeSavannah
      @RalstonCollegeSavannah  13 дней назад +2

      We wanted to provide a quick update regarding the caption syncing issue on RUclips. We're currently encountering the following error message:
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      Thank you for your patience and for sharing your suggestion.

  • @chyfields
    @chyfields 15 дней назад +2

    I am enjoying this video. Thank you.

  • @MS-od7je
    @MS-od7je 18 дней назад +4

    A most profound intellectual.
    Going to college at 12.
    I was busy just mapping infinite social worlds at 12: drawing maps of imaginary worlds and realizing that there is only one way for anthropomorphic worlds to survive.

  • @jaydenwilson9522
    @jaydenwilson9522 16 дней назад +5

    This is a MOTION-BASED Uni-verse!
    Spatial Transformations make time.
    There is no personification like Father Time who allows us to move. (Its the wrong way around)
    And what we call the second, minute, etc. are just ABSTRACT units we use to convey progression of spatial changes which all have their own periodicity.
    26:00
    Good point!
    I like mechanics. But seeing what type of thought-line it leads to has me very concerned with the field as a whole!
    1:27:00
    Order is from the center.
    But the true magic is at the perimeter.
    1:38:00
    Thanks for hosting!!!

  • @MikeFuller-d4d
    @MikeFuller-d4d 18 дней назад +8

    All Soul's, Oxford are the creme de la creme!
    Iain McGilchrist's interests include -
    Psychiatry, neuroscience, philosophy, history, theology, literature and poetry. Whew!!

  • @brendobobrendobo6871
    @brendobobrendobo6871 16 дней назад +3

    Very entertaining and insightful

    • @RalstonCollegeSavannah
      @RalstonCollegeSavannah  13 дней назад +1

      Thank you! Please feel free to visit our website to discover over offerings: www.ralston.ac

  • @LeoniPhelan
    @LeoniPhelan 15 дней назад +3

    Thank you so much for making Dr McGilchrist’s lecture available. I found the ideas very rich.

    • @RalstonCollegeSavannah
      @RalstonCollegeSavannah  13 дней назад +2

      It is our pleasure! Please feel free to visit our website to discover over offerings: www.ralston.ac.

  • @bfuiltugomaith
    @bfuiltugomaith 15 дней назад +5

    A being of true humility….

  • @VPosh
    @VPosh 15 дней назад +1

    Thank you from India ❤❤

  • @sunnyboy4553
    @sunnyboy4553 12 дней назад

    The many in the One. Brilliant.

  • @sunrayrosin7181
    @sunrayrosin7181 15 дней назад +4

    After watching this wonderful presentation and hearing someone immediately mention belonging to a control group that wants to work with “Majik and Enchantment” makes me fairly happy to see that kind of nonsense brought to “Light”. From the self proclaimed “enlightened “ who desire to be important and in “control” of others . to the working man that may either become a jail keeper or store keeper or bread thief due to hard circumstances . We are all ONE. And having anyone try to control the masses by thinking they know what’s best only brings tyrannical regimes.

  • @udo9999
    @udo9999 7 дней назад

    Thanks

  • @Tessa_Rose_Reads
    @Tessa_Rose_Reads День назад +1

    Feedback: The constant change of camera angles is very distracting and they feel very rough (cut! cut! cut!) especially when changing mid sentence/thought. I would have liked for more close up shots so that I could feel more connected to the speaker, rather than constant shots of the audience. I'm a very visual person, so all the splicing is disruptive. It makes it hard to watch. The audio is good tho. So I stopped watching at the 15 min mark and started listening. Basically... post production made it too unstable.--- Something to take into account when editing videos, especially lectures, is that many people speed them up, and so if things are done choppy, it makes it even worse, the problem- cough- expands- cough.

  • @MS-od7je
    @MS-od7je 18 дней назад +11

    In the beginning
    I am that I am
    Created that which is
    From that which is not
    The spirit of
    I am who I am
    Moved on the depths
    Of the formless and void
    Moving by spirit
    The essence of pattern
    The image of existence
    Onto which all things
    Kinds and likenesses
    Are called to map
    All meaning and purpose
    I am what I am
    Spoke in fractal terms
    The geometric shapes of
    All things real, material
    Being the observer
    Collapsing the wave
    Of non being function
    Of all created things
    Kinds and likenesses of being
    In the simultaneity of the pattern
    Of being
    I am that I am
    Divided light from darkness
    A cosmological constant
    Of darkness moving
    Faster than light
    And light moving
    At least time
    Through the pattern
    Now known as the face
    Of the deep
    I am that I am
    Thus created by moving
    Speaking and observing
    Calling to meaning
    Dividing time-space-energy
    To form the kinds
    Likenesses and images
    Of all being

    • @johntabuteau4772
      @johntabuteau4772 17 дней назад

      where is this from

    • @MS-od7je
      @MS-od7je 17 дней назад +3

      @
      It is a transposition of pragmatic communication.
      If you mean what is the interpretive source that would be me.

    • @happygucci5094
      @happygucci5094 3 дня назад

      It’s like the Nag Hamadi for today’s audience- nice work 😁

    • @MS-od7je
      @MS-od7je 3 дня назад

      @@happygucci5094 it is fractal.

  • @CGMaat
    @CGMaat 17 дней назад +2

    Wow- congrats on Sophia ……love this topic - towards the super complexity consciousness - love opening message . Thank thank you- inspiring -wisdom and spirit of the universe - over the meantime dumb politics.

    • @CGMaat
      @CGMaat 17 дней назад +1

      By the way - my mother’s names was Sophia and so today i sent the lecture to my two sons so we may this this great new inspiring ritual for every New Year’s Eve in memory of her absence; Before she died of cancer I asked her what was this all this about and she answered that we came here to be purified.
      So to me finding this lecture today was a great way to be reverent of all that is this perennial knowledge that decorates our inner aspirations to the good the true and beautiful as my mothers stands for SOPHIA (behind the Veil of the material) , like plato said - the absolute archetypes . We need these aspirations towards our better angels. What a way to start the YEAR 2025 ! I am so so grateful! May my sons carry on the tradition . This was such a great idea, Stephen

  • @mohitoautomaciek801
    @mohitoautomaciek801 14 дней назад +1

    🤝👍wielkie👍PiĘĆ👍DZiĘKUjĘ👍🤝

  • @randyallen2966
    @randyallen2966 9 дней назад +1

    7:25 actually starts

  • @NikoHL
    @NikoHL 7 дней назад

    Presentation starts at 07:25.

  • @reblord5544
    @reblord5544 16 дней назад +3

    Starts 7:19

    • @adiem8764
      @adiem8764 8 дней назад

      Thank you, the intro was unbearable

  • @gmk2222
    @gmk2222 17 дней назад +2

    Did Ralston speed up this edited video for RUclips? It doesn’t sound at all like Iain on occasion throughout the video and I caught a glimpse of a 1.4x which I could not duplicate on my own no matter how I tried. I went on to the web version and it seemed similar to the posted video. Most of it was fine but I thought if Ralston could clarify this I could further push back on RUclips. Not that I might get anywhere with my singular issue with my particular world right at this moment in an infinite timeline but thanks for listening.

  • @jjjccc728
    @jjjccc728 3 дня назад

    The speakers in these excerpts are aiming to convey the idea that understanding the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate elements is fundamental to grasping the nature of reality and achieving a sense of wholeness. They argue that division and union, differentiation and integration, are not opposing forces but rather complementary aspects of a single, dynamic process that drives creation, evolution, and our understanding of the world.

  • @nnonotnow
    @nnonotnow 2 дня назад

    Here are the key points from the video:
    * Time as a Continuum: Time is not a linear succession of moments, but rather a continuous flow.
    * Hemisphere Theory: The left and right hemispheres of the brain have distinct modes of processing information.
    * The Importance of Balance: Finding a balance between left- and right-hemisphere thinking is crucial for human flourishing.
    * The Nature of Reality: Reality is characterized by both unity and diversity, division and union.
    * The Role of Consciousness: Consciousness and matter are not separate entities, but rather different manifestations of the same phenomenon.
    * The Importance of Imagination and Awe: Cultivating a sense of wonder and respect for the natural world is essential for human life.
    Summary:
    The video explores the theme of "Division and Union," examining how these concepts manifest in various aspects of human experience, from the human brain to the nature of reality itself. Dr. McGilchrist emphasizes the importance of finding a balance between different modes of thinking and cultivating a greater sense of wonder and respect for the natural world.

  • @life42theuniverse
    @life42theuniverse 15 дней назад +1

    The whole is greater than the sum. A herd is more than a count of beasts.

  • @gailholness6246
    @gailholness6246 13 дней назад +2

    It sounds like consciousness is right brain and matter is left brain.

  • @MS-od7je
    @MS-od7je 18 дней назад +4

    A thanks for the mention of Walnuts. ( a subtle mention which gives no one the clue of a missing clue-say hello to no one)
    A thanks for the mention that morphology is not specified in the genome.
    I find schizophrenics amazing people with whom to carry on a conversation.
    But why are some people able to recall their entire lives while most of us can’t remember what we ate last week.
    How can someone instantaneously record and permanently recall entire city scapes?
    How can a spider extend its mind via its web? Is its mind outside of its body?
    The instrument is not the note
    The orchestra is not the symphony
    The wires are not the electricity
    The brain is not the mind
    The universe is not the math
    Consider:
    Memory in the nervous system is a redo of immune memory.
    Memory is in the proteins.
    Amyloid plaques are prion ( misfolds related to energy acquisition:utilization in nervous systems cells) misfolds dampen signals. Signal are not simply a travel down a axon or dendrite.

  • @Nothingman88
    @Nothingman88 15 дней назад +2

    As above...🧠☯️🫀

  • @ShiyrChadash
    @ShiyrChadash 12 дней назад +1

    The whole is ever greater than the sum of it's constituents.
    Life is the All in One in All.
    Life functions consciously and unconsciously simultaneously. Therefore, consciousness is how something does something (adverb) - not what something is (noun). Reification is a popular logical fallacy.

  • @Tatumnscottt
    @Tatumnscottt 15 дней назад +1

    🌟

  • @truthhurts9771
    @truthhurts9771 16 дней назад +2

    Shout out to....
    Bro Panic
    Bobby Hemmitt
    Dr Phil Valentine
    Bro C. Freeman El
    Dr Josef Ben-Jochannan
    Amen Ra KamKam
    Dr Khallid Muhammad
    Dr Ann Brown
    Dr Delbert Blair
    Dr Timothy Owens Moore
    Dr Malachi Z York
    Dr Chancellor Williams
    Jordan Maxwell
    Dr Ivan Van Sertima
    Richard D King MD
    Rev Ray Hagins
    Zoe Williams
    Young Pharaoh
    PapaDuck
    Runoko Rashidi
    Dr Walter Williams
    Grand Sheik Taj Tarik Bey
    Bill Donahue
    Cheikh Anta Diop
    Shahrazad Ali
    Gabriel Oyibo
    Kwame Ture
    Amos Wilson
    Marimba Ani
    Booker T. Coleman
    Williams Mackey
    Rod Hayes
    Prof. James Small
    Dr. Na'im Akbar
    Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
    Dr John Henrik Clarke
    Dr Wade Nobles
    Neely Fuller Jr.
    Steve Cokely
    Gil Scott-Heron

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 12 дней назад +1

      Franz Omar Fanon
      Edward Said
      Daniel Barenboim

  • @Ritastresswood
    @Ritastresswood 14 дней назад +1

    While I really appreciate Ralston College making these excellent lecture available on-line, I can’t help but question the appropriateness of the term “Sophia” as a category of these lectures. Has anyone raised this issue at all or do they simply take for granted the complex meanings of Sophia and its derivatives sophism and sophistry, and whether truth can be sought from the art of speaking, i.e. rhetoric (no matter on whatever subjects). Was Socrates’ death an insignificant event in the history of the Western World?

  • @literaturecomealive
    @literaturecomealive 16 дней назад

    I'm wondering, though, are all apparent dichotomies the same (surely not): light/dark/finite/infinite...ok, what about potential/actual...do we not come with this one into the gravitation pull of the principle of non-contradiction?

  • @leonheartmusic5753
    @leonheartmusic5753 12 дней назад +3

    Really hope if the aim really is for ALL human beings to flourish and for the pursuit of perennial truths these guys ain’t Zionists.

  • @dominick8847
    @dominick8847 7 часов назад

    Charlies Munger says that Berkshire is maybe the most de-centralized conglomerate. When they buy a candy company, they don't suddenly try to pretend that they are suddenly the candy experts, but they try to allow the candy expert to be the candy expert. Another way to look at it is trade offs, the more alarmist a culture becomes the less it is allowed to use human judgement in moving forward.

  • @GenevieveJones-k9f
    @GenevieveJones-k9f 16 дней назад

    I believe the Iroquois are in North America

  • @hyperduality2838
    @hyperduality2838 16 дней назад

    Integration (union, syntropy) is dual to differentiation (division, entropy).
    Wholes (generalization, waves) are dual to parts (localization, particles) -- quantum duality.
    Left brain dominance is dual to right brain dominance -- Hemispheres.
    "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
    Syntropy (knowledge) is dual to increasing entropy (lack of knowledge) -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!
    "Physics is what we know and metaphysics is what we do not know" -- Bertrand Russell.
    Science is what we know and metascience is what we do not know -- knowledge is dual.
    Space is dual to time -- Einstein.

  • @beam3819
    @beam3819 7 дней назад

    Non political and open discussion must be restored before science is destroyed by greed, censorship and bias. Open respectful disagrement in discussions are nessesary for progress and development. Censorship comes before dictatorship. We are all guilty if we dont allow other opinions than our own, because it leads to the end of scientific thinking and development.

  • @fernandobezerrademenezes1622
    @fernandobezerrademenezes1622 17 дней назад +5

    Now I understand almost perfectly the expression "gibberish mumbo jumbo"... It's Blather in all its pomp and glória!

    • @michaelstone1122
      @michaelstone1122 16 дней назад

      This was the comment I was looking for, well done. See if there was anybody else here thought the same, not many. Rennaissance Man what a joke.

    • @kbeetles
      @kbeetles 14 дней назад +2

      Thank you for demonstrating right brain hemisphere damage so clearly.

    • @kbeetles
      @kbeetles 14 дней назад

      @@michaelstone1122How sad!

    • @domthagreenthumb8175
      @domthagreenthumb8175 11 дней назад

      I pray that your eyes are opened.. God bless and guide you

    • @半人半獣
      @半人半獣 5 дней назад

      @@michaelstone1122Mumbo jumbo? What, for example?

  • @watermelonlalala
    @watermelonlalala 9 дней назад

    All is One = All is Chaos = All is Satan.

  • @RoxanneM-
    @RoxanneM- 10 дней назад

    Everything is brilliant except for his opinion on litigation in the US. The problem in the US, is not that everybody can sue everybody else, which is not true - not everybody has the money for this - but that the very wealthy are getting away with corruption and abuses of power precisely because they can pay for the lawyers and in reality - they have manipulated the system so much by the immersion of their money in Washington (bribery is legal in Washington, literally, something they themselves were able to make into law with their money), but that they have been able to open up so many loopholes, that the system is lopsided. The billionaire class is absolutely controlling the rest. And I don’t need to say that today we are pretty much an absolute oligarchy, as you can see if you have been paying attention to the real news lately. There is an upsurge of lawlessness in America, not tightening of controls. The controls are now only for the lower portion of society, and almost none for the very top.

  • @VickyNicoll-r2m
    @VickyNicoll-r2m 16 дней назад +1

    My goodness. Succinct Bullet points could’ve covered this unnecessarily wordy indulgence !

    • @半人半獣
      @半人半獣 5 дней назад

      Wordy, yes but why unnecessarily? And why can’t you make your own bullet points?

  • @fortunatomartino8549
    @fortunatomartino8549 7 дней назад

    Does Ian McGilchrist know about Sabbatia Zevi and Jacob Frank,Talmud,Kabbalah?

  • @bymenz1388
    @bymenz1388 День назад

    it always SHE, HE comes later..

  • @curtrod
    @curtrod 15 дней назад +2

    blah blah blah

  • @alabaster2163
    @alabaster2163 14 дней назад +2

    It would be optimal to have a woman speak on Sophia.

    • @milanperisic2885
      @milanperisic2885 6 дней назад

      Include women in discussions about wisdom! Is that a proposal? A proposal that presumes that it is wise!
      Women are excellent at occasionally performing a wise act, a wise deed. But a discussion about wisdom. Such a challenge brings us closer to an event that, in the feelings it can generate, is equal to proposals to start a general nuclear war.
      When it comes to splitting or division - in every story about it, one should start from establishing reproduction with the presence of the sexes, instead of simple division. Both at the same time: the female sex and the male sex. What are the roles of both, help me remember, I pray, Creator!

  • @geoffreydawson5430
    @geoffreydawson5430 11 дней назад

    Read the book! The background is similar to that of Onlyfans models, with the starry lighting. I do enjoy his work but probably the proper English more than anything.