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Art, God and Beauty -a conversation with Iain McGilchrist 11,699

• about in the in the new book one is imagination and the other is um is beauty
• i mean so if we we start with imagination i mean obviously it's clear as that the word makes clear that the
• it's saying very much echoing coverage which i was um that is also imaginations in some ways absolutely central to the
• know one of the misunderstandings um of our age is that imagination takes you away from reality but i think the
• coleridge and wordsworth was that the imagination gives one that the only chance one has of actually encountering
• seeing a representation of something but it's only your imagination that can carry you into really seeing the thing
• um idea that needs to be contrasted with imagination fantasy is the faculty whereby we dress up
• that that they don't as if you don't have imagination they don't appear but but sort of things like goodness and
• mean they're real but they're without imagination that you're you're sort of blind to them as it were

Iain McGilchrist & Nigel McGilchrist on The Greatness of Pythagoras 10,658

• yeah the the the the symbolic realm of imagination from the tyranny of the word really so i i

Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversation 8,623

• writes brilliantly and with enormous imagination about what he sees science to be and he contrasts it with this

A revolution in attention: perceptual awakening in Iain McGilchrist’s work by Dr Mark Vernon 7,280

• to the wonders of divine of human imagination so notice this is a kind of cooperation
• tremendous dynamic of the divine imagination that meets the human imagination
• imagination that meets the human imagination and so blake says on chariots of gold
• attention to is to think about the imagination because this is in a way to say we've
• because this is in a way to say we've got to engage our imagination in ways that perhaps at first we can hardly
• he tells us that you know we're all using our imagination all of the time the question is what's our imagination
• using our imagination all of the time the question is what's our imagination doing is it constrained or is it
• you'll actually just trapped by the dominant cultural imagination you might say and so we're stuck in this created
• and so this is a kind of comment on how when say the scientific imagination which is a form of imagination there's
• when say the scientific imagination which is a form of imagination there's absolutely no doubt about it or maybe i
• should just qualify that slightly and say the scientistic imagination um the narrower form of the scientific
• um the narrower form of the scientific imagination um when you
• so blake says reclaim your imagination not by denying the cultural norms of course but by
• so he with his engaged action imagination doesn't just see the sun rising like a golden disc you know that
• empirical senses and so this combination of the active imagination and the empirical engagement with the physical
• so i think we need to think a lot about the imagination um won't come as news to many here but
• trying to inculcate in ourselves um the sense of the expanded imagination the transformed perception
• i love these thought experiments that open our minds open our imaginations open our hearts even to know what that
• i've invited us to be interested in the darkness to understand the imagination more fully to be embodied with intention

Dr Iain McGilchrist discusses The Matter with Things 5,504

• hemispheres and then science reason intuition and imagination is probably the main sort of pathways
• in the first part of your reason intuition and imagination and i remember as a as a 22 year old atheist thinking
• well intuition is just sort of woolly and the imagination doesn't have you're just imagining
• value as it were in intuition and imagination in a world yes i mean
• ability to rationalize and of course imagination is um grossly misunderstood
• the the greatest philosophers of um imagination in english are co-regent wordsworth and as they very clearly saw
• wordsworth and as they very clearly saw imagination is what clears away the film of unreality that
• moving on a little bit then um you deal with imagination i think that's that's got a lot
• if you're giving some value to intuition and imagination it opens a space and that's what i've always hoped that
• straightforward um william blake talks about jesus as imagination what is the imagination asks janet are there many
• about jesus as imagination what is the imagination asks janet are there many types
• and what is their role for us that's going back to the imagination topic
• well um are there different types of imagination there are certainly different things
• distinction between fantasy and imagination indeed the whole thrust of westeros and
• of um their allegiance imagination was to try to get people away from this idea that
• these things um engage the imagination if they're to be understood at all so actually in a
• ten things that co-ridge says about what fantasies and what imagination is and these are
• case of fantasy the left hemisphere and in the case of imagination the right hemisphere i imagine you could also say
• hemisphere i imagine you could also say that imagination covers different areas and different kinds of thinking for
• resist that partition i think what the imagination is it's single it's whole and indivisible
• reflected in glass or water so there is imagination across the board and what i've tried to show is that actually it's
• i've tried to show is that actually it's imagination that is the most important part of science a lot of um extremely
• way science makes it steps forward is through intuition and imagination and it's i mean there are just literally

Consciousness, Purpose, and Values - Dr. Iain McGilchrist 5,305

• recourses to apply science reason intuition and imagination to experience it seems to me that the reductionist
• and shows a complete refusal to exercise intelligent imagination all the hallmarks of its birth in the left

Iain McGilchrist in Dialogue at the PCC Forum 4,584

• to connecting us up with reality through science and reason emotion imagination intuition and so on and you also dive
• approach truth and i take those to be science reason intuition and imagination imagination having slightly different
• science reason intuition and imagination imagination having slightly different status that it's more important than any
• words none of them can function properly without the imagination which i distinguish radically from fantasy in a
• minds their intelligence their imagination to contact things that are not easily put in language maybe better
• didn't but how to separate thinking from feeling from intuition from imagination from you know all the rest that i count
• experience of reading it and what the imagination is for and what an education is for and it's absolutely disgraceful
• recapture something of the life the imagination the gerard of evil particularly among young people that i i

Dr Iain McGilchrist - Understanding the human brain 3,845

• and the right hemisphere does imagination and painting pretty pictures and so that's the thing that got
• uh that are open to our intellect and our imagination and and we don't see them i mean people
• as you described them as science reasons intuition and imagination and i guess for these the kind of
• we now are and imagination is also not um
• and having a bit of a relax imagination is a very serious matter which is actually the only way in which
• deep thing and without it you can't no imagination no maths no imagination no scientific discoveries not only no
• works and people who have very little imagination are very very difficult to be around or to attempt to live with
• we're actively discouraged from using our intuitions and our imagination because everything has to be monitored
• when we sleep because i i associate sleep a lot with the imagination side of things which once came into mind when

Reflections on Iain McGilchrist's The Matter with Things - Pari Center Anniversary event 3,776

• principles in neurology perception intuition imagination reason through different institutional
• um appreciated your emphasis on the role of imagination and intuition and how these actually have a role in the
• them we need to recover the role of imagination and intuition and acknowledge that actually some very
• particular um myth imagination and the image have a way of of sort of reanimating our
• the state credit reprioritizes education re-prioritizes imagination and so forth and through that a different kind of

Imagination and the novelist's art - Iain McGilchrist and Salley Vickers 3,583

• when you're talking about the imagination um
• things up because people sometimes think of as imagination but actually really something which is there behind
• then that comes you know it's it's your yes right it feeds the imagination with negative thoughts yes there is a sort of