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The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist | EP 278 366,180

• advanced studies in stellenbosch he now lives on the isle of skye off the coast of northwest scotland where he continues
• sun for example as as living because it's it's it's a life force that's moving across the heavens
• from uh intuition from context from our embodied lives the kind of wisdom that a good judge would be able to bring to a
• is that they're often deluded and their lives are intolerable well i had a client who had
• paying a certain kind of attention to have insight into the deep life of the world of
• we don't say i'm curious to know what the meaning of life is things that strike us as marvelous or inspiring or
• don't have any quarrel with us using the word in daily life are ultimately relations so that all that exists is is
• your capacity to operate on the side of life more abundant and truth in its service and to move away from that
• specifically detected consciously but it gives the life to the piece and when you hear it played by by a machine it
• of the part it's played in my life since my teens the extraordinary power for me of uh poetry
• and and art and music to which i've more or less devoted a large part of my life um i mean in a very i'm not making a big
• claim i'm not a creator but i mean they have guided my life and they've also guided me towards the sense of the
• short clips illustrating our way of life and
• the meaning of a human being and a human life and we seem to have we seem to have lost
• i can't rule it out but i think much more likely from my experience in life i i believe that there are more cock-ups
• fallen in value and instead theories about how life should be have become the reality and this is something you
• she had to radically modify her whole life to deal with what she could and couldn't
• biology but it's all simply accidental lives i think there must be a few people left in the world who still believe that

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• our previous generations our forebears at the price of often life and limb and suffering
• meaning that is the important part of a human life and you mentioned freedom of speech
• um destruction of the meaning of life but is an important part of what we mean by
• is an important part of what we mean by life throughout its length that um
• thinking about one of the most important and life-enhancing things about life which is the differences that there are
• mechanisms the banishment of humor of life and the the banishment of
• sense that young people always used to be able to access are their lives now so fettered and rule-bound and
• stopping persecuting indigenous people and destroying their way of life all these things are very important goals
• it's it's this tiny area of our mental life which is the bit of which we are now conscious
• cutting off the strain of life the stem from which we grow
• and that of course is is important but it's not the point of life to become more and more powerful what gives
• more and more powerful what gives meaning to life and gives it a sense of direction and purpose
• it it can change people's lives by opening their eyes to what's going on
• build shelter but that is only part of the story of what a life is for and what a life is about and we're finding that
• the story of what a life is for and what a life is about and we're finding that now in the despair the nihilism the

The Attack On Life and Understanding Our Times. A conversation with Iain McGilchrist and Mark Vernon 83,628

• um as you put it very strongly the sense that somehow life and nature is itself under attack
• tradition responsibility a kind of range of of areas that we do feel in our lives um
• an area that is very immediate in everyday life and our experience and there's an area that is perhaps more
• you're that bit more in control in command of your life and even as you're making your toast in the morning
• they're things that are kind of dangerous if they take over our lives so
• and we almost forget you know what life can be about it's that kind of
• increasingly um and so excluding um part of life um that perhaps is the most important part um
• there's a group of individuals who are going to take over our lives but very often they are as much the victims of
• where there isn't a mobile phone imagine what your life is like because you can't validate these codes so um
• breaking down and i remembered you know how much of my life i have really enjoyed um going with a friend and going
• care and all this nonsense actually just covers up a situation in which life is degraded it's becoming less human it's
• i mean is that we must be on our guard and fight back in our daily lives um for example saying you know
• for truth seeking not for understanding life and improving its quality but
• developed and also it's beginning to lack life that life itself is on the way and that's something i feel very very
• a people who i think don't any longer value life for what it is i think that what goes on in the sense of life is is
• value life for what it is i think that what goes on in the sense of life is is thin is feeble is waning because of our
• importantly even where we're evolved to know life to participate in life and even to co-create with life itself
• know life to participate in life and even to co-create with life itself um and that
• and there must have been something else that kept people engaged with life beyond just the sheer need to improve
• was things like beauty things like knowing not just of their own life but of the whole ecology of life around and
• knowing not just of their own life but of the whole ecology of life around and about them and engaging with that say
• there's an infinite amount more to human life than that as you say so um i'm completing an agreement there
• hand i believe that actually this very process in its antagonism to life and its antagonism to the spirit in its
• are nothing if not projecting machines our kind of inner life is a continuous process of fantasy production that we
• more in the world more connected more participating in life it's broadly the romantic
• knowledge of the world but also our enjoyment of life it it feels expansive of the soul and so that dynamic where
• society um when it um makes for more humanity makes for more life the opposite of what is so worrying about
• from pursuing an abstract idea but from testing out ideas on life this is really the the idea of the whole pragmatist
• actively aggressively evil forces in life but there's a wider notion of evil as well which comes about um from the
• who escaped with her life from robinsburg concentration camp and her whole story
• where life really will be given over we will be destroyed it will
• ancestors shed blood and lost their lives in order to achieve a world in which it would be possible
• um is so that more and more of life might flow into us so that we're less defended
• flow into us so that we're less defended against life um you know the virtue of love matters because we want
• calls the androgynous mind that can say yes to the whole of life allow all experiences to flow into her
• representing exploring mirroring um capturing more and more of life and so a figure like shakespeare is really
• his own um difficulties in life which no doubt there were and but could say yes to the
• there were and but could say yes to the whole of life and so transmit that to us um which is why it's you know
• can embrace more and more of life um and
• feel safe um as well and but so that we can um step more into life and embrace more there's something that feels really
• infantilized by the powers that control our life have the control um now through um bureaucracy and through technology to
• letting go of oneself increasingly during life and then ultimately the end of life that one is
• during life and then ultimately the end of life that one is able to discover more and more of life
• ultimately the end of life that one is able to discover more and more of life and
• that has arisen i think very much with the narrowing of the sense of what life is
• um that see that as part of the richness of life in fact um you know it's about receiving
• to let go of what it's got and because it sees that as the whole of life whereas the right is constantly alert to
• show a complete lack of understanding of the nature of life that it you know death is built into it there are limits
• need of is this broader vision of the world of life and of a human being
• which whatever else it might mean is that which our life longs for and is in the service of and
• that in terms of god or otherwise um the mechanical narrowing of life um driven by utility and the grasping as you

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• all i think it applies to um spiritual life to religion in as much as that is part of it or many people and
• sense of connectedness it overlaps very much with what's called meaning in life and it's and as ian said we want to feel
• all right so i'll often ask people what do you mean by meaning in life and i'll say well tell me what you would want to
• just look it's easy for us now at this stage in life and this is what words was wrote about in his own on informations
• things eventually eventually and live them in your life then things will begin to change but i'm worried that
• stop um extinguishing the ways of life of indigenous peoples we there's many many
• only thing that will resolve the meaning crisis is a way of life the way kirkegaard and beckenstein and soccer
• and community relations that afford them entering into a new way of life that's for me the pressing question uh and
• people trying to commit create ways of life within communities and a reconciliation with the scientific
• um christ said i am the way the truth and the life he didn't mean once you believe in me you got it he meant there
• socratic way there's a socratic way of life and and socrates was so uh faithful to that way of life that he was willing
• life and and socrates was so uh faithful to that way of life that he was willing to die for it but he does he undermines
• the science is not a good way to improve the life of a plug so there's a certain degree of standing off i think is the
• innocence that can only come after deep experience of life and is what one recognizes in truly deep wise spiritual
• seed that is swelling and it's interior and life is coming forward or a womb the emptiness of a womb that will be the
• view may be rich welcoming and unfolding of life and vitality and creativity yeah i i and again i'm in agreement with you
• um we've got a second idea that our lives are made up of moments like time slices but they're not they are like a
• i i think is if we could enable people read through a way of life to fall in love with being again i think that would
• course destroying people's sanity or lives or putting them into a psychotic break or anything ridiculous like that
• occupation my career they will profoundly change their lives because they want to be closer to that really
• measures their lives get better uh that's what i mean by a transformative and uh steve
• often has long-term uh changing effects on their lives exactly as you say so it's something that needs to be taken
• mystical experiences and how meaningful you find your life you would have thought somebody had bothered to test
• can support that culturally and also watch people unfolding exemplary lives this is sort of the socratic proposal
• don't you know you know you know here's a beautiful life right the unexamined life is not worth
• a beautiful life right the unexamined life is not worth living here's a here's a beautiful life
• right the unexamined life is not worth living here's a here's a beautiful life and i think that's the kind of thing
• cultivate the people who are living exemplary lives and create you know communities where they thrive that
• they see this is a beautiful vision of life and it makes much more sense okay so here's what an atheist may say
• rationality um leading one's life by pure logic um reduces it to to a meaningless mess
• out from first principles yeah it had no understanding of life whatever so recent but i wouldn't say well in that case i'm
• them what i'm saying is we need to have ways of life that uh properly hone them and that that are beautified by them i
• that that like but uh we should have ways of life in which many people can benefit from some people having them is
• hemisphere um brings to us a representation of life that is clear and comprehensible and
• been a failure of this relationship so that what we are doing in life is always assessing and helping to grow certain
• flow state there's also this adage that we need to be more present and that life will just pass you by if you're not
• when i'm in the flow state maybe i'm present but life is certainly passing me by in the sense that if you
• awareness uh is the accompaniment to almost all of our life it doesn't mean it's not happening to us it doesn't mean
• simplistic models i do not think give us what is conducive to a good human life i mean we don't we don't want to be wanted
• let's say two years one in my adult life until one year ago because i'm such a liberal person in the
• about traditional religion and kurt his entire adult life and his entire teenage life just an inexorable atheist and
• entire adult life and his entire teenage life just an inexorable atheist and uncompromising one one that's
• through your psyche and permeate through your life why are you like that's what more could you want

Yuri Bezmenov, Iain McGilchrist, and Mattias Desmet on Mass Formation (from July 2022 Patreon) 58,407

• did you mention that these private q as are the key to living a better life and living to tell the tale i forgot to do
• that these private q and a's are in fact the key to living a better life and what living to tell the tale living to tell

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• do you think there's more to this life and to this world than is accounted for in the reductionist materialist
• middle ages which is that the the way to understand medieval life in medieval is through the liturgy not
• so much for the art it's through the life of the people and once and if you look at ritual and you look at
• moving i mean the the things in life that can really earth-shatteringly move me are in fact
• calls you for for to transformation but the liturgical life is
• that we think we can do without but actually are part of why life is worth living at all yeah and so i don't know
• memories we celebrate things that participate in our life and so the reason why i bring up dante
• do you think there's more to this life and to this world than is accounted for in the reductionist materialist
• meaning of that gravitational force on one's life so i think that's a a brilliant idea and in just to finish
• myself a christian or not i i'm rather lives to make such a grand claim um
• suggest for people that they could do in their in their lives yes well
• it's changed my sense of of my life it's changed my my relationships it's changed my work and
• um it bestows something on whatever one is attending to it brings it to life and the trouble is that one's attention
• the way to achieve it is to switch all that off and empty your life out i mean i
• a nice little nugget of wisdom that they can apply in their lives uh so so dr mcgill chris thank you so much for your

Iain McGilchrist & Sharon Dirckx • Brain science, consciousness & God 28,912

• which all needs to be present if we're to make any sense of our lives at all and your life's work in that sense has
• to make any sense of our lives at all and your life's work in that sense has been about
• subtle and effectively the life the magic the imagination the spirit went out of the
• qualitative qualitative experiences that we have in life that actually are impossible to describe physically
• and so the all of these kind of qualia that in life and not least the quality of what it is to be you there is
• interact increasingly with algorithms and our kind of life's direction or success in interview is is not decided
• and it was the hardest thing i've ever done in my life and many of my colleagues philosophers who read what i
• great beauty in and and the source of life and creativity which is behind this cosmos
• that everything as indeed the poet william blake said all that lives is sacred but i think i'll go further and
• in my bed hear words in my ear but i think that in daily life god speaks to me through
• one of whom was luke the physician and uh in one of his biography of the life of jesus writes not just about his life
• uh in one of his biography of the life of jesus writes not just about his life and morality and teachings but also
• and all the things i've done and read in my life and i find them a problematic area i must admit yeah but i'm not
• i guess i would just say that if i'm in my last days of life do i want metaphorical truth or do i

The Wisdom Of Intuition - Iain McGilchrist | Modern Wisdom Podcast 455 23,862

• is can be said relatively simply that all my life and i mean you know certainly all my
• certainly all my life since my early teens i felt that much of the picture that we are taught
• with one another is one of the threads i've all my life moved backwards and forwards between
• very mistaken conclusions if you lead your life only by reasoning you'll be a very strange person things won't work
• optical illusion says um that does it from now on i'm going to leave my life with my eyes shut uh no because most of
• the sorcerer um casting spells and getting things to come to life and do work for him and so when the master goes
• like it or not we're destroying the beauty and life of nature and we're destroying ourselves and our society
• happened to me with a man who had started his life as a worker with horses a trainer of horses
• um although i believe the very end of life that process might maybe reverse it
• fast enough to save us and to save the destruction of life on this planet but i'm not very hopeful because
• something that seems to resonate with people at all stages of their life so if i
• emotions that i think are missing from my life and from lots of people's lives or in dread
• from my life and from lots of people's lives or in dread uh you know kind of the sensation that
• searching for meaning finding out what it actually means to live a life here do we have moral obligations during our
• the sense of wonder you know we don't say i'm curious what the meaning of life should be i'm curious if there is a god
• themselves toward i definitely think that life is a moral business and we make moral decisions all
• and that it is a human um role during this life to piece together

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• of sound as a rather so compartmentalized aspect of life but it's of course all our experiences shot
• looking around he was clearly listening and this is a child who lives in new york city
• uh really evolves from our experience with sound throughout our lives um and and i i try to make the point
• and that really is about how it really matters what we do because our life and sound
• uh noise is a great big part of our lives um
• musicians just someone who regularly makes music in their lives um and
• really really well it is your afferent pathway that reflects your life and sound your memory and why
• you've learned that that's an important signal in your life um and so that then
• you know your your your book brings this to life in a wonderful way it's what i call between us that things don't exist
• somehow genes are you know contain all the script for life and that we are just the lumbering robots that carry them
• have have really calmed me um because i have felt this all my life i've always felt
• dealing with any of the big questions about life and as far as this unquote as far as the
• it's it's true i mean just in my own personal life i know it takes me longer to find the right key to get into my
• young people so they've got a theory about how life works they've got a schema of how it life works it's like i
• about how life works they've got a schema of how it life works it's like i look at the map i understand the
• at the moment we're sober risk-averse i mean life is a risky business if you don't accept some risks you won't live
• the premise that if we can only lead these terribly frightened lives all the time with alarms going off and warnings
• uh yes i've sung in a prayer virtually all my life from my early teens until recently because i lived so out in the
• noise interference that goes on in too many people's lives where they're constantly working with a background of
• think that sound is this incredibly powerful force in our lives and and what has surprised me about my book is
• that does that how do they go to get put together to make our life well the answer is they're not really ever
• separate they're all part of the thing that is uh our conscious life and our unconscious life it's mostly our own
• that is uh our conscious life and our unconscious life it's mostly our own conscious life it's what makes us what
• unconscious life it's mostly our own conscious life it's what makes us what we are and these systems are constantly
• if they hear some music that was a part of their lives you know it engages you remember the
• you know it engages you remember the music of your life it has been bound with your
• you know towards the end of her life she had enormously arthritic hands and somehow

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• sacred earth sacred life sacred soil
• out is more important of what actually happens in real life now why does all this matter you might
• now why does all this matter you might say i lead my life perfectly happily i don't need to know which bits of my
• judgment now in as we lead life headlong as in the past most people did
• where we were in the rights and rituals of our religion of the way of life and we were therefore
• subtle far more complicated far truer to life but far harder to articulate that is the world i believe we've gone into
• many things but i want to highlight for tonight what i call the attack on life which i feel is going on a pace in our
• two-dimensional screens now every day in our lives interestingly one loses depth in time as
• to do better if one needs to try harder but this is the way life is becoming it's wasteful of time and energy it's
• crave but cannot seem to find in real life findings from the cigna u.s loneliness
• people when they become deracinated from their culture and live isolated lives there is evidence that actually still
• there is evidence that actually still leading a life in which you belong with a culture and keep up the ways of life
• leading a life in which you belong with a culture and keep up the ways of life of that culture even if they're not what
• live longer and more fulfilled lives so our sense of being embedded in a social
• their cognitive function deteriorates their emotional lives become shallow they have great psychological distress
• have a spiritual dimension to their life in fact it shows that belonging to a
• dimension to the way in which you look at life means that people lead perhaps unsurprisingly more moral lives but also
• at life means that people lead perhaps unsurprisingly more moral lives but also are far more resilient and less prey to
• know better is actually very very important to our lives and the last thing that i want to talk
• and i think that all the natural processes of our lives actually follow this spiral
• it but actually all the important things in life can't be achieved directly with great respect to
• that process that overlays the whole of our current lives of course it has implications for how we educate the
• spiritual realm of something deeply important to life not a kind of um fashion asset like a certain kind of
• that saving the rainforest preserving the life of the seas is not about saving our economies or even our skins but is
• logical linear um kind of approach to life and bureaucratic as you said and use nature
• comes from from their experience and from their life and the people who really changed my life were all
• from their life and the people who really changed my life were all passionate they talked with great
• fundamental point that your education should be life-centered earth-centered nature-centered and not money-centered
• we are each responsible for our own lives and for the lives of our fellow human beings and it therefore behoves
• human beings and it therefore behoves each of us in our lives to push back against the
• that's trying to inform the quality of the life that they're living yes whatever it is we we designate as the