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Is Jesus' Resurrection literally true? - Iain McGilchrist & Sharon Dirckx 3,523

• one of whom was luke the physician and the in one of his biography of the life of jesus writes not just about his life
• the 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
• this area i guess i would just say that if i'm in my last days of life do i want metaphorical truth or do i

Dr Iain McGilchrist - Brain Hemispheres, The Sacred & Divine, Meaning & More 3,398

• um whatever um interesting adventures life throws in our way [music]
• we don't even have the foggiest idea of what life's about or why we're here um so in order to answer that question i
• bit deeper on that point well at one stage in my life um i was professionally taking a philosophical
• little if anything they want to hang on to life for as long as possible well it doesn't really add up does it
• uh argument is the right hemisphere was the meaning of life would you
• between the ego and the self and what he's pointing to is that early in life the infant is actually fused with the
• we're social beings and at the end of our life we hope to have given something back to society as well
• report that since reading your book my life has changed i think quite differently about almost
• can only reason they have no sense of intuition about life they've lost that and they have to substitute for it a
• our podcasts with is what makes a life worth living wow um
• well i think working with the flow of life rather than struggling with the mechanism of life
• of life rather than struggling with the mechanism of life there are two ways in which life can be
• struggling with the mechanism of life there are two ways in which life can be thought of at least and the one that is
• um whatever um interesting adventures life throws in our way so it might at first glance be fairly
• leading a much more subtle nuanced life is the one that i would suggest we try to cultivate

Iain McGilchrist on the dangers of "left brain" domination 3,306

• subtle and effectively the life the magic the imagination the spirit went out of the

The wisdom traditions - Iain McGilchrist and Muhammed Foulds 3,276

• tesolf this the spiritual aspect which is very keen in the promised life and um it was while he was in the cave
• um it really changed my whole sort of life and we're at a point where i'm trying to deliver that message to many
• representation is just like a map it hasn't the life that the real thing has and so the experience of religion is in
• admit but then certainly in terms of spiritual life so have been times in the past when there have been great
• uh holistic thinking but to me now we're having that transition where that life is coming to the west
• um i all my life i've been a huge admirer of safaris particularly of china and
• charles as he now is and he has all my life when it's true people were we're we're ready to dismiss or sideline
• even his ideas about relating to plant life and to trees and so on which brought a certain amount of amusement
• so that there is life in and communication between unconsciousness in the living
• of as inanimate world the world before life emerged on this planet in terms that are utterly extraordinary in the
• ground of everything that is that in which everything lives and in which god lives so in any case what i'm really
• which everything lives and in which god lives so in any case what i'm really saying there in brief is that i think
• consider the matter to be entirely unconscious you can get life out of unanimously indeed that's mainstream
• than living things do and the advent of life takes everything a whole you know billion-fold
• traditions that they were that their whole way of life was was connected to the cosmos the natural world and the
• one another and sharing one another's lives sharing one another's feelings that is the fulfillment of a human life
• lives sharing one another's feelings that is the fulfillment of a human life 100 yeah and that's a wonderful way to

The Divided Brain and the Sense of the Sacred with Iain McGilchrist 2,750

• contemporary public social political and intellectual life and we do that in a number of ways we
• our little requests for god to answer some particular need in our life are not going to be um working either
• sort of experience of god somehow acting in their life and i wouldn't rule anything out i think my my view on on
• although he comes near to it at the end of his life but in the great period of his creativity um in his 20s and 30s
• but the difference is that when life came along two massively great steps forward if you like for the
• goes to help create what that encounter is so what i see life is doing is promoting two things firstly this
• millions of years can perhaps be achieved in a second or two in life um so there's an enormous acceleration
• of the evolutionary process with the beginnings of life and the capacity for the universe to respond ultimately to
• think are incredibly valuable in our lives like experiencing beautiful music seeing certain paintings reading poetry
• and in chapter 12 of my new book on the science of life i i try to put forward a completely different vision of biology
• large quantities of observation and by the end of his life surprise surprise he no longer loved poetry or art or or

Beauty, Value & Purpose | Iain McGilchrist with Maitreyabandhu 2,722

• themes there which i explored in my earlier life and then i trained in medicine as you
• who think of buddhism as something that gives meaning to life as if yes that there's such a deep
• he doesn't think that there is value because there is life but there is life because there is value and it takes
• value because there is life but there is life because there is value and it takes life
• life because there is value and it takes life this is my belief and i didn't know
• that what life adds to the cosmos
• love to say about that but but essentially what i think that life brings is this increase in
• call physical forces and so on but with life this process is speeded up and intensified billionfold
• that you're willing to use words like life um
• you can take it or leave it because the real business of life has nothing to do with it
• and by the way that poem uh was very important in my life i had a kind of spiritual
• opening the mind again from this cramp in which it gets pushed by modern life so that that we know is immeasurably
• together and kept going the rights rituals and relations of the way of life they came from had despite um
• people who have a spiritual orientation in life and particularly actually belong to a religious community that worships

Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things 2,606

• matter and consciousness value purpose life and the nature of the cosmos and then the sense of the sacred so volume 2
• but it has it plays itself out in in many ways in our lives all around us so for example the simplest example is that
• louis pasteur in the 1870s in relation to life and it was a point also made by pierre curie about 20 years later in
• existence of anything or to the existence of life and this essential cosmic asymmetry is what is imaged
• wonderful asymmetries within it which bring the whole thing to life right so and this is also enriched in in the
• significance about how reality is and how we should potentially live our lives i wanted to just propose to you how i
• flow but your point is not that there are things in life that flow but that life as such is flow
• are things in life that flow but that life as such is flow and you argue that in this chapter and
• because you know i spent the first 40 years of my life thinking well there are a lot of balmy things in religion but
• about some of the rather more moving things that have happened in your life and let us test out these ideas you're
• access to my actions in the dreams as i have during life excuse me yes no no wonderful and just a
• who discovered that he'd been speaking prose all his life without knowing it when i meet buddhists i discovered i've
• when i meet buddhists i discovered i've been a buddhist all my life without knowing it but
• of this other and one of the ways of explaining life to me
• simple push and pull you phenomena but with life there comes the possibility of vastly more rapid billions of times more
• all that body of tacit knowledge without which we begin to lose life and you then go on to say it warms of
• implicit is very important it's been important to me all my life it's why i left
• you you've spent much too much of your life talking to me except i hope that people think that the time is not not
• think it's such a mystery when i look back on my life the things that have been
• painful and and terrible and i'm sure we've all had them in our lives the whole thing has some sort of meaning for
• this book and to sacrifice a decade of your life to give this gift to all of us um and what i'd hoped for them was the
• the world and that stays with you for the rest of your life and i think it's just worth restating that it it's
• carry on is that people write and say this has changed my life i can't see the world the same way again and that's all
• nature of that is very important so i think the three great things in life are compassion
• philosophers above all heraclitus have been accompanying me all my life um the the darist
• um if i may put it this way humble people compared with many of the life scientists that i know
• scientists that i know and it's possibly because the life scientists still think there are

"The Matter with Things" - Dr Iain McGilchrist on epistemology and metaphysics 2,552

• does it affect the purpose and the meaning of our lives what are the approaches to divinity
• and enable us to enjoy more material wealth and longer life spans but it is at a cost for this dr ian mcgill chris
• repeated ways of thinking about the world and about human life over his history and we can then if you like be
• that cannot be reduced to its parts and all my life i felt that it was wrong that the whole is just for some of the
• they change your whole feeling about the world and life they're extraordinary things so
• to move on to chapter 12 the signs of life in on the surface the chapter came across as highly critical at the
• but in the chapter on the um the science of life chapter 12. i do refer to an enormous amount of literature i think
• um enlarging the scope of or bringing into our lives a greater awareness of what our right hemisphere can tell us i
• um other aspects of our intellectual life but to talk about the things that tend to get driven out by our everyday
• tend to get driven out by our everyday lives at the moment um i think that being in nature is
• at them but i do try to incorporate them into my daily life and i think they make life better and happier
• into my daily life and i think they make life better and happier and richer so i think these are all the
• sorts of things that are not often obvious from the way we lead our lives every day but could be
• other words understanding what's going on between people and in emotional life than the left but it is also
• side to it so i think you know a lot of our work in life is helping people to see that there is good where
• finally stop mixing bodies deeply divided the powers of life and the soul with those of reason and will
• rage devastate its own mother the earth until all life and finally itself is handed over to nothingness no teaching
• can bring back what has been lost only an inner change of life which is not within the power of men can help us to
• the human and degradation of the human in daily life are the two great threats um i i see that it says not so much to
• quite a bit of evidence on its merits and it's inevitable that in the life sciences there will never be just one
• they're going to be elements to do with early life there are going to be life events there's going to be sociological
• upon thousands of times in my career and i've also experienced it in my own life um to know that it is very important but
• and and i'm curious you've led a rather interesting life uh both professionally and i would imagine you've had some
• if you're your life has given you any um just anything you'd like to share
• well thank you i mean the park played in my life by particularly poetry and music has been very great
• so those things have always played a huge part in in my life and during the first year of lockdown i don't know why
• was the beneficiary of this in my own life in that i got a fellowship at all south college oxford at the age of 21.
• that's going to be important that's the death of the life of the mind thank you thank you so much okay can we

Parts and Whole, Science and Intuition, Left Brain and Right Brain with Dr. Iain McGilchrist 2,257

• confitivism and also this holistic value of the oneness of life and the basis of everything
• of the sacred um all the things that make life worth living like music and art and poetry and
• can think oh right brain left brain etc but about how how we deal with life how our culture takes us in one direction or
• much like a map or a diagram or a theory about life and the right hemisphere actually the experience of living so
• whole necessarily so you know if this is all reflected in in how our life works also in society and all of that both are
• different parts in different ways but is part of the life of the whole i i think that's that's a wonderful image and yes
• that ultimately it's a dualistic nature of life and we have to kind of work with both of them or
• um this has implications also on how we deal with our life do we if the world is only physicalist physical separate
• mean this literally about the evolution of life that when you look at the history of the evolution of life on
• of life that when you look at the history of the evolution of life on earth it is largely a story about
• any kind of scrutiny we know that organic life that organisms that living things and that is after all who
• therefore make it possible for us to live our daily life but maybe when this happens the frontal lobes relatively
• the cytoplasm of the whole cell so i think that is our condition in this life that we are somehow surrounded in such a
• and that's a real situation and i often say how much we crash our life because we are on so many point values and we
• better if we can meet in meet in real life as we say nowadays that i'd like to go to the isle of skye and it will it

Matter and Spirit. Andrew Briggs and Iain McGilchrist in conversation 2,163

• it doesn't appear in most of physics it appears in all of our lives you know babies are born parents die
• what do you make of the fascinating observation that life everywhere is trying to buck the second law of
• blakemore already we all live in in north small road so oh colin lives at number 11. an early in schrodinger for a
• responsibility i didn't know how any of us could live our lives without a sense of responsibility i i'm not quite sure