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

• and that this produces two kinds of reality for us because attention as i say
• theoretical in other words a better guide to reality and we know that because when you follow
• puzzled about why this is clearly not right because we know in reality achilles will overtake the tortoise in
• left hemisphere on its own misconstrues reality but also that it's completely unrealistically optimistic has a very
• processes and flow and continuity and this is the core of reality and it's interesting because to try to
• conversation between humankind and reality which i thought was very very suggestive
• you the beauty is a conversation between humankind and reality well as you know i believe that everything is a

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

• modes of attention that co arise being a kind of feature of reality as such he speaks of the first two chapters of
• volume two in terms of the processes by which reality come into being so ian that's the setting that's what i
• um having some major moral and spiritual significance about how reality is and how we should potentially live our lives
• more of sort of onthological feature of reality and then you move on to the one and the many and the purpose of the one
• enormously important first of all perhaps the ultimate test of the reality of anything is the appeal to experience
• um you make flow a fundamental feature of reality you investigate space you speak about matter as critical for
• in some resonance relations resonant relationship with reality in which the point of our being is not to utilize or
• somehow off on a cloud i mean he sees these spiritual reality is extremely clearly and his vision is that whatever
• for the importance of recognizing a different view of reality you've said to yourself the key is a new conception
• they're not mere stories just to entertain but they really are a reality of thoughts and speak of deeper truths
• then quote c.s lewis who describes it as a as a reality this this beautiful myth and then you end
• to offer a glimpse of the elusive nature of reality not to mention the power of all that body of tacit knowledge without

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

• care who are we what is the nature of reality where is our consciousness from what is
• must be very careful to take into account the the version of the reality that we can identify as coming from the
• rest so part one i look at what i call the various portals on reality which the brain can offer what i mean by portals
• fantasy is something that takes us away from reality imagination is our only chance of getting into the core of what
• we're looking at in other words understand reality fully so i look at all of these four and what

Iain McGilchrist: Why Tolkien is not just "fantasy"! 2,309

• second-class ways of coming into contact with reality perhaps leading us away into fantasy but as i
• is the only chance we have to reach reality it's not a matter of putting fancy dress versions of the world in
• that away so that for the first time we can see reality as it is those of you who know the work of wordsworth and
• kind of fantasy but that is pointing to a reality can i tell that little joke please yes
• random creation and actually imagination which contacts the reality and brings it to us

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

• existence and even our existential reality our the threat to to our world to what we do to each other and to where
• about the essential and ultimate nature of reality and science has become like the
• right hemisphere is much more in touch with reality than the left and the first part of my book no matter with things is
• that in every case the right hemisphere is more in touch with reality more able to contact reality pays a bigger
• is more in touch with reality more able to contact reality pays a bigger contribution to reality than the left
• to contact reality pays a bigger contribution to reality than the left hemisphere so what is the left
• together and call them oh i'm doing my job i have transcended my reality rather than actually going to the essence of
• classical physics the classical isolated reality of objects that are localized in time and space
• fields to more unified fields and so even when we look at ultimate reality we find that there is that classical
• or something else it's a mechanical vision but of course in reality there is nothing like this in the universe
• um observations and study of the nature of reality from different perspectives and that leads us to i think two two
• does it relate to what we can call the ultimate reality you mentioned descartes and of course when one mentions
• now how about how does it relate to the true ultimate reality is then are people allowed them to to conclude
• both of them or reality and ultimate reality from your perspective is a monistic one that it
• different appearance ultimately of an aspect of reality and i cannot disagree more you know at all than you know that
• because this is how you survive this is the reality but if the reality is more holistic it's more
• is also has a very important implication so the the assumption of what reality is can have very important
• you like of reality of the cosmos which is coherent with our experience of it and that that
• don't i i become full you starve i mean there are realities here but the fact is that what when the sea is overall is
• the other hand this um entirely subjective reality in which we make it all up there is something
• is to understand maybe and then discover that we are that reality and if we keep hiding ourselves in our smallness we are

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

• uh now for a moment call them transcendent realities and and the material world is one that's inseparable
• but the painter is going to use material means to turn that into the reality that can be enjoyed by the the by others

Unpacking Iain McGilchrist and The Matter with Things! 1,473

• about life reality the nature of the universe all sorts of great things that are near
• so much of what our interactions with the reality if you want to think of it uh as as reading
• want to think of it uh as as reading reality that's what we do and as it turns out the left hemisphere
• resembles something more closely aligned with reality and as i said earlier the right
• but i believe we have systematically misunderstood the nature of reality and chosen to ignore

The role of consciousness in nature: An interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Part 1 916

• be able to demonstrate the essence of reality but in as far as it's possible to show the relationships between
• consciousness as in talking about any kind of reality we have to preserve
• were too flimsy for this the single spark of reality of what ainsof is and that part of the story is called
• but those categories are much too small for reality and so they don't contain it but after that piece of work has been

The Attack On Life and Understanding Our Times. A conversation with Iain McGilchrist and Mark Vernon 794

• which broadly speaking one could say is about making better contact with reality itself not just building the maps of the
• people intuitively think this but the reality is different but they're just like optical illusions
• our projections can land on reality and when we feel and they're grounded
• and they're grounded um in reality we feel reality speaking back to us and we know ourselves to be
• suggesting that somehow and we're cut off from reality and all that we see is just a projection on a wall inside our
• doesn't follow that we don't make contact with reality at all and that reality means nothing so i mean in fact
• contact with reality at all and that reality means nothing so i mean in fact that's exactly the point of view
• himself kept a bureaucratic distance from the realities that were going on so getting back to reality is very
• from the realities that were going on so getting back to reality is very important but coming to evil
• useful byproduct what it's really about is how much we connect with reality and the virtues um that enable us to

Freeing Perception. 10 Ways of Living Iain McGilchrist's Work 424

• ourselves is it expansive does it bring more and more of reality to us or does it actually close reality down in
• more and more of reality to us or does it actually close reality down in reductive moods
• reductive moods or turn reality into a kind of flat land where everything is interpreted in in
• don't see with a window but through a window into wider reality around us this famous remark where he says i
• thing a space of reality in which energy and mass are a one thing not just two things
• them is to recover and rediscover a relationship with reality perhaps tragedy almost always arises when human
• personally i think this is to say that reality can't let us go you know our relationship to wider life is like a
• rather when we say yes to life we wake up to the reality that this is all part of