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![]() ![]() ![]() Iain McGilchrist has spent the 11 years since the publication of The Master and his Emissary' assembling, arranging, tuning the left hemisphere tools he has to use - words - to try to evoke in our minds the cloud of right hemisphere ideas that he wants. With a gift for synthesising neuroscience, culture and philosophy, his thought has provided essential frames for making sense of the times we live in and proved particularly influential on Rebel Wisdom. Nobody who understands Iain McGilchrist to be a Master, as I do, could commit the folly, fall into the trap, of trying to be his Emissary. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a former Clinical Director of the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, philosopher and literary scholar. When we do, we tap into an understanding that is both profound and beautiful, in line with the deepest traditions of human wisdom.ĭr. He suggests that in order to understand ourselves and the world we need science and intuition, reason and imagination, not just one or two. ![]() He argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by a partial view dominated by the brain’s left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reality that is all around us, had we but eyes to see it. In ‘The Matter with Things’, Iain McGilchrist tackles the big questions: Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? What happens if we neglect the sacred and divine? ![]()
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