Deep gratitude for sharing your wisdom so generously and in such an accessible way.

I was sketching an extremely detailed portrait of a woman's tresses as I listened to this... It was an utterly perfect experience. Thank you, once again, Iain.

You got me back writing with this, fantastic Iain. We all spread it at our own level. Thank you.

Brilliant! I am still trying to get my head around the The Master and His Emissary and now he is onto the next one. Many thanks for this!

Dr. McGilChrist is a nice, cool, nice, awesome, rad, cool, nice, awesome, great, super, I'm glad he's a alive and giving his gifts type of guy.

Another example of the coincidence of opposites is good storytelling. In order for the happy ending or the story to have any meaning, deep suffering must befall the characters. Just like good music, it is the duality of tension and release that has a creative energy that is so much more

Thank you! There was something very satisfying about that talk on the coincidence of opposites.

This is such an engaging and valuable presentation. I’m thrilled watching this.

I had to read the Kybalion by the three initiates, three times for start to finish, before I was able to deprogrammed all the crap I had shoved into me from birth. I now know "What I am" I listen to Ian, Rupert Sheldrake, and even David Icke. They all have something to say that is worth considering.

What an absolutely fascinating lecture. It held my attention from start to finish. Thank you.

God, this is beautiful

Listening to this man turns my thoughts into riddles

Counterpoint, is a illustration of this: When I listened again to intermezzo to Cavalleria Rusticana, the impact toward the end, was drawn out with the double bass, descending steadily to the last base note like gulf of death hallow, and a parallel ascend consummated in a puff of flute like the lightest butterfly simultaneously emerging from within. Reminded me of the opening scene of the film "The hours". Horowitz's polonaise in a flat (recorded in Vienna) I also found best delivered the same impact, the earth-shattering climax, coined Rubinstein somewhere. Only then, perception shifts.. The excruciating elation- They are inevitably inseparable. Once again, my deepest appreciation of Iain's fascinating presence. xx -Alice Kim

Thank you Iain for all your excellent written work and talks.

Thank you for this.

Coincidence wonderful 💛 lol the straight line gave us roads under mountains. Thank goodness it can be moved or be better understood as a measurable isobar. I did a sketch of a tree in the distant bush line today. It was difficult. It took the entire podcast that you had recently done with Robert and Michael. Thank you Ian.

Dr. McGilchrist, you are the Santa Claus of the Paradox and the Oxymoron. Your gifts are well received and honored!

Those that SHOULD see this will never see this.....

wow, that was a strong ending

Tanks for the slides. Im a simple man. I drink and work with wood for a living, so slides are mutch apriciated as a way to keep my mind latched on. Im also NNES (have we agreed on the right way to type `NonNativeEnglishSpeaker` yett?), so the `common lecture` format brings forth jolly memories from my youth. MoRe PowEr PoinT, PlaASe:) I.E: the wave and the circle is a great example of how my [NNES/ Dyslectic/ Alcohol/ ADHD/ Gamerbrain] -mind can totaly miss the point wilst distracted or otherwise engaged in selfreconstructing behavior. Havent gotten around to reading your MAHE nor TMWT. They are in the pile, just havent gotten around to them yett. Im sure when my current `Theology Phase` is ebbing out, I`ll hardline your stuff. That beeing said; I truly apriciate your talks and i think you are mostly right. All my common senses and laymen intuitions nod in unison. May your Autumn be great and have a short winter. PS: if i ever take on a pair of cats again, I will call them Nemato and Stella. I should look for lifeforms without a Corpus Collosum, but i think there are practical and legal issues with owning those in a norhern climate.

I can't accept the idea of an "ocean of consciousness" (40:30). This tendency to view consciousness extending out into space stems from using 'light' as a metaphor for consciousness, since light illuminates the whole world. If you embrace motion as the appropriate metaphor, instead of light, the location of consciousness becomes just part of the physical world.

Profoundly insightful!

As above so below.....

Respect ❤

Very good interpretation, possibly the best about the worst important thing that validates the most likely outcome, but regarding the state of being miserable consider vitamin D deficiency mostly by sunlight deprivation as a major factor in Northern hemisphere, particularly in cloudy wet and rainy areas like England, as contributing to the Hornets Nest of issues.

48:00 Friedensreich Hundertwasser's thoughts on The Line made me laugh out loud! I'll have to look him up.

Inspiring. Sending to friends scientists artists. Always loved yin yang everything contains the seed of its opposite. Fan of Bohr who helped the Jews of Denmark escape with only a day or 2 to spare.

32:42 "These are the ushers of Marcius: before him He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears; Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie; Which, being advanc'd, declines, and then men die." Shakespeare

For the past few years I have pondered the spirical nature of progress as opposed to its linear form, allowing for the often seemingly circular sensation of existence whilst also moving forward or through the cosmos. Nice to hear it vindicated, somewhat.

Brilliant.

interesting

Blake is a notable influence on Iain. In terms of the straight line, this from William Blake, his punctuation included; "They say there is no Strait Line in Nature this Is a Lie like all that they say, For there is Every Line in Nature But I will tell them what is Not in Nature. An Even Tint is not in Nature it produces Heaviness. Natures Shadows Ever varying. & a Ruled Sky that is quite Even never can Produce a Natural Sky the same with every Object in a Picture its Spots are its beauties[.] Now Gentlemen Critics how do you like this[?] You may rage but what I say I will prove by Such Practise & have already done so that you will rage to your own destruction. " I find Blake very hard to argue with, especially when it comes to art theory.

thankyou

28:13 Energy is time. In the metaphysical/ time-space sector, time is 3 dimensional, being the reciprocal of space. So, energy at root are scalar rotations displaced at discreet units from the speed of light. Energy is faster than light; matter slower. See Dewey Larson, the guy who discovered the unified theory mainstream science claims to be searching for. Reciprocal Systems Theory of Space and Time.

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A very real analysis of the situation at hand in our world. If a concept or perspective can alter the course of our humanity, this is one that must be included if wii, all the "I"s working together as much as possible could actually manifest this alternative world that would develop simply from the change in actions based on the perspective. Perspicuity is the answer but universal acceptance of any idea is virtually impossible for the very reason you start with, there is a dark side that can not be ignored, but it can be controlled. The middle path is the only one that will get us through, but can it be applied universally. No. If prognostication is possible, does seeing the future validate that there is fate, a predetermined future event cycle that no one can change. If that is true, no action can alter the future but instead wii are living out what has been planned by a higher intelligence that wii understand exists, thus it could indeed be us, the avatar in this plane, which proves Spirit, the other life wii live, does exist and actually controls and predetermined factors make the future simply a manifestation of a sequence that has already been programmed to happen once the Cosmic Computer is turned on. Which Master Computers determine your reality, the Mandella effect simply being the frequency and version of the reality wii play in is broadcast. The Wifi channel you are tuned into can effect your perspective because the foundation, the memories and method of deduction, of thinking is impacted by the invisible forces, energy waves that our antenna pick up on internally which alter what wii perceive. Our memory is integrated into the observations fo the present so that if one alters memory banks that are referenced to, you change the perspective from which one sees, thus the way they interpret what they see, and thus the conclusions they reach using logic or thinking based on past experience or memory to determine what wii determine is Truth. Thus reality can not be the same for all people nor can everyone share one view due to the problems that arise from broken bio-computers, bodies that no longer function as intended and thus nothing will align to the thinking of those whose thinking processes are optimized.

Straight lines DO exist in nature. Many crystaline forms have straight lines

What a terrific insight Iain McGillchrist has with regards to human behaviour and our perception of reality. For my understanding it has helped me articulate many questions regarding a conciderable sum of a lot of the big dilemmas and conflicts we find ourselves in. My particular facination is regarding how abstract our thinking is over some of the most intuitive thinking we naturally do. In some ways the idea of money is or even particle physics enters the rhelm of religion when you try and pan out for the bigger perspective. I think the right hemisphere might find the following passage in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe" instantly amusing. That is until the left hemisphere tries to articulate why it's amusing... That passage goes something like... "In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and was generally considered a bad idea."

The straight line (quadrilateral rod) added to the flow gives rise to the vortex and hence to the whole of creation?

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

''Life is absurd'' Albert Camus.

Many thanks, Iain and Beshara Trust. Regarding the tyranny of straight lines (and I concur with the sentiment), "a line which does not exist in nature", one notable exception might be the crystal.

Regarding the wave and circle, it strikes me that the idea of the spring and circle relation is in someway related to the relationship between the unit circle and sin or cos wave in math.

The documentary film The Divided Brain, produced for the CBC, features Iain McGilchrist and is a good introduction to his life and work. It's availabe on the website of the same name.

a mathematical explanation of "how to understand PERSPECTIVE"

Everyone’s a child who never grew up… dependent/co-dependent/interdependent/independent/altruistic Dissociated hemispheres are The symptoms Fear traps and fragments consciousness One coin two sides “trauma” - consciousness - “wisdom”

Perhaps life is paradoxical and helical rather than logical and linear.

Allowing opposites does not mean a tepid mid point is perfect

I love reading the comments on sites like this . People who think they are clever dickies, make me smile and feel sad at the same time.

As an avowed contrarian, it is only natural that I am a complementarian as well.

how do you stay calm while holding the tension

at 45:30 listen for Maynard from tool shout out yo, and eye no the peace is fit

49:00 Dr Fierz about Jung

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." I. Newton.....I am afraid what that means for trying to do good in the world....

I object to the suggestion that our faulty world view is somehow implicated in the 'climate crisis' (3:06). There is no mention of this connection in 'The Master and his Emissary'. The fact that it was added to the documentary is not surprising, since film makers are inclined to that side of politics. I would argue that climate alarmism is very much a left-brained phenomenon. My understanding of 'The Master and his Emissary' is that the properly grounded mind does not identify with abstract values, material or political. The impulse to identify with a political ideology is just as misguided as the desire to identify with material possessions.

Reality = That which is/That I am. The Word of Truth is ever faithful (loyal, true, isomorphic) to Reality (That which is/That I am). The Psyche functions consciously and unconsciously simultaneously. Therefore, consciousness is what something does - not what something is. We are Life at large, experiencing itself as all of us simultaneously. Therefore, we are all It, to an unknowable/inexhaustible extent, as the facets of a Diamond are 'both' distinct from each other 'and' the Diamond itself. Love is the recognition of our shared Being. Order takers do the actual harm. They say yes when they should say No. They are us, as in a mirror.

@ninstar8165 While I agree that our society seems to favour comfort and convenience (and meaninglessness), on reflection I really don't think that wisdom comes from life experience - or certainly not life experience on its own. I've known people over 80 years old who don't seem to have acquired an ounce of wisdom, but are as entrenched in their stubbornness and 25-years-old-acquired prejudices as ever. I think Bruce Lee and Jesus of Nazareth had plenty of wisdom in certain areas, even though neither lived to the age of 35, and I would say I've known wise people in their 20s. (Unfortunately I wasn't one of them!) Maybe it comes from certain experiences plus a kind of openness to learning important lessons, with certain attitudes. I think the attitudes, and maybe some compassion and objectivity, are more important than the intelligence level, or the chronological age reached.

Reductionism (entropy) is dual to holism (syntropy) -- the "entropic two step". Teacher (master, lordship) is dual to pupil (slave, emissary, bondsman) -- the Hegelian dialectic. Left brain dominance is dual to right brain dominance -- the divided brain. Opposites, opposame = duality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda.

Harmonious opposition.

Seems the tearing of the vale in two from top to bottom has something to do with the separation left and right hemispheres of the brain and the state of the world today.

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I've been reading your books with great interest and found out I have a condition myself... Inattentive ADHD.. (ADD) hope you can say something about that

Students and Hosts what is a big picture? Nor what is Deep? To made shallow even for the innocents as a Child given ABLE TO COMPREHEND. But unto...remember ye all once an innocents little ones. Here ye ALL ARE? Don't want to flash a light upon thy eyes. While sleeping? Offending thee is not my aim? With discreetly and slowly. Able to bare the LIGHT. Without running away! Nor turn your headlights on given before driving at night. So ye may see beyond the eyes can see! At night. Students and Hosts to remind... Remind what?

To whom was the quote at 47:55 attributed? I couldn't catch the surname....

They're only called 'opposites' due to a love of playing with words in imprecise/ambiguous manner. _There cannot be light without darkness_ is pretentious nonsense, of course: one can still experience many colours and intensities, no "opposites" needed.

Marshall McLuhan explain this in the sixties

The heat will kill you first in this penal colony.

I seem to be disagreeing with the man who's commented on the slides. for me the slides are a complete distraction and they're not used particularly well. we don't need to see the flower opening over and over and over again. and the slide on immediate reflections has two things written on it and Mcgilchrist has already mentioned at least 10. please have the slides to match or don't bother with them at all...... it's actually much easier to just watch the person speaking. They always irritated me at business meetings, totally unnecessary unless you've got extremely difficult graphs or charts to look at and study.

Ian is using a word that sounds something like andronomia. Would someone give me the correct spelling, please?

So... in Comparative Psychology, what does the right hemisphere of animals prioritize? Are they fundamentally driven by the left hemisphere?

Time is the source of directionality. All turbulences in the spreading flow of energy (anti-entropic hotspots) will form consciousnesses as they complexify (non-linearly in time). The consciousness that our species is evolving towards - sometimes - and that is tickling the best of us, is a state of pure omnidirectional reflectionality. Knowing the future, by knowing the past, and the present state in all spatial directions, in the act of producing optimally many variations on that self-reproducing reflection of reality, to reach the destination we are bound to reach as God still has to be cultivated in this (heat)death of the universe. Compressing many and large into few and small, in becoming of an empty universe filled with god. Bimodalism is not a choice, not something that can be fought with thought. Every organism of chemical nature is not free to the passing of time.

What is humble to washed thy FEET nor by men's War? What is a men's war?

Steinerish ☯Jungian...

How does dualism fit into non-duality?

In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth... the right brain and the left brain. The 10 commandments are 5 spiritual and 5 earthly. Jesus gave two commandments: love God above all else & love your neighbor as yourself. Spiritual & material. Fractality. We are co-creaters but only as emissaries of our master

Logical extremes and literal physicslist critial realism and first thought bias . Of course the Narcissist ,sociopaths macavalian the normal types obsessed with navigation in hierarchical agency intuitions. Worst ever always have to keep eye open on those lol😮

The cerebellum contains 80% of the brains neurons and has 3600% faster processing power than the matched height left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum. Of the 1900+ pages McGilchrist has published on the brain about 4 1/2 mention the cerebellum- that’s about 0.23 % of McGilchrist’s work, mentions the seat of the unconscious, the root of autism and motor function, in the nucleus of mood and addictive disorders, as well as addiction, and other maladies. Neuroscience published over the past decade shows us that the cerebellum is crucially involved in the cognitive development of children, their intelligence, propensity for autism, and sociability and overall sense of well-being. Dr. McGilchrist has a monopoly on this conversation in the public side and his obfuscating the incredibly dominant role the cerebellum plays in brain function. Though it is 10% the size of the hemispheres combined it contains 400% more neurons over 50% of the neurons of the entire central nervous system, and computationally due to its neuronal folding density is 3600% times faster than the left and right hemispheres. It’s like comparing a quantum computer to a commodore 64. You should be highly suspicious that you’re not hearing about this from McGilchrist or McManus. Sarah means princess in Hebrew. Bellum in Latin is war. The Prince S war is a cold one warming… Adonai Add an I Je suis …

No.

All truths are half truths...Hermetic non-sense. So then it follows that half truths are also half and so on. Very reducing in process.

Most miserable people ever. I don't believe that at all.

All the insects are dying. What has the any of this to do with that reality? He still doesn't talk about reality or what's happening in the real world. We don't need another psychiatrist telling us we have it wrong. Our observations and morality tells us things are wrong.

beautiful Sir.feels so pleasurable like music.thank you for sharing your big brain in such an almost poetic flow.xx