Iain McGilchrist: How to escape left-brain thinking
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with Dr. Iain McGilchrist to discuss the bihemispheric brain, the power of myth, and what he really thinks about Christianity.
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with neuroscientist and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist about the psychological and cultural crisis resulting from our modern reliance on the brain's analytical left hemisphere, a perspective that views the world as a collection of inanimate parts rather than a living whole, while making a compelling case for the rehabilitation of myth and religious tradition as essential pathways to a deeper, relational truth that can protect Western civilisation from the dehumanising effects of purely mechanistic thinking.
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//TIMECODES//
00:00 - 00:38 - Intro
00:38 - 01:45 - Introducing Iain McGilchrist
01:45 - 07:34 - How the hemispheres really differ
07:34 - 12:37 - Truth, precision and the left brain’s role
12:37 - 19:30 - Mythos vs logos: story and deeper truth
19:30 - 24:09 - The Orpheus myth and what myths can’t survive
24:09 - 31:45 - Left-brain delusion and limits of reason
31:45 - 35:43 - Enlightenment, Reformation and left-brain culture
35:43 - 40:00 - Christian myth and personal faith
40:00 - 44:42 - Scientists, God and beyond materialism
44:42 - 52:30 - Christian roots of Western civilisation
52:30 - 57:31 - Small rituals and recovering the sacred
57:31 - 64:47 - Tao, non-doing and bottom-up renewal
64:47 - 66:09 - Oxford event: the Good, the Beautiful, the True
66:09 - 66:38 - Outro
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