Iain McGilchrist

1 month ago | beiner.substack.com | Alexander Beiner |Liv Boeree |Iain McGilchrist |Brett Scott

We’ve released another ten tickets to the first screening of ‘Crossroads’ in London on March 14th, and for Australian readers near Byron Bay, we have a screening on March 22nd at the Byron Bay Theatre. If you’re in Melbourne, I’m running a workshop and speaking at the Wisdom & Action Forum alongside Nora Bateson, Tyson Yunkaporta and Julia Kim on April 1-3. “Where do we go from here?” If we thought we knew the answer, we’d be lying to ourselves.

Mar 11, 2024 | themoralimagination.com | Michael Miller |Iain McGilchrist

Silence is rare. And so is beauty. We are inundated and distracted by so much noise it is hard to find signal and meaning. I wrote this after spending a summer evening at a pool with my family. It was beautiful and warm, and we decided to order some pizza and have dinner at a table overlooking the pool. As we talked and enjoyed blue sky and full trees of late summer, I realized that I could hear the background sounds of children laughing and talking and of water splashing.

Feb 23, 2024 | iai.tv | Scott Kaufman |Iain McGilchrist

The idea of the brain being split into right and left hemispheres that do radically different things has entered the popular imagination. Following an article exchange on the IAI, Scott Barry Kaufman and Iain McGilchrist finally meet to investigate the remaining untouched ground in this mind-melding debate. Ten years ago I wrote an article for Scientific American called “The Real Neuroscience of Creativity”.

Feb 13, 2024 | firstthings.com | Iain McGilchrist

No two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but riches—and power, the only point in having riches—do not make people happy. Ask a psychiatrist. Or take a look at the face of Vladimir Putin, who has, alas, the power of life and death over millions of people and is the owner of the most expensive toilet-paper dispenser in the world. No, affluent as we are, we are also more anxious, depressed, lonely, isolated, and lacking in purpose than ever. Why is this?