The Master and His Emissary: Conversation with Dr. Iain McGilchrist

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  @Nathanwallace90 · 8 years ago

  The video of this conversation is roughly 10% the length it should be in my opinion.

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  @awestruckperson · 8 years ago

  Jordan Peterson talking to the kind of people he should be talking to

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  @danielduggan5495 · 3 years ago

  Iain was my first psychiatrist, I was 19 and saw him very frequently, - one of my friends was a fellow patient, from the off he was intensely kind and extremely interested in my feelings. He treated me with a sense of consideration and thoughtful compassion and introduced me to a method of dealing much much later, I’m nearly 50! , such that I no longer use or feel I require psychiatric medications as I’ve come to a place where understanding and seeing others on their terms, being in touch with faith, music, art, quiet spaces has let me listen. And listening is key for me to myself and those I interact with daily- but deep listening not overhearing!

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  @cmonkey63 · 8 years ago

  Listening to these two men discuss ideas is like listening to two accomplished jazz musicians in a duo, pushing the boundaries of their skills, and making each other smile. Wonderful.

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  @cheri238 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I just found Iain McGilchrist books here recently a few months ago and his lectures as now in April 22, 2023. I have seen the one already with Jordan Peterson &nbsp;on Dr. McGilchrist new book, &quot;The Matter With Things,&quot; Our Brains and Our Delusions &nbsp;and the Unmaking of the World.&quot;<br>So, I am going to sit this one out and just listen to ages of great mausoleums speak. LOL<br>Educational vestments of condolences. <br>I love Iain McGilchrist books and all those he speaks with.<br>(We all should remain taciturn.)<br> &nbsp;The poem by Richard Horvey &quot;The Sea Gypsy.&quot; <br>I am fervered with the sunset,<br>I am fretful with the bay,<br>For the wonder- thirst is in me. And my soul is in Cathay.<br>There&apos;s a shooner in the offing, <br>With her topsails with fire.<br>For the islands of desire. <br>I must forth again tomorrow!<br>With the sunset I must be<br>Hull down the point of rapture <br>In the wonder of the sea.<br>Something to think about:<br>1. What could make the topsails of a ship to be &quot;shot with fire?&quot;<br>2. What does the &quot;hull down&quot; mean in connections with ships and the sea?<br>3. What does the poet mean &quot;Islands of desire?&quot;<br>What to do:<br>Does the poet keep up with times? See whether you can find a poet, instead of talking about masks and sails, speak of steam, electricity &nbsp;and propellers. &nbsp;You may discover how to write poems yourself.<br>Or do you think that poets should not deal with modern civilization? Organize &nbsp;a panel of debates by poets and critics and progress. You will want to find poems that deal with work and workers, and perhaps statements telling their opinions with regard to the materials of poetry today.<br>Those members of the class who are more interested in painting in and drawing than in writing may wish to prpare a bulletin board exhibit of the work of modern artists &nbsp;showing that they may use &nbsp;all subjects of our modern life as subjects for their creative work. I love libraries. <br>(I think Carl Jung &nbsp;did just that in his book which was hid away in a bank vault for many years, for he had not wanted it to be published for worry of what the critics might say. Gleefully I am so grateful for the estate of Carl Jung, allowed Sonu Shamdasani to edit it and with an Introduction &quot;The Redbook.&quot; 2009.<br>Or even one may take the marvelous etchings of Leonardo da Vinci and see the outlay of designs of his inner life. As with other great masters of art, or just someone who loves to paint for the love of &nbsp;within one&apos;s heart. I also feel that with music for centuries. Once again, creativity.<br>Furthermore we must not leave out our honorable physicist, mathematicians, biologists, anthropologist, &nbsp;any form of sciences out either. Definitively Einstein was one among many of influences there. The one closest to my heart was Telsa, &nbsp;he understood the thunder and lightning as it layed in his dreams.<br>Now we have to thank our linguistic professors also and the study of languages. <br>How can one learn all these things in a lifetime?<br>As I reflect here, it is serendipitous .<br>Gathering all of this mental anguish at times, I am so very grateful &nbsp;to my papa instilling in me to be an iconoclast.<br>Thank all for philosophy starting with Gilgamesh Epic, &nbsp;and work one ways up for centuries, &nbsp;and we cannot leave out religious divisions and wars for centuries. <br>Thankfully, &nbsp;psychology &nbsp;enters &nbsp;in and develops with Sigmund Freud, and C. J. Jung. Jung is my choice and look at this field today, may we all be grateful.

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  @aaronroberts7119 · 8 years ago

  Pet a lobster whenever you see one!

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  @TheDionysianFields · 7 years ago

  Truly, one of the top 5 youtube videos of all time.

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  @vixendixon6943 · 8 years ago

  My brain is eventually going to get too big for my skull listening to guys like these two, and I am going to need a new host for it. But I am prepared to make that sacrifice. More of the same please!

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  @Macklyn3232 · 4 years ago

  Without a doubt my favorite conversation between two human beings. Both such generous characters and so wonderfully articulate. The first time I could liken a conversation to a great piece of music played on two well crafted instruments. You gentlemen made music for me with this one. Bravo

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• KH

  @khatack · 8 years ago

  This McGilchrist dude is awesome, you should record conversations like this with him more.

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  @johnredding2587 · 2 years ago

  The fact that these two can keep up with each other &amp; remain so sincere with another &amp; the fact these all stars are in the same room blew me away.

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  @c3cubed · 8 years ago

  Beautiful minds jamming, creating new tunes for the intellect. &nbsp;This kind of dialogue was at a time, commonplace in the lecture halls of the great universities. It began to disappear and was eventually snuffed by the late 1970&apos;s. <br><br>Alas, we are now witnessing the rebirth of such minds being unshackled by the new technology, and allowed again to roam free and regroup tentacles collectively. &nbsp;A decade or two from now - from the perspective of hindsight, we will view these video transcripts as the resurrection of the revisionist-enlightenment. A new Golden Age.

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