Iain McGilchrist: How to escape left-brain thinking

🔗The Good, The Beautiful and The True – Dr Iain McGilchrist: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/the-good-the-beautiful-and-the-true/ 📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/4cfaeH0 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. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-west-needs-to-rediscover-religion/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com 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. Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv //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 #UnHerd #Religion #IainMcGilchrist