![]() The path of doing so challenges you to embrace the many paradoxical reactions occurring all around us in nature.Ĭheck out Iain McGilchrist’s book, The Matter With Things: ġ:10:57 | Neutralizing Left Sided Thinking He’s calling people to be open to the seemingly random chaos and meaninglessness of life to find a better way to live and a better vision of the world we live in. ![]() He highlights the beauty and complexity of order in the universe even where we are unable to fully grasp and understand the order. Iain perfectly quotes psychologist William James, “ignorance is a sea and knowledge is a drop in that ocean” In this conversation Iain explores ideas of how little we truly know about the cognitive function of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. To think you fully grasp the complexities of consciousness, matter, space and time would be wildly ignorant. ![]() So much of what the world is and who we are is not understood. ![]() “It doesn’t matter what you look at, it matters what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau The version of what you see in your reality matters to what you decide to see and live your life by. Part of what he proposes is that you keep an open mind and be aware that the ideas and images people are so strongly influenced by are in fact myths and stories. ![]() Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, author and thinker joins Tom to share some of the key ideas he writes about in his latest 2 volume book, The Matter of Things. ![]()
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