#198 The Matter with Things (with Iain McGilchrist)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week I spoke to one of my favourite guests on Under the Skin - Iain McGilchrist. Iain is an author, psychiatrist and former Oxford literary scholar. He came to prominence with his publication "The Master and His Emissary - The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”. His latest book is called “The Matter With Things.” This is a fantastic podcast that discusses Iain’s work, the differences between the left and the right hemispheres, but also much more than that. We delve into some deep philosophical discussions about how we perceive and understand reality, God and the mystical; how being a spiritual person really is “no picnic;” and we speak about therapy, psychiatry, and the challenges we face when trying to help one another. It’s a wonderful conversation, and we will definitely be having Iain back again! If you have questions or comments email us at [email protected] More Info: The Matter With Things is coming out on 9th November and is available to pre-order here: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/the-matter-with-things/ Channel McGilchrist membership which is via the website. https://channelmcgilchrist.com/join/ I'm doing live dates in the UK this autumn with my new stand up show, '33'. Tickets and info available at http://www.russellbrand.com/live-dates/ My new meditation podcast Above the Noise is out now only on Luminary, I will be releasing guided meditations every Wednesday, please check out it: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. *not a euphemism Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality. https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets Produced by Jenny May Finn

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This week I spoke with Ian McGill-Christian
0:04.9	as an author, psychiatrist and former Oxford literary scholar. He carried prominence with
0:10.4	his publication The Master and his Emissary. The divided brain and the
0:14.5	making of the Western world. His latest book is called The Matter with Things and is coming
0:17.6	out on the night of November and is available on pre-order now. The link is in the description.
0:22.1	Now that Under the Skin is on Apple Podcast please leave a review there. It helps us and we
0:27.0	will read them out. If you'd like to listen to the rest of this podcast and all of my weekly
0:30.5	under the skin podcast, all you have to do is subscribe to Luminary on Apple Podcast. I'll
0:34.1	down like the Luminary app. Also I have a brand new meditation podcast called Above the Noise
0:38.5	which is also out now. In this part there's conversation between Ian McGill-Christian myself.
0:42.8	We talk about the differences between the left and the right hemisphere and excuse me.
0:47.2	Now that sort of reality is constructed by the relationship between those hemispheres and the way
0:54.0	that sort of mythology and culture is a reflection and even for some political tensions is sort of
0:59.0	in the sense an enactment of this neurologic activity. Trying to achieve equality with the
1:04.8	annihilation of category is not successful. That's exactly right. We're in this era where it turns out
1:12.1	we were never the best. What's beneath the surface of people with my ideas that define our time,
1:19.8	the history we're talking. Welcome to Russell Brand. Under this game. Yes, perhaps I could just take
1:27.2	a little time to unpack that thing about the right and left hemisphere difference without going into
1:33.1	masses of detail. Effectively because the left hemisphere pays very narrow beam attention to a
1:41.9	detail that has taken its interest and because the right hemisphere meanwhile is sustaining the whole
1:50.4	picture is vigilant and open. You get two kinds of pictures of the world from the very narrow beam
1:57.7	one that is flitting from this detail to that detail to the other. You get a vision of the world
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