565. Iain McGilchrist

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine, and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of books but is best known for The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, and is currently working on a book of epistemology and ontology. He lives on the Isle of Skye and has two daughters and a son. Websites: iainmcgilchrist.com channelmcgilchrist.com YouTube Channel Facebook Page Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and transcript of this interview. Interview recorded August 22, 2020. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of Dr. Iain McGilchrist 00:03:31 - The Story of the Spiritual Master and the Emissary 00:06:45 - The Sacred and the Divine 00:09:56 - Understanding the World: Left Hemisphere and Right Hemisphere 00:13:10 - The Left and Right Hemisphere's Different Views of the World 00:16:29 - The Evolution of Spirituality in the Left and Right Hemispheres 00:20:00 - Harmonizing Contradictory Perspectives 00:23:26 - Focusing Sharply while Maintaining Broad Awareness 00:26:39 - The Right Hemisphere and Consciousness 00:29:49 - The Right Hemisphere's View of Subjectivity and Objectivity 00:33:10 - Restructuring the Brain through Subtle Focus 00:36:39 - Personal Experience with Psychedelics and Anomalies 00:40:02 - Shifting Paradigms in Science 00:43:37 - The Evolution of Western Culture 00:46:56 - Breaking down institutions and the future of civilization 00:50:22 - Concerns about the Destruction of History 00:53:40 - The Importance of Education in Developing Critical Thinking 00:57:05 - Nuanced Politics and Discerning Patterns 01:00:30 - Fundamentalist Certainty and Claims of Truth 01:03:56 - The Decline into Dogmatic Thinking and the Need for a Change 01:07:13 - The Rise of Young People's Enthusiasm for Change and Education Overhaul 01:10:40 - The Need for a Spiritual Revolution 01:14:04 - The Relationship Between Physics and Spirituality 01:17:23 - The Humbling Experience of Writing 01:20:47 - The Importance of Trust 01:24:24 - Taking Responsibility for Your Actions 01:27:37 - The Role of the Left Hemisphere in Psychotic Behavior 01:31:11 - Dawkins, the Renaissance, and Humor 01:34:29 - The Illusion of a Divided Consciousness 01:38:05 - The Nine-Dot Puzzle and Frontal Cortex Suppression 01:41:50 - Introduction to the New Venture

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer. Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing
0:30.5	series of interviews with spiritually awakening people. I've done over 560 of them now. If this is new to you and you'd like to check out
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1:00.6	other ways to support it if you don't like to use PayPal. I'm honored to have as my guest today,
1:06.3	Dr. Ian McGilchrist. Dr. McGilchrist taught literature as a fellow at Old Souls College at Oxford,
1:13.8	and then went to medical school and became a psychiatrist and clinical director at a hospital in
1:19.3	London. Later, he was a research fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
1:25.4	He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of
1:29.3	publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine, and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of
1:35.5	books, but is best known for the master and his emissary, the divided brain and the making of the
1:41.5	Western world, which we'll be discussing today. He is currently working on a book
1:47.9	of epistemology and ontology, and I hope we can discuss that too towards the end of our conversation.
1:54.4	He lives on the Isle of Sky and has two daughters and a son. I'm just going to show you a little
1:59.1	glimpse here of what the Isle of Sky looks like. This is from his website, Channel McGilchrist, and you can see that it's a strikingly
2:06.5	beautiful place. I'm sure he doesn't want us all to move there, right, Ian? Yeah, it's always
2:14.3	been my passion to come and live somewhere like this, and I'm living it.
2:18.4	Yeah, that's great.
2:19.5	Loving it.
2:21.8	Here's one other little bit about Ian.
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