Dr Iain McGilchrist: We are living in a deluded world

43:18 Quote by GK Chesterton from his book Orthodoxy, "A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason”

Regenerative farming or gardening is a wonderful way to see the interconnectedness and “divinity” of life on earth. If you don’t have a patch of earth, guerrilla gardening is an option, you will see how you attend and notice every change, every insect. Thank you for this interview 🙏

Unherd way ahead of the competition with some of these interviews. Difficult subjects. Freddie does an outstanding job.

The people " in charge " are like a gang of schoolboys who have been given the keys to the tuck shop. How they have got away it for so long boggles both sides of my mind . Mr Gilchrist is like a breath of fresh air to my jaded senses . This book would be good guidance for any political scientist. I would like to thank Dr. Ian for giving his time to attend this talk , I know how precious time is as we get nearer the edge of the circuit ! Thanks Ian

Wow! One of the most fascinating talks ever. Thank you Dr. McGilchrist! What a very profound explanation about why we are living in an age desperately lacking in wisdom.

I was recently teaching an acting student a Shakespeare monologue, and I found myself wondering how much we've lost in terms of creating a culture where especially in the upper class there are strict social rules about not showing emotions and having the appearance of "reasonable". This ends up to a dissociated society: a disconnection between thought and aliveness, which seems to relate somewhat to the topic. In Shakespeare's writing intelligence and forthright emotion are not distict; with less shame about emotions, you'd try to communicate the depths of your heart by any means necessary, with poetry if regular prose didn't do justice. Now we've learned therapy-speak, labeling emotions rather than showing it. As we're disconnected from our body and gut (or enteric nervous system), we know ourselves less, we are more isolated even when physically near people, and we're more easily manipulated by emotive media and polemic.

Wonderful episode: gentle, powerful, incisive, nuanced to the highest degree. Also lovingly and comfortably humble presence. Thanks Freddie for your excellence also.

Fascinating & wonderful. What a blessing to be able to listen to this brilliant man while I drink my morning coffee. Thank you Dr. McGilchrist and to everyone who made this happen.

UnHerd does the best interviews.

“Become so absolutely free that your life is an act of rebellion.” - Camus

What a classic conversation. This should be mandatory listening in all schools. Not that it ever will be but one can hope.

Normalized Insanity I am a transistorized, transgenderized, transmogrified, trans-human A corporatized, commercialized, industrial strength consumer A goal setting, gym sweating, debt fretting freak A social climbing net worker that's always on heat I got my education majoring in indoctrination Where they taught me to comply, to never question why And so I'm chasing an illusion of success that's a delusion That's sending me insane, exploding my brain And as we teeter on the brink, soon to be extinct I always wear a smile, coz I'm living in denial

Freddie this was an amazing talk i just cant thankyou enough for this work that you do for humanity, god bless you.

I put this on while cooking dinner. 5 minutes in I rewinded to the beginning and tried to really listen and understand this fascinating talk. I've got to search more of this blokes talks.

That was a fantastic talk by Dr. McGilchrist, it felt SO good listening to him talking - many puzzle pieces came together for me. He said nothing new to me, but the way he put it in words solidified it and gave it form, so to speak, you know, like walking on solid ground instead of this horrible feeling that you are finding yourself in quicksand.

Dr.McGilchrist is correct in suggesting that doctors(surgeons in particular) need to understand that the body is holistic. I've been the victim of their shortsightedness.

35:12 Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, who was herself a German Jew and experienced Nazism, said that: “Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.” So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in Britain, in 2023, in a tyranny, because there are people who say, “You can’t say these things and there will be terrible consequences if you do.” Try to find that quote on Google, it may be there, but it is very well buried.

I've been following Iain and his work for about 15 years, and this is one of the best summations of his work as it relates to the modern world that I've seen. Well done UnHerd for putting it up!

Thank you for this. I'm a huge fan of Iain McGilchrist and have read 'The Master and his Emissary' over and again. His work is very much called for in these times. I have gone on to train in therapies that incorporate the right hemisphere. I hope his voice starts to be heard by the wider public.

This is the best interview I have seen in a very long time. ❤