Episode 189 - A Well-Aligned Mind: How to Be Alive

Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 5 a.m.

Guest Iain McGilchrist is a renowned psychiatrist, researcher, and author. His 2009 book, The Master and His Emissary gained worldwide fame for showing how differences between brain hemispheres affect our perceptions - and guide our lives. Each hemisphere has a radically different \u2018take\u2019 on the world: the left sees what is in the theater spotlight, whereas the right hemisphere understands the whole play.

Both are part of the theater of our lives, but the narrowly focused left hemisphere has increasingly taken over in the modern world. The right hemisphere offers a more spacious perspective: connectedness, complexity, and creativity - and has a direct and demonstrable effect on physical and mental well-being. Jung says, \u201cOne must never look to the things that ought to change. The main question is how we change ourselves.\u201d McGilchrist shows us how: paying attention to what we are paying attention to reintroduces us to who we are - and aliveness.\xa0

REFERENCES:

A 10,000 essay and summary of McGilchrist\u2019s ideas is available free on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008JE7I2M/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_8QPW3VT6QMZQ08C7VK9T\xa0

Iain McGilchrist: The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. Kindle Edition only. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KY5B3QL/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_RP260867DNVHG84JYANK\xa0

Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300245920/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_7JP0MQCZ71W0PJ5HGVM4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1\xa0

RESOURCES:

Learn to Analyze your own Dreams:\xa0 https://thisjungianlife.com/enroll/