Blake Society 2016 Annual Lecture - Iain McGilchrist
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@PaulBellard 5 years ago
How I long for a world in which humans express, communicate and weave fabric of prose with the eloquence and charm of this man.
@armourofcontempt 5 years ago
And Who else, has revisited this lecture in this year?
Much needed. That, is an understatement.
Much needed. That, is an understatement.
@olasylvia1 4 years ago
Reminds me of a dream I had when studying movement therapy; the sentence I woke up with was “ It’s not about left or right, it’s about the music “.
@bookchaser1103 8 years ago
Perhaps one of the most beautiful and important lectures ever delivered . Superb indeed.
@cheri238 3 years ago (edited)
I love this. Iain McGilchrist is a treasure. William Blake what a poet.
@melk.3485 5 years ago (edited)
An enlightening talk, thank you for sharing 🙂👍🏻
My bookmarks:
00:10 start
11:58 perception / vision
12:12 start of the summary of his book
12:27 left hemisphere
13:42 right hemisphere
14:19, ⭐ 15:34 right hemisphere vs left in perception of reality
20:39 Blake "What Is Man?" - on attention, perception and meaning
22:52 embodiment (right) vs the discarnate (left) and transfiguration of the world
26:17 the infinite vs limited perception
27:12, 29:44 time and space - representation / schema (left) and schema vs reality
30:12 Heraclitus and Taoist wisdom
31:18 time and space in the hemispheres
33:10 the infinite and the imagination ⭐
33:57, ⭐ 34:20 energy as life, from the body, vs reason as boundary / outward limitation of energy (creative imagination vs mechanistic understanding)
Blake on opposites:
40:23 implicit vs explicit
46:33 particular vs general
50:26 particularity in right hemisphere
52:31 symmetry
55:28 Blake - mental health, schizophrenia, creativity
59:53 Blake's sense of humour
1:00:52 ⭐ closing tribute "Ah, sunflower..."
My bookmarks:
00:10 start
11:58 perception / vision
12:12 start of the summary of his book
12:27 left hemisphere
13:42 right hemisphere
14:19, ⭐ 15:34 right hemisphere vs left in perception of reality
20:39 Blake "What Is Man?" - on attention, perception and meaning
22:52 embodiment (right) vs the discarnate (left) and transfiguration of the world
26:17 the infinite vs limited perception
27:12, 29:44 time and space - representation / schema (left) and schema vs reality
30:12 Heraclitus and Taoist wisdom
31:18 time and space in the hemispheres
33:10 the infinite and the imagination ⭐
33:57, ⭐ 34:20 energy as life, from the body, vs reason as boundary / outward limitation of energy (creative imagination vs mechanistic understanding)
Blake on opposites:
40:23 implicit vs explicit
46:33 particular vs general
50:26 particularity in right hemisphere
52:31 symmetry
55:28 Blake - mental health, schizophrenia, creativity
59:53 Blake's sense of humour
1:00:52 ⭐ closing tribute "Ah, sunflower..."
@Frauter 8 years ago
Thanks for sharing. An achievement of thought and performance, interweaving these two topics. Some connexions were vital to understanding Blake, some original and insightful, some just quirky, but that last element made the lecture even more engaging. Loved it!
@aletheia161 4 years ago
Does the coincidence of opposites, that is, the denial of the law of excluded middle, imply fuzzy logic?
@Poetrylikesunshineisfree 7 years ago
your talk is very cool, i have a stroke brain injury.
STROKE POETOLOGY
Sitting by my shrine of I-am-ness
With my grandson and the man
Who saved my life in a gunbattle.
I go there every morning to
My mantle-piece.
Poetry comes out of blue-pain.
Experience of something old
and new. A form from a formless
form-unknown grammar.
Louis Mc Neice once said: poets
Don’t know what they are doing,
If they did it wouldn’t be done.
It flows from a near-death experience.
A duende, it rises from a poem, the tone
And sentiment seems right, it hooks into
Your being like nothing else on earth.
A story or essay is something believable.
A pome is unbelievable, it's like writing
Your gut reaction, a skywalk, stepping
Out into the blue, on a high wire-tight-
Rope with a poet holding your hand.
Imagine that wire?
Like consciousness itself, it’s hard to put
Into words, one cant find the right grammar.
There are no rules to this and that is that.
The diving bell and the butterfly,
Locked-in default mode.
STROKE POETOLOGY
Sitting by my shrine of I-am-ness
With my grandson and the man
Who saved my life in a gunbattle.
I go there every morning to
My mantle-piece.
Poetry comes out of blue-pain.
Experience of something old
and new. A form from a formless
form-unknown grammar.
Louis Mc Neice once said: poets
Don’t know what they are doing,
If they did it wouldn’t be done.
It flows from a near-death experience.
A duende, it rises from a poem, the tone
And sentiment seems right, it hooks into
Your being like nothing else on earth.
A story or essay is something believable.
A pome is unbelievable, it's like writing
Your gut reaction, a skywalk, stepping
Out into the blue, on a high wire-tight-
Rope with a poet holding your hand.
Imagine that wire?
Like consciousness itself, it’s hard to put
Into words, one cant find the right grammar.
There are no rules to this and that is that.
The diving bell and the butterfly,
Locked-in default mode.
@annemontague4469 7 years ago
How do we make this leap forward a leap for humankind, not a leap over mankind. I work on finding ways to be motivated to tie to older women (Rosie the Riveters), and by connecting to the past, they see that we are becoming more and more left brain - forgetting the whole picture, the interrelationships, the empathy and other right-brain things that glue society together. We try not to contrast but to bring together. Opposition can be true friendship, if we see the roles of each.
Poem:
The Western world is finding itself left with an ever growing left brain, grasping at things, focused on one grain after another, after another. It says, "Without me, you would not continue living." While my right brain cries, time after time, "Without me you will not find an opening for a fuller whole - for the human spirit that is in awe of even the pieces in the whole.
Somewhere in this world there must be places or even cultures where both sides balance what we attend to so we engage with both a map and meaning - where the whole keeps evolving while we are sustained by the grain that feeds us and by the tools and hands that mold our daily world.
Do you see the same trees that I see? I see three evergreens on a rocky mountain - one big, that's me, a mother; one smaller, that's my oldest, my daughter: one smaller still, and a distance away, that's my youngest, my son.
"What is man?" is a lesser question than, "What is the human family?"
The human-family's will sustain itself, likely in isolated places that have had less change first. But what about woman and her left-and-right brain. I ask this genius, Iain, whom I want to know some up-coming day, "How do we evolve to include a woman's reality, especially a struggling mother's?
The child needs both left-brain mapping and grasping, More importantly the child needs the right-grain meaning, the dream, the big picture where they can open their imagination, explore, and more.
Do women and men have similar right-left brains to see, and go forth in, the world? Can we slow the left brain expansion that has changed us into less-whole beings over a century, revert to being more alert to the new and living? How do we begin?
Do you see the trees that I, a struggling mother, see? Can you grasp the meaning of these trees that has guided me? Can we work together to reveal to our human family that the power to be better is within us?
Anne Montague, rosietherivetermovement.org unedited.
Poem:
The Western world is finding itself left with an ever growing left brain, grasping at things, focused on one grain after another, after another. It says, "Without me, you would not continue living." While my right brain cries, time after time, "Without me you will not find an opening for a fuller whole - for the human spirit that is in awe of even the pieces in the whole.
Somewhere in this world there must be places or even cultures where both sides balance what we attend to so we engage with both a map and meaning - where the whole keeps evolving while we are sustained by the grain that feeds us and by the tools and hands that mold our daily world.
Do you see the same trees that I see? I see three evergreens on a rocky mountain - one big, that's me, a mother; one smaller, that's my oldest, my daughter: one smaller still, and a distance away, that's my youngest, my son.
"What is man?" is a lesser question than, "What is the human family?"
The human-family's will sustain itself, likely in isolated places that have had less change first. But what about woman and her left-and-right brain. I ask this genius, Iain, whom I want to know some up-coming day, "How do we evolve to include a woman's reality, especially a struggling mother's?
The child needs both left-brain mapping and grasping, More importantly the child needs the right-grain meaning, the dream, the big picture where they can open their imagination, explore, and more.
Do women and men have similar right-left brains to see, and go forth in, the world? Can we slow the left brain expansion that has changed us into less-whole beings over a century, revert to being more alert to the new and living? How do we begin?
Do you see the trees that I, a struggling mother, see? Can you grasp the meaning of these trees that has guided me? Can we work together to reveal to our human family that the power to be better is within us?
Anne Montague, rosietherivetermovement.org unedited.
Blake Society 2016 Annual Lecture - Iain McGilchrist
Blake Society
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