In this intimate question and answer session, conducted in March 2024 with the students enrolled in Ralston College’s MA in the Humanities, the world-renowned psychiatrist, philosopher, and literary scholar Iain McGilchrist explores topics that animate the collective intellectual life of Ralston’s student body. 

Answering questions that range from the metaphysical heights of theology, liturgy, and religious life to the tangible depths of scientific inquiry and medical progress, Dr McGhilchrist challenges his interlocutors to think deeper about the relationship between mind and matter, science and religion, and, ultimately, humanity and the divine. 

Authors, Artists, and Works Mentioned in this Episode:

• Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things

• Albert Einstein

• Aristotle

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Meister Eckhart

• John Donne

• George Herbert

• Thomas Traherne

• Rumi

• Henry Moore

• Blaise Pascal

• St. Augustine

• William Shakespeare, King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet; The Tempest

• Metrodorus of Lampsacus 

• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

• G.W.F. Hegel

• Alwyn Lishman

• St. Francis of Assisi 

• Plotinus

• Thomas Edison

• St. Gregory of Nyssa

• Carl Jung

• Glenn Gould