Iain McGilchrist is writer, lecturer and former Consultant Psychiatrist. He is committed to the idea that the whole of our physical and spiritual existence and wider human culture helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains. His latest work, The Matter With Things, a book of epistemology and metaphysics, will be published by Penguin/Random House. You can read written pieces by Iain and watch videos of him on Channel McGilchrist.

Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.

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Works mentioned:

Against Criticism, Iain McGilchrist

Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth

Awakenings, Oliver Sacks

An Introduction to Mathematics, A N Whitehead

The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity, Alan Watts

Principles of Pyschopathology, J Cutting

A Pluralistic Universe, William James

Creative Mind, Ernest Holmes

History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

Production: Charlotte Lorimer

Artwork: Amber Haas

Music: Mary McDougall

Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, professor and author. Her latest book Gaia's Dance: The Story of Earth & Us explores the earth not as a machine, but as a living being. She tells the story of its evolution over billions of years and includes research on bacterial cooperatives and maturation cycles. She has also written and spoken about the significance of imaginal cells and their transformative power.

Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.

scientificandmedical.net

galileocommission.org

beyondthebrain.org

Works mentioned:

The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler

Seth Speaks, Jane Roberts

The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher; The View of William James, Jane Roberts

Music of Life, the Inner Nature & Effects of Sounds, Hazrat Inayat Khan

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

An Unknown World: Notes on the Meaning of the Earth, Jacob Needleman

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, D T Suzuki

The Poems of Rumi, Deepak Chopra

Production: Charlotte Lorimer

Artwork: Amber Haas

Music: Mary McDougall