The Master and His Emissary; hemispheric attention and modern life.
Iain McGilchrist values this book for its profound insight into the human potential to achieve a significant role in the cosmos.
“man is a dwarf of himself”
Iain McGilchrist values this tradition for its profound story of creation, withdrawal, and the necessity of human-led repair.
Iain McGilchrist recommends The Matter With Things: Anthea Lawson values this work for providing an even deeper framework for understanding how the right hemisphere attends to the world and how to engage that perspective in activism.
“Later that year the matter with things came out and wow like I mean a you're smashing company on the page.”
Iain McGilchrist recommends The Master and His Emissary: Anthea Lawson identifies this work as the foundational text that allowed her to name the sense of division she experienced in her own life and work.
“I am at that point just kind of coming out of uh about a decade more than a decade of policy advocacy... and here you were naming this in the culture.”
Iain McGilchrist values this work because it provides a spiritual analysis of how money functions as a force that uncouples humanity from reality.
Iain McGilchrist highlights this book as a vital contribution to understanding Blake's vision and as a necessary wakeup call for contemporary society.
Iain McGilchrist praises this work for its insightful analysis of how rationalist worldviews contribute to the emergence of modern totalitarianism.
“I explained in that book that I believe that at the moment in this era in western culture we are witnessing the or we are seeing the emergence of a new kind of totalitarianism which might be the ultimate totalitarianism a technocratic totalitarianism.”