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..."
I happened to notice you're a gamer from your channel, and I am a casual gamer myself. This is going to sound strange, but from a brain-hemispheric standpoint, do you think gaming is overall an exercise in left hemispheric activity or does it have more of a balance?
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!
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.
43:00 -- coincidentia oppositorum is also the basis for the arrangement of the kabbalist sephirot in binary pairs, to describe the nature of the divine being. OK, he got there at 49:00 :) I love this guy.
If you really want to understand the genius of Blake, then look into Neville Goddard. In my opinion, no one understood William Blake quite like Neville did.
Blake draws the Ancient of Days and Newton both with compasses in their left hands. This is understood as indicating the rational thinking of the left brain hemisphere. Can that be correct if the right brain hemisphere controls the left hand?
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.
Latin: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc = There's Michael-[Story]type, ergo there's Gabriel[Story]type. (cf. Lacan, Myths and "The Call" of the 'I') #usfca Or, the 'Oh-ha...' kind of 'Ah-ha!' aka "My bad............................" #mindingAI
I love this, but it's also naive. Blake was a radical supernaturalist - he not only identified with a real spiritual world, he claimed to visit it like a museum or university town - he went as far as to say all significant good and evil came from spirits - like his heroes in the Bible and especially the New Testament. Reducing him rationally is to fundamentally misread and misunderstand him, as even armies of his admirers do.
Opposites need not always be averaged .. to understand the infinite, one may look at humanity and the stories that compose it … look bifocals with both myopia and presbyopia- alas, this is just my humble interpretation.
This presentation works the left brain. Whilst just seeing Blake's work like Leonardo's works both hemisphere's. They say a picture paints a thousand words. I agree. As erudite and scholarly Iain is, it's far too verbose and politely pompous, which I find a bit dry and boring. I in no way criticise his knowledge or ability, but feel our world is perhaps in the mess it is in because of too many words, books, regurgitating the past, not having the spark of creativity for entirely new paradigms.
Conception, birth, to bear a load.... satn tricked us into the fall, thus it is him that is responsible for Original sin, not Adam nor Eve. Humanity should not be bearing the load of the dragons iniquity. What Blake tried to convey was the possibilities of waking up to the power of the imagination. It goes without saying that consciousness and conscience should be fully engaged, heaven is within us, the new Jerusalem exists in the solar plexus, when heaven , consciousness and conscience descend into the belly to guide human relations, the sacredness of human life, the interconnectivity between all of us, without splits or diviSIONs then heaven will be on Earth, well that's my verSION of reality. Try this and you may feel the waters of life flowing onto your solar plexus, it is a great feeling, it is brought about by being honest with oneself and others. I tend to find politics leads to thirst.
I like his idea that the universe cannot be empty, cold and meaningless because of our emotional response to it and the stimulation the world gives to our imagination.
How I long for a world in which humans express, communicate and weave fabric of prose with the eloquence and charm of this man.
And Who else, has revisited this lecture in this year?
Much needed. That, is an understatement.
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..."
Thank you 🌱
Blake is a genius. So, by the sounds of it, is Ian McGilchrist.
You are seriously comparing Blake
with this posturing ninny ??
@@2msvalkyrie529 I entirely agree with @misterparadise9542, but I had to give you a like for that one.
Perhaps one of the most beautiful and important lectures ever delivered . Superb indeed.
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 “.
Iain McGilchrist is the living embodiment of the wise king.
I happened to notice you're a gamer from your channel, and I am a casual gamer myself. This is going to sound strange, but from a brain-hemispheric standpoint, do you think gaming is overall an exercise in left hemispheric activity or does it have more of a balance?
@@MusicViddeos I would say left. All imagery is being created for you.
@@MusicViddeos Maybe a better question to ask is what type of games promote left/right hemispheric action?
See H C Anderson . ! The King is in the all together . Rather like Gilchrist !
What a balm in these distressing times! Thank you so much.
Beautiful. Thanks for Sharing. I got so much from this
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!
A privilege to listen to.... Thank you
Omg McGilchrist is such an amazing being...
A purveyor of discredited pseudo -
scientific drivel with an over inflated Ego.
Wonderful! I love this talk on Blake, excellent stuff!
I love this. Iain McGilchrist is a treasure. William Blake what a poet.
Thank you.
Absolutely wonderful!!
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.
Magnificent.
Priests in black gowns are doing their rounds and binding with briars my Joys and Desires.
I love this. Wonderful talk.
43:00 -- coincidentia oppositorum is also the basis for the arrangement of the kabbalist sephirot in binary pairs, to describe the nature of the divine being.
OK, he got there at 49:00 :) I love this guy.
Sounds more like the basis of a rambling lecture consisting mainly of meaningless drivel ?
delightful rich food for thought
Your palate is obviously in a very poor state ? !
Inspiring. Thank you for this
excellentissime, bravo !
wooooowwww, thanks fo this. It is really good!!!!!!!
brilliant talk...💌💌💌
If you really want to understand the genius of Blake, then look into Neville Goddard. In my opinion, no one understood William Blake quite like Neville did.
Or look at Blake's work and let it speak to your heart and mind. Don't rely on 2nd hand understanding however insightful or eloquent.
Marvellous!
Thank you very much for posting this very important lecture.
Can't find any recent annual lectures online?
There is the 2018 lecture on TH-cam, which is way not on par with this 2016 lecture, In my humble 2 cents😊
Blake draws the Ancient of Days and Newton both with compasses in their left hands. This is understood as indicating the rational thinking of the left brain hemisphere. Can that be correct if the right brain hemisphere controls the left hand?
Re-presentation only.
Does the coincidence of opposites, that is, the denial of the law of excluded middle, imply fuzzy logic?
🐭🎈🌼[@47:00] "To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit."
- Wm. Blake. 🌻🕊️🦋
He obviously anticipated the rise of pseudo intellectuals like Gilchrist ? Very perceptive ..!
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.
Latin: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc = There's Michael-[Story]type, ergo there's Gabriel[Story]type. (cf. Lacan, Myths and "The Call" of the 'I') #usfca Or, the 'Oh-ha...' kind of 'Ah-ha!' aka "My bad............................" #mindingAI
thanks for this
I love this, but it's also naive. Blake was a radical supernaturalist - he not only identified with a real spiritual world, he claimed to visit it like a museum or university town - he went as far as to say all significant good and evil came from spirits - like his heroes in the Bible and especially the New Testament. Reducing him rationally is to fundamentally misread and misunderstand him, as even armies of his admirers do.
Opposites need not always be averaged .. to understand the infinite, one may look at humanity and the stories that compose it … look bifocals with both myopia and presbyopia- alas, this is just my humble interpretation.
This presentation works the left brain. Whilst just seeing Blake's work like Leonardo's works both hemisphere's. They say a picture paints a thousand words. I agree. As erudite and scholarly Iain is, it's far too verbose and politely pompous, which I find a bit dry and boring. I in no way criticise his knowledge or ability, but feel our world is perhaps in the mess it is in because of too many words, books, regurgitating the past, not having the spark of creativity for entirely new paradigms.
Seems like a struggle between False Personality and Essence......
Conception, birth, to bear a load.... satn tricked us into the fall, thus it is him that is responsible for Original sin, not Adam nor Eve.
Humanity should not be bearing the load of the dragons iniquity. What Blake tried to convey was the possibilities of waking up to the power of the imagination. It goes without saying that consciousness and conscience should be fully engaged, heaven is within us, the new Jerusalem exists in the solar plexus, when heaven , consciousness and conscience descend into the belly to guide human relations, the sacredness of human life, the interconnectivity between all of us, without splits or diviSIONs then heaven will be on Earth, well that's my verSION of reality. Try this and you may feel the waters of life flowing onto your solar plexus, it is a great feeling, it is brought about by being honest with oneself and others. I tend to find politics leads to thirst.
I like his idea that the universe cannot be empty, cold and meaningless because of our emotional response to it and the stimulation the world gives to our imagination.
he was seeking the kosmik i eye...the eye is areflex
syestem....not a true reflexion of reality....
Gilchrist makes some interesting and perceptive points
for once ! Before he sets off on his usual drivel about left
and right hemispheres .
More waffle from the Master Waffler.......still banging on about Left Brain / Right
Brain asymmetry...Yawn...!!