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243 - Dr. Iain McGilchrist - Beyond Materialism - The Matter With Things

The Symbolic World

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Do You Think We Need a Religious Cast of Mind?

Soy people are missing something extremely powerful. The idea of being attracted forward to something that we wish to imitate is in complete contrast to the mechanistic universe where things from behind, as it were, push us forward. And i contrast this with the idea of an ideal, of something that appeals to us, that draws us forward. In the middle ages, the imitatio christi, the imitation christ and the sense of an ideal was very common. But the bit that is not is the disparagement of all that is material of the whole business of the incarnate world,. my god, the whole point of christianity, iis that god became incarnate, and is absolutely

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