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

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Distinguishing of the Body?

I don't know whether i can call myself a christian or not. I'm rather loath to make such a grand claim. But i certainly draw enormously spiritually from the christian tradition. In his teens, having been brought up in a family where religion played no part at all, i planned to become a monk. My idea was to go to oxford, study philosophy and theology, and then probably go into a monastic order. Fortunately, for any monastic order and for myself, this plan changed. It's perfectly all right to acknowledge one's complete failure to be a good christian and still call oneself a christian.

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