Hey, IM is a Fellow of All Souls... pretty damn near the Heart of The Beast..
While entirely agreeing with your criticism, it's always been pretty clear that the boundaries of his work have always been well delineated.
I do not doubt McGilchrist's own bona fides... but fully accept that were he to have ever stepped out of the territory he has mapped so rigorously, his work would have disappeared without trace long ago...
And he would be relegated to Rupert Sheldrake status..
For as long as IM restricts himself to focusing on the nature of human consciousness, his impact will remain in the realm of religion and spirituality and never get to challenge the pharmaco-terrrorism in today's dystopian world...
Love Sheldrake. Don’t know what ‘All Souls’ is. But that’s interesting. Also interesting that Sufi and Taoist sages knew to stay the heck away from ‘the courts of kings’.
All Soul's College, Oxford.. The college that Cecil Rhodes was also a fellow of and funded and made such use of...if you care to investigate the profound effect Rhodes has had, on both side of the Atlantic and throughout the world..
Since facts matter, Cecil Rhodes was never a Fellow of All Souls [note spelling] College, Oxford, nor would it add intelligently to this thread if he had been.
I beg your pardon, Iain. That was sloppy of me.. Accepted… But neither of us, I hope, would deny his strong connection with All Souls, albeit from a slightly longer distance, through different channels and through specific highly influential individuals over a considerable time.
What a naughty boy I am to be sure, not letting ‘facts’ get in the way of a potentially enlightening story…
I have really loved lain over these past ten years and I think his work is extraordinary... but I see a worrying trend developing in him, and it’s a reactionary impulse that I’m convinced wasn’t there until these past few years. Somehow he is getting all wrapped up in the “radical left” and woke debate and I think it’s massively clouding his judgement. And most worrying of all is the company he keeps…Rhod Dreher is a total total creep and directly connected to the Trump admisitarion…Peterson…Douglas Murray (exposed as a paid shill of Israel)..Ralston College etc etc. Worrying and worth investigating. And sad actually. Because I genuinely thought (occasionally still think) he is brilliant and wonderful and just what was needed.
I too have immense admiration for IM’s work - though being an Extroverted Intuitive, much as I understand his almost pathological attention to detail, I do find it a grim and (for me) unnecessary struggle. He clearly writes to win the approbation of his medical and academic chums, or at least to avoid their opprobrium. As if he is determined to crush any opposition quite literally by weight of evidence..
My point about All Souls was really about his milieu and his chosen peer group. This, I believe, has clearly made him either overly cautious to broach certain subjects or academically, intellectually or horribile dictu dogmatically unwilling to challenge some of the medical profession’s fundamentalist attitudes which have become tyrannous. No other word for it…
This is disappointing. But not that surprising considering his provenance. While in his stirring defence of Western Civilisation and determination to save it from itself, he explicitly states that he wishes to avoid the modern trait of what he calls ‘nihilism’.
Thus when he turns from neuroscience to epistemology, from science to philosophy, from reasoning to consciousness, he completely eschews the traditions of the East. No truck with Advaita-Vedanta, Kashmiri Shaivism, Sufism or other non-dual teachings for Iain..
He is however, prepared to nod at the Dao..
Personally I feel this is a great shortcoming.. And reminds me of Jung - who did exactly the same..
Imortantly, Iain M has pointed out that Rhodes was never a Fellow of All Souls. And it was sloppy of me to suggest that.
However, neither of us, I hope, would deny his strong connection with All Souls, albeit from a slightly longer distance, through different channels and through specific highly influential individuals over a considerable time.
In what I thought was unrelated research I stumbled across Iain McG. I was instantly unimpressed. When I think of McG I think Game Theory.
Iain McGilchrist, as you say, Oxford alumus. He has also been associated with the Esalen Institute, a non-profit educational organization that focuses on humanistic and transpersonal psychology, spirituality, and personal growth (defined and propagated vast elements of the counter culture to dissemble families as we knew them, collapse traditional religion and ultimately disorientate people so that they become open to the programmatics of the state. He apparently gave talks and workshops at Esalen, around the nature of consciousness, the role of the brain in shaping our experience of the world, and the implications of his research for personal and collective transformation. He was part of the programmatics of the highly questionable CIA Esalen research programs to re-shape society.
I note that due to some kind of EU laws, McG internet footprint linking him to Esalen has largely been wiped, I assume to retain his credibility unlike Leary and some others who went a bit loco on the LSD.
The Metacrisis he and others define, occurs bc post the industrial revolution and ww1/2 people created destructive practices impacting the earth. We went from their golden number of 500,000 people to 8 Billion+. These folk say we are at a point of crisis driven by anthropogenic impacts, climate, ecological destruction, resource consumption, environment modification. He appears to say that people have lost their purpose and meaning and they (CIA et al) will need to create a more meaningful society. After the enlightenment this changed to left hemispheric world, mechanistic, Darwinism (Economic Man, Stanford Research, Changing Images of Man 1974). Society was cultivated this way to drive the industrial revolution. People sought, wealth, power and material things. But this has led to a running out of the existing model yet the richest controllers still need to control each and every apsect of your life. Population is a problem, the crisis is a people crisis, its all about control and ultimately eugencis.
McG imho is simply part of the machinery of gathering people into a psuedo scientific following and redirecting them or holding them in situ with stories and tales (myths and Images from Changing Images of Man Stanford) to prevent further self guided learning. All that is 'new age' does not sparkle.
Unlike you, perhaps, I do not have any particular beef against Esalen as an institution or those connected with it in principle, even though I might not be convinced of the bona fides of all of them. I have been lucky to have worked with two of them, both of whom I admire greatly and from whose work I have benefitted deeply. But then I come from a generation which for better or for worse experimented with different states of consciousness, through both natural and synthetic means.
As for IMcG - which I hope I explained in my first comment - I find it difficult to question his bona fides. I believe he is in no way malign. But I do think that his work has gained prominence not only because it is an extraordinary feat of scholarship, which it unquestionably is, but also because firstly it does seem to tackle important ways in which left brain dominance is steering humankind in dangerous directions and secondly because any work that through thorough research broaches this subject rigorously has all kinds of uses.. But as for IMcG being a tool of some devious programme that the likes of the Tavistock Institute in its heydey might have dreamt up - well, this I doubt. Though his work might well be used in this way. But there is nothing pseudo-scientific in IMcG's own work, let's at least be clear about that..
But as an example of use and/or abuse, I found this in a introduction to a conversation between IMcG and somebody who describes himself as a media entrepreneur and financial strategist:
'His work on the divided brain has helped millions of people find wisdom, meaning, and guidance for living in the modern world.'
Thanks for this article, love McGilchrist's work but this is a great point. Andrew Moulden's work, as you have covered extensively in the past, would back up what you are saying as well. This from a recent article
Dr. Andrew Moulden was a paediatrician who started noticing (with his big brain!) the connection between vaccines and severe health problems in his child patients. Instead of being a coward like most MDs are (and other practitioners that ignore the elephant in the room), he started investigating and actually doing scientific experiments! Amazeballs! He used MRI to watch in real time what vaccines were doing to the body and brain and found evidence that EVERY SINGLE TIME, EVERY SINGLE VACCINE, caused micro-strokes in the brain. They never missed. He saw the correlation between the physical tests and the evidence and spoke up
McGilchrist has the flaw of being a psychiatrist, but he has helped me a great deal in my understanding of how and why the masses go along with the insanity promoted by those at the “high table.” It is the masses who enforce vaccination of babies, bio weapon shots, the construction of huge data centers, soldier sick wars, imbed into politics. Why? It happened culturally through manipulation of language, worship, structuring of society by a merchant class. McGilchrist has shown how the tipping point toward left hemisphere thinking occurred and the manifestation which has resulted in millions of parents dutifully offering up their children to brain damaging shots. I disagree that his work is a limited hangout. It helps explain why 85% of the population are so disgusting.
For sure he’s an academic and absorbed into that click. I recall he has suggested thought/meditation exercises to help develop use of the right brain though…. In 2020 when I felt surrounded by a zombie horde his lectures helped me understand our human condition. Fact is the “evil” elite need the willing participation, enforcement and perpetuation by the masses to pull off this mass poisoning. And did they ever have a throng of obedient left-brainers who were certainly brainwashed. The history that is recorded (not the hidden ancient history) demonstrates people behaved the way they do now.🤨
The problem is looking to authority figures, doctors, priests, rich people rather than looking inward for truth and utilizing our innate intuition. Ultimately we must fault ourselves for the shots causing autism.
Some people are born questioning everything, thereby discovering the good and the bad, and others do not have that capacity, from birth, whether vaccinated (or polluted by something or other) - or not. Psychiatrists and that bunch want to see everything as "caused" by something in the environment.
Reminds me of when I was really young and saw Lisa Bonet, wife of Lenny Kravitz, with her baby on a well known tee vee talk show, Phil Donahue, discussing vaccination. She had not (at that time, anyway) had her baby poked and while the host of the show was OK, the mostly female audience was not. They just hated that woman.
I would put money on her having her daughter vaxxed later on, as well as that daughter, Zoe, talking the pro-vax viewpoint. I hope I am proved wrong, though!
Yes, some people are born questioning which is what McGilchrist posits as right-brained. Thank goodness for the 15-20% otherwise we would all be zombified.
The vast mass of the "Brainwashed" as you call them were actually poisoned, quite deliberately, by the injection of Nano-particulate aluminium into their brain cells. Most ordinary folk find it quite impossible to believe that there are such people out there who would do that. How stupid of them. Naturally they are responsible for their own demise it seems but they had a lot of help from academia and the so called Medical profession, not to mention the $Billions spent on propagating and the expanding the fairy stories.
We are all harmed, no doubt. Life seems to be a series of choices by which to learn from mistakes. These choices invariably require sacrifice. If self hypocrisy is ignored or the gut feeling of not being true to oneself is continually overridden then self harm and diminishment result. If someone cannot distinguish this they are already lost, and probably harming others.
This is an outstanding expose of what should be obvious to any genuine investigative intellectual. McGilchrist has been protected by the entire team of hegemonic science/medical institutions for years under the guise of advancing beyond reductionism. Not so. This network is thoroughly entrenched in promoting the reductionist science they claim to be transcending.
This post reflects an enormous amount of diagnostic work to uncover and brilliantly explain exactly how and why McGilchrist et al get away with their intellectual charade. I already know how they financially succeed. Full support of the British “royals” and institutions. I also knew “instinctively”(right hemisphere was working) what McGilchrist was up to. What I didn’t know were the intricate details this analysis uncovers.
What Unbekoming has done here is meticulous, fair and honorable service to the advancement of valuable knowledge. That takes A LOT of intelligence, dedication and work. Congratulations and thank you.
Thank you for covering the devastating and debilitating effect of vaccines on the brains and bodies of recipients, especially and including babies and children. However, mercury must not remain unmentioned. It has devastated vaccine recipient after recipient. It is still in vaccines, including those for children, despite what the lying authorities state publicly. It is synergystically neurotoxic with aluminum, with one enhancing the toxicity and devastation of the other. To learn more, read #s 2 and 3 in the first link. To read about the mercury given to my severely vaccine-injured child via vaccines from 1994-1996, read the last fourth of the second link.
It is madness to permit such a toxic substance to be injected into children...yet it is all in plain sight...Quite rightly, your paper asks the question: "Why is this legal..?"
I haven’t, but would be eager to see if you can share a link. I have seen videos of Hg destroying brain cells, but have only read about the synergistic neurotoxic effects of Hg and Al together.
Here are links to 2 different videos showing Hg’s destructive effects on brain cells:
This article brings to mind a question as to why a certain segment of the population is so violent that they think that running people over intentionally is fine because the person's danger to the driver of the car is grossly exaggerated. The two hemispheres are different as noted. But what is not noted is that the right hemisphere gates the output of the amygdala and hippocampus, two structures associated with emotion. This means that the person with a decreased function of the right brain is incapable of controlling their emotional response to a situation. Their limbic system is stuck in the mind of a two-year old who never outgrew temper tantrums and the inhibition is dampened so they will never grow up.
If there was a non-invasive way of examining the brains of people who behave this way, it would be interesting to see what their brains look like and compare that with a brain of a person whose emotional outbursts are more controlled. Then look at the brains of people who are centered, more intuitive, like reiki practitioners, as an example. Not to prove something, just to observe without judgement.
Emotion is energy. Is it possible that the emotions of those people steeped in the close mindedness of the excessively controlling bureaucratic state also have ungated limbic systems? It is just that we notice violence towards others and judge it pathological, whereas being a control freak is judged as normal? So the energy of an emotion steers itself towards excessive control that leads to close mindedness.
I remember being perplexed by the counter-intuitive messaging of the Covid 'pandemic'. Decades of empirical epidemiological practice were jettisoned in favour of bizarre inane slogans like 'trust the science' and obviously counter-productive population-level mandates like 'lockdown' and staying 2m apart. It was only later that I learned that the whole circus had been minutely orchestrated: every last iota of NLP, every doom-laden banner MSM headline, and every last dreg of MK-Ultra knowledge was predicated on the production of Desmet's famous 'mass-formation', and the rolling up of 5 billion sleeves.
Even then, in early 2021, the toxicity of the mRNA product was well known in advance. Defibrillators were rolled out to every street corner to meet the anticipated myocarditis epidemic. The reverse transcription of the mRNA was known, as was the biodistribution and shedding of the lipid nanoparticles. Even the SV40 contamination was known and the downstream cancer epidemic predicted.
With all this in mind, I'll come back to the contents of this brilliant essay and its shocking implications. Shouldn't we consider again the obvious harms of the childhood vaccination schedule? It's not too much of a stretch to consider that injecting aluminium into young bodies is precisely designed to create a huge numbers of future patients to be treated for psychiatric problems, allergies, or gender dysphoria. But what if there is a more insidious effect: to turn us all into drones to feed the hive mind of our parasitic sociopathic overlords? What if the childhood vaccination schedule is designed to cut us off from our sense of the divine, our own innate, right-hemisphere-mediated spirituality?
" . . a way will finally be found to vaccinate bodies so that these bodies will not allow the inclination toward spiritual ideas to develop and all their lives people will believe only in the physical world they perceive with the senses.... people are now vaccinated against consumption, and in the same way they will be vaccinated against any inclination toward spirituality. This is merely to give you a particularly striking example of many things which will come in the near and more distant future in this field." - Rudolph Steiner, 1917
Thanks. I'd forgotten about that quote from Steiner, but obviously it was prescient and perhaps we are seeing the fruits now of this decades-long project.
The quote underscores the essay's core tension: if left-hemisphere dominance is not just cultural but also physically reinforced, then permitted cultural dissent (McGilchrist's fame) remains safe precisely because it doesn't name the mechanisms that might make the shift more permanent or population-wide.
Sobering and fascinating read. I have listened to mcGilchrist a couple of times. He advocated medication for mental issues (trauma) and takes anti-depressants himself. I lost interest when I heard that. I have a sister trapped in psychiatry and it is beyond horrific! She is a prisoner in the system. Also her cognitive ability deteriorated after several Covid jobs. So sad
Good grief. Amazed she has survived at all. Clozaril is a brand name but as Clozapine I find that the word anagrams to 'Leo Nazi PC'. All these drugs are Nazi, a legacy of Nazi Germany.
Your argument makes a valid point about the possible cause of exploding autism rates (‘the syringe’). I think I have some understanding of the machine in place that stops any honest examination or account of what’s happening under our noses and why what happened to Wakefield, happened. But I don’t think denigrating McGilchrist’s theory of brain hemisphere differences by tying it exploding autism rates is helpful.
I’d argue the mechanistic failure you refer to re: autism and hemispheric imbalance arises out of the evolutionary and cultural ‘advances’ of our civilisation. Toxic shots are the symptom. Why do I say this? Because whatever the Tool of Undoing is in any civilisation, it’s us wielding it. (Which is also why I understand why he gives historical context in The Master and His Emissary).
It’s us who decided on vaccines - they didn’t make themselves - and it seems groupthink and pharmaceutical profiteering (and no doubt other factors) did the rest (again, that’s us). The job was done so well that to question their efficacy and safety is heretical. It’s enough to label someone with a different point of view an ‘anti-vaxxer’ and think no more on it. The machine pumped out its propaganda, the doctors were brought in line with the dogma, the journals were captured, and anyone questioning the science, silenced, smeared, censored.
And it seems to me most of the world was under a streetlight in 2020, in thrall to ‘following the science’. If we did the ‘right thing’, everything would be ok. From where I sit right now, everything is not ok, Everything is far, far worse. And if we pretend mRNA gene therapy is a ‘vaccine’ then it’s the exact same playbook that was used to inculcate our beliefs that health is something we can inject into us in the first place, but the brainwashing was just sped up x100. (And I’d argue everything we do IS in fact speeding up. Tech advances have superseded our ability to keep up with them). But my point is this: billions of us lined up around the block to take experimental shots in 2020 and 2021. I say this to make the point that how we see the world and how we decide to tackle problems does feel delusional to me. Whether it’s traditional vaccines over decades or shiny new ones, the idea that we can control the world remains in situ. Saying something is ‘safe and effective’ on repeat seems to do the trick. (Asking questions undoes the trick so this can’t be allowed).
While I share your anger and horror at what’s been done and being done to children, I’d argue we go about everything in the same manner. We have Glyphosate in our food supply. Fluoride in our water. Microplastics in our fish. We start pointless wars that kill millions. We bankroll banks with more of our money when they lose all of our money. We can no longer define what a woman is. We have led a generation to believe the world’s about to end because of Climate. They’re defacing artworks and gluing themselves to roads to help change this. They’re ready to eat bugs and freeze in winter for all the wrong reasons. (Are they doing this because of their damaged perception of the world or because the world’s gone a little crazy, or could it be both?).
I also want to say I don’t know your body of work. I have just read this one article and I read it for two reasons: it talks about a dangerous medical product, the only one in the world with a liability shield, and Dr. McGilchrist. I’ve done deep dives on both in the last 6 years and I’m left wondering if you’re under a certain streetlight. One that doesn’t allow for multiple factors, nuance and acknowledgment of the kind of rapid technological advancement we’re living through. Your Substack page reads ‘Paid subscribers get access to all books — including The DMSO Book, The Kitchen Remedies Guide, Chlorine Dioxide, The PSA Trap, Breast Cancer, and more.’ From this I gather you KNOW it’s not just toxic vaccines we’re battling with. (I take DMSO and use chlorine dioxide alongside other things FYI). I have subscribed to read more because I also gather you have valuable things to say. But I can’t square that you know about other harmful or toxic things but have chosen McGilchrist as the whipping boy for your argument about autism. I’d venture there’s a lot more folk your argument about streetlights and toxic products does apply to. His theory, imho, encapsulates your argument if I’m reading it right. How did we land up in a place where vaccines contain what they contain and so many people think that’s just fine? How did we land up with Glyphosate in our food supply and we all keep buying it? McGilchrist’s theory explains the mechanism of how. And then we know the why.
Lastly, I don’t think McGilchrist is allowed to be famous. A few people I vaguely know had heard of him when I started asking around after reading The Matter With Things, from a pool of people who know Chomsky, Pinker, Dawkins et al intimately. I ended up making a film on McGilchrist’s theory and intentionally made it McG101 for this very reason. A lot of people who do engage with his work find it problematic and dismiss him… (Sidebar: he quoted the streetlight metaphor to me back in 2024 when I interviewed him).
What I’d counter your argument with if I was less waffly and could think quicker or spend time editing myself: there are many things that harm us and they all seem to emerge from a way of looking at the world. And charting the rise and fall of civilisations makes sense to me in relation to our modern toxic injections because we’re collapsing our society from within once again. It’s just we’ve found terrible new ways to do it. Toxic injections are only one of those ways.
Super waffly ending: I know I don’t know what I don’t know. I know that I don’t know everything. And even if I could theoretically understand everything about the vaccine piece of this puzzle, that would mean the machine would first have to stop redacting entire FOIA requests. That Big Pharma be made liable for their products. That we re-educate doctors about informed consent. That we all agree that having control over what’s put into us is a very good idea. That we agree to take responsibility for our choices because the buck ultimately stops with each of us.
And most importantly that we remember what we value. It makes saying no to the machine (or the syringe, symbol of the machine here) far easier.
Thank you. I wonder whether this outcome was intentional - the numbing of the right hemisphere through the injection of substances like aluminium? Or did it simply happened (and speed up the trajectory we were culturally taking?)
When you discover more about how this all came about the answer will be quite clear. I suggest reading Rockefellers Medicine Men...by Brown I think. Available for free on the net
Thank you. I have read quite a bit on vaccines and do think they are designed to be harmful - I suppose where Im more doubtful is whether the particular harm of numbing the right hemisphere was targeted? Thanks for the book recommendation
This is outstanding. Thank you. Any investigation into the explosion of autism should also include an investigation of the non native electromagnetic frequencies in our lives, and the avoidance of sunlight that has been drummed into us over the last 40 years.
Ok, i have also occasionally pointed out that Iain and others see our current predicament via emergence rather than design. My guess is that once you add the conspiracy you reduce the intellectual purity of the model. However as i said in my conversation with Nick Hudson no amount of revelation is going to make any difference, people are not going to ‘wake up’ because one of the rabbit hole divers came back with the facts that blow everything wide open. The only way to oppose is to reject the system and live differently, but that is not an intellectual process. It is one of reenchantment. We don’t need to put Iain through a purity test. His work stands as one of the more important contributions to our understanding. No new chapters are required. If you want to make a difference action is required. Form parallel polis. Reject the system.
Yep, another well-considered essay! When I saw McGilcrest being interviewed, amid his own sprawling manor grounds rife with English gardens, speaking while literally chewing the fat of some lamb dishes prepared by servants... discussing how his work supprted the interviewer's conservative value system, it pointed to exactly what you explained here. Perhaps he was limited by training, but more likely limited by the self-imposed confines of his own comfort.
Really excellent article and answers a lot for me. I enjoyed listening to him and a lot of it is very interesting but..... well the research you have given so clearly here asks some very big questions. Whilst he may not be versed in other disciplines, it beggars belief to think he didn't even think about looking in to it. When I hear evolution as an explanation these days I'm gone. A commenter has said that IM takes anti-depressants, well that would explain a lot.
It is so sad. Iain McGilchrist misses the blinding obvious which COVID exposed. This is where intellectual gets you. As has been written, forever learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
He believes in evolution so hence his problems, when one realises one is designed and that, like a petrol car, you can't run it on diesel, thus you can't run a human body of toxic vaccines and drugs.
'Iain McGilchrist' anagrams to:
- hg criminalistic
hg is a symbol for mercury and criminalistic is the longest single word anagram.
He has done so much yet not seen the wood for the trees. That is criminal.
Hey, IM is a Fellow of All Souls... pretty damn near the Heart of The Beast..
While entirely agreeing with your criticism, it's always been pretty clear that the boundaries of his work have always been well delineated.
I do not doubt McGilchrist's own bona fides... but fully accept that were he to have ever stepped out of the territory he has mapped so rigorously, his work would have disappeared without trace long ago...
And he would be relegated to Rupert Sheldrake status..
For as long as IM restricts himself to focusing on the nature of human consciousness, his impact will remain in the realm of religion and spirituality and never get to challenge the pharmaco-terrrorism in today's dystopian world...
Love Sheldrake. Don’t know what ‘All Souls’ is. But that’s interesting. Also interesting that Sufi and Taoist sages knew to stay the heck away from ‘the courts of kings’.
Million times better to be a Sheldrake IMO.
All Soul's College, Oxford.. The college that Cecil Rhodes was also a fellow of and funded and made such use of...if you care to investigate the profound effect Rhodes has had, on both side of the Atlantic and throughout the world..
Since facts matter, Cecil Rhodes was never a Fellow of All Souls [note spelling] College, Oxford, nor would it add intelligently to this thread if he had been.
I beg your pardon, Iain. That was sloppy of me.. Accepted… But neither of us, I hope, would deny his strong connection with All Souls, albeit from a slightly longer distance, through different channels and through specific highly influential individuals over a considerable time.
What a naughty boy I am to be sure, not letting ‘facts’ get in the way of a potentially enlightening story…
I have really loved lain over these past ten years and I think his work is extraordinary... but I see a worrying trend developing in him, and it’s a reactionary impulse that I’m convinced wasn’t there until these past few years. Somehow he is getting all wrapped up in the “radical left” and woke debate and I think it’s massively clouding his judgement. And most worrying of all is the company he keeps…Rhod Dreher is a total total creep and directly connected to the Trump admisitarion…Peterson…Douglas Murray (exposed as a paid shill of Israel)..Ralston College etc etc. Worrying and worth investigating. And sad actually. Because I genuinely thought (occasionally still think) he is brilliant and wonderful and just what was needed.
I too have immense admiration for IM’s work - though being an Extroverted Intuitive, much as I understand his almost pathological attention to detail, I do find it a grim and (for me) unnecessary struggle. He clearly writes to win the approbation of his medical and academic chums, or at least to avoid their opprobrium. As if he is determined to crush any opposition quite literally by weight of evidence..
My point about All Souls was really about his milieu and his chosen peer group. This, I believe, has clearly made him either overly cautious to broach certain subjects or academically, intellectually or horribile dictu dogmatically unwilling to challenge some of the medical profession’s fundamentalist attitudes which have become tyrannous. No other word for it…
This is disappointing. But not that surprising considering his provenance. While in his stirring defence of Western Civilisation and determination to save it from itself, he explicitly states that he wishes to avoid the modern trait of what he calls ‘nihilism’.
Thus when he turns from neuroscience to epistemology, from science to philosophy, from reasoning to consciousness, he completely eschews the traditions of the East. No truck with Advaita-Vedanta, Kashmiri Shaivism, Sufism or other non-dual teachings for Iain..
He is however, prepared to nod at the Dao..
Personally I feel this is a great shortcoming.. And reminds me of Jung - who did exactly the same..
And another piece of the puzzle drops neatly into place. Thanks
Er, no, it doesn't: see above
I turn my back for five minutes......
But what if I FEEL that it was real?…
de nada, un placer
Imortantly, Iain M has pointed out that Rhodes was never a Fellow of All Souls. And it was sloppy of me to suggest that.
However, neither of us, I hope, would deny his strong connection with All Souls, albeit from a slightly longer distance, through different channels and through specific highly influential individuals over a considerable time.
In what I thought was unrelated research I stumbled across Iain McG. I was instantly unimpressed. When I think of McG I think Game Theory.
Iain McGilchrist, as you say, Oxford alumus. He has also been associated with the Esalen Institute, a non-profit educational organization that focuses on humanistic and transpersonal psychology, spirituality, and personal growth (defined and propagated vast elements of the counter culture to dissemble families as we knew them, collapse traditional religion and ultimately disorientate people so that they become open to the programmatics of the state. He apparently gave talks and workshops at Esalen, around the nature of consciousness, the role of the brain in shaping our experience of the world, and the implications of his research for personal and collective transformation. He was part of the programmatics of the highly questionable CIA Esalen research programs to re-shape society.
I note that due to some kind of EU laws, McG internet footprint linking him to Esalen has largely been wiped, I assume to retain his credibility unlike Leary and some others who went a bit loco on the LSD.
The Metacrisis he and others define, occurs bc post the industrial revolution and ww1/2 people created destructive practices impacting the earth. We went from their golden number of 500,000 people to 8 Billion+. These folk say we are at a point of crisis driven by anthropogenic impacts, climate, ecological destruction, resource consumption, environment modification. He appears to say that people have lost their purpose and meaning and they (CIA et al) will need to create a more meaningful society. After the enlightenment this changed to left hemispheric world, mechanistic, Darwinism (Economic Man, Stanford Research, Changing Images of Man 1974). Society was cultivated this way to drive the industrial revolution. People sought, wealth, power and material things. But this has led to a running out of the existing model yet the richest controllers still need to control each and every apsect of your life. Population is a problem, the crisis is a people crisis, its all about control and ultimately eugencis.
McG imho is simply part of the machinery of gathering people into a psuedo scientific following and redirecting them or holding them in situ with stories and tales (myths and Images from Changing Images of Man Stanford) to prevent further self guided learning. All that is 'new age' does not sparkle.
Unlike you, perhaps, I do not have any particular beef against Esalen as an institution or those connected with it in principle, even though I might not be convinced of the bona fides of all of them. I have been lucky to have worked with two of them, both of whom I admire greatly and from whose work I have benefitted deeply. But then I come from a generation which for better or for worse experimented with different states of consciousness, through both natural and synthetic means.
As for IMcG - which I hope I explained in my first comment - I find it difficult to question his bona fides. I believe he is in no way malign. But I do think that his work has gained prominence not only because it is an extraordinary feat of scholarship, which it unquestionably is, but also because firstly it does seem to tackle important ways in which left brain dominance is steering humankind in dangerous directions and secondly because any work that through thorough research broaches this subject rigorously has all kinds of uses.. But as for IMcG being a tool of some devious programme that the likes of the Tavistock Institute in its heydey might have dreamt up - well, this I doubt. Though his work might well be used in this way. But there is nothing pseudo-scientific in IMcG's own work, let's at least be clear about that..
But as an example of use and/or abuse, I found this in a introduction to a conversation between IMcG and somebody who describes himself as a media entrepreneur and financial strategist:
'His work on the divided brain has helped millions of people find wisdom, meaning, and guidance for living in the modern world.'
I mean, really? Come on...
Indeed. If you will forgive me, but Fellow of Arse Holes would be more appropriate given the damage caused.
I note 'all souls college' anagrams to:
- all clueless logo
The Beast always likes to play with it's prey.
Thanks for this article, love McGilchrist's work but this is a great point. Andrew Moulden's work, as you have covered extensively in the past, would back up what you are saying as well. This from a recent article
https://amandhavollmer.substack.com/p/how-to-eat-an-elephant
Dr. Andrew Moulden was a paediatrician who started noticing (with his big brain!) the connection between vaccines and severe health problems in his child patients. Instead of being a coward like most MDs are (and other practitioners that ignore the elephant in the room), he started investigating and actually doing scientific experiments! Amazeballs! He used MRI to watch in real time what vaccines were doing to the body and brain and found evidence that EVERY SINGLE TIME, EVERY SINGLE VACCINE, caused micro-strokes in the brain. They never missed. He saw the correlation between the physical tests and the evidence and spoke up
McGilchrist has the flaw of being a psychiatrist, but he has helped me a great deal in my understanding of how and why the masses go along with the insanity promoted by those at the “high table.” It is the masses who enforce vaccination of babies, bio weapon shots, the construction of huge data centers, soldier sick wars, imbed into politics. Why? It happened culturally through manipulation of language, worship, structuring of society by a merchant class. McGilchrist has shown how the tipping point toward left hemisphere thinking occurred and the manifestation which has resulted in millions of parents dutifully offering up their children to brain damaging shots. I disagree that his work is a limited hangout. It helps explain why 85% of the population are so disgusting.
Great point.
We fell for bullshit because of the minds of people that trust authority and scientism.
I too think that he's not a limited hangout and that perhaps he still thinks vaccines are safe.
He's also demonstrated left hemisphere biased thinking in some of his posts about political issues.
He's human and falls for bullshit like most of us. 😂
https://robc137.substack.com/p/allergic-to-bullshit
For sure he’s an academic and absorbed into that click. I recall he has suggested thought/meditation exercises to help develop use of the right brain though…. In 2020 when I felt surrounded by a zombie horde his lectures helped me understand our human condition. Fact is the “evil” elite need the willing participation, enforcement and perpetuation by the masses to pull off this mass poisoning. And did they ever have a throng of obedient left-brainers who were certainly brainwashed. The history that is recorded (not the hidden ancient history) demonstrates people behaved the way they do now.🤨
The problem is looking to authority figures, doctors, priests, rich people rather than looking inward for truth and utilizing our innate intuition. Ultimately we must fault ourselves for the shots causing autism.
Some people are born questioning everything, thereby discovering the good and the bad, and others do not have that capacity, from birth, whether vaccinated (or polluted by something or other) - or not. Psychiatrists and that bunch want to see everything as "caused" by something in the environment.
Reminds me of when I was really young and saw Lisa Bonet, wife of Lenny Kravitz, with her baby on a well known tee vee talk show, Phil Donahue, discussing vaccination. She had not (at that time, anyway) had her baby poked and while the host of the show was OK, the mostly female audience was not. They just hated that woman.
I would put money on her having her daughter vaxxed later on, as well as that daughter, Zoe, talking the pro-vax viewpoint. I hope I am proved wrong, though!
https://www.nickiswift.com/294256/celebs-who-got-caught-in-vaccine-controversies/
Yes, some people are born questioning which is what McGilchrist posits as right-brained. Thank goodness for the 15-20% otherwise we would all be zombified.
The vast mass of the "Brainwashed" as you call them were actually poisoned, quite deliberately, by the injection of Nano-particulate aluminium into their brain cells. Most ordinary folk find it quite impossible to believe that there are such people out there who would do that. How stupid of them. Naturally they are responsible for their own demise it seems but they had a lot of help from academia and the so called Medical profession, not to mention the $Billions spent on propagating and the expanding the fairy stories.
We are all harmed, no doubt. Life seems to be a series of choices by which to learn from mistakes. These choices invariably require sacrifice. If self hypocrisy is ignored or the gut feeling of not being true to oneself is continually overridden then self harm and diminishment result. If someone cannot distinguish this they are already lost, and probably harming others.
" If self hypocrisy is ignored or the gut feeling of not being true to oneself is continually overridden then self harm and diminishment result".
Or, to put a positive spin on it, more lessons will ensue! You know the old expression (religious or not): "God isn't finished with you yet!"
This is an outstanding expose of what should be obvious to any genuine investigative intellectual. McGilchrist has been protected by the entire team of hegemonic science/medical institutions for years under the guise of advancing beyond reductionism. Not so. This network is thoroughly entrenched in promoting the reductionist science they claim to be transcending.
This post reflects an enormous amount of diagnostic work to uncover and brilliantly explain exactly how and why McGilchrist et al get away with their intellectual charade. I already know how they financially succeed. Full support of the British “royals” and institutions. I also knew “instinctively”(right hemisphere was working) what McGilchrist was up to. What I didn’t know were the intricate details this analysis uncovers.
What Unbekoming has done here is meticulous, fair and honorable service to the advancement of valuable knowledge. That takes A LOT of intelligence, dedication and work. Congratulations and thank you.
Thank you for covering the devastating and debilitating effect of vaccines on the brains and bodies of recipients, especially and including babies and children. However, mercury must not remain unmentioned. It has devastated vaccine recipient after recipient. It is still in vaccines, including those for children, despite what the lying authorities state publicly. It is synergystically neurotoxic with aluminum, with one enhancing the toxicity and devastation of the other. To learn more, read #s 2 and 3 in the first link. To read about the mercury given to my severely vaccine-injured child via vaccines from 1994-1996, read the last fourth of the second link.
https://ageofautism.com/why-is-this-legal-presentation-on-vaccines-by-laura-hayes/
https://ageofautism.com/vaccines-what-is-there-to-be-pro-about-laura-hayes-to-weston-a-price-foundation-conference/
It is madness to permit such a toxic substance to be injected into children...yet it is all in plain sight...Quite rightly, your paper asks the question: "Why is this legal..?"
Why...indeed..?
Have you ever seen the result of the reaction between mercury and aluminum? Horrifying.,
I haven’t, but would be eager to see if you can share a link. I have seen videos of Hg destroying brain cells, but have only read about the synergistic neurotoxic effects of Hg and Al together.
Here are links to 2 different videos showing Hg’s destructive effects on brain cells:
https://www.naturemedclinic.com/mercury-kills-brain-cells-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJhMERFaBqY
Quite so and very sorry to hear about your child. I wonder what I had when I was a child and what damage it might have caused.
I noted 'Iain McGilchrist' anagrams to 'hg criminalistic' where hg could be the symbol for mercury. In Latin it is 'hydrargyrum' and that anagrams to:
- ay drug myrrh
- yr dr harm guy
Which is what it does.
This article brings to mind a question as to why a certain segment of the population is so violent that they think that running people over intentionally is fine because the person's danger to the driver of the car is grossly exaggerated. The two hemispheres are different as noted. But what is not noted is that the right hemisphere gates the output of the amygdala and hippocampus, two structures associated with emotion. This means that the person with a decreased function of the right brain is incapable of controlling their emotional response to a situation. Their limbic system is stuck in the mind of a two-year old who never outgrew temper tantrums and the inhibition is dampened so they will never grow up.
If there was a non-invasive way of examining the brains of people who behave this way, it would be interesting to see what their brains look like and compare that with a brain of a person whose emotional outbursts are more controlled. Then look at the brains of people who are centered, more intuitive, like reiki practitioners, as an example. Not to prove something, just to observe without judgement.
Emotion is energy. Is it possible that the emotions of those people steeped in the close mindedness of the excessively controlling bureaucratic state also have ungated limbic systems? It is just that we notice violence towards others and judge it pathological, whereas being a control freak is judged as normal? So the energy of an emotion steers itself towards excessive control that leads to close mindedness.
I remember being perplexed by the counter-intuitive messaging of the Covid 'pandemic'. Decades of empirical epidemiological practice were jettisoned in favour of bizarre inane slogans like 'trust the science' and obviously counter-productive population-level mandates like 'lockdown' and staying 2m apart. It was only later that I learned that the whole circus had been minutely orchestrated: every last iota of NLP, every doom-laden banner MSM headline, and every last dreg of MK-Ultra knowledge was predicated on the production of Desmet's famous 'mass-formation', and the rolling up of 5 billion sleeves.
Even then, in early 2021, the toxicity of the mRNA product was well known in advance. Defibrillators were rolled out to every street corner to meet the anticipated myocarditis epidemic. The reverse transcription of the mRNA was known, as was the biodistribution and shedding of the lipid nanoparticles. Even the SV40 contamination was known and the downstream cancer epidemic predicted.
With all this in mind, I'll come back to the contents of this brilliant essay and its shocking implications. Shouldn't we consider again the obvious harms of the childhood vaccination schedule? It's not too much of a stretch to consider that injecting aluminium into young bodies is precisely designed to create a huge numbers of future patients to be treated for psychiatric problems, allergies, or gender dysphoria. But what if there is a more insidious effect: to turn us all into drones to feed the hive mind of our parasitic sociopathic overlords? What if the childhood vaccination schedule is designed to cut us off from our sense of the divine, our own innate, right-hemisphere-mediated spirituality?
" . . a way will finally be found to vaccinate bodies so that these bodies will not allow the inclination toward spiritual ideas to develop and all their lives people will believe only in the physical world they perceive with the senses.... people are now vaccinated against consumption, and in the same way they will be vaccinated against any inclination toward spirituality. This is merely to give you a particularly striking example of many things which will come in the near and more distant future in this field." - Rudolph Steiner, 1917
Thanks. I'd forgotten about that quote from Steiner, but obviously it was prescient and perhaps we are seeing the fruits now of this decades-long project.
Grok
The quote underscores the essay's core tension: if left-hemisphere dominance is not just cultural but also physically reinforced, then permitted cultural dissent (McGilchrist's fame) remains safe precisely because it doesn't name the mechanisms that might make the shift more permanent or population-wide.
Brilliantly stated. You nailed what I’ve been thinking. Are you familiar with Dr. Jacqueline Hobbs aka Oracle Girl? Www.oraclegirl.org
No, I wasn't aware. Thanks for the link.
Sobering and fascinating read. I have listened to mcGilchrist a couple of times. He advocated medication for mental issues (trauma) and takes anti-depressants himself. I lost interest when I heard that. I have a sister trapped in psychiatry and it is beyond horrific! She is a prisoner in the system. Also her cognitive ability deteriorated after several Covid jobs. So sad
Extremely sad, that's awful to watch. I have seen the effects of risperidone on someone. Vile drug.
My sister has been on a cocktail of pharma for years but one of the worst ones is clorazil. She's been on it for at least 35 years!!!!!
Good grief. Amazed she has survived at all. Clozaril is a brand name but as Clozapine I find that the word anagrams to 'Leo Nazi PC'. All these drugs are Nazi, a legacy of Nazi Germany.
Your argument makes a valid point about the possible cause of exploding autism rates (‘the syringe’). I think I have some understanding of the machine in place that stops any honest examination or account of what’s happening under our noses and why what happened to Wakefield, happened. But I don’t think denigrating McGilchrist’s theory of brain hemisphere differences by tying it exploding autism rates is helpful.
I’d argue the mechanistic failure you refer to re: autism and hemispheric imbalance arises out of the evolutionary and cultural ‘advances’ of our civilisation. Toxic shots are the symptom. Why do I say this? Because whatever the Tool of Undoing is in any civilisation, it’s us wielding it. (Which is also why I understand why he gives historical context in The Master and His Emissary).
It’s us who decided on vaccines - they didn’t make themselves - and it seems groupthink and pharmaceutical profiteering (and no doubt other factors) did the rest (again, that’s us). The job was done so well that to question their efficacy and safety is heretical. It’s enough to label someone with a different point of view an ‘anti-vaxxer’ and think no more on it. The machine pumped out its propaganda, the doctors were brought in line with the dogma, the journals were captured, and anyone questioning the science, silenced, smeared, censored.
And it seems to me most of the world was under a streetlight in 2020, in thrall to ‘following the science’. If we did the ‘right thing’, everything would be ok. From where I sit right now, everything is not ok, Everything is far, far worse. And if we pretend mRNA gene therapy is a ‘vaccine’ then it’s the exact same playbook that was used to inculcate our beliefs that health is something we can inject into us in the first place, but the brainwashing was just sped up x100. (And I’d argue everything we do IS in fact speeding up. Tech advances have superseded our ability to keep up with them). But my point is this: billions of us lined up around the block to take experimental shots in 2020 and 2021. I say this to make the point that how we see the world and how we decide to tackle problems does feel delusional to me. Whether it’s traditional vaccines over decades or shiny new ones, the idea that we can control the world remains in situ. Saying something is ‘safe and effective’ on repeat seems to do the trick. (Asking questions undoes the trick so this can’t be allowed).
While I share your anger and horror at what’s been done and being done to children, I’d argue we go about everything in the same manner. We have Glyphosate in our food supply. Fluoride in our water. Microplastics in our fish. We start pointless wars that kill millions. We bankroll banks with more of our money when they lose all of our money. We can no longer define what a woman is. We have led a generation to believe the world’s about to end because of Climate. They’re defacing artworks and gluing themselves to roads to help change this. They’re ready to eat bugs and freeze in winter for all the wrong reasons. (Are they doing this because of their damaged perception of the world or because the world’s gone a little crazy, or could it be both?).
I also want to say I don’t know your body of work. I have just read this one article and I read it for two reasons: it talks about a dangerous medical product, the only one in the world with a liability shield, and Dr. McGilchrist. I’ve done deep dives on both in the last 6 years and I’m left wondering if you’re under a certain streetlight. One that doesn’t allow for multiple factors, nuance and acknowledgment of the kind of rapid technological advancement we’re living through. Your Substack page reads ‘Paid subscribers get access to all books — including The DMSO Book, The Kitchen Remedies Guide, Chlorine Dioxide, The PSA Trap, Breast Cancer, and more.’ From this I gather you KNOW it’s not just toxic vaccines we’re battling with. (I take DMSO and use chlorine dioxide alongside other things FYI). I have subscribed to read more because I also gather you have valuable things to say. But I can’t square that you know about other harmful or toxic things but have chosen McGilchrist as the whipping boy for your argument about autism. I’d venture there’s a lot more folk your argument about streetlights and toxic products does apply to. His theory, imho, encapsulates your argument if I’m reading it right. How did we land up in a place where vaccines contain what they contain and so many people think that’s just fine? How did we land up with Glyphosate in our food supply and we all keep buying it? McGilchrist’s theory explains the mechanism of how. And then we know the why.
Lastly, I don’t think McGilchrist is allowed to be famous. A few people I vaguely know had heard of him when I started asking around after reading The Matter With Things, from a pool of people who know Chomsky, Pinker, Dawkins et al intimately. I ended up making a film on McGilchrist’s theory and intentionally made it McG101 for this very reason. A lot of people who do engage with his work find it problematic and dismiss him… (Sidebar: he quoted the streetlight metaphor to me back in 2024 when I interviewed him).
What I’d counter your argument with if I was less waffly and could think quicker or spend time editing myself: there are many things that harm us and they all seem to emerge from a way of looking at the world. And charting the rise and fall of civilisations makes sense to me in relation to our modern toxic injections because we’re collapsing our society from within once again. It’s just we’ve found terrible new ways to do it. Toxic injections are only one of those ways.
Super waffly ending: I know I don’t know what I don’t know. I know that I don’t know everything. And even if I could theoretically understand everything about the vaccine piece of this puzzle, that would mean the machine would first have to stop redacting entire FOIA requests. That Big Pharma be made liable for their products. That we re-educate doctors about informed consent. That we all agree that having control over what’s put into us is a very good idea. That we agree to take responsibility for our choices because the buck ultimately stops with each of us.
And most importantly that we remember what we value. It makes saying no to the machine (or the syringe, symbol of the machine here) far easier.
Thank you. I wonder whether this outcome was intentional - the numbing of the right hemisphere through the injection of substances like aluminium? Or did it simply happened (and speed up the trajectory we were culturally taking?)
When you discover more about how this all came about the answer will be quite clear. I suggest reading Rockefellers Medicine Men...by Brown I think. Available for free on the net
Thank you. I have read quite a bit on vaccines and do think they are designed to be harmful - I suppose where Im more doubtful is whether the particular harm of numbing the right hemisphere was targeted? Thanks for the book recommendation
This is outstanding. Thank you. Any investigation into the explosion of autism should also include an investigation of the non native electromagnetic frequencies in our lives, and the avoidance of sunlight that has been drummed into us over the last 40 years.
Ok, i have also occasionally pointed out that Iain and others see our current predicament via emergence rather than design. My guess is that once you add the conspiracy you reduce the intellectual purity of the model. However as i said in my conversation with Nick Hudson no amount of revelation is going to make any difference, people are not going to ‘wake up’ because one of the rabbit hole divers came back with the facts that blow everything wide open. The only way to oppose is to reject the system and live differently, but that is not an intellectual process. It is one of reenchantment. We don’t need to put Iain through a purity test. His work stands as one of the more important contributions to our understanding. No new chapters are required. If you want to make a difference action is required. Form parallel polis. Reject the system.
Yep, another well-considered essay! When I saw McGilcrest being interviewed, amid his own sprawling manor grounds rife with English gardens, speaking while literally chewing the fat of some lamb dishes prepared by servants... discussing how his work supprted the interviewer's conservative value system, it pointed to exactly what you explained here. Perhaps he was limited by training, but more likely limited by the self-imposed confines of his own comfort.
Really excellent article and answers a lot for me. I enjoyed listening to him and a lot of it is very interesting but..... well the research you have given so clearly here asks some very big questions. Whilst he may not be versed in other disciplines, it beggars belief to think he didn't even think about looking in to it. When I hear evolution as an explanation these days I'm gone. A commenter has said that IM takes anti-depressants, well that would explain a lot.
It is so sad. Iain McGilchrist misses the blinding obvious which COVID exposed. This is where intellectual gets you. As has been written, forever learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
He believes in evolution so hence his problems, when one realises one is designed and that, like a petrol car, you can't run it on diesel, thus you can't run a human body of toxic vaccines and drugs.
'Iain McGilchrist' anagrams to:
- hg criminalistic
hg is a symbol for mercury and criminalistic is the longest single word anagram.
He has done so much yet not seen the wood for the trees. That is criminal.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/04/brain-may-have-two-minds-of-its-own/