Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is already an acknowledged classic. His recently published follow up The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World is destined to become one.

Covering an astonishingly wide intellectual range, its final chapter – 60,000 words long – focuses in on what his thesis about divided brain has to say about our “sense of the sacred” (Spoiler alert: the answer is a lot). .

Iain will be in conversation with Theos’ Senior Fellow, Nick Spencer, at 12.30pm on Thursday 21 April to discuss science, religion, the brain, the sacred, and the future of humanity.

The Matter with Things, Dr Iain McGilchrist's new book, is now available to purchase:

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