{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Dr Iain McGilchrist in Conversation with Ralston College\u2019s Students","description":"In this intimate question and answer session, conducted in March 2024 with the students enrolled in Ralston College\u2019s MA in the Humanities, the world-renowned psychiatrist, philosopher, and literary scholar Iain McGilchrist explores topics that animate the collective intellectual life of Ralston\u2019s student body.&amp;nbsp; Answering questions that range from the metaphysical heights of theology, liturgy, and religious life to the tangible depths of scientific inquiry and medical progress, Dr McGhilchrist challenges his interlocutors to think deeper about the relationship between mind and matter, science and religion, and, ultimately, humanity and the divine.&amp;nbsp; Authors, Artists, and Works Mentioned in this Episode:   Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things   Albert Einstein   Aristotle   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Meister Eckhart   John Donne   George Herbert   Thomas Traherne   Rumi   Henry Moore   Blaise Pascal   St. Augustine   William Shakespeare, King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet; The Tempest   Metrodorus of Lampsacus&amp;nbsp;   Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling   G.W.F. Hegel   Alwyn Lishman   St. Francis of Assisi&amp;nbsp;   Plotinus   Thomas Edison   St. Gregory of Nyssa   Carl Jung   Glenn Gould   &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"The Ralston College Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.ralston.ac\/conversations","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/35214405\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/35214405"}