# Iain McGilchrist: How to escape left-brain thinking

An episode of [UnHerd with Freddie Sayers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1540134798), 12 Apr 2026, 1 h 07 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5fad6d24bc034454b53fe011/e/69d92461af4db69e0df2bb19/media.mp3

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with neuroscientist and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist about the psychological and cultural crisis resulting from our modern reliance on the brain's analytical left hemisphere, a perspective that views the world as a collection of inanimate parts rather than a living whole, while making a compelling case for the rehabilitation of myth and religious tradition as essential pathways to a deeper, relational truth that can protect Western civilisation from the dehumanising effects of purely mechanistic thinking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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