[zachary baker]

<div>apologies for my totally irrelevant reply to comment in this discussion
feed. I am new to the channel and also online discussion. Having been
reading McGilchrist since against criticism in around 2001, i was
surprised at you suspicion of his potential crypto Nazism. Also, and
surely this is the same q, his extolling of the catholic church and zen
Buddhism being a source of suspicion. On the one hand, as a seeker for
answers to the big questions like yourself, and coming from a long
standing commitment to holistic thought as opposed to reductive, sharing
your wholehearted rejection of mechanical materialism, such an
endorsement of organised religious enterprises that are little short of
balls out cultural colonisers, i too find hard to swallow. Context
though, suggests that this extolling is is partial, the endorsement
being of the ritual, spiritual, archetypal, unmeasurable qualities of
experience that can be championed through these belief systems as
opposed to an apology for any of their associated with Nazism or
Japanese militarism. Imo, he sometimes gestures in one direction in
order to make aparticular point emerge and stick while consciously
ignoring other implications that could arise should the gesture be taken
as a declaration rather than the modelling of a position within the
context of, for example, which aspects of human experience do we need to
recover following such a protracted period of LH predominance in our
culture.
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