The wisdom traditions - Iain McGilchrist and Muhammed Foulds

[@cheri238]

Thank you both for this thoughtful conversation of insights. I now will have a warm cup of tea, a slice of my homemade strawberry pie, and ponder over such beauty in my garden and sit down and write a poem ❤ 🙏❤️🌍🕊🌿🎶🎵

[@012345family]

Thank you for introducing me to this fascinating person. A very important step since about one quarter of all people are nominally at least muslim.

[@theostapel]

The real lover - needs: a loving heart - flexible mind - lightness of spirit and the Beloved, most of all. No time for dogma.

[@kallelundahl5784]

A lovely and wise dialogue!

[@MyMaitetxu]

Maybe the Agenda 2030 van King Charles and harmonie and the well being of HUMANS BEINGS do not go together...

[@kiljoy3254]

What I’d find very interesting, having read a lot of the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, would be for, say, readings of his commentaries; where he explains, for instance (just one of many of course) the story of Joseph being sold by his brothers, to traders, and his subsequent rise to power in Egypt and especially the trial and forgiveness of his siblings (so much depth and richness) and then to have people of other faith traditions respond, preferably with a comparable story from their own tradition.

[@JCOmeAlp]

Division is the fuel that drives the left hemisphere away from the Divine. Belief in anything greater than self is the counter balance. Most of our most valued moments have come from qualitative virtues (right hemisphere) - love, music, art, poetry, spirituality and nature. A world in which the human and the machine are integrated into a algorithmic, predictable, controllable consumable, is an objective of left brain thinking. Ths is a world were the machine takes the place of the Divine, and life as we know it will end! Please, stop the division, us and them, embrace and love our differences, believe in anything greater than ourselves, and then, with the grace of the Divine, we might just make a collective conscious leap towards a balanced right/left, us/them, muslim/christian, west/east, black/white - future, with equal respect and humility for all of creation.

[@jamesboswell9324]

And King Charles is obviously the first person you think of when considering living in harmony with nature.

[@gillcoombs9855]

As per McGilchrist's work:- Charles is complex, doing both great harm and great good. Read Harmony, and you may be surprised. I was.

[@jamesboswell9324]

@@gillcoombs9855 Not sure what harm Iain is doing. Seems to be a person of good intentions. Charles is a completely different kettle of fish. He is a plutocrat. Arguably the leading plutocrat in our country. Like his own father he is another "environmentalist". It comes in handy when you are justifying acts of imperialism and the dispossession of land of native peoples. I am unsurprised by everything he does.

[@gillcoombs9855]

@@jamesboswell9324 I don't see Iain doing harm. I agree, he generally has good intentions. He does have a lot to say about how the left hemisphere tends to see things in absolutes, and the right hemisphere perceives a more complex and nuanced view of people and actions. The left hemisphere might label Charles in a simplistic way as good or bad; the right hemisphere would see him as a complex individual who's done some awful, some wonderful, and some mediocre things. If you were to read Harmony I think you may well find yourself surprised; I'm guessing there are things he's done that you don't know about yet.

[@wereyare9143]

Is this man reading a different book? Is he jumping over these verses: "Kill them wherever you find them" (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5); "When you meet the unbelievers, strike necks" (47:4); "Strike their necks and fingertips" (8:12).

[@jordanedgeley6601]

Need context

[@damianclifford9693]

Old testament has many similar injunctions

[@wereyare9143]

What a disappointment to allow this man to spread so much propaganda about such a book full of violent verses.