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Feb 2018
33m 53s

The Master and His Emissary: Dr. Iain Mc...

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
About this episode
While in the UK, recently, I had a chance to sit down for an all-too-short half-hour with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary (description below). Our conversation was taped by Perspectiva (http://bit.ly/2EOCiU0), who described it as follows: "An extraordinary half-hour conversation about the brain, chaos, order, freedom, evil, mythol ... Show More
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