NP: McGilchrist has been discussed on this list, mostly by our BE Read leader if I remember correctly. Here is his new one appreciated by Philip Pullman.

[Mark Kohut]

*Philip Pullman*

In 2009 Iain McGilchrist published *The Master and His Emissary*, a densely
researched and entirely thrilling examination of the difference between the
two kinds of thinking typical of the right and left hemispheres of the
brain. Now comes his new book, *The Matter with Things
<https://systems-souls-society.com/insight/perspectiva-press/the-matter-with-things/>*
 (Perspectiva Press), which takes that basic idea much further and
demonstrates, with an immense range of learning and beautifully clear
prose, how important it is to be aware of the whole and not merely the
parts, how analysis should come after insight and not before it, how
right-hemisphere thinking, with its openness to experience, is a better
guide to reality than the narrowly focused, rule-based way the left
hemisphere regards the world.

I have spent a decade absorbing the vision of McGilchrist’s previous book;
I shall be happy to spend the rest of my life with this one, and still be
learning things when I get to the end.