That's a paradox of course, but that mystery is in his message as well. He has brought forth a book, or actually two books - two things indeed - and beautiful things they are, thanks to his personal curation. And to that extent his labour is now 'finished'. He will explain if you let him.Īnd to do this, the master must do his best to choose the words - the things - accepting their limitations, to be sent into the world, and you, as his emissary. That, in essence, is 'the matter with things'. He knows - as well, I submit, as anyone has ever known - that it is intrinsically impossible to transmit such ideas as any kind of finished 'thing', however long he might strive to perfect its intricacy. Iain McGilchrist has spent the 11 years since the publication of The Master and his Emissary' assembling, arranging, tuning the left hemisphere tools he has to use - words - to try to evoke in our minds the cloud of right hemisphere ideas that he wants, with burning urgency, to share with us. Nobody who understands Iain McGilchrist to be a Master, as I do, could commit the folly, fall into the trap, of trying to be his Emissary.
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