This seminar draws mainly on the ground-breaking research of Dr. Iain McGilchrist, psychiatrist, and Allan Schore, neuropsychologist, that demonstrates the primary role the right hemisphere of the brain has in understanding spiritual experience and emotional development.

Together, they provide an evidence base for the practice of Buddhist-influenced psychotherapy that cultivates a healthy balance between the hemispheres.

It will also explore views put forward by McGilchrist that challenge the dominant left hemisphere mechanistic paradigms of western science and put forward alternative views that are more organic and right hemisphere orientated, and resonate with the Buddhist teachings of interdependent co-arising and the impermanent nature of life.

Finally, it will discuss how the three fundamentals of Buddhist practice, the cultivation of spiritual insight, serenity, and ethical conduct, can be understood in the light of the different functions of the right and left hemispheres.

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