Hi there,<\/p>\n
My title this time is inspired by a\u00a0recent lecture<\/a>\u00a0Dr. Iain McGilchrist gave in the Darwin lecture series at Cambridge university. In it, Iain argues that the term \u2018metacrisis\u2019 is used to describe the various global crisis we are faced with, such as environmental, social, political, cultural, economic, psychological, and so on, but what we are in fact dealing with is a crisis in the way we think about ourselves and the world.<\/p>\n I first got to know Iain\u2019s work in 2012 and it resonated deeply. It was the most comprehensive and sophisticated work on our mindsets, that I had found until then.<\/p>\n Iain<\/a>\u00a0goes far and deep in weaving together different disciplines, and builds on his deep expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience, philosophy and literature. I interview Iain in my book\u00a0InnS\u00e6i<\/a>\u00a0where we dive deeper into all this and his statement that \u201chow we attend to the world is a moral act\u201d, which I totally agree with.<\/p>\n In our recent book-launch event, The Art of Intuition<\/a>, at The Conduit, London, we talked about how reframing our language and understanding around intuition and the argument that the change we need to see in the world starts from within us, through the word InnS\u00e6i.<\/p>\n How InnS\u00e6i can help shift the centre of gravity in how we imagine and wayfind, our relationship with the world and planet Earth. How this then has an impact on the world we live in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The challenges we face in the wider world reflect a chronic neglect of our inner world and the understanding of how everything is interconnected. \u00a0Hence the growing global call for us to start the change we need to see in the world, from within ourselves.<\/p>\n A few thoughts and examples:<\/p>\n First,<\/strong><\/p>\n Globally, the leading cause of illness and disability in the world today according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) is depression, often related to severe anxiety and stress.<\/p>\nHow we attend to the world is a moral act<\/strong><\/h5>\n
A chronic neglect of our inner world<\/strong><\/h5>\n