{"id":236432,"date":"2026-05-03T14:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/iain-mcgilchrist-consciousness-and-life-after-death"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:04:23","slug":"iain-mcgilchrist-consciousness-and-life-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/iain-mcgilchrist-consciousness-and-life-after-death","title":{"rendered":"Iain McGilchrist \u2014 Consciousness and Life After Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K0_J3nDFGfE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world\u2019s deepest questions without paywalls: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/l3q6G\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/l3q6G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life after death is explored in the context of diverse theories of consciousness, from strict Materialism\/Physicalism to those of ancient wisdom traditions. We explore the view that the haunting and deeply personal question of life after death relates to theories of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Watch more videos on consciousness and life after death here: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/vNC3W\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/vNC3W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iain McGilchrist FRSA is a British psychiatrist, philosopher, and neuroscientist who wrote the 2009 book \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world\u2019s deepest questions without paywalls: https:\/\/shorturl.at\/l3q6G Life after death is explored in the context of diverse theories of consciousness, from strict Materialism\/Physicalism to those of ancient wisdom traditions. We explore the view that the haunting and deeply personal question of life after death [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}