I agree with you about conviction in your beliefs -- which I see as being supported most strongly and unshakably by healthy childhood experience, as Jesus made clear. Without love and freedom (which includes age-appropriate levels of responsibility for one's actions) in childhood, it is all-too-easy for an adult to be led astray.
McGilchrist is talking about the necessary supporting structure of any group, including the exclusion of non-group members (not socially; interaction with others isn't what he's talking about here); about what DEFINES a group and what happens when that structure begins dissolving. And he's speaking of the IMPORTANCE of groups in human life.
I agree with you about conviction in your beliefs -- which I see as being supported most strongly and unshakably by healthy childhood experience, as Jesus made clear. Without love and freedom (which includes age-appropriate levels of responsibility for one's actions) in childhood, it is all-too-easy for an adult to be led astray.
McGilchrist is talking about the necessary supporting structure of any group, including the exclusion of non-group members (not socially; interaction with others isn't what he's talking about here); about what DEFINES a group and what happens when that structure begins dissolving. And he's speaking of the IMPORTANCE of groups in human life.
Got ya... Makes sense...