WCCM Theme 2026: Without Religion, No Future; Dr Iain McGilchrist and Marco Schorlemmer (Recording) Faith The Tablet / New Hall

The Tablet / New Hall Festival held on the 10–11 July 2026

To think the nothing is the vantage point whence we deduce the hypothesis that the irrational is a constituent facet of the rational in the manner that the nonconceptual is an integral aspect of the conceptual

the unthought is not what is inherently unthinkable

which lie at the very foundation of all religious traditions

From a Buddhist perspective

WCCM Theme 2026: Without Religion, No Future; Dr Iain McGilchrist and Marco Schorlemmer (Recording) Faith The Tablet / New HallSpeaker: Dr Iain McGilchrist Respondent: Marco Schorlemmer Our civilisation cannot survive without a return to spiritual values, and those values will not flourish without embodiment in the form of a religion. Since the Enlightenment, we have comprehensively misunderstood the nature of religion, and neglected the vital importance of nurturing the spiritual life. This has to do with a shift in the history of ideas, ultimately reinforced by changes in