Both McGilchrist and Sheldrake describe themselves as 'feral academics' who escaped from domestication and lived intellectually in the wild rather than conforming to mainstream institutional expectations, and they view themselves as successful examples of this path despite its risks.
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Unidentified Speaker — Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in … [4O3ITKAG4_8]Evidence Quote
“we're both feral academics and we were both fellows of colleges and you know talks with me at Cambridge and uh we somehow escaped from domestication and and lived in the wild as much in the wild as you”
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