Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake
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Trialogue: Radical Speculations From '98 on the Emergence of Super-intelligent AI, with Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham
11 april 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
1998, UC Santa Cruz Lees meer
"In the same way that the daughter of Zeus sprang full-blown from his forehead, the AI may be upon us without warning."
- Terence McKennaA discussion on the evolution of consciousness as it relates to machines. Symbolic logic, nanotechnology and the possibility of a synthetic superintelligence. Terence compares the advent of superintelligent AI to the advent of language. Virtual computers as a route for AI to escape controls. How much control do we have in the evolution of machine intelligence? Quantum computers as a superior medium.
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The Evolutionary Mind
https://sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-evolutionary-mindTerence predicts virtual computers... children can now build virtual computers in Minecraft:
https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Redstone_computersNo Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/openais-new-chatbot-can-hallucinate-a-linux-shell-or-calling-a-bbs/ -
Dr Andrew Weil, Fields of Mind and Body
28 maart 2023 · 1 uur 22 min
Hollyhock, 2006 Lees meer
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, an approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Rupert and Andrew had a series of conversations over eight years at Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, BC, Canada.
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Q&A with Brother David Steindl-Rast and audience; re: History of Orthodox Scientific Thought
14 maart 2023 · 41 min
This is an extract from Rupert's workshop with Brother David Steindl-Rast at Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC in August, 2011. Lees meer
00:00 Brother David Steindl-Rast: Making a thing out of the soul; AI Sentience
04:08 Rupert Sheldrake: Golem/Frankenstein myths and robot consciousness
07:07 Rupert: Analog computers as possible framework for machine consciousness
07:57 David: So it is possible?
08:23 Rupert: Promissory Materialism will "prove" that people are machines
09:04 Rupert: The genome wager with Lewis Wolpert
14:13 David: Science as limited faith, one without hope
15:00 Audience: if Science and Faith both seek truth, they must converge
15:41 Rupert: we all have implicit biases; materialists in particular have huge blindspots
17:31 Audience: Truth emerging like a flower
17:54 Rupert: Institutionalized science, grants, educational conformity
19:32 David: How can you do it?
19:36 Rupert: I was forced to work independently, not recommended
21:04 Rupert's excommunication by Nature Editor John Maddox
22:29 Rupert: Pluralism in politics, but not science "we know the truth"
24:13 David: Questioning establishment power
25:32 Audience: A rebirth of creative thinking?
25:43 Rupert: Trouble with the academic system; funding reform; medical system fatigue; alternative therapies
29:10 Audience: Morphic resonance, homeopathy, interpersonal neurobiology, setting science free
30:17 Rupert: Comparative effectiveness research, pragmatic medical systems, most scientists are from Eastern cultures (India, China)
32:35 Audience: What if you talked to a radical cosmologist?
32:48 Rupert: Mainstream cosmology IS radical, multi-verse theory, laws of nature must be fixed
34:58 Rupert: Martin Reese's simpler hypothesis "get's rid of God"
36:09 Rupert: Stars being conscious too much for Martin Reese
37:48 Rupert: Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, creation story, popularized science, natural philosophy -
The History of Orthodox Scientific Thought, From Greek and Hebrew Roots to Medieval Universities, the Enlightenment, Evolution and the Big Bang
14 maart 2023 · 47 min
This is an extract from Rupert's workshop with Brother David Steindl-Rast at Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC in August, 2011.
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Dr Andrew Weil, Evidence and Belief in Science and Medicine
28 februari 2023 · 44 min
Hollyhock, 2005 Lees meer
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, an approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Rupert and Andrew had a series of conversations over eight years at Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, BC, Canada.
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Dr Andrew Weil, Integrative Medicine and the Extended Mind
21 februari 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
Hollyhock, 2004 Lees meer
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, an approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Rupert and Andrew had a series of conversations over eight years at Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, BC, Canada.
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Inherited Consciousness, with Anastasia & Michael Shilo
14 februari 2023 · 1 uur 38 min
Rupert's appearance on the DemystifySci podcast. Video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxOs8pDjnqk Lees meer
Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.
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Is science scientific enough? With neuroscientist Alex Gómez-Marín
2 januari 2023 · 38 min
After more than a hundred hours of private conversations on Zoom, Rupert and physicist turned neuroscientist Alex Gómez-Marín meet in person to discuss some of their favourite themes. Lees meer
In this new installment, Rupert and Alex reflect on the scientific enterprise itself. Starting by acknowledging that new paradigms are near but never quite seem to make it, they address some of the deep reactionary forces that oppose such changes. This leads beyond the naïve understanding that science is just about data; core assumptions can make evidence irrelevant. Science must then be observed also from a sociological and historical perspective – the politics of knowledge are at stake. Deeper roots may be found in The Reformation: the current dogmatic materialist worldview is a kind of amnesic Protestantism squared. The conversation then leads to the obvious but non-trivial point that scientific facts are literally made, involving a consensus amongst experts who share the same model of reality. Other models (and other experts) are excluded. In that sense, Science (with capital S) is probably too Catholic. The future scientist will not have an easy time. And yet, all those minority reports are of majority interest.
This conversation was held on December 8th 2022 at Rupert’s house in London.
Dr Alex Gomez-Marin, PhD, is a Spanish theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist. He was a research fellow at the EMBL Center for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. He is currently the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, as an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. He is also the director of The Pari Center in Italy. https://behavior-of-organisms.org
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Trialogue: Chaos and the Imagination Part 2, with Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna
26 december 2022 · 42 min
A three-way conversation, or trialogue, in two parts. Lees meer
Part 2 Festivals, a calendrical reform and 'pharmacological intervention'. Oscillating models of chaos, creativity and the imagination. Eleusis as a great turning point. The Virgin of Guadalupe. The Faustian pact with the physical world. The cultural cul-de-sac of the dominator mode. Restoring partnership values, opening our lives to chaos and the world soul. Chaos as Gaian fury and as a moment of opportunity. A forward escape into technology? Included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West Chapter 3.
This Trialogue and others are available in book form:
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/chaos-creativity-and-cosmic-consciousnessRalph Abraham, PhD, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author, and pioneer in the fields of Chaos theory, computer graphics, visual mathematics and dynamical systems.
Terence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the novelty wave, and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000.
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Are memories stored in brains? With neuroscientist Alex Gómez-Marín
20 december 2022 · 33 min
After more than a hundred hours of private conversations on Zoom, Rupert and physicist turned neuroscientist Alex Gómez-Marín meet in person to discuss some of their favourite themes. Lees meer
In this installment, they address the problem of memory localization. Rather than taking for granted that memories are "stored" inside our heads and rushing to speculate about where and how, they instead entertain the idea that memories could be both everywhere and nowhere in particular -- memories are in time, not in space. To make such thoughts more thinkable, they discuss the recurrent historical failures to find actual memory traces in brains and bring forth some of the pioneering ideas of the French philosopher Henri Bergson in the context of current neuroscience. They also discuss concrete experiments to test such hypotheses and reflect more widely on the nature of form and the idea that the laws of nature may be more like habits than eternal edicts. They end by discussing the need for scientific pluralism.
You can listen to a former Sheldrake & Gomez-Marin encounter on The Future Scientist conversation series here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpr0QP4Qcvk... and a plea for a Bergsonian neuroscience here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQxNlot9SxU&t=9sThis conversation was held on December 8th 2022 at Rupert’s house in London.
Gomez-Marin’s site
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Trialogue: Chaos and the Imagination Part 1, with Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna
12 december 2022 · 45 min
A three-way conversation, or trialogue, in two parts. Lees meer
Part I How can chaos theory and full access to the imagination aid us in our understanding of the world and in the creation of our future? Chaos in mythology. The repression of chaos, the rise of patriarchy and the fall into history. The chaos revolution. Bringing chaos tangential to the burning planet. Vision plants and shamanism. Our 'secret history' and how it relates to the Gaian mind. The creative act as the night sea journey. The living mystery of the imagination. Dominator and partnership culture. Included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West Chapter 3.
This Trialogue and others are available in book form:
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/chaos-creativity-and-cosmic-consciousnessRalph Abraham, PhD, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author, and pioneer in the fields of Chaos theory, computer graphics, visual mathematics and dynamical systems.
Terence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the novelty wave, and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000.
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Telepathy and the Taboos of Materialism
6 december 2022 · 22 min
This is an excerpt from an episode of the Spiritually Incorrect Podcast, with JD Lyonhart and Seth Hart.
https://www.spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com Lees meerJD Lyonhart is a fellow at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and an Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Lincoln Christian University.
Seth Hart is a PhD candidate in science and theology at the University of Durham. He holds masters in theology from Oxford, Regent College, and Johnson University.
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What does telepathy have to do with prayer, angels and other Christian beliefs?
29 november 2022 · 14 min
This is an excerpt from an episode of the Spiritually Incorrect Podcast, with JD Lyonhart and Seth Hart.
https://www.spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com Lees meerJD Lyonhart is a fellow at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and an Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Lincoln Christian University.
Seth Hart is a PhD candidate in science and theology at the University of Durham. He holds masters in theology from Oxford, Regent College, and Johnson University.
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Trialogue: Creativity and the Imagination Part 2, with Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham
22 november 2022 · 45 min
A three-way conversation, or trialogue, in two parts. Lees meer
Part 2 How is human imagination related to the creative principle of nature? The nature of the Gaian mind. Human history as a Gaian dream. The Divine Imagination as the source of all creativity. How can we extract the message of the Gaian mind? How could the imaginations of the solar system, galaxy and cosmos be related to each other? Dark matter and the cosmic unconscious. The nature of the Logos. The personal apocalypse. The journey of language to the Divine Imagination. Natural law, ordinary reality and chaos.
This Trialogue and others are available in book form:
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-evolutionary-mindTerence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the novelty wave, and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000.
Ralph Abraham, PhD, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author, and pioneer in the fields of Chaos theory, computer graphics, visual mathematics and dynamical systems.
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Forms and the Causes of Forms, Cambridge University Symposium
15 november 2022 · 55 min
A talk Rupert gave at a symposium on the philosophy of form Cambridge University in May 2022. A long debate about the nature and causes of forms has been going on at least since the time of ancient Greece, and within the sciences has been most hotly contested in relation to the morphogenesis of plants and animals. Since the seventeenth century, mechanists – still the dominant orthodoxy – have tried to explain morphogenesis in terms of material causes present in eggs, whereas vitalists and holistic biologists have suggested explanations in terms of formative forces and, more recently, morphogenetic fields. This debate continues, and could well help to revolutionize not only biology, but also chemistry and physics. Lees meer
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Trialogue: Creativity and the Imagination Part 1, with Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham
8 november 2022 · 46 min
A three-way conversation, or trialogue, in two parts. Lees meer
Part I The crisis in science: collision between the permanent and evolutionary views of the nature of reality. The universe as an evolving system of habits. Did natural law exist before the Big Bang? Cosmic creativity, imagination and the womb of chaos. Chaotic sudden perturbations. The Omega Point. The ego's response to chaos. The cosmic attractor in the evolutionary process.
This Trialogue and others are available in book form:
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-evolutionary-mindTerence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the novelty wave, and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000.
Ralph Abraham, PhD, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author, and pioneer in the fields of Chaos theory, computer graphics, visual mathematics and dynamical systems.
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Trialogue: The Evolutionary Mind and Machines, with Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham
1 november 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
A three-way conversation, or trialogue, recorded at Esalen in 1989. Lees meer
A discussion on the evolution of consciousness as it relates to machines. Symbolic logic, nanotechnology and the possibility of a synthetic super-intelligence. Artificial Intelligence as a part of ourselves that could shape our evolution. Virtual computers as the source of the AI. Partnership or conflict between human and machine? How much control do we have in the evolution of machine intelligence? Challenges to the premises of the AI argument. Quantum computers, machine-time and the possibilities of the World Wide Web.
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Religion Without Belief? Dr Philip Goff and Paul Kingsnorth
26 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 17 min
Rupert speaks with Paul Kingsnorth [author, deputy editor of The Ecologist], and Dr Philip Goff [author, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University] about the possible benefits of religious practices, without their associated beliefs. Lees meer
This is part of the _Meeting of the Minds_ series offered by The Weekend University
https://theweekenduniversity.com/about/Paul Kingsnorth is a former journalist and deputy editor of The Ecologist magazine who has won several awards for his poetry and essays. He is also the author of ten books: both fiction and nonfiction. In 2009, he co-founded the Dark Mountain Project, an international network of writers, artists, and thinkers in search of new stories for troubled times.
Philip_GoffDr Philip Goff is a Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, whose main research focus is consciousness, but he is interested in many questions about the nature of reality. Goff is most known for defending panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. He has authored an academic book with Oxford University Press – Consciousness and Fundamental Reality – and a book aimed at a general audience – Galileo’s Error. He is currently working on a book exploring the middle ground between God and atheism.
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Microcast: Metaphysical Experiences and Religion With Philosopher Slavoj Žižek
18 oktober 2022 · 6 min
This excerpt is from the Institute of Art and Ideas debate "Fantasy and the void" featuring Slavoj Žižek, Rupert Sheldrake and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. Wes Alwan hosts. Lees meer
Watch the full talk:
https://iai.tv/video/fantasy-and-the-voidThe Institute of Art and Ideas features videos and articles from cutting edge thinkers discussing the ideas that are shaping the world, from metaphysics to string theory, technology to democracy, aesthetics to genetics.
Slavoj Žižek is a globally renowned philosopher and cultural critic. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He is the author of several books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Parallax View, Living in the End Times and Heaven in Disorder. His unique style of philosophy, which is often imbued with humour and political incorrectness, has gained him admirers and critics across the globe.
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Trialogue: The Evolutionary Mind, with Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna
11 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
A three-way conversation, or trialogue, recorded at Esalen in 1989. Lees meer
What could have been the cause for the breakthrough in the evolution of human consciousness around 50,000 years ago? Collective memories of predation and how they may shape our minds today. The role of the imagination in our evolution. Physiological evolution and the idea of divine brain surgery. The psilocybin hypothesis. The transformation of human nature through connection with higher levels of consciousness in the universe. The universal information field and cosmic evolution.
This Trialogue and others are available in book form:
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-evolutionary-mindTerence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the novelty wave, and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000.
Ralph Abraham, PhD, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author, and pioneer in the fields of Chaos theory, computer graphics, visual mathematics and dynamical systems.
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Trialogue: Introduction, with Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna
4 oktober 2022 · 39 min
In this introduction to the trialogues held at Hazelwood house in Devon, England in June 1993, Rupert, Ralph and Terence introduce each other and give their perspectives on their friends' lives, characters and work. Lees meer
Terence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the novelty wave, and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000.
Ralph Abraham, PhD, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author, and pioneer in the fields of Chaos theory, computer graphics, visual mathematics and dynamical systems.
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Dr Andrew Weil, Placebos and Mind-Body Relationships Part 2
27 september 2022 · 31 min
Hollyhock, 2007 Lees meer
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, an approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Rupert and Andrew had a series of conversations over eight years at Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, BC, Canada.
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Dr Andrew Weil, Placebos and Mind-Body Relationships Part 1
20 september 2022 · 51 min
Hollyhock, 2007 Lees meer
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, an approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Rupert and Andrew had a series of conversations over eight years at Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, BC, Canada.
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How Morphic Resonance Affects Our Memories, Families, Rituals and Festivals
13 september 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
A talk given on September 2nd, 2022 at the Hollyhock retreat center on Cortes Island, BC Canada. Lees meer
Hollyhock exists to inspire, nourish and support people who are making the world better. Their not-for-profit learning centre offers extraordinary leadership programs to advance consciousness, connection & cultural transformation.
https://www.hollyhock.ca/
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Plants, with Dr Andrew Weil
2 september 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
Hollyhock, 2009 Lees meer
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, an approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Rupert and Andrew had a series of conversations over eight years at Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, BC, Canada.
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Philosophy and Psychedelics with Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
12 augustus 2022 · 30 min
A live conversation with Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes at the Hay Festival, How the Light Gets In, September 2021. Lees meer
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, PhD, is Research Fellow of philosophy and psychedelics and associate lecturer at the University of Exeter, specializing in philosophy of mind with emphasis on Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Spinoza, and in the fields of panpsychism and altered states of consciousness.
http://www.philosopher.euProduced by iai, The Institute of Art and Ideas
Philosophy for our times: cutting edge debates and talks from the world's leading thinkers
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Challenging Dogmatism in Science, with Peter Fenwick and David Lorimer
26 juli 2022 · 45 min
From the 2012 annual meeting of the Scientific and Medical Network. Lees meer
Peter Fenwick is the current president of the Scientific and Medical Network. He was a senior lecturer at King’s College, London, the Consultant Neuropsychologist at both the Maudsley and John Radcliffe hospitals, and has been part of the editorial board for a number of journals, including the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, the Journal of Consciousness Studies and the Journal of Epilepsy and Behaviour.
https://explore.scimednet.org/index.php/peter-fenwick/David Lorimer is Programme Director for the Scientific and Medical Network. He was President of Wrekin Trust and a Founder of Character Education Scotland. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, most recently “The Protein Crunch”.
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Does Telepathy Happen? Debate with Prof Chris French at the University of Cambridge
12 juli 2022 · 1 uur 17 min
The Perrott-Warrick public debate: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Nov 29, 2006. Chaired by Professor Simon Blackburn.
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How Skeptics Work
5 juli 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
The Society for Psychical Research Study Day on Skeptics: London, October 25 2008. Lees meer
Read a review of the day's proceedings by Matt Colborn:
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Temenos Academy: Nature and Modern Science, with Joseph Milne
28 juni 2022 · 1 uur 24 min
A dialogue with Joseph Milne on nature and science in our modern world, which took place at the Temenos Academy on July 13, 2009.
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The Sense of Direction in Animals
21 juni 2022 · 35 min
London Society for Psychical Research, November 4, 2017 Lees meer
Many animals make remarkable migrations across vast distances, often without ever personally making the trip or having any obvious method of navigating. Recorded on November 4, 2017 at the Society for Psychical Research in London.
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Father Bede Griffiths: Angels, Intelligence and Energy
14 juni 2022 · 40 min
This is dialogue on angels with Father Bede Griffiths, Rupert's principal teacher, and the only public dialogue they ever had. Recorded in Munich in 1992 at the Benedictine Abbey of St Boniface on September 29, the feast of St Michael and All Angels. Father Bede, also known as Swami Dayananda, was a British-born priest and Benedictine monk who became a noted yogi in South India and was a part of the Christian Ashram Movement. Lees meer
Recorded in Munich at the Benedictine Abbey of St Boniface, on September 29th, 1992.
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The Holy Trinity
12 juni 2022 · 19 min
A sermon given on Trinity Sunday, 2019 at St Thomas' Church, Finsbury Park, London.
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Re-Enchanting Nature by Learning From Animals
7 juni 2022 · 1 uur 20 min
This was the opening keynote talk at the 2021 Mystics and Scientists Conference, hosted by David Lorimer and presented by the Scientific and Medical Network (https://scientificandmedical.net). The entire conference is available on their channel:
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The Evolution of Telepathy: Cambridge University
31 mei 2022 · 1 uur
For five years Rupert was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, administered by Trinity College, Cambridge, for research on unexplained human and animal abilities. Recorded at Cambridge University on February 9th, 2011. Lees meer
Field observations have suggested that wolves and other wild animals may communicate telepathically over many miles, and surveys have shown that about 50% of dog owners and about 30% of cat owners believe that their pets may respond to their thoughts or silent commands. Among humans, apparent telepathy is most commonly reported between members of families and between close friends and colleagues. Experimental investigations of telepathy in animals and people suggest that telepathy may be a natural means of communication between members of animal and human groups. Human telepathy is still evolving in the context of modern technologies, including the internet, emails, SMS messages and telephones.
https://www.sheldrake.org/about-rupert-sheldrake/the-perrott-warrick-fund
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Finding God Again: The Rise of Anatheism
24 mei 2022 · 1 uur
Dartington Great Hall, Devon, January 28, 2015. Rupert talks about his own spiritual journey, and about the contemporary cultural, intellectual and social movements leading to a rediscovery of God.
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Memory, Morphic Resonance and the Collective Unconscious
17 mei 2022 · 1 uur 21 min
Rupert talks about archetypes, Jung’s collective unconscious, ancient Greek and Jewish philosophies about reality, Sir Francis Bacon, mechanistic science, progressivist views of Darwin, big bang cosmology, multiverse theory, the Hindu and Buddhist world views, and how they all relate to the idea of memory in nature. Recorded at the UK Council for Psychotherapy, Nov 26th, 2014. Lees meer
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The Inextricable Roles of Form and Energy
12 mei 2022 · 6 min
What do you believe the memory is comprised of in holy places? Is it energy or something else? Lees meer
Everything in nature, according to modern science, depends on form and energy. If you have form without energy, its virtual, it doesn't do anything. Without the flow of breath, you can't have speech. Similarly, without energy, forms are static, lifeless, inert. So it is with holy places; through our senses we readily experience the forms, textures, scents and sounds of a place. But many also experience the energy there; the spiritual and emotional states of those who came before. Without this energy, without resonating with the past, what we experience is merely data.
Recorded on February the 16th 2022, at the Meditatio Centre London, by I AM Sound Academy: https://www.iamsoundacademy.com
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Holy Places
10 mei 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
All cultures, as far as I know, have holy places. Our ancestors were hunter-gatherers, by their very nature nomadic, and seem to have carried out ceremonies at holy places like Lascaux and Chauvet caves. When people settled in the Neolithic, starting twelve thousand years ago, they were building ceremonial structures, including standing stones and stone circles. Some were built before settled agriculture began. Even in atheist regimes where there's an explicit denial of the sacred and of the holy, the need for holy places persists, like the mausoleum of Lenin in Red Square, in Moscow, to which people went on pilgrimages, rather in the same way Christians visit the relics of saints. Lees meer
Recorded on February the 16th 2022, at the Meditatio Centre London: https://meditatiocentrelondon.org
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Flowers: The 2015 Vegetable Sermon in Shoreditch Parish Church (sorry for audio quality)
1 mei 2022 · 42 min
Thomas Fairchild was a pioneering plant breeder who lived in Shoreditch, in the East End of London. When he died in 1729, he left a legacy for a "Vegetable Sermon" to be preached each year in Shoreditch Parish Church in the week following Pentecost on "the wonderful works of God in creation". Recorded on May 15, 2015. Lees meer
Sorry for the poor quality of this recording. It was improved with de-essing and reverb noise reduction, but only so much could be accomplished.
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Is the Sun Conscious?
26 april 2022 · 45 min
Rupert speculates on the possibility that stars are conscious, given not only the complexity and dynamism of their electro-magnetic activity, but also that all traditional cultures have taken it for granted that the Sun is alive and intelligent. Recorded at the Electric Universe conference in 2018 on July 7th, Bath, UK. Lees meer
Rupert’s technical paper on the consciousness of the sun was published on April 6, 2021 in the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
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Of Philosopher Kings and Theocracies | Are Enlightened People Better Judges of Reality?
19 april 2022 · 11 min
A question to Rupert from Ali-Reza Omidvar of the Oxford Psychedelic Society; March, 2022. https://oxpsysoc.org/ Lees meer
Don't you think there is a kind of a philosophical principle: that a community of people who have had more states of consciousness are a more qualified community to give judgments on reality? Not to say that their judgment is right and accurate, but just to say that, for example, the community of Hindu mystics and shamans. That community is better qualified, because they have experienced a wider variety of states of consciousness than the community of materialists, who may have not had those experiences.
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Easter, Passover and the Archetype of Blood Sacrifice
14 april 2022 · 7 min
Easter and Passover are closely linked festivals , and this year they overlap, with Passover beginning on Good Friday, April 14. Both are rooted in ancient traditions of blood sacrifice, which in turn has its evolutionary roots in the behaviour of predators; when they have killed one prey animal and have enough to eat, the others are safe for a while. The death of one protects the others. These archetypes run very deep in many religions and cultures. They are still with us today in secular societies, on an unprecedented scale: in the US alone, about 25 million vertebrate animals are sacrificed every year on the altar of science in biomedical research. This is a good time to reflect on how much we owe to those who have died for our sakes, and the Easter archetype of death and rebirth. Lees meer
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Reason for Hope Beyond Materialism | How can we ease the trauma that we see all over the world?
12 april 2022 · 7 min
A question to Rupert from the Oxford Psychedelic Society; March, 2022. Hosted by Ali-Reza Omidvar. https://oxpsysoc.org/ Lees meer
You mentioned Terence McKenna. He said about the current situation of our society, and about our point in history as a whole, that we are in a state of transition. He compared it to the process of birth, which you mentioned in your talk (Episode 35:Expanding Consciousness with Psychedelics). So if you as humanity are in the birth canal, how can we ease the pains and traumas that we see all over the world? And what can we do to not lose faith that there is something beyond?
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Expanding Consciousness with Psychedelics
6 april 2022 · 1 uur 19 min
This talk was given to the Oxford Psychedelic Society in March, 2022 and was hosted by Ali-Reza Omidvar. https://oxpsysoc.org/
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David Abram, What is Magic?
29 maart 2022 · 54 min
Rupert and David Abram probe the meaning and manifestation of magic. Recorded at Hollyhock on Cortes Island, Canada, on August 6, 2015. Lees meer
David Abram, PhD, is a cultural ecologist, founder of The Alliance for Wild Ethics and award winning author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. An accomplished storyteller and sleight-of-hand magician David has lived and traded magic with indigenous sorcerers in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas.
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Microcast: Has Culture Lost Sight of the Sublime?
22 maart 2022 · 2 min
This excerpt is from a panel discussion at IAI’s festival, HowTheLightGetsIn, entitled _Trash, trends and the transcendent_ recorded 21st February 2022. What really is the sublime and where can we find it in the 21st century? Lees meer
Watch the full discussion on IAI TV: https://iai.tv/video/trash-trends-and-the-transcendent?_auid=2020
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Why is there so much beauty in the world?
15 maart 2022 · 39 min
Dr Sheldrake explores the evolution of the sense of beauty in animals and humans, how beauty seems to be inherent in nature, arising in resonance with animal minds both great and small. Recorded Hollyhock on Cortes Island, British Columbia, August 2017. Lees meer
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What Science Can't Explain, a Debate with Michael Brooks
8 maart 2022 · 15 min
A discussion between Rupert and Michael Brooks, consultant for the New Scientist and author of “13 Things That Don't Make Sense”. Chair: Vivienne Parry, science broadcaster and author of “The Truth About Hormones” at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London on Jan 27 2009. Lees meer
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Seven Myths about Religion, with Jonas Atlas
1 maart 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Rupert and theologian Jonas Atlas take a deep dive into the seven secular myths about religion. The article by Atlas that sparked this conversation can be found here:
https://bit.ly/3fRwnw4 Lees meerRecorded July 20th, 2020.