Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

A talk about research on the sense of being stared at, given to the Society for Psychical Research https://www.spr.ac.uk on January 31, 2022. Rupert outlines the natural history of this phenomenon, experienced by more than 90% of the population, including children, which is also widespread among non-human animals. He discusses its implications for theories of vision and the ideas about the extended mind, the mind beyond the brain. He shows how major unanswered questions could be answered through further research, much of which could be done quite simply and cheaply.

Social groups as morphic fields have a kind of built-in memory. In human families the family has a kind of field and the field of the family has patterns and habits within it, and this is most graphically illustrated by a form of psychotherapy called systemic family constellations, pioneered by the German psychologist Bert Hellinger.

An excerpt from a talk at the 2012 IONS Conference in San Francisco. https://noetic.org

Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/ty5lz9mVezU

A talk given at the Advaya Initiative workshop ‘Consciousness: Re-Defining Our Parameters’. Recorded at the Rudolf Steiner House, London, on December 3rd, 2018.

The full talk: https://advaya.co/events/2018/12/02/consciousness-re-defining-our-parameters

Rupert answered this question during a talk given at Hollyhock in 2014. Might dreams tell us something about what happens when we die?

The full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxsNpMpPT3Q

A talk at the University of Northampton given on the 27th of November, 2018 - Morley Room, Waterside Campus.

Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/JtW-FowdF44

Thanks to The Psychedelic Society (http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk) for this excerpt from a  conversation between Rupert and Robin Carhart-Harris, with Stephen Reid hosting. Recorded on the 26th of June, 2019 at EartH, Hackney, London, UK.

The full talk: https://youtu.be/l4HuFHWPc6k

Rupert’s keynote address at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS https://noetic.org) 18th International Conference in Santa Clara, California, July 19th, 2019.

Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/8F1AsThU3_I

The books:
Science and Spiritual Practices
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/science-and-spiritual-practices

· Meditation
· Gratitude
· Connecting with nature
· Relating to plants
· Rituals
· Singing and chanting
· Pilgrimage and holy places

Ways to Go Beyond And Why They Work
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/ways-to-go-beyond-and-why-they-work?yt=IONS2019

· The Spiritual Side of Sports
· Learning from Animals
· Fasting
· Cannabis, Psychedelics and Spiritual Openings
· Powers of Prayer
· Holy Days and Festivals
· Cultivating Good Habits, Avoiding Bad Habits and Being Kind 

An excerpt from a longer conversation between Rupert and philosopher Tim Freke (https://timfreke.com), an internationally respected authority on world spirituality and the bestselling author of more than 20 books.

Watch the full conversation: https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/sheldrake-talks-with

Dr Williams responds to Rupert's talk on spiritual practice, starting at 33:20.

Rupert speaks with Dr Rowan Williams, noted poet and translator of poetry, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Learned Society of Wales. In 2013, he was made a life peer, becoming Lord Williams of Oystermouth, in the City and County of Swansea.

Recorded in January of 2020.

This is an excerpt from an episode of the South Bank Show on Blake originally broadcast in 1995. Watch the full documentary here: https://youtu.be/Qvx0on0Hj2I

The image being discussed is Blake's painting of Newton from 1795: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(Blake)#/media/File:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg