Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert's talk at the _Earth Talks: Joy of Six_ series, delivered by Schumacher College in partnership with Dartington Hall. Recorded at Schumacher College on September 23rd, 2020.

https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/

Rupert’s talk at the 2020 Oxford Real Farming Conference. Recorded at Oxford Town Hall, Jan 9th, 2020

http://orfc.org.uk/

Recorded in April of 2020

Rupert Spira is an international teacher of the Advaita Vedanta direct path method, author of several books, including "Being Aware of Being Aware" and "The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter". He hosts retreats in Europe and the US, as well as weekly webinars. He's also a notable ceramic artist.

https://non-duality.rupertspira.com

Many materialists believe that psychic phenomena are impossible, and hence illusory. Here are a couple of questions you might ask your materialist friends or family members:

Have you yourself ever had any seemingly telepathic experiences?
What might persuade you to change your mind?

Rupert visits Derbyshire to discuss saints, holy places and much more with John Butler, one of the first organic farmers in the county. John spends about four hours a day meditating in Bakewell Parish Church, as he has almost every day for 25 years.

Watch the talk: https://youtu.be/aiXXlt-8l40

John's website: https://spiritualunfoldment.co.uk

Terence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000. We were close friends and had many wonderful conversations, many of which are available on my website at: 
https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/terence-mckenna

Two of our conversations, trialogues with Ralph Abraham,  were published in book form:

Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/chaos-creativity-and-cosmic-consciousness

The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit 
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-evolutionary-mind

This is an excerpt from a conversation with Roi Yozevitch
https://www.youtube.com/c/RoiYozevitch

In The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (published in the US as Science Set Free), I show the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity. In 2020 I released an updated edition with new findings.
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-science-delusion-science-set-free

This talk was hosted by Georgia Graham of TalkBox
TalkBox is a community organisation that draws people together to collectively engage in talks, debates and discussions. They curate cutting edge, and now virtual, events with informal and welcoming atmospheres. 
https://www.thetalkbox.co.uk

Recorded on Dec 27th, 2021.

Please email your experiences with this phenomena to [email protected]

For more information on this phenomena see my book _The Sense of Being Stared At_
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-sense-of-being-stared-at-and-other-unexplained-powers-of-human-minds

Many people used to think that belief in God would disappear with the advance of science. But that has not happened, and some prominent atheists are now trying to reinvent religion. What is going on? Is the universe ultimately conscious or unconscious? And if consciousness pervades all nature, how does it work?

Recorded in August of 2014, at Hollyhock on Cortes Island, Canada.
https://hollyhock.ca/

The third in a series of questions. Please try them out with your materialist friends!

Do you think that dark matter is conserved? 
Is there always the same amount of dark matter? 
Can you accept that there may be a continuous creation of dark energy as the universe expands?