Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

Recorded on November 5th, 2021

A dialogue from Beyond The Brain 2021 – Further Reaches of Consciousness Research, with host  David Lorimer, organzied by the Department of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, the Scientific and Medical Network, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and the Alef Trust.

Graham Hancock is the NY Times best-selling author of a series of controversial books, notably Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), Heaven’s Mirror (1998), Underworld (2002), Magicians of the Gods (2015) and America Before (2019), investigating the possibility of a lost advanced civilization of the Ice Age. He is also known for his work on the role of altered states of consciousness in the origins of art and religion — an interest explored in his 2005 book Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Man.
https://grahamhancock.com/

Beyond the Brain is the world’s premier conference series exploring new research on whether and how consciousness and mind extend beyond the physical brain and body. This year’s event covers the limitations of scientific materialism, parapsychological research, implications of NDEs, savant syndrome, indigenous gateways to the soul and the nature of universal love. There will also be an experiential session on each day.
https://scientificandmedical.net

Watch on YouTube
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Have you ever felt that you are being looked at from behind and turned to see someone watching you? Or that you've been watching someone and they turn and look directly at you? I believe this experience has a directional quality to it and I would like to hear from those who have felt this directional sense.

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

Recorded in London on June 21st, 2021

On June 21, 1981, Rupert published his first book “A New Science of Life” in which he proposed the hypothesis of morphic resonance, the idea that memory is inherent in nature. This talk was given on the fortieth anniversary, to the Institute of Noetic Science and the British Scientific and Medical Network.

https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/a-new-science-of-life-morphic-resonance

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

Do you think you are a complex machine? 
Have you been programmed to believe in Materialism?

Recorded May 25, 2021
Rupert and Buddhist teacher Geshe Tenzin Namdak discuss how science and contemplative traditions can inform us about  the nature of reality, the interconnectedness of all phenomena and the relation between consciousness and the material world. Geshe Tenzin Namdak first worked as an environmental researcher having graduated in hydrology from Van Hall Larenstein University, The Netherlands. He started studying Buddhism at Maitreya Institute in 1993 and took ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama before engaging in his formal studies in Buddhist philosophy and psychology at Sera Jey Monastic University, South India, in 1997. He completed the entire twenty-year Geshe program at Sera Jey in 2017 and the traditional one year Vajrayana study program at Gyume Tantric College in January 2019, the first Westerner to do so. Because of his deep interest and background in science and as a member of Sera Jey’s Education Department he spoke on and organized various dialogues and conferences on contemporary science and ancient contemplative wisdom of the mind and its philosophy. Currently, he is the resident teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, and teaches worldwide.

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Each dialogue explores the middle ground between science and contemplative wisdom, focusing on themes such as the ethics of artificial intelligence, gender equality, climate change, and the benefits of mindfulness and meditation for mental health.

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

Is the mechanistic worldview a testable scientific theory, or a metaphor?
If it is a metaphor, why is the machine metaphor better in every respect than the organism metaphor?

Recorded June 9th, 2021
A dialogue with the philosopher David Bentley Hart, author of _Roland in Moonlight_ in which he has conversations with his dog Roland. David is one of my favourite philosophers and this is our first dialogue.

He has just started a new subscription channel for his writings: https://davidbentleyhart.substack.com

This is an appeal for information about experiences with dogs, cats and other animals that are about to die. I am trying to find out if ‘terminal lucidity’, whereby some people with dementia recover their memory and clarity soon before dying, occurs in non-human animals too.

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

Recorded April 23rd, 2020.

Rupert urges us to move beyond the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature, explaining in lucid terms why we can no longer regard the world as inanimate and purposeless. He shows that recent developments in science itself have brought us to the threshold of a new synthesis in which traditional wisdom, intuitive experience, and scientific insight can be mutually enriching. 

This is Rupert’s first live online talk, conducted by Hardo Pajula of the Edmund Burke Society in Estonia. Many thanks to Hardo and the EBS for permission to republish this audio recording. http://www.burke.ee/

___Read the book___
The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God  
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-rebirth-of-nature