Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

A wide ranging discussion of consciousness at the intersection of science and spirituality with Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University Rupert worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Microcast: Questions for Materialists part 2

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?

Dec 02, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Geshe Tenzin Namdak, Science and Contemplative Traditions

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...

Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Microcast: Questions for Materialists part 1

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?

Nov 25, 2021•4 min•Season 1Ep. 4

David Bentley Hart, Learning from Animals

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

Nov 23, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Microcast: Terminal Lucidity in Animals

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 sheldrake@sheldrake.org

Nov 18, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 2

The Rebirth of Nature

Rupert Sheldrake argues for moving beyond the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature as inanimate and purposeless. He explains how recent scientific developments in quantum theory, chaos, cosmology, and consciousness studies are revealing nature as a dynamic, self-organizing system with inherent purpose and awareness at all levels. This re-enchantment with a living nature, including cosmic consciousness, offers a more inspiring and holistic scientific paradigm.

Nov 16, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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