Rupert Sheldrake, PhD is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 12 books, including Science Set Free and Science and Spiritual Practices. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Know Fellow at Harvard, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005-2010 the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England. His website is sheldrake.org.
Some of Rupert’s books:
- Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health
- Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery
- The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature
- Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised
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Interview recorded November 20, 2018.
Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.
YouTube Video Chapters:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
- 00:03:14 – Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance
- 00:06:30 – Controversy and Memory in Nature
- 00:09:48 – Morphic Resonance and Memory
- 00:12:47 – The Ultimate Morphic Field
- 00:16:02 – The Trinity Principle in Hinduism
- 00:19:09 – Levels of Consciousness and the Pervading Field
- 00:22:01 – The Subtle Body and the Dream Body
- 00:25:06 – Morphic Fields and Boundaries
- 00:28:14 – Promissory Materialism and the Wager
- 00:31:28 – The Unfathomable Complexity of the Universe
- 00:34:41 – The Belief in Science as a Faith
- 00:37:46 – The Potential of Analog Computing and the Rejection of Materialism
- 00:40:48 – The Materialistic Perspective on Spirituality
- 00:44:12 – Dismissing Dzogchen and the Arrogance of Atheism
- 00:47:13 – Accepting Your Own Experience
- 00:50:09 – The Fallacy of Winner-Takes-All Thinking and Scientific Fundamentalism
- 00:53:03 – The Tendency for “One True Path” Ideology in Religion
- 00:56:13 – The Phenomenon of Homogeneous Hydrogen
- 00:59:34 – The Divine Ordering Principles in Science and Spirituality
- 01:02:45 – The Impressive Buildings of Europe
- 01:06:09 – Exploring the Effects of Drugs on Consciousness
- 01:09:06 – Yin and Yang polarity in Taoist philosophy
- 01:12:27 – Morphic Resonance and Vibratory Patterns
- 01:15:34 – Father Bede Griffiths and the Ashram Experience
- 01:19:00 – Comparing Christian and Indian Traditions
- 01:22:20 – Morphic Resonance in Rituals and Pilgrimages
- 01:25:23 – Circumambulation in Different Religions
- 01:28:05 – The Consciousness of Nature and the Sun
- 01:31:20 – The concept of panentheism
- 01:34:11 – Interview Release Update
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