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Rupert Sheldrake - Science & Spiritual Practices

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Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, the biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers, and ten books, who has been ranked as one of the top 100 Global Thought Leaders, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich, Switzerland’s leading think tank. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize (1963). He then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow (1963-64), before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph. D. in biochemistry (1967). He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (1967-73), where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society (1970-73), he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots. From 1968 to 1969, as a Royal Society Leverhulme Scholar, based in the Botany Department of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants. From 1974 to 1985 he was Principal Plant Physiologist and Consultant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he helped develop new cropping systems now widely used by farmers. While in India, he also lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life, published in 1981 (new edition 2009). Since 1981, he has continued research on developmental and cell biology. He has also investigated unexplained aspects of animal behaviour, including how pigeons find their way home, the telepathic abilities of dogs, cats and other animals, and the apparent abilities of animals to anticipate earthquakes and tsunamis. He subsequently studied similar phenomena in people, including the sense of being stared at, telepathy between mothers and babies, telepathy in connection with telephone calls, and premonitions. Although some of these areas overlap the field of parapsychology, he approaches them as a biologist, and bases his research on natural history and experiments under natural conditions, as opposed to laboratory studies. His research on these subjects is summarised in his books Seven Experiments That Could Change the World (1994, second edition 2002), Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home (1999, new edition 2011) and The Sense of Being Stared At(2003, new edition 2012). He received the 2014 Bridgebuilder Award at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, a prize established by the Doshi family “to honour an individual or organisation dedicated to fostering understanding between cultures, peoples and disciplines. ” In 2015, in Venice, Italy, he was awarded the first Lucia Torri Cianci prize for innovative thinking.
.Books:Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative experiences and their effects on our bodies, brains and healthhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Spiritual-Practices-Transformative-experiences/dp/147363007X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Science Delusionhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Delusion-Rupert-Sheldrake/dp/144472794X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-That-Their-Owners-Coming/dp/0099255871/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm where Science and Spirit Meet.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Physics-Angels-Exploring-Science-Spirit/dp/1939681286/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8A New Science of Lifehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Science-Life-Rupert-Sheldrake/dp/1848310420The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Presence-Past-Morphic-Resonance-Habits/dp/1848313063/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8More books by Rupert Sheldrakehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Rupert-Sheldrake/e/B000AQ3F38Notes:Rupert Sheldrake websitehttps://www.sheldrake.org/Rupert Sheldrake on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz8XNwQXIAejAaDmEaPNmIARupert Sheldrake on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/rupertsheldrake?lang=enRupert Sheldrake on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMBtnrBlxkN/Rupert Sheldrake on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_SheldrakeRupert Sheldrake on Rationalwikihttps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rupert_SheldrakeTopics discussed:Hampstead Heathhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead_HeathMorphic Resonancehttps://londonreal.tv/rupert-sheldrake-the-science-delusion/The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhnhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083Scientismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScientismTranscendental Meditationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_MeditationShivahttps://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teenage-mind/201106/history-cannabis-in-indiaHinduismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HinduismUrduhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UrduSufismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SufismSufi meditation

Chapters

00:00 | Trailer
01:49 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
03:58 Brian’s introduction
04:40 Why Rupert loves to go to the Heath
06:24 Paradigm shift concept moves Rupert’s biological research away from mechanistic theory of life
10:56 Richard Dawkins has made science into a religion
11:32 Shiva experience in India opens his mind to possibilities of a higher level of consciousness
16:03 Death and re-birth experience leads to transcendental meditation
19:11 Experience of Asian and middle eastern religions, prompts exploration of Christianity
24:41 What makes an arm an arm and a leg a leg both with same DNA
Idea of morphic resonance
27:03 Rupert experienced no conflict between science and religion or spirituality in India
30:25 Materialism philosophy and being materialistic conflict with existence of consciousness
33:43 Theory of consciousness is a big science problem, where Rupert’s in conflict with atheist Sam Harris
40:03 Rupert considers why people reject religion and argues that Atheism doesn’t have a good track record
43:43 In new book he suggests people try these spiritual practises and their life will probably improve
49:16 How to connect with each of the practices: Meditation;53:41 …Gratitude
58:15 …Connecting with nature
1:03:03 …Relating to plants
1:12:41 …Rituals
1:16:17 …Singing and dancing
1:23:53 …Pilgrimages
1:29:36 Rupert’s final thoughts about the message from the book and encouragement to try practices
1:32:15 Rupert remembers trialogues he had with Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham
1:37:16 What Terence McKenna was like
1:39:01 The importance for Rupert of taking psychedelics
1:44:36 Rupert’s projects for the next five years
1:48:56 Rupert thinks he has been very blessed to have had the opportunities he has had
1:50:49 Success secrets
1:51:22 How he parented his sons
1:53:19 Phone call to the twenty year old Rupert Sheldrake
1:54:00 Advice to the young person listening
1:55:40 Best advice ever received
1:56:10 Brian’s summing up.

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