Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

A talk given at the Advaya Initiative workshop ‘Consciousness: Re-Defining Our Parameters’. Recorded at the Rudolf Steiner House, London, on December 3rd, 2018. The full talk: https://advaya.co/events/2018/12/02/consciousness-re-defining-our-parameters

Rupert answered this question during a talk given at Hollyhock in 2014. Might dreams tell us something about what happens when we die? The full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxsNpMpPT3Q

A talk at the University of Northampton given on the 27th of November, 2018 - Morley Room, Waterside Campus. Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/JtW-FowdF44

Thanks to The Psychedelic Society (http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk) for this excerpt from a  conversation between Rupert and Robin Carhart-Harris, with Stephen Reid hosting. Recorded on the 26th of June, 2019 at EartH, Hackney, London, UK. The full talk: https://youtu.be/l4HuFHWPc6k

Rupert’s keynote address at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS https://noetic.org) 18th International Conference in Santa Clara, California, July 19th, 2019. Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/8F1AsThU3_I The books: Science and Spiritual Practices https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/science-and-spiritual-practices · Meditation · Gratitude · Connecting with nature · Relating to...

An excerpt from a longer conversation between Rupert and philosopher Tim Freke (https://timfreke.com), an internationally respected authority on world spirituality and the bestselling author of more than 20 books. Watch the full conversation: https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/sheldrake-talks-with

Dr Williams responds to Rupert's talk on spiritual practice, starting at 33:20. Rupert speaks with Dr Rowan Williams, noted poet and translator of poetry, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Learned Society of Wales. In 2013, he was made a life peer, becoming Lord Williams of Oystermouth, in the City and County of Swansea. Recorded in...

This is an excerpt from an episode of the South Bank Show on Blake originally broadcast in 1995. Watch the full documentary here: https://youtu.be/Qvx0on0Hj2I The image being discussed is Blake's painting of Newton from 1795: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(Blake)#/media/File:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg

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.ru...

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, t...

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-sheldrak...

Please email your experiences with this phenomena to sheldrake@sheldrake.org 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?

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, no...

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 sheldrake@sheldrake.org

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-...

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...

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