Science Set Free Podcasts with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
This Science Set Free podcast is a discussion between Mark Vernon and Rupert about science as a belief system. Mark is a British writer and …
It All Goes By So Fast, Matthew
A few years ago, Nana and I were talking about how life was when she was a kid. It was a very different world on …
Vision of a Fundamentally Different Future
The following is an except from the book, From Healthcare at a Turning Point: A Roadmap for Change by Rita E. Numerof. It’s the year …
Creationism vs. Evolution: The Debate
Bill Nye and Ken Ham debated the origins of life last night live from the Creationist Museum in Kentucky. The great success of the debate …
Turtles All the Way Down
I first read the phrase “Turtles All the Way Down” in a book by Stephen Hawking. According to the story, a big name scientist was …
Inequality for All
We’re in the biggest economic slump since the Great Depression, and we can’t seem to get out of it. Why? Because, exactly as in the …
Scientists Claim That Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness
A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe” has stirred up the Internet, because it …
The 10 Dogmas of Science
The science delusion is the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in. This is a persistent delusion within science. …
Do I have Φ?
Panpsychism, the ancient doctrine that consciousness is universal, offers some lessons in how to think about subjective experience today. Unlike classical panpsychism, not all physical …
The Closing of the Scientific Mind
From David Gelernter in Commentary Magazine: “The huge cultural authority science has acquired over the past century imposes large duties on every scientist. Scientists have …
Top 25 Science Stories of 2013
[post_intro]From Science News: Last year it was easy to choose a story to lead our annual Top 25 list. The discovery of the Higgs boson …
Electric Universe 2013: The Tipping Point
This is Part 1 of a talk by Sheldrake at the conference Electric Universe 2013: The Tipping Point, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Many scientists like …
The 20 Things I Learned in 2013
That sleep helps clean our brain. Or in the words of the journal Science, “Observations showed that when mice sleep, channels between neurons in their …
To Be Loved or Feared?
[post_intro]In early sixteenth century, Machiavelli asks, “Of cruelty and mercy, and whether it is better to be loved than to be feared or the contrary?”[/post_intro] …
Blackfish Tonight
Sea World in San Diego amazed me. I was completely mesmerized by the Killer Whales and watched them swim around the pool for most of …
The Science of Interconnectedness
Sheldrake proposes that “memory” is inherent in cells, and that life exhibits “evolutionary habits,” a quality that Darwin also noted. “Cells come from other cells …
Nelson Mandela: 1918 – 2013
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela From CNN: Word of Nelson Mandela’s death spread …
The Coca-Cola Co. Does Not need Atlanta
After Martin Luther King Jr. won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, plans for an interracial celebration in still-segregated Atlanta were not initially well supported by …
Here We Shall Drag Them
The Harpies’ first appearance in Greek literature is incongruously charming. For Hesiod, they are goddesses of the scudding storm clouds, “lovely-haired,” keeping pace “on their …
Democratize Science!
Let the public decide on the fate of 1% of our science budget. In the 19th century, Charles Darwin was just one of the many …
A Book for Burning?
[post_intro]John Maddox says of Rupert Sheldrake’s work, “I was so offended by it that I said and I said that while it’s wrong that book …
Accessing the Mystic: The Via Negativa
[post_intro]What happens when a Cambridge-trained scientist and a revolutionary priest join forces to probe the mystery of spiritual experience? The answer lies in Accessing the …
The Messiahs: Mithras, Osiris, and Apollonius
[post_intro]A long time ago, in a land far away, a child was born. He was the son of a god and a mortal woman, and …