Chris Carter is on this week’s Skeptiko podcast. Rupert Sheldrake wrote the Forward to Carter’s book Parapsychology & The Skeptics and said this of the book: “A masterly guide to the frontiers of science, belief and exploration. Carter leads us through the interplays of dogma, speculation and empirical research in a stimulating way. The controversy [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 14, 2008
Sheldrake makes an appearance on the conservative National Review blog in the article, End of Consciousness by John Derbyshire. Derbyshine says of Sheldrake’s presentation, “Dr. Sheldrake came to us with a limp, and delivered his address from a chair, having been stabbed in the thigh by a lunatic at a different consciousness conference earlier in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 12, 2008
The next issue of What Is Enlightenment? is going to an interesting one. Here is the excerpt: “In one of WIE’s most eclectic issues yet, we trace the profound influence that the 20th-century luminaries Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have had on the way we see ourselves and our world, and how their [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 10, 2008
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Continue reading...Sunday, March 30, 2008
Over the years, I’ve collected a pretty big collection of digital audio and video files on Rupert Sheldrake. I’ve been posting most of the videos at nautis.blip.tv. Here are some mp3 files, too. I’ll post more later when I get them all tagged properly.
Continue reading...Friday, March 28, 2008
Why is there such a split between science and religion? Was it always this way? As children, were we taught that this is the proper way of the world? Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox discuss these issues in a fascinating talk in Part 2 of Accessing the Mystic.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 27, 2008
Is beauty an aesthetic creation by God for human consumption or is it something more deeply rooted in nature? Why is there so much beauty in the song of birds or the feathers of the peacock? This clip is from Sheldrake’s discussion with Matthew Fox in the video, Accessing the Mystic from 2006.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 27, 2008
When I posted some XP drivers for the Sony VGN-N320E, I received quite a few comments and email. It seems that many people hate Windows Vista and are anxious to downgrade to XP. And, because of Sony’s exceedingly awful customer support, we have had to do this on our own. Is anyone from Sony reading [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 11, 2008
I’ve always enjoyed talking politics with friends. I’ve even stayed in touch with History and Political Science professors from my undergraduate days. A few days ago, while talking with a former History professor, I realized that not everyone sees America the way I do. I told him that for the first time in my life [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 17, 2008
I haven’t really written much in the past few months - other than posting stuff on politics from other sites. I’ve been reflecting on the past. I remember someone once telling me that as you get older you get the most vivid flashback memories of your life. That is what’s been happening to me. Every [...]
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