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Chris Carter on Skeptiko
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...Sheldrake in National Review
14. April 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...Sheldrake: Audio Lectures and Interviews
30. March 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...Science and Spirit
28. March 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...Sheldrake on Beauty in Nature
27. March 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...New Jung and Sheldrake Videos
17. September 2007
I’ve posted a few new videos on blip.tv (blip is like youtube but much better). Here is a list of the clips: A Glorious Accident: Sheldrake Interview A Glorious Accident: Homing Pigeons A Glorious Accident: Clash of Minds Part II Glorious Accident: Laws of Nature or Habits? A Glorious Accident: Clash of Minds Part I Continue to Blip.tv…
Continue reading...Make Your Dog Famous
13. September 2007
OpenSourceScience released a press-release about their search for psychic dogs: Researchers at OpenSourceScience.net have offered a $1,000 prize to dogs who successfully demonstrate they know when their owners are coming home. Many dog owners claim their pets anticipate their arrival by going to wait at a door, window, or driveway. Some claim their dogs do this [...]
Continue reading...Some Sheldrake Stuff
12. September 2007
It’s interesting that the deeper I dive into ancient Hinduism, the closer I come to the same view that Sheldrake expresses in his first book, A New Science of Life. Most people don’t know this, but Rupert has a copy of the original manuscript he submitted for publication. It was reject as far to mystical [...]
Continue reading...Placebos and Mind-Body Relationships
9. September 2007
Rupert has just returned back home from Hollyhock in British Columbia in Canada. The popular retreat hosted the most recent trialogue with Rupert Sheldrake, Andrew Weil and Ralph Abraham on the topic of “Placebos and Mind-Body Relationships”. Most of modern medicine and science deny the power of the of mind to heal - yet everyone [...]
Continue reading...Parapsychology and The Skeptics
6. September 2007
Sheldrake has written the Forward for a new book, Parapsychology and The Skeptics, by Chris Carter (not the X-Files Chris Carter), on the history of dogmatic skepticism and parapsychology. The book opens with a very interesting anecdote from the seventeenth century - when people believed that balls of fire came hurtling to Earth from space [...]
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