Schools Kill Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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Feb 20
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Sep 12
How We Read The Minds of Others
Rebecca Saxe, a neuroscientist at MIT, studies how our brains consider and interact with other people’s minds. Using MRI, she discovered that we have a part of the brain specifically dedicated to minding the minds of others, and at a recent TED conference discussed some fascinating findings she discovered in her study:
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Aug 16
A Quest Beyond the Limits of the Ordinary
Two amazing minds came together in Seattle, Washington in August 2007 to push the edge of history well beyond the limits of the ordinary. Blending science and spirituality into startling insights, acclaimed revolutionary biologists Rupert Sheldrake and Bruce Lipton show us the wonder and daring of their research and how it relates to our lives.
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The New Blueprint
Watch this video of Rupert Sheldrake speaking about “The New Blueprint” at the Biology of Transformation Conference. Rupert Sheldrake is a former Research Fellow at the Royal Society, who has extended the theme of connectiveness with his own theory of biology, which he calls the morphic field. This suggests an intelligent and developing universe that has an inherent memory.
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Morphic Resonance and the Nature of Memory
Rupert Sheldrake proposes that nature is governed not by fixed laws, but by evolving habits. According to hypothesis of formative causation, all self-organizing systems, including crystals, organisms, and societies contain an inherit memory, given by a process called morphic resonance from previous similar systems. All human beings draw upon a collective human memory, and in turn contribute to it. Even individual memory depends on morphic resonance rather than on physical memory traces stored within the brain. This hypothesis is testable experimentally, and has many implications, some of which Rupert explores in this talk. Filmed on location at St. James Church, Piccadilly, London.
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Glorious Accident Interview with Rupert Sheldrake
“Through no fault of our own, and by dint of no cosmic plan or conscious purpose, we have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life’s continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to such responsibility, but here we are.” -Stephen Jay Gould
Ever wanted to know Rupert Sheldrake’s thoughts on some of the most basic questions about life?
- What is the nature of our consciousness?
- What concepts has our consciousness developed about our temporal existence?
- What will we derive most from our consciousness: knowledge or understanding?
- What were the questions that fascinated you when you were growing up?
- What questions keep you spellbound today?
From the popular PBS series, A Glorious Accident. This is the complete interview with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake. From the back cover: Some of the most brilliant minds and creative thinkers of our time meet … Oliver Sacks, neurologist, psychiatrist, and author of Awakenings. Rupert Sheldrake, controversial cell biologist and biochemist. Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher of consciousness and author of Consciousness Explained. Stephen Toulmin, physicist and philosopher of science. Freeman Dyson, a physicist with particular interest in mathematics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and popular writer on evolutionary biology all scientists and philosophers, minds of reputed extraordinary scope and imagination, to publish the presumed boundaries of scientific theories and philosophical ideas in a series of unprecedented interviews.
Each interview covers the major ideas, work, philosophy, and questions that confound each of these intellectual giants. The series of six individual interviews concludes with a “clashing of minds” as all six scholars join in a three-hour discussion to ponder the fundamental scientific, philosophical, and ethical questions of our time. Do they have the answers? If they don’t, who does?
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Sheldrake on Homing Pigeons
From the 1997 program Seven Experiments That Could Change World. From the cover, “Do you and your pet have a psychic link? Why is it that you can often “feel” someone staring at you? These are just some of the simple questions posed by unconventional scientist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake. The answers could very well change how you view the world.”
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The Promised Land
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Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Young Indiana Jones, Freud, Jung and Adler
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