[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 Mystic, an unprecedented video featuring…
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 he used his miraculous powers…
Humans have a powerful capacity to process visual information, skills that date far back in our evolutionary lineage. And since the advent of science, we have employed intricate visual strategies…
PBS posted the full episodes of The Fabric of the Cosmos. A four-hour series based on the book by renowned physicist and author Brian Greene, takes us to the frontiers…
I was being wheeled into the operating room. The hospital staff were running along side the gurney. I had sustained a massive injury to my head and I was unconscious,…
Each mammalian cell has the same genes, yet performs distinct functions. This is achieved by epigenetic control of gene expression; the switching on and switching off of genes. This course…
Something has always troubled me about Darwin’s theory and even modern revisions of his work – there is still no explanation for instinct. Ethologists call instincts innate releasing mechanisms or…
The Christian affirmation of belief in Jesus descent to Hades is in the Apostles Creed and in the so-called Athanasian Creed as well as being article III in the Anglican…
Bilateral symmetry in an organism means that one half is roughly a mirror image of the other half. The plane of symmetry is the sagittal plane (vertically through the head…
Response to the TED Scientific Board’s Statement Rupert Sheldrake March 18, 2013 I would like to respond to TED’s claims that my TEDx talk “crossed the line into pseudoscience”, contains…
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus A philosophical classic. If you were condemned to roll a boulder up a hill every day could you find meaning in that? If…
3/15 Update: The video on the TEDx YouTube channel was removed by TED. I downloaded a copy before they took it down and posted it to Vimeo (creative commons license)….
The latest Sheldrake videos and podcasts… Videos Science Set Free @ California Institute of Integral Studies In this video, recorded in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2012, Dr. Sheldrake speaks…
This is a really interesting presentation originally made on the 15th of January 2013 to a group called “Incognu” which is an association of people interested in Cognition in Toulouse,…
Just about every day at work I have to dial a ridiculously long string of numbers in order to join a conference call. Just about every day on the internet…
Throughout the twentieth century, one of the strongest taboos in biology was against the inheritance of acquired characteristics, sometimes called Lamarckian inheritance, after the pioneering evolutionary biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)….
British biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative scientists, is the author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books and is best known for his…
The Joseph Campbell Foundation is offering a bundle of free downloads from The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell. Foreword to Myth, Religion, and Mother Right An essay in PDF format…
“If I look at a distant star, the light may have taken 10 years to reach my eyes. I think when I project out the image of that star I’m…
Last.fm also says, Matthew is into rock, 80s, pop, new wave and female vocalists. Interesting… Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/nautis