477. Rupert Sheldrake

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 12 books, including Science Set Free and Science and Spiritual Practices. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Know Fellow at Harvard, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005-2010 the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England. His website is sheldrake.org. Some of Rupert's books: Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised Transcript of this interview Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Interview recorded November 20, 2018. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:03:14 - Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance 00:06:30 - Controversy and Memory in Nature 00:09:48 - Morphic Resonance and Memory 00:12:47 - The Ultimate Morphic Field 00:16:02 - The Trinity Principle in Hinduism 00:19:09 - Levels of Consciousness and the Pervading Field 00:22:01 - The Subtle Body and the Dream Body 00:25:06 - Morphic Fields and Boundaries 00:28:14 - Promissory Materialism and the Wager 00:31:28 - The Unfathomable Complexity of the Universe 00:34:41 - The Belief in Science as a Faith 00:37:46 - The Potential of Analog Computing and the Rejection of Materialism 00:40:48 - The Materialistic Perspective on Spirituality 00:44:12 - Dismissing Dzogchen and the Arrogance of Atheism 00:47:13 - Accepting Your Own Experience 00:50:09 - The Fallacy of Winner-Takes-All Thinking and Scientific Fundamentalism 00:53:03 - The Tendency for "One True Path" Ideology in Religion 00:56:13 - The Phenomenon of Homogeneous Hydrogen 00:59:34 - The Divine Ordering Principles in Science and Spirituality 01:02:45 - The Impressive Buildings of Europe 01:06:09 - Exploring the Effects of Drugs on Consciousness 01:09:06 - Yin and Yang polarity in Taoist philosophy 01:12:27 - Morphic Resonance and Vibratory Patterns 01:15:34 - Father Bede Griffiths and the Ashram Experience 01:19:00 - Comparing Christian and Indian Traditions 01:22:20 - Morphic Resonance in Rituals and Pilgrimages 01:25:23 - Circumambulation in Different Religions 01:28:05 - The Consciousness of Nature and the Sun 01:31:20 - The concept of panentheism 01:34:11 - Interview Release Update

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer. Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of interviews with spiritually awakening people and discussions about spiritual topics.
0:39.3	I've done nearly 500 of these now, and if this is new to you and you'd like to check out previous ones,
0:46.3	please go to Batgap.com, B-A-T-G-A-P, and look under the past interviews menu.
0:52.3	This show is made possible by the support of appreciative listeners and viewers.
0:58.0	So if you appreciate it and would like to support it, there's a PayPal button on every page of Batgap.com
1:04.0	and there's also a page about other ways to donate.
1:07.0	Someone just yesterday called and said she doesn't really like PayPal, how else can I do it?
1:12.7	So there's a page which explains that.
1:17.5	I'm really honored to have as my guest today, Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.
1:30.1	Rupert is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 12 books, including science set free and science and spiritual practices. And also this one, which I've been reading a bit, dogs that know when their owners are
1:33.8	coming home.
1:34.8	I'd actually have several more books to hold up for you, but he appears to be popular
1:38.9	in Fairfield, Iowa, because his several other books were checked out of the library,
1:42.5	and I couldn't get him. Rupert has a distinguished academic career and the details of which I'll post in the description under this video
1:51.0	and also on his page on Batgap.com.
1:55.0	And I'm sure it's also detailed on his website, which is Sheldrake.org.
2:00.0	So welcome Rupert and thank you so much for doing this.
2:03.5	Good to be with you, Rick.
2:05.6	I'm really fascinated with the topics you study and discuss, morphic fields, the relationship
2:12.0	between science and spirituality, the delusion and dogmas of modern science. And I think all of these have tremendous implications for the future of humanity, actually,
2:22.3	including whether humanity will even have a future.
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