631. Ed Kelly

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 116 minutes

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EDWARD F. KELLY is currently a Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard in 1971, and spent the next 15-plus years working mainly in parapsychology, initially at J. B. Rhine’s Institute for Parapsychology, then for ten years through the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke, and finally through a private research institute in Chapel Hill. Between 1988 and 2002 he worked with a large neuroscience group at UNC-Chapel Hill, mainly carrying out EEG and fMRI studies of human somatosensory cortical adaptation to natural tactile stimuli. He returned full-time to psychical research in 2002, serving as lead author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century (2007), Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality (2015), and Consciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism - (2021), all published by Rowman & Littlefield. He is now returning to his central long-term research interest – the application of modern functional neuroimaging methods to intensive psychophysiological studies of psi and ASCs in exceptional subjects. Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and Transcript of this interview. Interview recorded January 22, 2022. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:04:31 - Overhauling Our Worldview 00:08:31 - The Center for Theory and Research at Esalen 00:12:46 - Anomalies in Conventional Ideas 00:16:49 - Mrs. Piper and the Existence of PSI Phenomena 00:21:00 - Maternal Impression Cases and Vivid Imagination 00:24:59 - Intense and Transformative Experiences 00:28:57 - The Astonishing Abilities of Child Prodigies 00:33:19 - The Neglect of Mystical Experiences in Contemporary Science 00:37:40 - Alfred North Whitehead's Metaphysics and Process Philosophy 00:42:17 - Jung and Pauli's Interaction 00:47:04 - Secondary Personalities and Centers of Consciousness 00:51:21 - The Presence of God in All Things 00:55:55 - Differences between Myers and Jung 01:00:35 - The Changing Culture and Challenges to Physicalist Viewpoint 01:04:52 - The Effect of Psilocybin on Brain Activity 01:09:02 - The Connection Between Consciousness and Global Issues 01:13:25 - Enriching Consciousness and the Whole Field 01:17:36 - The Introverted Mystical Experience 01:22:04 - Exploring Mystical and Psi Phenomena 01:26:22 - The Nature of Reality and Consciousness 01:30:35 - Mystical experiences and scientific justification 01:35:16 - The Stealth Worldview of Evolutionary Pantheism 01:39:47 - The Intersection of Science and Mysticism 01:44:21 - Incorporating Quantum Mechanics in the Study of Consciousness 01:49:06 - Marvels of Functioning Atoms and the Intelligence Factor 01:53:38 - Tapping into our Full Potential 01:57:36 - ESP Performance and EEG Methods 02:02:11 - Levitation and the Laws of Nature 02:06:10 - Levitation and Mystical Ecstasy 02:10:06 - Additional Topics Covered

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:27.9	My name is Rick Archer.
0:30.2	Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people
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0:47.9	previous ones, please go to batgap.com, B-A-T-G-A-P, and look under the past interviews menu. This program is made possible
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1:02.6	to support it, there's a PayPal button on every page of the website, and there's also a donation
1:07.8	page that explains some alternatives to PayPal. So my guest today is Edward F. Kelly.
1:14.4	Edward is currently a professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies,
1:19.5	DOPS is the acronym for that, at the University of Virginia,
1:23.4	where Bruce Grayson and Jim Tucker also work,
1:27.0	and they're in the same department, I think, and I've interviewed both of them in the past year.
1:31.7	He received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard in 1971
1:37.2	and spent the next 15-plus years working mainly in parapsychology, initially at J.B. Rhine's
1:43.5	Institute for Parapsychology,
1:45.5	then for 10 years through the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke, and finally through
1:50.1	a private research institute in Chapel Hill. Between 1988 and 2002, he worked with a large
1:56.1	neuroscience group at UNC Chapel Hill, mainly carrying out EEG and fMRI studies of human somatosensory
2:03.6	cortical adaptation to natural tactile stimuli.
2:08.6	He returned full-time to psychical research in 2002, serving as lead author of Irreducible Mind,
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