Epsiode 169: Talking with Rupert Sheldrake and Mike Morrell

Mike's Multiverse

Mike McHargue

Science, Leisure, Society & Culture, Games

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🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Science Mike talks with Rupert Sheldrake and Mike Morrell about science, theology, and panentheism. Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and author of more than eighty-five scientific papers and twelve books, including The Presence of the Past, Science Set Free and Science and Spiritual Practices. He was among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich, Switzerland's leading think tank.He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Know Fellow at Harvard, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce. Connect with his vast body of work online at Sheldrake.org. Mike Morrell is the collaborating author, with Fr. Richard Rohr, on The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation (you can download a free bonus chapter here.) He's also the founder of Wisdom Camp, a retreat for mystical misfits, and a founding organizer of the justice, arts, and spirituality Wild Goose Festival. Mike additionally enjoys publishing consulting, author coaching, and curating a community of book reviewers, Speakeasy. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Asheville, North Carolina.

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0:00.0	This week we've got an interview with notable and controversial biologist Rupert Sheldrake on a special episode of Ask Science Mike.
0:11.0	You've got questions, he's got answers, even though he may not understand,
0:17.0	he'll talk anyway.
0:18.0	We have problems.
0:19.0	He won't solve them, but he'll talk and talking and talking till it's blue in the face. Science, faith, and life
0:27.0	Ask Science Mike.
0:30.0	Well here we are in a brand new year and it turns out that my podcast microphone still works.
0:36.0	Hello everyone, I am Mike McCarg, the host of Ask Science Mike, and we are coming back from a bit of a break over the holidays and trauma therapy and all kinds of things.
0:49.0	Friends, it is so good to talk with you again and from this week forward we'll have regular
0:55.5	episodes coming again patrons watch out we'll start the polls up again in the
1:00.0	next week or two and get back to more of our normal format for the program.
1:04.9	I wanted to give you an update, kind of on what's going on with Science Mike.
1:11.2	First thing, I am in the final stretch of working on my second book, which is called
1:17.8	You Wondrous You, why you're a miracle and a pain in your ass and it's going to be I hope a wonderful book but I'm in that
1:28.0	terrible stage where it's a slog I am in my office for 8 or 10 hours a day, writing and writing, and every day I walk
1:37.3	out and I feel like the book is no closer to being finished. I think there's parts of it that I love and parts of it that my good friend and editor Derek Reed is going to really, really, really have to give me extensive notes on.
1:53.0	So that's one reason I haven't been doing the podcast is writing the book.
1:59.0	The other thing, if you listen to my Christmas show, if you could call it that, is that I've been dealing with just some
2:08.8	mental health stuff.
2:09.8	Honestly, I want to talk about it unself consciously because there shouldn't be any
2:15.2	stigma around people seeking to improve their mental health and deal with
2:21.7	changes in life and that that is what has been
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