meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Peter Russell - Embracing the Natural Pace of Human Life

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today's guest is the speaker, teacher, and author, Peter Russell, a leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. He has studied theoretical physics, experimental psychology, and computer science at the University of Cambridge, and meditation and Eastern Philosophy in India. Talk about refining both the left and right brains.Peter coined the term "global brain" with his 1980's bestseller of the same name in which he predicted the Internet and the impact it would have on huma...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.3

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.7

Welcome to slow more. Today's guest is a speaker, a teacher, an author, a thinker. He is a physicist, a mathematician, a psychologist, and a spiritual seeker.

0:46.0

Peter Russell.

0:48.0

Peter focuses on the topic of consciousness and spiritual awakening,

0:52.9

not only from the point of view of their impact

0:55.9

on our individual growth as humans,

0:58.8

but also from the role they play

1:02.1

in the future of humanity.

1:05.4

And there you are, how are you?

1:08.1

Good, thank you.

1:09.1

It's great.

1:10.2

I am so honored that you're here.

1:13.6

I'm pleased to be with you.

1:15.1

I think we can have a good time.

1:16.6

I've been looking forward to this conversation for a while.

1:19.2

So I think a best start is to talk about a topic that you talk about a lot which is the idea of how fast life has become because I think this is really in line with what we're doing here. You know, slow mow is all about slowing down, about trying to break from the pace that the history of life has put on us.

1:41.0

And I adore the analogy that you use, which is if the history of life is a hundred years, as the Indian philosophy as you say or basically says, then humanity is the blink in the eye of God.

1:54.2

Tell us a bit about that.

1:56.2

It's just, yes, but if you have to look at the time

1:58.2

scales of the whatever it is, 13 billion years of the universe.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mo Gawdat, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mo Gawdat and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.