Peter Russell: Meeting Exponential Change with a Quiet Mind
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
Tami Simon
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The world is accelerating faster than the human mind was built to handle. So what do we do with that? Tami Simon speaks with Peter Russell—physicist, consciousness pioneer, and author of How to Meditate Without Even Trying, featuring a foreword by Eckhart Tolle. Together, they discuss navigating exponential change, the stresses of an AI-driven world, the possibility of our species' extinction, and why effortless stillness may be the most essential skill of our time.
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
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| 0:00.0 | The Sounds True Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.8 | And so I see us, you know, moving towards a world in which we have technology, |
| 0:17.9 | technology beyond our dreams, along with a world that's really breaking at the seams. |
| 0:24.4 | And how do we live with both of those together? |
| 0:33.5 | In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Peter Russell, author, speaker, |
| 0:39.4 | and leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. |
| 0:44.3 | With a first class honors degree in theoretical physics and psychology, |
| 0:50.4 | along with a master's degree in computer science from the University of Cambridge, England. |
| 0:57.4 | Peter also, in addition, studied meditation in India, |
| 1:02.9 | and he's been a teacher of meditation for more than five decades. |
| 1:08.6 | The way he teaches meditation, one of the things he emphasizes, is complete |
| 1:14.8 | effortlessness. And we're going to hear more about that. You may have heard of Peter Russell |
| 1:22.5 | from the work that he created in the 1980s, he coined the term global brain with his bestseller by the same name, in which, ready for this? |
| 1:35.4 | He predicted the internet and some of the impacts it would have on our collective connectivity. |
| 1:45.2 | In addition to writing the global brain, Peter is the author of more than 10 other books, |
| 1:51.7 | including a new book. It's a special Eckhart Tolle edition, and Eckhart writes a |
| 1:58.8 | forward to the book. It's called How to Meditate Without Even Trying. |
| 2:04.6 | Friends, stay with us. |
| 2:14.7 | Peter, welcome. |
| 2:17.4 | Lovely. Thank you. Love to be with you again, Tammy. Lovely, thank you. |
| 2:18.3 | Love to be with you again, Tammy. |
| 2:20.3 | Most people associate your name with your work on the global brain. |
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