A Conscious Universe? - Dr Rupert Sheldrake
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The sciences are pointing toward a new sense of a living world. The cosmos is like a developing organism, and so is our planet, Gaia. The laws of Nature may be more like habits. Partly as a result of the ‘hard problem’ of finding space for human consciousness in the materialist worldview, there is a renewed interest in panpsychist philosophies, according to which some form of mind, experience or consciousness is associated with all self-organizing systems, including atoms, molecules and plants. Maybe the sun is conscious, and so are other stars, and entire galaxies. If so, what about the mind of the universe as a whole? Rupert Sheldrake will explore some of the implications of this idea.
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers, and was named among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize in 1963. Dr Sheldrake then studied philosophy and the history of science at Harvard before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1967.
He is the author of 13 books, and in 2012 he published ‘The Science Delusion’. This book examines the ten dogmas of modern science, and shows how they can be turned into questions that open up new vistas of scientific possibility. It received the Book of the Year Award from the British Scientific and Medical Network. His most recent book: ‘Ways To Go Beyond, And Why They Work’ was published in 2019, and looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. You can keep up to date with Rupert’s work on his website: www.sheldrake.org.
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I love how before the 17th century the prevailing world view was all life had consciousness, including animals & plants, planets, etc. Very unfortunate the subsequent mechanized view reducing animals to machines with no souls. Thank goodness people like yourself Dr. Sheldrake are resurrecting the subject for a greater understanding.
I agree with you that it is unfortunate that the mechanized view of animals and plants became the prevailing worldview in the centuries after the 17th century. This view reduced animals to machines with no souls, and it led to a great deal of suffering for animals. I am hopeful that the work of Dr. Sheldrake and others will help to resurrect the subject of consciousness in animals and plants. I believe that it is important to understand that all living things are interconnected, and that we should treat all living things with respect and compassion.
the more complex the life form, the more you realize they do have consciousness. you look into a dog's eyes and immediately feel that inside their head there is a brain receiving signals from the outside world, much like us.
It was the Christian religion that made it so bad for animals, previously many animals weren't kosher etc, the Christian religion gave mankind dominion over all animals
@@Rafael-pi4md Not a brain....soul. We are soul, animals are soul.....only a different flesh vehicle for this particular lifetime.
@@OceanTopIncAnd sadly one where you will endure a life of suffering and brutality if one is an animal.
To be genius like this is one thing, but to actually tell the story uninterrupted without being all over the place or ppl losing the thread of interest, is a craft most geniuses do not have. It might look and sound great in their head or in the equations but to put it verbally in an easy and digestible format for consensus to consume and understand is a big + :)
The awesome thing I did for myself was when I turned my backyard into a mini forest. I never felt this good and somewhat spiritual and closer to the universe. I kid you not! My mini forest consists of five 30 feet Japanese Maple Trees, one 30 feet Magnolia Tree, 12 Pine Trees about fifty feet tall, Alberta Spruce, Lilacs Trees, Smokey Bush Trees, Walnut Tree, Japanese Apple Tree, climbing trumpet flower, birds and annual flowers. I love my backyard. When I feel sad, I walk barefoot in the backyard and hug my trees. I find joy and happiness being in the backyard. It took me 26 years of hard work and finally I’m starting to enjoy my trees. That’s how long it took those trees to grow into those heights. It’s like a condominium between those branches. So many birds are living in my trees. So cute! Thank you everybody who’s here in the comment section. Life might be difficult for all of us but there is always bright light at the end of the tunnel .❤❤❤ I do hope and pray that we keep loving each other. We live in a troubled world. Love and kindness is stronger than negative force.❤❤❤
JESUS IS LORD The purpose of life is to worship, praise and serve God! TRUE Christianity is Relationship with God. NOT MANMADE RELIGION. Christianity is from Jesus Christ. Jesus created mankind. Religion is mans word. God is INFINITELY (in the literal sense) BETTER THAN ALL THINGS!! 1. believe fully and sincerely in Jesus Christ, the Savior of all humans from sin. 2. Truly Repent of every sin, for example say "Jesus, please forgive me for all sins." 3. Become baptized (recommended, not needed but it helps), and BE SPIRITUALLY REBORN (aka Born Again).
even as a lot of these new types of enlightenment, are appropriated from pre-existing bits of oriental and Buddhist philosophy. This "new sense" is at best accessible to only people like Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, all living inside upper class society. The rest of humanity (say 96%) have no need nor privilege to marvel is the Sun is Conscious. Gaia's revenge is bashing million of people on earth. Being dislocated and made homeless. Lets see Dr. Rupert Sheldrake address that misery also?
@@brazil3207 Where does it say 'Relationship' in your text of graven imagery?
Plastic toys cant give permanent joy they are just objects. Even a pet dog, cat gives more joy
@@natascockTell us more about your desire to needlessly put down others. Fix your bitterness.
An amazing direct transmission! No notes, compelling, comprehensive and convincing. Bravo Prof for your brilliance in the way you simplify a multidimensional complexity.
even as a lot of these new types of enlightenment, are appropriated from pre-existing bits of oriental and Buddhist philosophy. This "new sense" is at best accessible to only people like Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, all living inside upper class society. The rest of humanity (say 96%) have no need nor privilege to marvel is the Sun is Conscious. Gaia's revenge is bashing million of people on earth. Being dislocated and made homeless. Lets see Dr. Rupert Sheldrake address that misery also?
A male docter can never experience pregnancy. He can only talk about it
Well done the feeling is mutual....
01:02:52 "I had intended to talk of morphic resonance in this talk, but I always speak from notes"
Not hard for a topic like this.
find it very encouraging that about 400K people are willing to listen to a Rupert Sheldrake lecture on consciousness. Perhaps there is still some hope for humans......
Only if we stop our habits and consciously choose our path
Thanks for noting that. It's very encouraging.
Well dear doctors of doctor world. We have known this for.... peace Like it matters!
Maybe so.
I feel like you missed the whole message if you lack faith in anything. Whatever’s meant to be will be
This is the third time I've listened to this talk; one might imagine that I'd have learned by now, eh? However, each listen reveals new nuances of understanding for me. Excellent talk - brilliant mind!
There is an elephant in the room, it’s name is God realization.
I agree! Listened to the lecture twice now and plan to listen at least 2-3 times more so as to glean all from it than I am able to do.s
Know the Temple of Solomon, and you will know the Cosmos in all of its aspects;. and forget the current notion of the Third Temple. It will provide nothing at all
Brilliant mind...
I listen to him every night!
Dr Sheldrake is amazing, to conduct a lecture and to explain things so simply, without prompts, without slides is incredible.
My father was a believer in hard science. He was basically a rocket engineer. He had no time for spirituality and thought it hogwash. He was quite surprised when his mother and brother would come and visit him while his body failed due to cancer. They both passed away years earlier. He described to me some of his experiences, and he had all the classic hits, too. He experienced time phenomenon, he would swear he was somewhere else for days when he never left his bed. There was a distinct "guide" that was with him. Dad didn't like him. He manifested as a security guard and wouldn't let my dad leave, even pulled a gun on him once. He had visitations from deceased family members. He was calm. Very calm for understanding his situation. He didn't want to die but there was no panic in him at all. He knew he was going to die. In 45 years it was the only time he ever called just to talk. He knew.... Anyhow if a man like my father can have the classic near death experience, that tells me there is something else going on. As well, i had a desperate urge to get a haircut. I probably get one every 3 to 6 months. I drove across town to the only barber I could find, I was just determined. My dad called me less than a minute after I left the barber. It was a video call. He never did that before and ad I said it was probably only the third time he called in 45 years.There are things in the Universe we don't understand and just don't perceive in our daily lives, but they are there. There is something that connects us, I know. It made me get a haircut.
That's so lovely 😊 We have to practice listening, and following the promptings 😊
Thank you for writing this
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Hi Jason, I'm sorry for your loss and thank you for sharing this story.
Why does he call himself a doctor? This has absolutely nothing to do with science.
Oh my, this is so liberating! I never quite understood how it has become taboo to say something like the Sun could be a god or that trees have consciousness. I spent so much of life under the spell of scientific materialism that I'd managed to doubt all else. The consequence of the materialistic view is that it promotes the primacy of humans. How selfish! Thank you for making me feel ok with the spiritual world again.
If humankind is the custodian of the universe, we are a very bad custodian, because we didn’t report to work for 13 billion years. Human is an insignificant pop up in the universe and will pop out in a flash in the broad framework .
Very well said, I feel the same way
@@santhoshgopinath816 Human consciousness as category of consciousness, need not be limited to planet earth. I personally find that the Vedic concept of life existing on every planet, housed in the form of the predominant elements of that planet - like we find on earth - as very plausible. If humankind are custodians, it would imply respect for the idea that we did not create the universe, but should appreciate it's creation and facilities offered, and respect it as the property of the creator.
@@3-dwalkthroughs Agree with the implication of course
@@santhoshgopinath816 Nonsense. We are no different than the rest of Nature. We are Nature being Nature. The universe knows no such thing as "good" or "bad". It just IS.
Our great grandparents would have simply and bashfully smiled if they heard this talk. Our universe is all about consciousness and the 90% unseen! Our human minds are so powerful that collective human thoughts do produce very visible results … what’s seen in our society today, ie upheavals, restlessness, political chaos … are results of many similarly collective psyches. Ever hear the saying, “society gets the politicians they deserve?” … “Watch your thoughts, they become words … words actions …” Everything one does is recorded in the universe! “Everything we do in life echoes in eternity.” ( from the movie Gladiators). I talk to plants, the birds & the bees, and yes, even my car … because I truly can and because everything is truly connected. This is how great & wonderful God’s universe just is! 🙏
Do you feel like this is how we've always known it to be from when we were youngsters but got caught up in the things of this world and selfishly at times putting our own selves first and that is what forgiveness is for ?
A fascinating man to listen to, very engaging and doesn't 'talk down' to people. Interesting lecture.
Looking for consciousness in the brain is like trying to find the radio show in the radio. 😎
The Universe IS conscious, and it communicates with you via synchronicity. Synchronicity IN TANDEM with the "little voice" inside you. However, the universe, for whatever reason, prefers order & love. And, you'll find the universe awfully quiet if you perpetuate negativity, chaos, or hate. One thing it took me a LONG-TIME to understand is the following: Being kind, loving, and altruistic usually comes with a personal cost, so it almost NEVER seems worth it. Yet, this is the only way to truly "walk a higher path."
Tell me: what comes at a higher personal cost: perpetuating negativity, chaos and hate, or being generally kind and compassionate (I don't see any good in altruism), all of which have nothing to do with being naive and okay to being taken advantage of, since opening yourself to be victimized contributes to turns others into culprits, which isn't a loving thing to do. And on the universe, preferring order is like saying that the earth is the way it is to provide a place to live for the plants and animals we find on it. In reality it's the other way around: Those for whom the environment can't maintain them, seize to exist, so what remains are those who can cope with the situation. Then: synchronicity isn't a form of communication. If 2 hailstones of the same size fall from the same cloud to the ground at the same speed next to each other, it isn't due to a preferred order, but because they're both bound by the same physics involved.
@@BorisNoiseChannel I respect, and moreover UNDERSTAND, your beliefs and observations my friend. For, I'm keenly aware your viewpoint is, by far, the more logical and rational intellectual approach. However, certain (synchronicity infused) events have REPEATEDLY transpired in my life, and many of them utterly DEFY probability. I know you won't/can't accept that statement. You SHOULDN'T accept it. These things happened to me, and even I can scarcely accept them. But, as an educated and intelligent person, I've studied/contemplated these events at length, without bias, and that's how I've arrived at my conclusions. I have NO DESIRE to believe these things, as a person with a mathematically driven mind. I'd MUCH prefer to believe as you do. I hope this finds you well.
@@BorisNoiseChannel if I may, to me being kind, loving and altruistic should come from within with all sincerity and no fear of being used, or expectations of gratitude. If people turn into culprits after you helped them, it is their choice. Yet, you are always free to walk away in that case. Re. Synchonicities - these are personal things, events, connected by a meaning, that is understandable only by the observer.
Dear Dr.Sheldrake, You are one of the Heroes of humanity, thank You for your work!
Да, совершенно согласен!
A burbling, bourgeois Christian new-ager is no 'hero'.
A work already done centuries ago. They are only rediscovering it. Consciousness is core of spirituality in hinduism. When you raise your consciousness, you see the beauty,and life in everything. The sun also. My mother is a woman to you,a female. But to me she is all my emotions,joy, love, feelings. This can't be shown. Its unscientific. Because science rejects emotions
@@induchopra3014 Too much emotion is destroying us.
@@williamoarlock8634 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤪🥳🤯😵💫🥴
On the cusp of a transition to a new consciousness, on the threshold of a dream. Thanks so much Rupert for sharing the journey of consciousness through the ages.
He has taken it from vedant darshan of hindu dharm. Try to study vedant darshan and you will get deeper knowledge. 🙏🙏🙏
@@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv Second that’
@@BeataPriore what you mean
The whole premise of this talk depends on a redefinition of the word "conscious", in the sense that anyone is likely to understand the word even in the context of "a conscious universe". This renders the entire talk as basically an exercise in semantics.
Which is true of all talks. The worthwhile talks inspire us to be silent (and know….)
excellent I need a breather every 20 mins to digest and integrate all these thoughts and information , I let it sink in for 10 mins and then continue to listen, being a very creative person having some creativity and more fun from Dr Rupert would be easier to absorb all this, thank you for all your work, focus and dedication, yes I have had many experiences of different aspects of consciousness within myself, plants, animals, water all things .....and love the comments people have written below ..amazing too...
You might enjoy the work of Jill Purce, as well; she is also Sheldrake's wife.
Tell me about it! Taking lots of notes here using Jim Kwiks' system which I've found to be the most effective at absorbing and processing information. I've had many similar experiences with other forms of consciousness, most recently through spirituality and breathwork which brought me here. I think because of the dualistic dogma of western science we have been completely disconnected from all this and now through technology and the internet we're finding our way back to our true nature...
Death is not the end and birth is not the beginning, all is consciousness and all matter posseses it, inanimate or animate, it is and being. We are so much more than we have been conditioned and programmed to believe. I miss Ruppert and Terrance they had amazing exchanges with their dialogue and arranged meetings and discussion. This Man is truly brilliant and right!!
Nice hypothesis you have there ....be a shame if someone were to test it........................
@@nickolasgaspar9660 I empathize with your statement, nevertheless what is truly a shame is that members of the scientific community are in general conditioned to believe that the scientific method, while certainly a privileged pathway to knowledge, is the only pathway to knowledge. Hopefully once science can overcome it's own sense of arrogance, (and it certainly can't be blamed for feeling that way) it will catch up to what many ancient teachers and cultures have known for ages about consciousness, the universe, and our relationship to it.
@@evanm4682 -" I empathize with your statement, nevertheless what is truly a shame is that members of the scientific community are in general conditioned to believe that the scientific method, while certainly a privileged pathway to knowledge, is the only pathway to knowledge." -Strawman. Science is currently the most credible and far from being the only pathway to knowledge. This take is just you and doesn't really help your views or beliefs. Trying to poke holes to an established way of knowledge evaluation wont help your ideology. -" Hopefully once science can overcome it's own sense of arrogance, (and it certainly can't be blamed for feeling that way) it will catch up to what many ancient teachers and cultures have known for ages about consciousness, the universe, and our relationship to it." -Again you are confused. Just because ancient and new age woo can not meet the scientific standards of knowledge evaluation that doesn't make science arrogant. Its one thing to make claims and a different one to be able to verify them. Its not Science job to treat magical claims differently. All claims need to play with the same rules of logic and standards of evidence. Its on you to provide objective reproducible evidence and avoid fallacious arguments (argumentum ad antiquitatem)
In a world where mental illness is becoming a norm, meaning can become the panacea to that illness. Taking the viewpoint of a conscious universe brings a potential for meaning in the struggle of living. As a person who has taken psychedelics, I can say wholeheartedly, that they helped me discover the opportunity to become a better human. You, where you are right now, are part of the whole and the whole loves, and that is why this cosmos exists.
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Thank you for this coment it helped me
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my KZhead channel 6 months ago about self development. Now I have 429 subs and > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.
Hmm good on you :)
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@@nathananderson8720 Well done Nathan!!!!! Every bit of light that is shared leavens the whole mass of human consciousness
1:57 Yes. Many people don't share these experiences because people do think we're crazy. I thought I was crazy. I had a choice when it happened: Go to a psychiatrist or go to India. I went to India. Peace, happiness, to all beings everywhere.
Good choice! 👍
What somewhat annoys me about Sheldrake, repeating it several times that _'' you can't talk about these experiences, cause they'll think you're crazy''._ It's a whiny kind of accusing _''the materialist''_ (also meant as a denigrating term hinting at _'closed mindedness'_ with a: _'' you just can't reason with folks like that''_ air of superiority about it. In fact: The exact opposite is true; and all sorts of studies and experiments are done to try and find out _scientifically_ what's going on when such experiences happen. (like putting highly trained zen-masters in MRI brain-scanners). No-one is denying that _'other states of consciousness'_ happen. What is generally dismissed as unscientific (which only means Sheldrake is jumping the gun with it, _not_ that it's or can't be true, but simply that the one (experiencing an other state of consciousness) _doesn't_ imply, show, or prove _''that their consciousness is part of something greater than themselves,''_ let alone that these experiences, or the fact that ancient beliefs talk about the sun and the planets as conscious entities prove anything. And he totally missing the plot when he says that those, supposedly narrow minded scientists who supposedly just call you crazy, when they (rightfully) say that experiencing those altered states of consciousness _doesn't_ prove a connection to another, greater kind of consciousness from outside of themselves, that it's those scientists turn to prove him wrong! When a (formally) well known, respected and renowned scientist, suddenly seems to have forgotten that it's always the one making the claim to present evidence for it; that it's impossible to prove a negative (just like you can't prove (a) god(s) doesn't exist, and thus that it's the job of the person _claiming_ its existence to provide evidence), it's no more than logical his former highly regarded reputation has significantly diminished over the years. And him, repeatedly cry-babying about that, blaming the critique on all kinds of character flaws in those expressing it, and hinting at it, being a forbidden topic (while, like I said, the research in that field is done in all sorts of ways and in many different places), is a bloody shame and just sad. Anyway; I've done all sorts of drugs in my youth; made all sorts of the wildest trips, without moving a foot. And I still meditate daily, in which I sometimes have an entire conversation with the pole star, and some of my friends love to here about it; amazed what the human mind can come up with. Not once did anyone called me crazy. I'm sure, though, they would start getting concerned if I started proclaiming I'm the pole star's chosen one to channel the ancient wisdom of its mind into mine to tell the rest of humanity _The Truth_ of life's origin, meaning and purpose and teach them all _The Only_ true path to love and happiness. If that happens I HOPE they'd try to get me to seek psychiatric help. All the best to you too
@@BorisNoiseChannel thank you for this! truly we need more humility in exploring consciousness and less dogmatic narratives that in my experience unfortunately can rather quickly turn into anti-science conspiracies
@@BorisNoiseChannel Science tends to defend itself, often without any basis on facts. Science cannot explain everything, but it is quick to denounce people who have theories which are a danger to scientific ‘truths’. Just imagine if Dr Sheldrake’s theory is correct, I wonder how many scientists would have a nervous breakdown and call Dr Sheldrake a Charlatan. Even now, scientists theories about the universe are forever changing. Nothing concrete about their facts is there?
Namste!
I've been thinking along these lines for years now, and now I see Sheldrake (who I never heard talk about this) has already worked it out. Makes me think maybe there is some sort of collective mind where ideas float around from one person to another. I keep thinking I have an original idea, but so far, nope.
@Shel Fati Something like that, but in the realm of consciousness rather than electromagnetic ones and zeroes.
@Shel Fati My own experience seems to support something like this to be true. It is when I've analyzed a particular subject, like the spiritual implications of evolution, for example, ideas have come to me that I later read in Teilhard de Chardin. I have been thinking about the fractal nature of much of the universe and wondering if there aren't varying scales of consciousness attached to varying levels of physical organization that both generate and serve as a conduit for universal consciousness, and then I hear Sheldrake proposing basically the same thing. Makes me wonder.
Nonlocality was proven a long time ago. The waves of energy and light at the core of this existence are conscious. The physicist Barbara Brennan proved that we and everything else are holographic projections. That means we exist within a screen, a holodeck where what we think appears before us so fast that we don't think we created it. That includes these bodies.
@@pureenergy4578 -"The waves of energy and light at the core of this existence are conscious." -I am not sure you understand the common usage of the word "conscious" but if you do please provide objective evidence for that declaration. "The physicist Barbara Brennan proved that we and everything else are holographic projections." -lol no she hasn't...that's just her pseudo philosophical view...not science. -" That means we exist within a screen, a holodeck where what we think appears before us so fast that we don't think we created it." -yes this is what she means with her pseudo philosophical speculation....that doesn't mean it true..and because she can not prove it she never got a Nobel Prize for this claim!
new age pseudo philosophy mate....try studying neuroscience.
Excellent lecture! The most elegant illustration of quantum theory I've heard!
This lovely man should at the very least be knighted for shedding light on some of the deepest questions faced by humanity. His erudition is awesome. Thank you once again, Dr Sheldrake!
There is an intellectual way to know, and there is an intuitive way to know. Intellect always snails behind the intuitive intelligence.
The activity of creating art is another prime example of an active experiential meditation.
Hmm? Breathing! Is an art form not properly utilised....Read Some Tibetan or Buddhism Information...and discover how to apply it! Regards
Absolutely!
I create art by using different mediums of expression....but I would never use those new age buzz words. What I would use though is the scientific terminology of "Defuse Thinking"...where our brain constructs and produces thoughts without being guide by the property of conscious reasoning. Connections between concepts and ideas are realized in unconventional ways resulting in either brilliant new ideas or typical intellectual bovine manure. That is mainly depended by the raw material that's available to our brains. If that raw material is credible epistemology then defuse states of thinking can produce brilliant results. If not, then we usually end up with useless new age woo....like this guy does in the video.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 defuse thinking lol. You should read Carl Jungs collected works, and you might have a hint, at what he says.
@@danielantunes1060 or better earn a real education by studying real Science. Take a course on Neuroscience and Neuropsychoanalysis and learn about Defuse thinking. Moocs by Barbara Oackley,Terrence Sejnowski and Mark Solms. Read Robert Sapolsky monumental book "Behave". Read Nobelist Daniel Kahneman's book "think slow and fast" and then laugh at the term defuse thinking... Btw his Nobel Prize was on his work on different types of thinking and heuristics and it was an award on ECONOMICS. The market makes money based on his work...while you laugh.....you poor ,scientifically illiterate ιδιώτη.
As someone that grew up in the country side and now lives in a city, you can most definitely feel the difference. Machines don't have a feeling, outside of being hot or cold. Nature, however, has this feeling that I can't describe. It's as though you are being comforted and welcomed just for being alive. There are dangerous around, yes, but you feel so much safer than in a city. It's as though you join with nature and can feel the calmness.
Long before any religious indoctrination, there was a persistent presence I cannot describe. Your description of 'the countryside' comes close.
There is a feeling in the countryside Trees and plants do have communication.
"the problem is that by saying consciousness is an illusion doesn't explain it, because Illusion is itself a mode of consciousness" Absolutely wonderful Elucidation. this quote puts a crack in the Emerald City of Oz's Walls. Push this idea.....Push it as far as you can, Dig deep into it, and then look into "spiritual" matters. it's there. this can wake up the whole world.
As a Sufi mystic would; one like to explain with a direct experience and here is one direct experience: One hot summer day, the need rose to visit a friend. Needed a taxi. There was a billboard next to home, in an alley, where it is unlikely to find a taxi. I said to the billboard: you always direct people, you are an expert in directions; it is noon and hot, please direct a taxi to me here. Five taxis showed up in a moment in this small alley. I thanked the billboard for it’s generosity and took off. It is all natural if you live it. We tend to talk much and live little.
"We tend to talk much and live little". Well said. People live in their beliefs about reality, rather than in reality itself.
@@markj7612 I create the reality I live in with my mind
@@killercuddles7051 This would be a very different world, wouldn't it, if all of humanity came to understand the truth of your ten-word comment. Thank you.
LOL. That's a great story! Gotta get those billboards on MY side!
Live the free flow of life...every way is a-way tao-is t direct way.
This is the same conclusion I came to one day while creating my movie clips playlist here on KZhead (of all things) that "Reality is the physical form of consciousness. The human body is a flesh and bone vehicle for the spirit, an avatar for consciousness. We are all one in the same." Love always !
Great...you only have to objectively demonstrate the existence of spirits consciousness and any other unparsimonious and unnecessary entity that you use to explain a simple biological property.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 um yeah OK whatever bud, I wasn't attacking so what's with the Dawkins like response to something your unable grasp ?
@@Gordesm In science , consciousness is a mind property product of the brain. Now you use the same words to talk about forms of reality , spirits levels and avatars and other buzz words.... Again it would be nice if you could objectively verify your claims and the existences of all those made up entities , without telling me what I already know....that I am unable to grasp made up ineffable entities with an unknown ontology....
@@Gordesm He's right though. Mock him all you want, but his fundamental point is correct. Also, let's be honest - you are unable to grasp it, too. That's why you turn to supernatural explanations.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 sonoluminescence, so tell me what influences sound ? And again science is catching up.
what an amazing lecture, thank you! enlightening, connecting, alive with personal experience!
Dr Sheldrake is absolutely brilliant!! He changed my entire world view. ❤
Ideas like these are what humanity truly needs. Putting aside dogmatic worldviews to truly innovate is absolutely necessary for our species. The second we feel like we have it all figured out, we stop asking questions, therefore there is no chance to make positive changes without challenging the status-quo.
History proves what works and doesnt work . Intellectuals live in a imaginary reality like everybody else . Sheldrake is old enough to know its alot more productive to analyze past successes .
Fantastic, i can finally agree with an intellectual who shares what I believe. I thought i was insane, so thank you very much Rupert. I acknowledge & greet the sun the moon the stars the clouds, the wind, the land the mountains the trees...and greetings to Mother Earth & Sky Father.
Oh wow I never heard someone address Skai Father! Even though i JUST connected that in my acknowledged consciousness the past three days. the elements have shown themselves though for at least +18 years. Man! All this is so exciting and thrilling to me. For a long long long time I thot we I wasn't gonna make it...but the KODE. I stuck to the KODE and now turns out physics had to bow 🙇🏾♀️ 🙇♂️ 🙇🏾 to da KODE. Love love love Prince Charles here as in Dr. Rupert SIR CCHELdrAKe for saying troots that finally backs up what MEEK is showing in the end, cuz i think 🤔 💭 i just got the phrase a stitch in time saves nine. Never did understand that before now really. But I followed the KODE. Did what it sed. Acknowledged my feelings about it but then followed it one ☝️ stitch at a time. Turns out over time and years... the garment that emerges...say nothing of the man within it, is nothing short of 😻😎☝️🤩😁 EVERYBODY. Cuz if i can u can and we did it. We are now all like the people in the wizard of oz when u go back to visit the second time around after Dorothy already knows she can go home, now we can dance the yello brick 🧱 roads because GlissanDER, the good SHAEMAN conceived smooching goodness coming from the soil surrounding the roots of every tree 🌳 🌲 🌳 in every tree in Gaiah, and every possible consciousness of tree; in the interspaces of the insides of the tiniest grain of sand and then multiplied exponentially thru every grain on every beach 🏖 🏝 across this globe and in every consciousness, to the inside of every as-above-so/below, and then to the ends of consciousness everything-nothing,: Light, gushy acceptance ovall, warmth, perfect 🤩 👌 😍 saturation and yoy in every joice going 360*360*366. And sew 🧵 🪡 it is. 🤣 ...things u can't unread. 👏😁 things u can unknow. Don't🚫🤔 👛 🐘 😌 That's my tyme. ⏰ 🙏🍀💫 So now umm jus GOODEMUS 😌 goodness.
We’re not insane there is just a vested interest for the powers that be to convince the masses the universe is dead and mechanistic
@@SEven-pk4rk read baruch Spinoza: ERHICS, on the improvement of understanding... There is a universe of most profound nature and logically proven beyond others capacity for contestation. It is written not in simplistic syllogism, but in geometric proof which makes him a most profound read..moreover the controversy still to this day is whether or not he is a total naturalist or utterly drunk on god..he brings true meaning to the grand nature that is the universe and for which none other thus far can compete in logical arguement but were ever so willing to reward with excommunication and letter of heresy...though is now considered the father if rationalism. Moreover, he makes Descartes work l, his contemporary, completely infantile by comparison. Bit one better, descarts is extremely arrogant, from a "thinker who writes himself into his own inescapable corner and must rely on deus ex machina to resolve his incapacity, while Spinoza reads like mathematics in language while is the empitomy of humility. A no better philosopher who lives his philosophy could easily be found.
It's a very ancient Celtic way of looking at the cosmos,too. They had reverence for it.
@@fullmetaljacket1803 Try convincing a medical doctor that spirits have framed you when they believe in a mechanistic universe.
I did a night time scuba dive in Thailand. The dive itself was amazing, but when I surfaced, alone on the dark ocean pretty far from the boat but close to the island and in no real danger, I looked up to see the Milky Way in all its splendid glory. It told me very clearly that it is me. I guess we can call it a metaphysical experience, and mainstream followers of scientism would scoff and ask what I was on, but I know what I felt and was told. I know that I am part of the and that any part is of the whole. It changed my life in ways I can't begin to explain. Knowing that you are the galaxy and the galaxy is you fundamentally changes the way one sees this reality.
Love you Mike! Thank you for all you do, miss you when you're away, and always excited when I get my daily dew notifications. You've become a daily comfort. Keep up the incredible work. Much Love to you and your family 💓 Robby
I am mentally and emotionally improved on every incidence that I hear Mr. Sheldrake speak.
Sorry?
@@justdev8965 lol..... identical reaction .
Conscious being. The conscious being that became aware of it's own existence, Experianced its own evolutionary growth of it's conscious being, That came to the realisation, understanding, that to just exist, was not enough. That was the begining of the conscious being creator, The begining of the intelligence that would evolve, as conscious being began to see how it could continue to evolve and grow. The result, our existence, us. We are that conscious being, Our conscious experience of existence, is the evolution of that conscious being.
Beautiful Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is such an honest, sincere, moral, kind and loving person peace and love.
45:04 "I know I'm piling speculation on speculation" Indeed.
Sheldrake is so refreshing to hear. What an awesome guy!
If not one falls to the ground without God's awareness of it. Then Matt 10:28 Had the true identity of God and life entwined . Just in the way our friends suppose
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That is the reason why each humans should be full of gratitude as well as humility to be a part of a so merveillous Universe.
I believe that consciousness is quite literally everywhere and everything. Although not found enough in the minds of many.
Many do not realise their self-Consciousness, it’s quite normal, in fact the opposite is already the sign of a more advanced evolution.
Thank you Dr Sheldrake for sharing your deep philo-scientific views 🎉
I haven't watched the video, but I want to say that in my NDE I turned around to see who had hold of me and all I saw was the universe! The universe had me !
you have a really big idea for yourself mate.
Love the wave aspect. Our consciousness makes a wave in the universe and our bodies are it's manifestation in three dimensions.
Loving an aspect has nothing to do with being true or being falsifiable
@@nickolasgaspar9660 Glad you were able to point that out for me.
@@slythewhyissilent it doesn't seem to be helping you with your reasoning though.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 Should it?
@@slythewhyissilent shouldn't it?
This is one of the best lectures I've ever seen.
I’ve just today discovered this brilliant Dr. and I am so excited listening to his work, brilliant!
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By far the best, well though out talk across this set of subjects. Dr. Sheldrake is I think one of the greatest thinkers of our time.
@UCWuvav4m-UG4ayQ1VGLOlWg How else could his message be shared, that would render someone less lazy for receiving his ideas? How is Rupert sharing his thoughts in a format, specifically related to the OP's opinion of Rupert being one of the greatest thinkers of our time? That makes no sense. A baseless insult. Is hearing him say the same thing on radio, any less lazy? What about reading it on a screen? On paper? Braille? Fuck off.
@Stephen Crowley what’s wrong with you. ?
yup; he'll get the Nobel prize one day when his work on morphic resonance is validated
@@tonyclifton265 with out objective, independently verifiable evidence....he will never win that prize check. He will be forced to keep earning his living by selling comforting magical stories to the gullible and the scientifically ignorant.
@@kaylacarpenter272 lots here kzhead.info/sun/l5mOcqZ7sJtjiYU/bejne.html
I had a few years ago an experience with ayahuasca, the drink of the gods for the Indians of South america.during the experience I had a strong vision when I felt that everything is full of consciousness, the animals,the trees,the flowers,everything. Psicodelics are doors to understant the fabric of reality.science and mysticism are really one.
Just keep it to yourself, and spare me and few others of any Freakin adds....
@@Thewonderingminds replying to the wrong comment?
The doors of Perception” William Blake by way of Aldous Huxley (or is it vice versa!?)
@@senpaixd1346 maybe,but felt great.
@SenpaiXD explain the chemical reaction in people that have died for minutes to hours yet are having fully conscious experiences during that time
What i find fantastic is that this approach mirrors the Buddha’s insight practice. However Buddhism goes much much further in its analysis and insight as evidenced by the insights surrounding Dependent Origination. Love is all there Is! 🙏😇
love how Dr. Sheldrake answered his questions.
I would suggest that matter is what consciousness "looks like" (or feels like, tastes like, etc.), and consciousness is "what it's like" to be matter. In the end, there is only the one thing. Dualism is due to the polarity of perspective (as described above)...of the one thing.
My view.. We are Universe, We are the Universe in a conscious form. Without a complex mind & brain, consciousness cannot exist. All matter is not conscious, just the evolution of the Universe into complex beings. The Universe feels, thinks, hurts, sees, hears etc because it does so in us & other beings. Perhaps it is 'itself' learning about itself by evolving itself into creatures with consciousness & intelligence.
This shit is getting so great, that you can go into youtube comment threads and regularly see thoughts like all these beautifully expressed where you never would have 10 years ago. And it's accelerating... We've really molded a lovely aesthetic corner of our mutual virtual existence here, us! And after all the selves' in-group ass-kissing and back-slapping, let's now turn to, and wax rhapsodic upon, a salient point that includes the 'out-group': SELF-DUAL!!! That fully uniting (and mathematically sound!!) [also, dividing] paradoxical principle between Dual and Nondual schools of thought, between Self and Other. If my Other is *truly* my *equal* -- as in, deeply equivalent, Javascript triple '===', is there really any Other? Or, as the big Jeezy ponders: love your enemy! Or as Leonard Cohen so aptly suggests: "There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say that there isn't"
U been eating Kastrup
His voice is so calming... I'm drifting Out of consciousness 🌙
yes he really does have a calming voice, but I am not drifting out of consciousness, and then the first guy that questions Rupert his voice cuts thru like a knife, like he hates him & wants to stab Rupert...very disturbing...the guy sat thru the entire lecture only to ask.... I thought you were going to talk about?!
this is how you lure in clients...when you sell a product.
I am 85 and remember clearly the instants when I became conscient of being. My mother told me that I was 9 months old. I am working in trying to understand what happened to me in the passage from the baby lethargic sleep into reality and consciousness. Once I will complete what is this extraordinary passage I will be glad to share my knowledge with the world.
I have met a person who claimed that she could remember her birth. She was otherwise very down to earth, so I tend to believe her.
By far the best lecture of my lifetime
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. ~ Max Planck
@Xfactor X The Vedic tradition unambiguously places consciousness as primary; as the source of all objective creation. Aside from the Upanishads, other vedic texts articulate exactly how the absolute, unmanifest subjective reality of pure consciousness, through it's Self-referral dynamics, creates what we experience in the manifest universe. The Human nervous system can locate and observe this purely subjective, ultimate basis for creation....not as a feat of the intellect, but through the ability to transcend the finest relative aspects of creation and experience pure subjectivity...Being.
You can assume as much as you like that there is a conscious mind behind everything.. Still only makes it an assumption! There is no evidence that there is anything conscious about the Universe itself. Rocks, stars, atoms all do not have consciousness because a brain & mind is needed for it. The Universe is One & We are a part of that One, nothing separate from it. The Universe has evolved itself into complex forms, including animals that can think, feel, speak, see, hear etc.. That is still Universe! The Universe is conscious because We are & the Universe ponders about itself using the minds it created itself into.
Assuming and intelligent mind behind the universe is nothing but a fools game of self deception.
@@suegirouard917 Exactly, simply based on dogma & religiously deluded beliefs. The 'god' idea, that We are & all is 'god'. Absolutely zero evidence for all that & stuck in backwards barbaric beliefs. The concept of one deity or montheistic thought, came originally from Akhenatens Aten religion in Egypt (first recorded monotheism) & was added to later with absolute delusion of reality. The Universe is not conscious, there was no 'thought' about making life.. It evolved like everything evolves, including the Universe itself. The Universe is conscious because We are!
@@suegirouard917 Seems quite reasonable to me seeing that Creation has an apearance of design as many atheists admitt
Rupert Shaldrake is a recent discovery is a recent discovery for me. I’m impressed with his paradigm shifting shares...
He was a good friend of Terrence McKenna and shared his belief system. 👍🍄🗝🧩☯️
You ought to see the healing being accomplished using wide spectrum red, blue and yellow laser lights
How about also discovering Logic and how important Objective Independent Verification is when we deal with claims about our world.....
@@davidforshaw4810 and this is what renders his claims pseudo scientific. Belief systems are not compatible with the principles of science (Methodological Naturalism).
@@nickolasgaspar9660 you're in Matt Dillahunty territory : Dorsalateral Prefrontal Cortex!
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is an enlightened enlightening person, peace and love.
I want to you too know how wonderful and inspiring the information you gave this group today Untill I flipped through u tube and clicked onto your page I thought since I am interested on the subject you were about to talk on I said why not !!! And I must admit first you have a wonderful speaking voice and presence and the information you were telling the group was very very interesting and how you put it together and broke it down for people like myself in layman terms Thanks again and I will look for you book 📚 You keep up the good work and always go with you own gut feelings on what you want to relate to your audience regardless Of there opinions Thankyou mg from Scotland 🏴
Dr Sheldrake is such a brilliant and important man. I am certain that, in the end, science will realise that so much of what he has said has merit. The way the scientific establishment has treated him is manifestly unfair.
Well just because we like a specific story of a "scientist"...that doesn't make it scientific. In order for science to accept these pseudo philosophical claims he first needs to falsify the current Scientific paradigm which is verified for more than 500 years. Then he needs to prove Methodological Supernaturalism correct and replace Methodological Naturalism's from being the philosophical backbone of science. -"The way the scientific establishment has treated him"....is how all crackpot charlatans who ignore the rules of logic and Science;s Standards of evidence and evaluation should be treated.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 It is extremely easy to falsify the ‘material reductionist’ belief that underpins science. As for evidence, there is an abundance of that if you have the eyes to look. The steadfast refusal of the scientific establishment to accept non-materialist thinking is hampering the development of evolutionary biology, physics and neuroscience.
@@andrewsheehy2441 first of all you can't falsify an unfalsifiable metaphysical worldview (materialism). That claim is as irrational as the statements mades by materialism. Secondly even if you could do that, materialistic worldviews are incompatible with the philosophical backbone of science, that is Methodological Naturalism. So you are attacking a strawman there. Now evidence that prove .... unfalsifiable worldviews need to be objective, meening that everyone's eyes should be able to see them....not only those who already have faith in supernatural stories. Again it's not science's fault that we can't accept undetectable, untestable, unfalsifiable, invisible, non objective, independently non verifiable claims about supernatural causation. It's Logic, it's rules, principles and criteria that define the high standards of evaluation and verification in science. So the lack of objective independent verification of different supernatural claims is what makes them irrational, not science's principles to exclude claims that can it be tested. This is Philosophy of Science 101 mate.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 I think you are very confused. It is clear that the reality we are part of contains matter (e.g. ‘atoms’) and non-matter (e.g. the laws of physics and mathematical truths). You can’t have a reality without laws that define how that reality is. But those laws have no material from. Further, even at the base level, there is no actual ‘matter’ - all there is are mathematical objects. So it is very clear that there is ‘something’ - which is present everywhere which has no material form, but which exists anyway. Einstein knew this, as have many other physicists. The challenge for science - for it to get out of the rut it is in - is to discover the true nature (e.g. the science) that explains this ‘something else’. I think there are very powerful scientific arguments that suggest the laws that define biological life as well as those that explain intelligence are somehow also part of this ‘something else’. Sure, there is no proof that this exists - but that is because no serious scientist would be allowed to look. Eventually, future generations will work it out. But sticking our heads in that sand and declaring that such a thing doesn’t exist, and therefore isn’t worth looking for, is to reject the thesis of the scientific method - Cartesian Doubt.
@@andrewsheehy2441 Andrew.....you can not accuse people for being "confused" when you previously confused Methodological Naturalism with a Materialistic metaphysical worldview and just now you called "non-matter" the tools we use to describe properties of matter(laws) and how they relate (math)! -"You can’t have a reality without laws that define how that reality is. But those laws have no material from." - oh boy. Laws are our descriptions of matter's properties. LAws are not magical substances or forces that aren't contingent to properties of matter. You can not use an abstract concept to argue in favor of an invisible dimension/entity. Abstract concepts are labels describing conditions and processes of the physical world! -"Further, even at the base level, there is no actual ‘matter’ - all there is are mathematical objects." -Again...you are confusing the tools we use to describe reality with the ontology of the building blocks of reality. That is classic categorical error. Here is a simple test you can make. Try running, head first, through a brick wall. Try first while ''believing" that the wall that is about to crack your skull open is a "mathematical object" and then try it again while accepting the established scientific framework (electromagnetic cohesion of molecules of solid physical structures). So guess what the result would be in both cases...feel free to repeat as many times as you like. SO you need to understand that HOW we describe or what we believe about matter is not part of reality. They are abstract concepts designed to convey information about their qualities, properties and interactions. -"So it is very clear that there is ‘something’ - which is present everywhere which has no material form, but which exists anyway" -No there isn't and we have never verified such claim. What you present as "something" is elementary school error...where kids confuse labels of abstract concepts of reality for independent entities. This is how humanity created the gods of Justice, the god of luck , the god of evil...etc. This is iron age philosophy sir. -"Einstein knew this, as have many other physicists." -Argument from false authority fallacy. First of all physicists hold metaphysical beliefs. Those beliefs are not knowledge. Secondly, the unfalsifiable metaphysical views of a credible scientist are not better or more correct to any other belief a crackpot philosopher holds. The opinion of an Authority has special value ONLY WITHIN HIS FIELD and only when it is backed up with evidence. 1/2
What a lovely lecture, so rich and full of rational and spiritual/experiential info, and delivered in a non-judgmental and sometimes humorous manner.
Rational and spiritual in the same sentence???
@@nickolasgaspar9660 it is the ultimate convergence; And it's about time.
@@djimiwreybigsby5263 lol it isn't...its an oxymoron.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 how old are you?
@@nickolasgaspar9660 it's rational to be spiritual and its spiritual to be rational.
Your explanation of life reflects what I've always felt but been scoffed at as rediculous though I seefeel it all around me and have since early childhood. How refreshing to feel the resonance, thank you.
And for me too Wanda. I have always had an inner voice so to speak,that knows what he is able to articulate so much better than I can. It's incredibly liberating to hear.
The English language can be lovely, elegant and soothing...it truly is all of that here, spoken by Sheldrake...
Most enlightening talk. I first encountered Dr. Sheldrake when I read his landmark book, "Dogs Who Know When Their Owners Are Going Home'. His views strongly resonated with my own, the most primary of which is that everything has a consciousness. Bring Asian, I gravitated to the Eastern school of thought even if Iwas born in a country steeped in Western religion.Intuitively, the ideas and thoughts Dr. Sheldrake share seem to be things I've known before and just forgot akin to what British magus, David Conway, told his mentor. Having so many mystical experiences, it becomes difficult to deny ideas and thinking that go against popular theories and beliefs.
Thank you for this
Absolutely brilliant- will have to watch a few times to get it
I really enjoy Rupert. It's a joy to listen to him. I'm really grateful to the universe to have allows such a mind to develop and reach us
Walking across the sussex downs with my dogs I suddenly experienced contact with everything the trees grass and it went on past all that.It was not a an observation but a sort of tuning in to nature the same as everything else was feeling.
Wow how exciting 🌈💐🐈⬛🤗🌹
You were probably having a slight stroke ? Best see your GP .!
We have to go beyond all science, all the known dimension.The left brain era is ending and it has led us into a disaster.
If you experiences a contact with trees and grass then you need to watch where you going. You were lucky that there was grass there and you didn't land on a hard pavement after crashing on that tree sir!
@@bertibear1300 we have to go beyond all sciences? Lol and how on earth are we going to evaluate claims that cannot be falsified objectively. We did that during the middle ages and that didn't end well for our epistemology mate...
A truly wonderful talk, thank you!
What a kind and illuminating talk. Thank you- you are our new priest of the mysterrium .
I loved your presentation. I found it very affirming. I have said much the same for decades. However, I speak readers digest language and much of my beliefs have come from personal reflection. What I’m trying to say is that it was wonderful to hear what I believe spoken at your level.
Everything within the universe could be fractal versions of this universal consciousness in unity 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
Such a complexity presented with ease and clarity, bravo, this is grace, thanks
"magic did it" always makes things sound "easy"
This is one of the most interesting talks I have ever heard.
Dr Sheldrake explanation are very clair especially the way he clairifies haw and why we arrived to today vision .
Dude is CRUSHING it!
Holographic monads... it's a beautiful picture... quaternity... thanks for sharing. Good work Dr. Sheldrake
This video was suggested, and I decide to watch Commenting as I come to the end of the video. What a wide open space my mind feels opened to.
One of the fantastic talks I ever heard. In older period,people were grateful to whatever phenomenon which made life possible on earth.In India they prayed for these by assuming each as a God in humble obeisance. The sky first appeared from it. Then air was born, then fire was born, then water was born. Then the earth element was born. These were called ‘five elements‘ in our theology. These are also called ‘Panchmahabhoot‘ i.e. the basic substances that make up the universe, then from the earth, vegetation, food from vegetable and living being originated. In our theology, the lords of these five elements have been called ‘gods’ such as- (1) Aakash Dev, (2) Vayu Dev, (3) Agni Dev, (4) Varun Dev and (5) Bhumi Devi. These five deities physically exist in the form of deities in the assembly of Lord Brahma and on the other hand operate the creation by being pervaded in space.
India invented the concept that all life is suffering and that only removing oneself from it could bring happiness. India is really full of it. ;-)
Reality is energy vibrating at different frequencies which creates different forms of matter, consciousness is this everlasting changing energy.
Also you can create light. While you sleep your eyes are closed the sun is down and yet you can still see light or more accurately create light in complete darkness.
Lol.... you are confusing the definition of matter with the concept of reality...and consciousness is not energy. It's a biological phenomenon like mitosis, digestion, photosynthesis, constipation...lol
@@nickolasgaspar9660 LOL ! Its Okay you don't understand but one day you will.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 oh and what does google say about reality "in physical terms reality is the totality of a system, known and unknown" you say consciousness is a product of your brain well that must be the totality of your reality but not mine. Have fun pissing people off for personal pleasure Nickolas. Quit sending dumb questions and remarks to someone who has a completely different interpretation of reality than you.
@@nickolasgaspar9660 and shit, don't be telling people what it's not when you don't know what it is. So not cool.
Superb lecture, covering so much ground.........
thank u so much for this mind and hopefully heart opening speach! i think i'll buy a book or two...
Brilliant, coherent and relatively comprehensible in logical, empirical terms. Thank you very much.
Thanks this is a really nice accessible consciousness lecture, very engaging thanks for sharing . Also really great lecturing style Dr Sheldrake- watching helps me to improve my teaching skills.
Who ever had an out of body or near death experience, or is practising mediation and is involved in well, one may call it "exploration of spiritual sciences" for some time, knows by experience that there is much, much more to it then we think what the "real world" consists of. Not to mention the magical quantum entanglement and such physical phenomena not visible to the human eye.
quantum entanglement alone should hv made even the hardest sceptic to consider the possibility of a 4th or greater dimension and existence beyond the physical reality we perceive.
@godof79 so genius, what do u propose is the reason for 2 particles after being split up to be able to communicate with each other while they are separated from one end of the universe to the other end in this quantum entanglement phenomenon? i think they are still connected via a higher dimension which we have yet to discover.
Nothing in this realm is "magical", magic is a word to describe something we don't yet comprehend, and just becuase we can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. For example the electromagnetic fields, they are there, our visual senses are too primitive to see such amazing things, same with ultraviolet and infrared, both wavelengths we can't see, yet, they are there.
@@benzpinto the 4th is stated as time, we live in a 3d+1 meaning we can see the 3d, but time is something that falls over into our dimension. While I would like the idea of a time machine, it would be completely useless to us. For every time we would go back in time, the reality we started in, would be a different one, meaning there should be multiverse and an infinite number of outcomes.
@godof79 oh so u r the one with the proven answers and i speak rubbish. sure, have it that way if it does good to your inflated ego. as far as it goes, all explanation on QE are just theory. there is no proven law at this point just as with many fenomenon in quantum mechanics. when nothing can be proven or disproved, any discussion on the subject is a waste of time. goodbye
It should be noted that Rupert has been talking about 'self organisation' for decades; Michael Levin has perhaps found the actual measurable proof in his work in 'self regeneration', wherein: limbs (animal, ie us) have cellular level consciousness that directs self generation. That is huge. Rupert goes so deep here.
I suppose you could say that in the universe there is one great energy that exists within all. And that energy is intelligence and consciousness. This energy becomes self conscious of itself when it's atomic complexity is that of a human being. I'm assuming that our energy will continuously evolve and take on more complex forms and become what cannot be understood with our current level of consciousness.
@spatium viator because our experience tells us we are not. Billions of people agree on this objective reality. You’re like Tucker Carlson “Hey I’m just asking questions.”
*"I suppose you could say that in the universe there is one great energy that exists within all. And that energy is intelligence and consciousness"* I suppose anyone could say or think that or else, regardless those are only "suppositions" or deepities without any epistemic value at all..what one supposes and what actually IS are totally different things if there is no objective evidence in between.
@@mikepayne2581 *"Billions of people agree on this objective reality."* Hm, what "objective" reality ?
@@orlando5385 He's publishing in peer reviewed journals, right? Besides empiricism is ill-suited to answering many of the really big questions. Philosophy is sometimes the best we've got..
@@leeds48 *"empiricism is ill-suited to answering all of the big questions"* 😂 If philosophy is "sometimes" the best we've got.. what is then the best we've got most of (if not all) the time? That is empiricism, which is the experimental next level of philosophy, mate.
Life, Matter, Time, Consciousness and all it can encompass seems to be One
@Axe Attack Consciousness is the label of the biological property of our ability to be conscious and aware of stimuli (environmental or organic). Creation is the act of creating/making something. Those are two different concepts. You are promoting an ambiguity fallacy. -"Energy Frequency Vibration". Great collection of buzz words!
@Electric Johnny Hat The physicist Barbara Brennan proves where consciousness originates in her book HANDS OF LIGHT.
@Axe Attack If I were you I would not listen to gaspar. He is very confused and promotes ambiguous fallacies of everyone without having read one book.
@Electric Johnny Hat Consciousness BEING electrical energy fields which atoms are. Which then project our images. Atoms being codes like those within a computer. Which project our images like those on the screen. I have read that we are literally within a video game. We are images/characters within a video game. And this game is all around us. And we are being created so fast that we don't even notice how fast because we are so tuned up. We are like the most expensive machine in the world where a vibration cannot be felt. But we have pulses which must pulsate at just the right speed. On purpose. We are NOT useless eaters. We are constantly being created on purpose. In the book HANDS OF LIGHT written by the physicist Barbara Brennan can be seen many diagrams/pictures of what we look like as eternal electrical energy fields and holograms. Brennan built a college system teaching this. Her book was published in 1987.
@@pureenergy4578 -"The physicist Barbara Brennan proves where consciousness originates in her book HANDS OF LIGHT." -lol I am not sure you really understand how we prove things mate...
I love that Rupert Sheldrake acknowledges planets as conscious--it makes so much sense and is consistent.
lol no it doesn't. To be conscious means to have the "hardware" to process organic and environmental stimuli and inform your behavior. Plants do not have a central nervous system, they do not have a conscious behavior (be aware of the resource and take decision in order to consume it. If you check closer they are ...planted and they do not need to be aware of stimuli or their emotions or thoughts).
@@nickolasgaspar9660 Processing stimuli requires a level of perception. Plants process stimuli, although they lack a central nervous system like ours. They also have conscious behavior for example when planted next to another plant, can deprive resources from a nearby plant. Another example is Venus flytraps can count 3 touches before closing.
"Life" is consciousness and science needs to acknowledge THAT which cannot be measured
Love listening to Rupert❤
There are really only 3 truths. There is evident truth, anecdotal truth, and our own truth. Dr. Sheldrake is well researched and has vast experience. His evident truths are well founded, his anecdotes are logically concluded, so in my opinion his truth is a worthy theory. Well done!👍
I love his answers to any question, really glad I stumbled on this.
It's called confirmation bias....
@@nickolasgaspar9660 lol. Another dem meaningless empty bumper sticker phrase
Yes, yes I feel the same way.
Rupert's insights give us the possibility of the consciousness of humanity evolving beyond the current primitivity of the psychologies of humanity and the governments of our world ....
Wow. Such an amazing orator. Definitely shifted my perspective
Much love and respect to this hero doctor 🙏
"Dictionaries are part of the Lizardman's Plans to make us all Understand Words!!" -Hbomberguy; best KZheadr.
Rupert Sheldrake is brilliant as always, thank you for this talk🙂👍
@darkprince 1 no it's not silly, I used to think that, but I continued on down the rabbit hole, noticing they stole it from someone else, also that's not the way it's understood as stolen, true knowledge doesn't disappear with an epoch ending.,..
Your brilliant and a lovely free will awareness unit.Thank you.
Indeed, refreshingly informative interestingly an overview of a process in its entirety and most certainly leading is a glimpse of the "light at the end of the tunnel", which is you and your concious.