Dr. Rupert Sheldrake - A Conscious Universe?


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I am always in search of people or ideas that help me view reality from new perspectives.  I came across this video yesterday.  The first fifteen minutes or so is a condensed history lesson on perspectives of the science community and how they can be a little.... exclusive.  The rest of the talk is about... well.. a conscious universe!  Some time stamps below of sections I found especially interesting.  I think I will be checking out that David Bentley Hart book "The Experience of God", for sure.

15:00 "monads" (makes me think gonads.... LOL), planets/galaxys/stars/humans/trees/everything they are beings mirroring the universe each from a different point of view - the identity of indiscernibles 

17:45 matter is not stuff (like a billiard ball),  it is a process because everything is waves - Whitehead.  Atoms, molecules, cells are all organisms in themselves. Organisms at all levels that make up something greater than the whole of its parts.

33:50 sun is a conscious being?

42:20 the planets, solar systems, galaxies, are all organisms themselves that make up the next level of organism, like cells of the body make up organs, organs make up a system (digestion/nervous).

44:20 electromagnetic fields of our brains ARE the consciousness.  Not the brain matter itself. 

45:00 a being with access to all the electromagnetic fields would have omniscience 🙀

46:35 theology - dealing with ultimate consciousness.  David Bentley Hart The Experience of God. bringing Hindu/Christianity/Buddhism together, they all have the same basis.

49:30 Trinity broken down - God is the consciousness, the background....  Jesus is the form, the physical things.... Holy Spirit is the breath, the force that creates and changes

51:30 basic archetype of consciousness reflected in the whole universe 

56:00 meditation.  Sports as spiritual practice

58:30 Rupert Sheldrake used to have mechanicistic POV and finds it insufficient now.

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