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Published on Feb 6, 2014
In this lecture at Schumacher College, Rupert Sheldrake shows how the
"scientific worldview" is moribund; the sciences are being constricted by
assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. But science itself is now
transcending the materialist philosophy, and pointing toward a new
sense of a living world. The cosmos is no longer like a machine running
down; it is more like a developing organism with an inherent memory,
and so is our planet, Gaia. These new paradigm shifts in the sciences
shed a new light on spiritual practices like pilgrimage, ritual, prayer and
meditation.
Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and author of more than 80
scientific papers and 10 books, including The Science Delusion. He was a
Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Research Fellow of the
Royal Society, Principal Plant Physiologist at ICRISAT (the International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) in Hyderabad, India,
and from 2005-2010 the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded
from Trinity College, Cambridge. While in India, he spent two years
living in the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths, and has given workshops on
science and spirituality with Matthew Fox and Brother David Steindl-
Rast. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma,
California, and a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute in
Connecticut. His web site is www.sheldrake.org
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