A Conscious Universe? - Dr Rupert Sheldrake 

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

That's so lovely 😊 We have to practice listening, and following the promptings 😊

Thank you for writing this

This comment deserves a thousand likes

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.

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.

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 ?

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

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 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤪🥳🤯😵‍💫🥴

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.

The greatest effort is never concerned with results. Surely people will take your kindness and compassion for granted, But just because people don't appreciate a right action or choice means it should ultimately be undertaken for you, In this way your "doing the right thing" is a kind of a gift to those undeserving as well as fully merited. Sadhu sadhu sadhu

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Thank you for this coment it helped me

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)

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...

Which is true of all talks. The worthwhile talks inspire us to be silent (and know….)

@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.

"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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

I had a feeling like that once of knowing what was coming even though I couldn’t know, can’t be bothered to type it out right now, but provoked similar questions for me, that also led me to this lecture

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 .

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

Two sparrows

Sadhu sadhu sadhu 🙏

Many do not realise their self-Consciousness, it’s quite normal, in fact the opposite is already the sign of a more advanced evolution.

@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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d5UBBCyi-VM.html

@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

you have a really big idea for yourself mate.

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.

@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.

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?

Sorry?

@@justdev8965 lol..... identical reaction .

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

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.

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

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.

For a brilliant breakdown of the different types of consciousness see on utube Ramana Maharshi Be as You Are Chapter 12 Experience and Samadhi...Sahaja samadhi-the unified field of awareness or Born Again.When the ego is destroyed along with its karmas. Or when the barrier between the unconscious and superconscious mind becomes transparent.

Or...consciousness is the existence of being (the potentiality of being, whereas a body is the actuality of being).

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.

Yes Rasta Mike!!!!! ABSOLUTELY!!!

English is not my first language! Generally, different ways to look at reality and explain it are like different languages in which the message is conveyed. For example: many religions and believes think that the human prospective is capable of influencing reality, on the other hand there is quantum physics that states the same thing (the observer is capable of defining the position and the entity of a wave/particle). Ultimately every language at its core says the same thing, it's just a different way of saying it.

Self hypnosis is reasonable well documented in literature. You, being convinced of creationism only proofs that, creationism is still just fiction without any evidence.

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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!

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

"Dictionaries are part of the Lizardman's Plans to make us all Understand Words!!" -Hbomberguy; best RU-vidr.

@@MyMy-tv7fd we are educated to be cruel to each other......

Totally agree thank you.

I’m tolerant, but you are admitted in my safe space only if your thoughts aren’t different from mine. I like and encourage diversity, to the point that I will fight to death to defend your right to think the same way I think. I have laws in place to enforce your right to speak as I expect you to speak.

Open minded means exploring new ideas and ways of thinking, not endorsing old, fascist right wing rhetoric. Diversity is about embracing different people’s and culture. And usually the people who get pissed off about encouraging diversity and tolerance on college campuses are people who shit their pants when a Muslim wins public office. And if your beliefs ignore the large truths and nuances of human history, your problem is with education as a whole and you’re just a partisan hack.

So mr woo plays the "hurt puppy" card. "Those big boys of Academia won't play with me". Of course this is a "much more open atmosphere" because the audience doesn't demand Objective , independently verifiable evidence like they do in the academia. The problem is that ...his ideas do not meet the high standards of logic. So his supernatural assumptions might be acceptable by a pseudo philosophical audience but they will never fly in a scientific setup because he needs to demonstrate the truth value of those assumptions and an method that can objectively investigate the supernatural. Shall I say...good luck to this dude...

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...

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.

"magic did it" always makes things sound "easy"

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.

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's called confirmation bias....

@@nickolasgaspar9660 lol. Another dem meaningless empty bumper sticker phrase

Yes, yes I feel the same way.

*"I shall be searching for your books, Prof. Sheldrake."* 🤣..naa, you're just a gullible prat, champ.

@@orlando5385 I have already purchased 2 of Prof. Sheldrake's books and find his theories both enormously interesting and plausible. If Prof. Sheldrake is a "prat," then I would be thrilled to be a "prat," too. Prof. Sheldrake's name is going down in history. I doubt yours will.

@@user-lz6dm5lk9y *If Prof. Sheldrake is a "prat,"..* 😂I said you're the "prat" champ, not err.."Prof. Sheldrake", he's the sassy snake oil salesman making his money off of gullible fools like you. He's just selling recycled philosophical nonsense as new age woo that don't have any objective weight as in at least an iota of verifiable empirical evidence ergo no epistemic value whatsoever..just hyper buzzwords, personal deepities, word salad arguments and mumbo-jumbo galore. Btw, he ain't going down in any history cause he hasn't made any and won't make any on that old woo crap, champ. Willful ignorance and wishful magical thinking take less effort than actual learning and rational inquiry and investigation. Lol, just realizing what a waste of time starting this meaningless conversation with you really was..guess just prove sometimes my versatility for killing time when bored. I'm done here, carry on.

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.

That's because School "dogmas" are not for your personal growth. Every day is more clear, isn't it?

A senile pseudo-religious sophist.

Pffft! Lol.

@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.,..

Absolutely true. Just like the painter creates a paint and becomes one with it's painture, the same goes with the entire Creation. The thing creates a particules of Itself in an ongoing process, it is up to the One to perceive and SEE the only forgotten truth. But to See no physical Eyes or intellect are needed but the Heart is enough to see the only truth in this illusion.

@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...