How Science Explains Spirituality | Rupert Sheldrake 

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I love Rupert. A worldly man in the truest sense of the world. Such a supple, accommodating, non-judgmental mind. A wonderful human.

It's such a blessing to be able to move away from organized religion and its dogma into a deep spiritual discovery of self and our place in the larger "collective consciousness." No more ancient folklore beliefs, no pressure to force your mind into contradictory and often harsh and cruel dogma - only a continuing, genuine discovery about what's real and lasting in our deeper awareness and our personal connection to God.

If you hold anger or disbelief toward spiritual practice, well that just allows a clear understanding for me, because this, whether you know this yourself or not, tells me that you are solely curious. You deep down know that you want such a beautiful thing to be true, but on the surface you think that it’s too good to be true. Scientific breakthroughs have time and time again gotten us closer to proving these beliefs, which is grand, but science aside, the truth is, not everyone can understand these things. Not everyone can understand even modern physics, but, everyone can believe, and it is simply that which we need. Because the truth is, it all starts with a belief, a spark of hope for the light, something that science has dampened so horribly, because the surface is all that the average scientific mind can explain. And when that is all people see, that is all people believe.

I think it's less about having a religious belief and more about the positive moods and feelings associated with acts like praying, feeling associated with an acceptable world view and feeling apart of something good that is larger than oneself. Those with hateful belief systems might pray for bad things, and give into more modes of thought and emotion that induce stress onto the physiological, stress causes lives to be shorter and people to become more aggressive and undeniably less happy.

Scientific research is best tool for judging worldly things but spirituality is beyond this 👍🏻

I find it funny that scientific orthodoxy automatically categories spirituality or phenomena that can't be easily tested as magic or superstition, but was fine with suddenly having to admit that 95% of what holds the universe together is missing and suddenly classed as dark matter.. and they have no problem believing in that.

If you've ever been curious about who you truly are, then this is something that you NEED to see...

Science can explain some effects of spirituality of course, but essentially only spiritually can explain science and not vice versa. This is because before one can explain anything it has to have consciousness first - it is consciousness that perceives and cognises.

Much more inspiring than the average sermon from a traditional clergyman

What a fantastic talk from a lovely, affable, funny and genuine guy. God bless the man!

Wow, this video really opened my eyes to the connection between science and spirituality! Rupert Sheldrake does an amazing job explaining how our spiritual practices can be backed by scientific evidence. I can't wait to watch the full talk and learn even more. Thank you for sharing this insightful content!

Thank you for giving the due credit to India for the spread of spiritual practices and knowledge it has given and help spread throughout the world!

I respect to Dr. Rupert sheldrake a master of science and spirituality. Mostly I would like to welcome him to India again and live with me.

Thank you Rupert.

That first one was a zinger haha reminded me of something Terence or Ralph would say too 🤣 you guys are so funny and smart I love it! 💕 “Religion For Atheists?” That’s so perfectly awesome! Yes, Flow...IM SO THANKFUL FOR YOU RUPERT AND THE TRIALOGUES! They helped me on my journey so much! Rupert is going for the win in this presentation...👍🏻 Battlestar Galactica paid homage to the “Sweet Spot” in sports to Samuel Anders “Moments of Perfection.” So wonderful!

nice content

Thank you so much🙏💕

I am somebody who doesn't believe in Gods, angels or ghosts. I also understand that being positive is very beneficial for your mind. If you can create a healthy, focused mind through meditation like I do, it's important that the meditation has no boundaries for it to be pure.. Believing in the supernatural can't possibly allow you to be one with your surroundings if you are part of a creation that suggests restrictions. You are as much a constant in this universe as the stars and galaxies that have tried to fill it. If you're reading this, know that we are one

Dear dr rupet sir we love you

Rupert sheldrake thank you for this talk .

Excellent.... thanks 🙏.

This guy is great 😊

i practice the time honored mediation on traffic lights. I get into the car and find a city street with lots of lights. At each stop light I come to a pause in my day and mediate on gratitude. Of course, many times I am brought out of my meditative trance by the sound of beep beep beep. I am full of gratitude, although not so sure about the people behind me.

If we must be scientific on our approach, understand the very scientific ways of the real science of yoga (Meditation, knowledge, devotion, pranayama).

Grazie! Grazie 🙏

"A gap where grace ought to be" unfortunately sounds like of most of modern culture. Peace God bless

The link to the full video is not working (the page loads, the video does not). Can anyone help me find the whole talk?

“Militant atheism should come with a health warning”. Brilliant.

I will give the gratefulness list or letter idea a try. Mine will take a long time to write.

Giving more than taking... Being kind is its own reward... Avoid enmity... Assisting those that you can... Empathize with suffering people... Be in the midst of beauty and/or create something beautiful... Apologizing when appropriate... Take time to still your mind... Is this spirituality or good advice for eliminating anxiety? Can an atheist do these things? Does one have to lower egoism before one can do these things? Or does one lower egoism by doing these things? Is egoism THE problem?

An interesting talk for sure, but not related to the title "How science explains spiritually". He talked mostly about gratitude, not necessarily a spiritual attribute at all. Science was mentioned, spirituality was mentioned, how science explains spirituality was not mentioned!

interesting 😮

As a general principle of truth, the misrepresentation of the sacred is an aphorism because the sacred won’t permit it. This is not a paradox, it is the absolute of all absolutes in its own nobility

I'm chary about gratitude, lest what I'm grateful for be taken away.

This is very enlighten. Greeting from Toronto (◕◡◕✿)

And then there's the different ways we find ourselves in meditation or in silence, the point is to feel the silence, even if for brief seconds or milliseconds everyday.

saw the old video where the discssio was going on with j krishnamurthi and sir rupert was astoinshed by their intellect. and now here is sir rupert talking about spirituality.

Spiritual Knowledge - Concepts of Science… (Excerpt from message of Shri Datta Swami) Science is the logical analysis of the items existing in this creation based on only one authority that is perception (Pratyaksha Pramanam). Even in the ancient logic, all the authorities (Pramanas) are based on perception only. You see the fire giving smoke. This is deduction or perception. When you see the smoke coming from a distance and do not see the fire, you say that fire exists there and this is induction or inference (Anumana Pramanam). But this induction is based on your previous deduction only. Somebody says to you that fire gives smoke. If that person is your dearest, you believe it and infer the fire from the smoke. This is authority of word ‘Shabdha Pramanam’. Though you have not seen the fire, your dearest person has seen the smoke coming from fire. Like this all the authorities are based on perception only. I do not find any scripture of any Religion, which contradicts the experience of perception. There are four ways of authority. 1) Sruthi, which is the original scripture. 2) Smrithi, which is the commentaries of Scholars on the original scripture. 3) Yukthi, the logical analysis based on deduction, induction etc., 4) Anubhava, the experience based on the perception of the items in this world, which may be direct or indirect. Out of these four ways, the fourth way is the most powerful. If anything contradicts the fourth way, that is not valid or it may be a misinterpretation based on misunderstanding of the Sruthi or Smrithi or Yukthi. Thus Science and Philosophy are not separate. The very frame of the spiritual knowledge is Science only. Thus Science is the basic foundation and over all underlying structure of all the Scriptures. A true Scientist should always stand on the perception and should not deny the experience derived by perception. If he denies, he is not a scientist. All top most scientists were philosophers and spiritual people only. Those scientists have travelled along the river of Science and reached its end, which is the ocean of spiritual knowledge called as philosophy. Philosophy is pervading all the branches of Science. Every branch of Science gives Ph.D as the final degree. Ph.D means Doctor in Philosophy. If Science and Philosophy are different, why this word Philosophy is regarded so much by all the branches of Science? Philosophy means the essence of the knowledge of every branch that is experienced when one reaches the end of that branch. Therefore, the spiritual knowledge, which is the ocean, is the Philosophy in which all branches of Science and all the Religions merge and loose their identity. A scientist who has not reached the end of Science and who is still traveling in the river only denies the existence of the ocean, since he is still perceiving the limiting boundaries of his knowledge - river. Such river-travelers are called as atheists. posted by: surya (disciple of Swamiji) RU-vid Channel: Shri Datta Swami

The title, "How Science Explains Spirituality", is misleading. That sounds like this is about scientific evidence for why spirituality came to be and exists, which isn't addressed here. A more accurate title would have been "Why Spiritual People May be Happier"

Spiritually would explain the whole of science, if one reaches a heightened sense of spirituality it would explain science in one sentence

Yes The primary purpose to assist at Traditional Latin Mass is to Thank God

what a great way to conflate 'spirituality' with science, akin to mixing oil and water droplets by force or mixing milk with lemon, the result is distasteful and leads to cognitive dissonance since the arbitrary term 'spirituality' is based on personal impression and belief system while science is externally verified.

The Finite cannot penetrate the Infinite-The small projects upon the great and can only come up with a small answer.

I will be nice so just ask the question If the study of science Is understanding our physical world, then would not it be extremely ignorant let along impossible for people to try to apply a scientific understanding of the spiritual realm and those things of it?

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The paradoxical equivalence/inequality between rational understanding and the awareness of deep meaning expresses an autonomous and self-perpetuating means of creation, and it is from this struggle and disequilibrium that our awareness is generated. Memory and meaning persist in the contradictory condition of necessarily being in balance, yet fundamentally unable to be so, and it is from this paradoxical state that existence explodes into being. In other words, the meaning why existence exists, or why any phenomenal entity arises at all, must, yet cannot, perfectly correlate with the reason how it exists, and this is, as far as I can tell, the fundamental truth underlying the notion of all causality. I discuss a similar topic on my channel.

You can be an atheist and still be spiritual. Spirituality existed as long as the earliest religions. I'm surprised a scientist can't grasp this.

Everything costs something

Is spirituality a means to an end or an end itself? According to the lecturer, it appears to be a means to good health and happiness. I think doing these things are "good." I don't care whether they lower my BP or strengthen my immune system. Being virtuous is a stand-alone good. And...I'm an American atheist.

I love him

Spirituality can explain science but science can’t explain spirituality. It’s easy to conclude which one is limited.

Gratitude is mention 260 times in the Bible

Intelligent people are always the funniest.😂

Hi. Gratitude has the intrinsic virtue of humility,; honesty has an even deeper satisfaction because it is a decision to abide by the law of truthfulness, truth being God's nature. The greatest destroyers of happiness are dishonesty and malice, the latter being like having a wrecking company set up shop in your home. Cheers, P.R.

Dream means = individual soul belief, spiritual awaking belief, evils Spirit belief,. Soulmate belief. Reality is, soul has no gender. In the dream we experience the soul. How can experience be a soul ? The work of the soul is to be experienced. The soul cannot be experienced. Spiritual awaking is awaking from the dream of thought.

You didnt answer your question: how does science explain spirituality. So how is it?

Maybe it is sociology but not a real thinking about spirituality : which is certainly not a "feel good movie" - on the contrary it is anxiety and ascetism, the gratitude is the top of the mountain.

He is mixing religion with spirituality.

2 sides of the same coin

God's free will sovereignty

We are made up of body, spirit and soul...we were created in the image of God...and gratitude is a characteristic we may have or give...depends...

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this title is misleading

All "spiritual practice" is oriented toward material goals as all thought or mental activity exists as a type of fine matter related to a personal craving, it is material. What you call spirit cannot be known or experienced, certainly no mental practice or technique can reveal spirit to the mind or experiencing apparatus. Meditation is a fixation on some ideal or aspect of the mind (like gratitude or happiness) and this fixation to make these impermanent ideals permanent has ultimately poor effects on the health and puts a false sense of spiritual enlightenment when it is literally impossible to use a thought to stop thought, you are only kept in the loop of a thought which divides you from spirit. So, science cannot reveal or say a single thing at all about spirit, nor can any words or knowledge.

No one inspires truly intense eye-rolling as much as this guy. Maybe Peterson comes close.

Only truly spiritual people will have a true understanding of life...

Advaita vedanta! Non seperation! You are not something or someone that exists separately from the universe. You are that!

Material objects do not have consciousness. Only Consciousness has consciousness.

GOD is clearly described in the GOSPEL..... GOD is of LIGHT GOD gives LIFE GOD is OMNI-PRESENT THEREFORE to describe GOD ....SCIENTIFICALLY as per the description in the GOSPEL is so simple our AURA.... AURA is of LIGHT AURA gives LIFE AURA is OMNI-PRESENT WE ALL HAVE THE AURA GOD is not and has never been a being..... GOD is a LIFE FORCE GOD is an ENERGY in the form of OUR AURA I really thought everyone knew this how can people not know this GOD is of LIGHT AURA is of LIGHT GOD gives LIFE AURA gives LIFE GOD is OMNI-PRESENT AURA is OMNI-PRESENT

'Spirituality' is the ego-verbiage of the materially advantaged.

Then let's make America grateful!(of course, the one occupying the White House would rather grate on other's nerves!).

It's true that Sam Harris makes his audience laugh more than Rupert's audience.

Mostly empty jargon and psuedoscience, deepak Chopra do better job than this

How was that science explaining spirituality? A study showed gratitude made people happy for two months? A joke it is!