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Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

By: Rupert Sheldrake
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A wide ranging discussion of consciousness at the intersection of science and spirituality with Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University Rupert worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.© 2025 Rupert Sheldrake Philosophy Science Social Sciences Spirituality
Episodes
  • God in Nature and Nature in God - Panentheism
    Jun 13 2025

    In this talk, Rupert Sheldrake explores panentheism—the idea that the divine is not separate from the world but present throughout it, while also transcending it. With the grip of mechanistic materialism loosening, Rupert invites us to reconsider how we see nature, mind, and spirit. Tracing a broad arc from ancient philosophies and Christian mysticism to AI-generated worldviews, panpsychism, and psychedelics, he reflects on how the sacred presence in nature—-long affirmed by spiritual traditions-—is re-emerging through science, experience, and renewed practices of attention.

    Recorded at St James Church, Piccadilly, a longstanding hub for open spiritual inquiry and progressive theology in the heart of London.

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    55 mins
  • Reconnecting With Religious Roots, with Bishop Marc Andrus
    Mar 11 2025

    A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Our ancestors’ lives from birth to death were shaped and structured by spiritual traditions but today many people are no longer connected to religious festivals or practices. This loss of religious faith in unprecedented, and in 2016 in the UK a survey showed that for the first time in history a majority of the population say they have no religion. In this dialogue Rupert and Marc discuss the possibility of reconnecting through festivals, pilgrimages and sacred places.

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    34 mins
  • The Healing Power of Animals, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral
    Feb 26 2025

    A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Many people who keep pets have experienced their ability to comfort and heal. There is now a pet therapy movement where people take dogs and cats into hospices and children’s hospitals, and the human animal bond can help many physical and mental issues. In this dialogue Rupert and Marc discuss the many powers of animals and explore to what extent animals themselves live spiritual lives.

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    32 mins
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I was delighted to find this audible series of podcasts by Professor Sheldrake, as I was privilege to see the original Dutch TV in this podcast, where Professor Sheldrake expanded his views on morphic resonance and convinced me that there was real mileage in the ideas he expounded. I’m now looking forward to working my way through the remaining episodes and familiarising myself with the range in breath of his scientific curiosity. Worth the subscription on its own.!

An end to 30 years of waiting!

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Interesting podcast, fascinating topics and pleasent delivery. Definitely one to follow. Looking forward to future episodes.

Fascinating

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Fascinating discussion, let down, right at the end, by Hancock's very obvious anti-Christian bias, one which I've seen before in him, on the Joe Rogan podcast. He will not accept that it is evil people who do evil deeds, not an organisation (secular or religious).
Evil is present wherever there are people and power and that is taught in the Christian church. It is a very obvious wish of Hancock that the entire edifice of Christianity gets down on its knees and begs his forgiveness. He seems to have a blind spot to this and a very clear chip on his shoulder based upon some appalling behaviour of corrupt powerful people.
A shame as it detracted from an otherwise interesting discussion.

Very interesting and quite illuminating

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