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The Pursuit of Conscious Wholeness
Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds
There is one vibratory field that connects all things. It has been called Akasha, Logos, the primordial OM the music of the spheres the Higgs field, dark energy, and a thousand other names. Many of history's monumental thinkers have come to this same threshold of understanding.
Chris Bache: Diamond Light
This 30-minute audio interview of Chris Bache by David Lorimer on his podcast Imaginal Inspiration. Chris M. Bache, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. Chris discusses his passions and includes the study of the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states.
"Consciousness is not a computation... it's a state of being"
Christof Koch is a neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness on which he worked with Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick for 24 years. He is the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. Christof discusses his research into the nature of consciousness.
The Teaching That Cannot Be Taught
Rupert Spire talks about how can we make sense of paradoxical spiritual teachings. We understand that from the point of view of reality, there is no world, mind or suffering even though we can’t square that with our experience. But it’s not a nihilistic philosophy. It doesn’t deny our everyday life or the reality of what we feel, the suffering, the sorrow or the joy.
Bernardo Kastrup VS Christof Koch
Christof Koch is a German-American neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness. He is the president of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and he is the chief scientist at the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation. Bernardo Kastrup is an idealist philosopher and the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. In this episode, they debate about Analytic Idealism, the Integrated Information Theory, psychedelic trips and death.
Your Brain On 34,000 Hours of Meditation: When Science and Tech Meet Spirituality
Richard Davidson, Karen Armstrong, and Kate Stockly, join Brian Greene to discuss the psychological and physiological impacts of sacred experiences, and how technology may make such experiences more readily available.
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This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
What is the Evolutionary Impulse?
One of Andrew Cohen's unique contributions to contemporary spirituality is his articulation of a new spiritual principle called the Evolutionary Impulse. He defines this as “…an ecstatic urgency that is always only interested in one thing: creating the future, giving rise to that which is new.
“When the awakening to this powerful spiritual urgency becomes one’s irrevocable attainment and permanent state, one has surely landed on the yonder shore, where the evolutionary impulse has become the driving force of fundamental principle guiding the vehicle called the body, mind, and soul…”