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Rupert Sheldrake — On Scientism, Morphic Resonance and the Extended Mind |


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Sci, 2024-07-17, 07:31 PM



Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of 9 books and over 100 scientific papers. A critic of what he sees as the scientific establishment’s dogmatic dedication to materialism, he is perhaps best known for his theory of “morphic

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Randomness: Sheldrake & Vernon conversation


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Sci, 2024-07-15, 10:18 PM



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[color=#131313]Randomness and luck, fate and providence. How do these facets of life relate to one another? Or is everything, actually, mechanically determined with synchronicities, say, being no more than coincidences? I

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The famous Travis Walton case is a truly messy hoax.


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Brian, 2024-07-14, 10:01 PM




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Is the delete feature gone?


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Sci, 2024-07-14, 08:59 PM

Not seeing it as an option anymore?


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The Nature of Energy. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon


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Sci, 2024-07-14, 08:41 PM



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[color=#131313]Energy is a key organising principle in modern science, the conversation of energy being a grounding and universal law. But what is energy?

In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Shel

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We are not machines


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Sci, 2024-07-12, 11:01 PM

We are not machines

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Quote:Welcome to the new, post-genomic biology: a transformative era in need of fresh metaphors to understand how life works

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Some biologists

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Subtle energies & healing. A dialogue with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    No Replies

Sci, 2024-07-12, 04:17 PM



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[color=#131313]Psychotherapies that work, though with no agreement about how they work, are becoming mainstream. For example, EMDR is widely used in the treatment of trauma. So what can be said about their efficacy and wh

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PMH ATWATER ..Fraud? Either way, still not a “good look” for NDE community or IANDS


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Bill37, 2024-07-11, 07:26 AM

I don’t want to do any promoting of a podcast , but just needing to reference something , becuz it pertains to my question and concern ..

[color=#000000][size=1][font="UICTFontTextStyleBody"]Episode 586 of skeptiko podcast rea

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Terence McKenna - Minded World Soul | Nature


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Sci, 2024-07-10, 09:42 PM



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Fields as Formal Causes


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Sci, 2024-07-10, 06:48 PM



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[color=#131313]In this conversation, Rupert Sheldrake and David Bentley Hart delve into the concept of fields in physics, discussing their nature as non-material formative causes and their historical context in scientific

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