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Rupert Sheldrake explains the science behind spiritual practices.
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Is science necessarily at odds with the spiritual? Rupert Sheldrake combines scientific research and his knowledge of mystical traditions to argue that we can experience higher states of consciousness and a realm where we might finally find life’s meaning.
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Rupert Sheldrake is author of ‘The Science Delusion’ and ‘Ways to Go Beyond’. New Scientist described him as ‘an excellent scientist; the proper, imaginative kind that in an earlier age discovered continents’.
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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
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)
YouTube Channel: Shri Datta Swami
If you've ever been curious about who you truly are, then this is something that you NEED to see…
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!
He is mixing religion with spirituality.
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.
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!
Grazie! Grazie 🙏
this title is misleading
So as an English man, Rupert goes to India & becomes an Anglican despite evidences of better, a more scientific method to spirituality, aka, Hinduism or Buddism?! Christians have killed so many far more superior spiritual and religious practises all over the world!
Material objects do not have consciousness. Only Consciousness has consciousness.
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.
Thank you Rupert.
Rupert Sheldrake, what a brilliant man !
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.
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.
This is very enlighten. Greeting from Toronto (◕◡◕✿)
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.
I would offer up a definition that helps me.
Religion- Looks outward to the physical and tells you what to believe. Requires surrender
Spiritualism- looks inward to your soul, heart, mind, and helps you figure out how to be happy. Requires effort
"A gap where grace ought to be" unfortunately sounds like of most of modern culture.
Peace
God bless
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!
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
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.
This man is a goddamn virus. Do not pay it any mind. He has absolutely no discipline and deludes himself and others everywhere he goes. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SNAKE OIL SALESMAN!!! And stop giving trash like this a platform.
2 sides of the same coin
I love Rupert. A worldly man in the truest sense of the world. Such a supple, accommodating, non-judgmental mind. A wonderful human.
Then let's make America grateful!(of course, the one occupying the White House would rather grate on other's nerves!).
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.
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.