Ancestors and Pilgrimages, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Hollyhock
A dialogue on praying for ancestors and on pilgrimage: Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC; August, 2016. See Rupert’s Substack for the Latest articles and early access to videos👉 https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com
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Detoxifying Christianity, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral
For many people, Christianity is like a toxic brand. Why is this so and what can be done about it? A dialogue with Marc Andrus, the Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; September, 2015.See Rupert’s Substack for the Latest articles and early access to videos👉 https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com
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What is a blessing? Is it just wishing someone well, or is there more to it? ...with Marc Andrus
A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, in August of 2016.See Rupert’s Substack for the Latest articles and early access to videos👉 https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com
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What Insights Can Psychedelic Experiences Give Us? University of York
Watch on Substackhttps://open.substack.com/pub/rupertsheldrake/p/psychedelic-experiences-what-insightsThis is a talk I gave recently to the Drug Science and Bioscience Societies at the University of York.I first became interested in psychedelics when I was at school in the 1950s and a young doctor friend was involved in some of the early research on the effects of LSD. When I was 17, before going to Cambridge, I worked in a pharmacology research lab on the effects of LSD and mescaline on chicks. However, it was not until 1970, when I was 28, that I experienced the mind-opening effects of LSD for myself.In the 1980s, I became friends with Terence McKenna, an expert on the shamanic use of psychedelics, and Ralph Abraham, a chaos mathematician at the University of California, Santa Cruz. We had many discussions about the effects of these substances, including their influence on the growth of computer graphics. I also attended a series of conferences on psychedelics at the Esalen Institute in California and have been in continual contact with recent researchers on the subject.In this talk, I discuss the nature of psychedelic visions, their possible relationship to dreams and near-death experiences, and the ‘entities’ that many people encounter through them, including machine elves and angels. I look at the cultural history of their use, the emergence of new psychedelic religions such as Santo Daime in Brazil, and suggest that the current psychedelic renaissance is part of a major cultural shift—away from materialism towards a more interconnected worldview.
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Spiritual Practices and Transformative Experiences in a Scientific Age
A talk delivered to the Conference of the International Network for the Study of Spirituality, University of Northampton, UK in June 2025.The INSS is a unique international network for people interested in bringing the study of spirituality to life through research, scholarship, education and practice.https://spiritualitystudiesnetwork.wildapricot.org/conference-2025
Acerca de Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake
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.
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