SEATTLE DIALOGUE: A QUEST BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THE ORDINARY
Rupert Sheldrake and Bruce Lipton
August 10-11, 2007
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Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., will be joining with Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., to blow the lid off of old paradigm science and in so doing give us a fresh scientific grounding in the workings of our consciousness in the creation of the all and everything. Taking us beyond embedded limits circumscribing our divine identity, they will not only lead us out of the box, but help us shatter the box into the infinite pieces from whence it originated.

This will be a first, and you may want to reserve your place in Seattle soon for this exciting groundbreaking exploration.

Excerpt below from “Trialogues At The Edge Of The West: Chaos, Creativity and the Resacralization of the World” by Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna, Bear & Company Publishing

Rupert Sheldrake: There are a lot of people who think the universe is conscious or that the soul of the world in some sense is perceiving what’s going on. There are many theological traditions of divine omniscience. By definition, any theology of divine omniscience requires the divine mind to know everything. Knowing everything would include knowing all the properties and states of the electromagnetic and gravitational fields, so these would be essential aspects of divine omniscience.

I’ve found that when people think about divine omniscience, they treat it as an entirely miraculous process, totally disconnected from any kind of physical reality. However, divine omniscience must involve knowing from within—being within all things. Therefore, cosmic omniscience must pervade the electromagnetic field and all the fields of nature. This is like Newton’s notion that the medium of divine omniscience was Absolute Space, which he called the sensorium of God.

Terence McKenna: Why is divine omniscience a necessary concept? Can’t the universe get along just fine being partially aware of what’s going on?

Rupert: I think that it’s intriguing to consider models of reality in which there is a sense of knowing associated with the cosmos.

There are two possible models. One is the standard model of secular humanism, which postulates that our minds are the most advanced in the universe. According to this model, the rest of the universe is essentially unconscious. Living organisms crawled out of the primal broth in an inanimate universe and, through the miracles of random mutation and neo-Darwinian natural selection, gave rise to organisms such as ourselves with complex nervous systems that have the subjective correlate of consciousness. Human consciousness emerged out of the darkness of inanimate nature and is the highest consciousness that exists, although it’s conceivable that intelligent beings evolved on a few other planets as well.

The more traditional model derives human consciousness from a much larger consciousness that pervades the cosmos, the Earth, and the whole of life on Earth. In this model, our consciousness has come about by a kind of diminution or descent of some higher consciousness rather than an inflated version of a lower, animal consciousness.

I find it more reasonable to suppose that our minds are in touch with larger minds, and that in many ways they are shaped by larger mental systems of societies and cultures, ecosystems, Gaia, the galaxy, the entire cosmos, and perhaps by a cosmic mind beyond that.

RUPERT SHELDRAKE is a biologist who developed the concept of Morphogenetic Fields. Born in Great Britain on June 28, 1942, he studied natural sciences and took his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Cambridge University, and studied philosophy and the history of science at Harvard University. From 1967-1973, he was Fellow and Director of Studies in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Clare College in Cambridge. As a Research Fellow of the Royal Society he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells. He worked on the physiology of tropical legume crops at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India from 1974-1978, and continues to act as Consultant Physiologist. Rupert Sheldrake works and lives in London.