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Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…a star system. These things are held together. They have. They're what Eric Janch called metastable or what rupert Sheldrake calls their morphogenetic field, their appetite for coherency perpetuates them through time. Okay, well, so that's the introduction to…
…Habit is circular behavior. Habit is following the Creods that have already been laid down by past activity. It's what Sheldrake calls the morphogenetic field. What is novelty? Novelty is self explanatory. It's what breaks the pattern. New connections, new…
…of the trialogues that were held between Terence McKenna and the two men that he mentioned in this talk, Ralph Abraham and Ruperthenne Sheldrake. But if you've been with us here in the salon for a while, you'll remember the 40 or so podcasts of these…
…out the one it prefers is not necessarily the lowest energy state. Well, they're at sea. They have no idea. People like Sheldrake and woo woo, thinkers of that caliber, have to step in in order to provide a metaphor for how this completely mechanistic,…
…moment. Oh, yeah, there was this thing that lasted for 7 hours, that was on dutch tv a year or so ago, and Sheldrake took place, took part in some of the other big honchos of edgy science. And Dennett, who wrote consciousness, Dennis explained, was his…
…Because for years the crop circle enthusiasts ran around saying no human being could make one of these things. Well, then Sheldrake and company and the people at the seriologist, you know, sponsored that contest last year, where under very rigidly controlled…
…enterprise. Even common arithmetic is an uncertain enterprise. So what are we left with? Well, I argued a couple of weeks ago with Sheldrake and Abraham about this. I said, we have to look at our messengers. We have to look at the people who bring the…
…isn't progress. There aren't even factions. Some of you may have seen that series that was originally produced for dutch tv. That had Sheldrake and Dennett and all those people in ithood. It was pretty clear that biology is out to lunch as far as quantum…