Rupert Sheldrake
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Lectures, debates, and dialogues by biologist Rupert Sheldrake — morphic resonance, telepathy, and challenging materialist science.
c/rupert-sheldrake
Lectures, debates, and dialogues by biologist Rupert Sheldrake — morphic resonance, telepathy, and challenging materialist science.
…on a metaphor with human laws. It's a very anthropocentric metaphor. Only humans have laws. In fact, only civilized societies have laws. As C.S. Lewis once said, to say that a stone falls to earth because it's obeying a law makes it a man and even a…
…They don't occur in nature. It's an anthropocentric metaphor projected onto the whole of nature, which is actually quite inappropriate. As C.S. Lewis once said, to say that a stone falls to earth because it's obeying a law makes it a man and even…
…of us now struggle to see um I've got on to this through the work of Owen Barfield the inkling friend of C.S. Lewis and J.L. Tolkien. And of course, Tolkien takes this up because in the Lords of the Rings, the different consciousnesses represented by…
…scientific concepts, it's essentially metaphorical. If the nature is governed by laws, then this is in fact a very anthropocentric metaphor. As C.S. Lewis once said, to say that a stone falls to earth because it's obeying a law makes it a man and even a…
…the end too, which would be great, because that always develops things even better. Barfield was the key influence behind both CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. And they both in their different ways said Barfield had all the best ideas. And there's a story that…
…about to say because Owen Barfield had said something to him the night before. And so it really helped both Tolkien and Lewis develop their ideas. Barfield himself was a philologist like Tolkien and Lewis and many of the other Inklings. They belong to…
…before. And so it really helped both Tolkien and Lewis develop their ideas. Barfield himself was a philologist like Tolkien and Lewis and many of the other Inklings. They belong to this Oxford group, the Inklings, meeting and discussing their ideas. And he…
…start to really be the basis for a new experience of the cosmos to grow from. And in fact, Barfield very much inspired C.S. Lewis with this as well, and there is a theory put together particularly by a chap called Michael Ward, who's a great Lewis…
…Lewis with this as well, and there is a theory put together particularly by a chap called Michael Ward, who's a great Lewis scholar, I mean, Oxford, that the seven books of the Narnia stories were Lewis's attempt to reimagine the seven planets, which are,…
…universal law enforcement agency, making sure that everything obeyed them. It's a terribly anthropomorphic concept. We don't find laws in nature. As C.S. Lewis once said, to say a stone falls to earth because it's obeying a law makes it a man and even a…
…law is confined to human societies, in fact, to civilized societies. It projects onto the whole of nature a very human concept. As C.S. Lewis once said, to say that a stone falls to earth because it's obeying a law makes it a man and even a citizen.…
…thoughts about memory. I know St. Augustine wrote about memory as being a site of intimacy or potential intimacy with God. And C.S. Lewis, I know you've written about C.S. Lewis as well quite a lot, and he also talks in Surprised by Joy, for example,…
…wrote about memory as being a site of intimacy or potential intimacy with God. And C.S. Lewis, I know you've written about C.S. Lewis as well quite a lot, and he also talks in Surprised by Joy, for example, about the distinction between the representation…
…on a metaphor with human laws. It's a very anthropocentric metaphor. Only humans have laws. In fact, only civilized societies have laws. As C.S. Lewis once said, to say that a stone falls to Earth because it's obeying a law makes it a man and even a…
…laws. Tribes have customs, which are more like habits. And so to say that there are laws of nature is intensely anthropocentric. As C.S. Lewis once said, to say that a stone falls to earth because it's following a law makes it a man and even a citizen.…
…on a metaphor with human laws. It's a very anthropocentric metaphor. Only humans have laws. In fact, only civilized societies have laws. As C.S. Lewis once said, to say that a stone falls to earth because it's obeying a law makes it a man and even a…
…and the seven planets anyway, were an attempt to recover that astrological wisdom, but for the new consciousness. So the idea was, Lewis had this idea that he could write seven novels that showed you the character of the seven planets, so that you could…
…of the life of nature in panpsychism Then, I think we find scope for the imagination that goes way beyond the planets. I mean, C.S. Lewis, I think, was brilliant in the way he imagined, and one of his, it's not the Narnia stories, is it one of his…
…was baptized, as many of you probably know. But William Blake, I think, might have something to say, which also Barfield and Lewis and others said similar things, which is that you're absolutely right that the geniuses, you might say, you know, like a…
…that you're absolutely right that the geniuses, you might say, you know, like a Mozart, what they're doing is precisely, well, C.S. Lewis has a nice word for it. He called it transposition. They're transposing something from higher realms, for want of a…
…I mean, the quick answer is no. I think that tragedy is real. I don't know. I know, though, that people like Barfield and Lewis and Tolkien came out of the equally vile First World War and that they wanted to try and recover something very directly off…