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Influence of Hermetic Tradtion
Lecture 4 of the "Doctrines of Hermes Trismegistus" series. Recorded in 1958 at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.
We Are Descendents of Stoned Apes
Originally aired as Salon #504 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "I tend to think that there is a kind of unconscious racism in the suppression of the idea that the origin of not high culture but of humanism itself is in Africa." "The psychedelic experience is about what is real."
Education in the New World Order (Part 1)
Rupert Sheldrake 03:15 Rupert Sheldrake: “The present educational system mimics the initiation process and indeed is a kind of initiation process.” 07:18 Rupert: “And indeed it is the scientific priesthood envisaged by Bacon in the scientific world, the academic model and […]
The Resacularization of the World (Part 1)
Rupert Sheldrake 03:48 Ralph Abraham: “So eventually the 60s happened, and probably my first experience that I would now identify as a real religious experience was the experience of LSD.” 07:17 Ralph: “What’s gone wrong in the world now is a loss […]
Chaos and Imagination (Part 1)
Rupert Sheldrake 02:29 Ralph Abraham: “So I should like now to speak about the chaos of ordinary life and the relationship of this chaos to the imagination.” 05:41 Ralph: “Chaos, Gaia, and Eros are the gods, or concepts, of the primitive types.” […]