Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna
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04:38 Rupert Sheldrake: quot;The primary metaphor is the magnetic field, that’s what gives you the sense of a field. But if you look at the type of physics that would be appropriate for describing these fields it would not be magnitism, it’s quantum field theory.

07:23 Ralph Abraham:“I’m extremely suspicious of the application of quantum mechanical concepts in the arena of psychology, consciousness, sociology, and so on. To me that’s much fuzzier than the face on Mars.”

12:28 Terence McKenna: “Part of the problem is that physical models break down when prosecuted to quantum mechanical levels.”

21:15 Ralph begins his explanation of the physics of the nimbus, otherwise known as a halo.

30:47 Terence: “The more successful psychoanalytic theories, it seems to me, are the least mathmatically driven, and depend really on this mysterious business that we call the gifted therapist.”

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna
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05:25 Rupert Sheldrake: “And so in human family groups we’d expect the same kind of morphic fields [as in other animal family groups]. . . . It would mean that family fields, with their morphic fields, would have a kind of memory from the families that contributed to them. The father’s and mother’s families of origin would come together in a family.”

12:12 Rupert: “Whatever the merits or demerits of [Bert] Hellinger’s system, which I think is very interesting and apparently very effective, the idea of making models of the family field seems to me something that one could address in a more general sense.”

20:29 Terence McKenna: “The family thing works because people really are complex chemical systems with genetic affinity.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 093 – “Morphogenic Family Fields” (Part 1)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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03:08 Terence McKenna: “Another way of thinking of it (the Knot of Eternity) is it’s the nexus of connectivity. It’s a place where everything is cotangent, as the mathematicians say. Everything is connected, and I think that’s the place we are growing toward.”

07:30 Ralph Abraham: “If a present moment is between a past that’s familiar and a future which is completely different, then that’s a very special moment.”

10:18 Rupert Sheldrake: Begins a brief explanation of his theory of morphic resonance.
» Continue reading “Podcast 082 – Mini Trialogue (Santa Cruz)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake
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02:31 Terence McKenna:
“[The apocalypse] seems to be the unique, unifying thread throughout the
Western religions Most insistently of all religious systems on Earth, it is
the Western systems that have insisted on appointing an end to their world.”

05:07 Terence:
“At the folkloric level, the attractor of the end of the world is very strong.”

07:47 Terence:
“And these religions, which have anticipated this thing in this rather crude end of the world scenario are somehow on to something, something that is, I think, a message that is coming from the biological level, if you will, about the inherent instability of the world.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 077 – The Apocalypse (Part 1)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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02:14 Ralph Abraham: Takes issue with McKenna’s and Sheldrake’s interpretation of chaotic attractors. . . . To a mathematician, the word ‘attractor’ does not necessarily imply attraction.

07:23 Rupert Sheldrake:
“But Newtonian physics and the triumph of the mechanistic system, in my opinion, only works because what it was seeking to deny was introduced into it by a kind of subterfuge and pretended that this was a mechanical principle whereas it was something else.”

09:37 Ralph:
“The idea of two dimensional time could aid us here.” . . . The problem with the teleological approach is that the cause is in the future. » Continue reading “Podcast 063 – “Creativity and Chaos” (Part 2)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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01:23 Ralph Abraham: A short primer on chaos theory. . . . The emergence of form from a field of chaos.

08:57 Rupert Sheldrake:
“The problem I have with chaos theory . . . ” The issue of indeterminacy in the real world. . . . The illusion of total predictability. . . . Indeterminacy may exist not just at the quantum level but at all levels of natural organization. . . . How form arises from chaos. . . . In some sense, energy may be seen as an agent of change.
» Continue reading “Podcast 062 – “Creativity and Chaos” (Part 1)”