Worldviews
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"Wisdom of the Heart" with Joan Borysenko (part 2 of 2)
In this engaging discussion about the path to wholeness, Joan shares the wisdom of a variety of spiritual leaders. This approach is in keeping with the mission of her Claritas Institute, which teaches students to respect the differences between traditions while simultaneously recognizing the essential spirituality they share.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-07-06
- 00:52:26
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"The Visionary and the Practical" with Martha Stampfer and Don Hanlon Johnson (part 2 of 2)
Speakers: Martha Stampfer and Don Hanlon Johnson
Moderator: Cassandra Vieten- Audio Lectures
- 2006-11-02
- 00:57:26
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Nothing Is Forever
The creation stories of science and religion are similar; in both traditions, something amazing happened – the universe came into being!
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"Taboos in Science and Spirituality" with Dean Radin (part 2 of 4)
In this segment Dean identifies three types of taboos in science: transitory, stubborn and double secret super taboos.
- Video Lectures
- 2006
- 00:03:14
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"Taboos in Science and Spirituality" with Dean Radin (part 3 of 4)
Concepts that challenge the scientific dogma of the day are defined as Stubborn Taboos by Dean in this segment. The topics of homeopathy, cold fusion and UFO studies are all Stubborn Taboos.
- Video Lectures
- 2006
- 00:04:06
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"Taboos in Science and Spirituality" with Dean Radin (part 4 of 4)
The double secret super taboos, otherwise known as “woo-woo taboos” include anything in the realm of psychic phenomena.
- Video Lectures
- 2006
- 00:04:30
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What is Wisdom?
What is wisdom? We hear the word a lot these days – the need for wisdom, the wisdom traditions, wisdom schools. We each would like to have more wisdom…and for others to have it as well. Too much human hurt and suffering comes from lack of wisdom. There is something about wisdom that we all aspire to. But what is this quality we hold in such high regard?
- Inner Wisdom
- Worldview
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A Tale of Two Sciences: Memoirs of a Dissident Scientist
Anomalies should be the lifeblood of science. Niels Bohr once said that “progress in science is impossible without a paradox,“ and Richard Feynman has remarked that “the thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting.“
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Re-writing the Story of Who We Are
The consequences of our 500-year-old model of consumption, profit, and externalized costs in the form of environmental degradation and natural system collapse are mounting. The old story we keep telling ourselves...is evaporating, leaving in its place the frantic question “What comes next?”
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Cultivating Social Consciousness
What does it mean to be part of a greater whole? How does our worldview, or model of reality, impact what we understand about who we are and how we relate to others? And how can we become more aware of all the ways we are part of an interrelated, global community?
- Collective Intelligence
- Worldview
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Toward a “Common Spirituality”: Scaffolding for Evolving Consciousness
Spirituality is a universal phenomenon. It doesn’t matter where in the world you live or what “tribe” you are a part of; you can be assured that spirituality will be a part of the psychological and social fabric of your immediate world. In fact, spirituality is central to being and becoming a healthy and well-adjusted human being. Spirituality also plays a role in enabling the evolution of individual and collective consciousness.
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Dawkins, Darwin, and Other Dogma: How the Tenets of Biology Are Crumbling
For the first time in modern human history, the cycle of knowledge is returning to what we knew in our distant past: we are connected to something deeper. We are not machines. Intelligent information flows through us and communicates with our environment, and this means that human survival is much more likely when we cooperate.
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Getting the Facts Straight: Dean Radin Responds to a Skeptic’s Conviction
Professor Daryl Bem, a prominent psychologist from Cornell University (now retired), will soon publish an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a top-ranked, mainstream psychology journal. The article reports nine experiments involving 1,000 subjects, each study investigating an aspect of precognition – perception of the future. The combined results of the nine studies were astronomically significant, with odds against chance far beyond a million to one. Nevertheless, that a well-regarded journal would dare publish this article has outraged a few scientists...
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Ancient Cosmology: A Map of the Future?
Like the mayfly, which lives but one day a year and knows nothing of the seasons, the human being has an average life span that comprises only one-360th of the roughly 24,000-year precessional cycle. And just as the mayfly born on an overcast, windless day has no idea that there is anything as splendid as sunshine or a breeze, so do we, born in an era of materialistic rationality, have little awareness of a golden age or higher states of consciousness – though that is the ancestral message.
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Biomedical Research Needs a Paradigm Shift
After many years of increasing investment and diminishing returns, the question we must begin to ask ourselves is, Are we using the right paradigm? Given the experimentally verified validity of quantum mechanics, I believe it’s time to seriously consider the implications for biomedical research.