He’s a great man

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If you're singing, why do you sound so monotonic?

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I'm in Australia and I bought his book. Such an interesting topic!

It has the Serrafim within it

The living creature is as described by Ezekiel as chariot of cherubim and I have pictures, like the one in my channel (at left)

Rupert *glowing* in that Dazzling shirt!🤩 😃

great lecture

My Manichean Zoroastrian cousin was meditating in a cave in Jerusalem and he said Angels took his soul back to God, and he is stil trying to put into words this onthology transcending metaphysical expierience .

If the Cambridge Centre has the clout and means to attract such an esteemed speaker, one would expect the videography to not appear as if a child smeared its dirty fingers on the lenses! Plus how so few attendees attracted? And why do those who are lucky enough to be there seem so bored? This recording is a disgrace to your organization and I hope there are profuse apologies extended to Professor Sheldrake. And, while you’re at it, as someone who would have loved nothing more than to have been there as a rapt student, I’d like one too, because I care enough for the revelatory lessons forthcoming to suffer through the distractingly dismal visuals. Ugh!!!

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I could listen to Prof. Sheldrake for hours.... he explains so well and he has great humour!!!

While we are on the subject of Henry Corbin and the angelic function of beings, who is that raven-haired, rouge-lipped, porcelain-complexioned Venus participating in this event?

Thank you for sharing this paper with a wider audience. The parallels mentioned here are interesting, but the opposite direction of influence (Hellenistic influence on Hebrew writings and thought, including specifically the influence of Plato’s Timaeus and Laws) has been extensively and rather persuasively argued by Russell Gmirkin in two (Routledge-published) extensively researched and meticulously sourced books. It would be interesting to see how Margaret Barker addresses his arguments, especially that Gmirkin’s chronology (and therefore his arguments for the opposite direction of influence than what’s presented here) seem to have found support in more recent archeological sources (Yonatan Adler’s 2022 The Origins of Judaism, Yale UP). Obviously Barker and Gmirkin would disagree on who influenced whom, but Gmirkin’s well-constructed arguments need to at least be acknowledged, if not addressed, in any papers that explore connections between Timaeus and the Hebrew Bible, especially if their authors reach completely opposite conclusions. Thanks again for sharing this.

This is an extremely informative and interesting lecture...thank you for sharing!

Very helpful and insightful, thank you

Philosophy without precise wording? Please fix the closed captioning. This is gibberish

1:21:15 & 1:21:27

I always have this suspicion that this very famous person quite often does not know exactly what he means by his own words, but still "knows" that he should act like he would act if he knew that what he says was of the greatest importance. I suspect that he doesn't know what he means, because I suspect that he himself also thinks, that we do not really understand these things, and certainly most of us neither assert nor deny such things under any conditions. But even if my suspicien should be justified, still, he speaks a lot of truth besides the possible nonsense. And even of the possible non-sense it can reasonably be asked - with the expectation for a reasonable answer: "What is the role and utility, in our lives of our practice of asserting (or denying) [these words]?"

23:14 "So I don't wish to suggest that Plato merely employs myth because of its explanatory power as some sort of strategy. I think that logos serves to pave the way to a myth that is at once connected to the traces of the old and that also stands und the commands of logos and the idea." Some of this reminds me of Gabriel Richardson Lear's lecture "Plato on Philosophical Wonder" (held in 2013 at the University of Chicago). In this lecture, she compares differing remarks of Plato and Aristotle on thaumazein. In Metaphysics A, Aristotle employs the picture of philosophy beginning in wonder, which he compares to some kind of decptive illusion whose deceptive power and possibly also its causing of interest disappear, once the initial bewilderment is replaced by a true understanding of the relevant causes, "from wonder to worldview" so to speak. She contrasts this view with one which she thinks to have found in a passage of the Theaitetos, in which Socrates talks about "cambridge" change and expresses, genuinely or not, some kind of bewilderment about it, and in consequence of this, praises the genealogy of thaumas as the child of iris. According to Lear, Plato did not see wonder so much at the beginning of philosophy, but rather at its end. Isn't it the case that much of the following history of philosophy falls somewhere between Plato and Aristotle? "Metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towards science. Some men have achieved greatness through one of these impulses alone, others through the other alone" - Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic.

I did not expect this guest!

Philip Goff's talks are always fascinating, but the shocking acoustics here make this one a hard listen.

The sound is very bad here, it's (almost) impossible to understand what is being said.

Just one comment, since I haven't watched the video yet. Could you record the microphone feed and not the sound in the room next time?

Great speaker. Terrible quality sound and video. Unwatchable.

I'm not sure about panpsychism but I do believe that reality is at the foundation similar to the graph in the Wolfram Physics Project and that consciousness emerges when information is combined similar to the Integrated Information Theory. So that in theory things can become conscious! Maybe not by themselves but via our consciousness.

Yes, a morphic, or conscious field, has an inherent memory through their connection to the original action that caused them. Much like a stone thrown into a pond where each wave is connected to that previous action, has a memory of the previous action.

The sun, energetic without a doubt, is composed of energy. All energy is conscious, the result of a dynamic imbalance between the energy action of energy within and upon itself, and the persistence of the identity that energy creates.

I found this "paper" interesting and even fascinating to listen to, but ultimately not very convincing. It made me pick up the Odyssey though!

Please get better recording equipment - the visual quality is very poor and that makes it difficult to enjoy the excellent contents.

The Unknown God In days of old, intellectuals told Of gods, they’d known. They made their home On the plinths of stone, which their hearts did clone. Intellectually they had grown, plinth afforded the unknown. The days have now rolled. While still cut from same mould, Their hearts now do moan, when addressing the unknown. That God they dethrone, and they sculpt their own. Time has still shown, man still sits upon the throne. By, Blockmuse

Only the revelation teaches the truth

Nonsense! All philosophy is just a conjecture which mislead people

I can't believe I missed this brilliant conversation and haven't watched it before. I was following professor peterson's videos and debates since billC-16 was introduced to the world and this is a good sample of how great is this man.

this is epic lads

Nice to see recent lectures on Corbin. I would point out that this presentation is a good beginning but lacks the true depth of Corbin. Plato has only a small part here (although there is a significant later platonist influence (I so dislike the prefix "Neo-") . What we lack in understanding Corbin's work, are the gaps in our understanding of Pre-Socratic philosophy as well as a good understanding of the complexity of Ancient Iran and Persia, and predominantly because of the lack of translated sources in Persian and Arabic (that is those that survived). That's why Corbin is so important as Bloom points out in the foreword to Alone with the Alone. The lack of translated works is the main reason why we lose this ESOTERIC knowledge. Also, The "Divine Double" in the Title is classical "Academy" speak for ANGELS. Please call it what it is. Corbin did. And though there is nothing written about technique (just the mention of Khalwa, L'tibar, and Dhikir) there are significant hints about how to seek the true "Orient". For those who can read French, buy his works. Few have been translated to English. In particular, his magnum opus, En Islam Iranien and L'Archange empourpé.

Should be in a james bond movie

this dude's voice is like butter

He has such a great speaking voice

Very good and wide aproach, pointing some of the important textual references to the double, still some aspects could be better explained if there was spiritual experience in the orator. I discord a bit on 1.22.00, as Henry Corbin is also projecting into his writings his experiences and initiations, and they are not only coming from a mental or academic work and research...

I'm willing to transcribe and translate the video, if I may.

I had to sit down when he said it’s “People all the way down”

This stuff is boring if you approach from a western scholastic approach. Now if you actually engage the process like Jung or Crowley, there you have fireworks.

Ammonius saccas . -- sacca (am) monius -- Shakyamuni (buddha ) What relation ? Nagarjuna ( Second Shakyamuni ) and Ammonius saccas lived in the same era .

Ammonius saccas . -- sacca (am) monius -- Shakyamuni (buddha ) What relation ? Nagarjuna ( Second Shakyamuni ) and Ammonius saccas lived in the same era .

The crisis of university is the loss of love of curiousness. 👏🏿

This is great. Not enough material available for English speakers on the subject. Loving it.

intresting ! :)

Tip for next time: when you have people coming in with sounds you (the host) can mute everyone and then unmute the speaker (or yourself, if you’re speaking).