Rupert Sheldrake: The Mind beyond the Brain

This talk was given at the Advaya event Consciousness: Re-Defining Our Parameters with Rupert Sheldrake and David Luke on 3rd December 2018.
Talk Description: The Mind beyond the Brain:
Most scientists assume that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is much too limited. People can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and if all sensory clues are eliminated. People’s intentions can also be detected telepathically by animals from miles away, and some people can tell who is calling them before they pick up the phone. Our minds seem to extend stretch out beyond our brains through attention and intention. And they are also open to more-than-human forms of consciousness, both through spontaneous mystical experiences and through spiritual practices.
About the Speaker:
Dr Rupert Sheldrake
Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 85 technical papers and twelve books, including Science and Spiritual Practices. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and philosophy at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He was a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and director of studies in cell biology. From 2005-2010 he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge, for research on unexplained human and animal abilities. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and also of Schumacher College, in Devon ....

[@GHCODPvZ]

Could listen to this man for hours

[@JanicePhillips]

I recommend doing so! His words are life changing.

[@LM-yn5xq]

Me too!

[@robinsings]

Me 3.

[@mortalclown3812]

I read his book, "Dogs Who Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home" - definitely recommend.

[@Fayizah125]

It's exciting to study Quantum Physics and see the breadth and access of Human consciousness across our limited human bodies. Remote sensing, sixth sense and Intuition are some of those things.

[@carahome]

I'd like to be able to access Rupert Sheldrake's thoughtful mind, every time a materialist/skeptic scoffs at the belief consciousness exists outside the brain. His ideas are evidence that reasoning and intelligence is generated from the mind with a large dose of grace.

[@johnnicholas1488]

Me too. But since I can't, I carry around my notes.

[@alisonsalter8352]

Rupert Spira is a strp further...

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

I do agree with your sentiment. However ideas are NOT evidence.

[@Geraldine3f]

Amen to the ‘grace’ detail

[@37Dionysos]

Thanks---Elsewhere he says that of all health professions, veterinarians have the highest rate of appointment-cancellation---because pets "know" when they're going to be taken there, and they hide/run away. Seen it many times myself!

[@37Dionysos]

@Y T Nobody said "magic."

[@37Dionysos]

@Y T You're entitled to your opinion and to your own limitations.

[@Fayizah125]

We are really One and connected. It's all from One source.

[@GreaterGood2024]

We are one and connected from a source = Bill Gates.... 😂

[@pureenergy4578]

If only Sheldrake would read quantum physics that explains more than what he is saying.

[@constantinqueins9313]

It's Open Source.

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

Absolutely Farisa. We are to be at one with each other, just as God is. We'll get there.

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

And YES! If we travel way way way back in history. Way back before everything, then we all, everything in creation, have the same ancestor.

[@Firehorse40]

The truth exists and remains itself regardless of people's ability or willingness to perceive, understand or accept it.

[@nancysiouta7038]

Rupert for president!!!!

[@peterbarker8249]

..inspire rational.... (inspirational)

[@pappapiccolino9572]

No doubt Rupert operates on the margins of "acceptable science", and the areas into which he ventures make many scientists feel uncomfortable, but credit where it's due. The experiments he devises are pretty clever, given the shoestring budgets he has available and other restrictions.

[@delcapslock100]

The search for truth requires a willingness to endure scorn from all directions. It's a very lonely business. Power hates truth.

[@tacktful]

@@delcapslock100 science advances one funeral at a time...

[@delcapslock100]

@@tacktful Planck’s Principal, thanks.

[@tacktful]

@@delcapslock100 yup 👍

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

Principle

[@spiralmorning5784]

This man is handsome and intelligent

[@diygeniusedu]

Rupert has such an extraordinary profound way of seeing the world and describing it.

[@davidskelly3046]

This is genius!!

[@NateOgden]

Amazing talk! I could listen to Rupert all day.

[@mnemonyss]

I too experimented with telepathy and animals through my life, it's totally a thing!! So happy you picked up on this!!

[@grahamwelsh4258]

Excellent as usual. Thank you!

[@MugenTJ]

Dogs have very good hearing, they can hear foot steps. We can also sense heat or subtle noises made by someone near but not seen, not to mention air displacement.

[@TomCarberry413]

I think driving on highways would result in many more accidents if people couldn't "tell" the intentions of other drivers. I think one could set up experiments using cameras focused on the road ahead. The driver would focus on a driver in front perhaps a quarter of a mile and "guess" when the other driver would turn left or right into another lane. In my own experience, I often can sense when a driver will do this and suspect everyone can do it.

[@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974]

Great

[@elisabethdevyt8256]

Dr Rupert, maybe this might add something to your research. What I experienced. Try to keep it short. I came home on a Friday-evening. Tired. Empty The news on the radio started a 8 pm. The present or reports. But I coundn't understand a word of what he said. I FELT something in the right part of my brain. I'm not sure of that. I think so. But more important, I got overwhelmed by love. The unconditional one. The very sereen and true love. I saw my paper on my desk. But I was not able to read it. Something was going on. I felt a loving presence. Very strong. And something, SOMEONE tried to reach me. I knew it. I told my friend and said he started feeling weird because of my reaction. Sereen too. We looked at eachother and where both thinking the same. But none of us two dared to utter what we were really concluding. I went to bed soon. New day, everything almost forgotten by being busy with tasks and responsibilities, life just went on. I went buying food at the streetmarket. I came back and my friend said that my mother called. I had to call her back. She had bad news. My mother told my dearest auntie died. My first reaction was unrespectly:" At what hour" It was euthanasia. 8pm yesterday. That very moment. She didn't want the people thar she had cancer. The distance was 130 km. I have no doubt that she came to tell me goodbye. She raised me a long time and our relationship was based on true true love. This is not a coincidence. My friend added he was thinking the same as me. We were both thinking at her. Not knowing she was ill. I started to listen to Dr. Bruce Greyson. This was MIND-boggling. It has more to do with the near-dearth-experiences. But as you say so clear. The mind extends the body. I know it. Our brains filters what we need. Our brain that evolved in function of our earthly material needs, survival, material and relational obstructions Because with time, space, matery, gravity, obstacles. We would not be able to function with an open universal consciousness. It would be chaos. A mystery. A beautiful knowledge. But I can't talk about it. Taboo. Thanks for your great readings. It's fascinating, comforting not to be alone. There are hundred of thousands, much more by wich it is just evident and normal. Respect. Thanks

[@smileclick]

from my experience, delays in dreams equate to events being relayed being further in the future, eg 12 seconds = 12 months in the future.

[@briancastleman7894]

I came up with all of this on my own as well = Not sure if it was indirectly influenced by Sheldrake or not.

[@billzepp69]

When I was young trying to be clever. The thing that stopped me was the thought that anything I come up with is being shared it would appear in others minds as well so what happens the other guy invents the phone before me or some shit lol

[@ellajones3098]

You are lovely

[@terrencekane8203]

Ted Talks banned Rupert Sheldrake so I banned Ted Talks from my life.

[@john-ic5pz]

ikr 😕 is there a forum/platform that isn't involved in social engineering, I wonder

[@sbsman4998]

Fluid body motions like dance/martial arts cannot be explained by the nervous system alone, nerve impulse is mostly chemical moving ~ 150 fps, say foot to brain then back to foot, with brain mediating movements, no way too slow. Amazingly our electrically conductive Fascia, tendons ligaments dura blood CSF, is home to our vibrational mind intuition system that reacts instantly, faster than light, connecting minds and universes outwardly, and can be tuned manually as exemplified in Rolfing/Myofascial Release massage techniques ~~

[@sbsman4998]

Myelin is connective tissue

[@thetinychapel]

So-called Astral Travel which anyone can learn to do pretty much demonstrates Dr. Sheldrake's POV.

[@akumar7366]

I feel the perception of being aware that we are being watched is a fallback to our evolution , most important factor for survival is being aware of predetors .

[@lysechrist1947]

What about morphia resonance of the future... syntropy?

[@dennismason3740]

God I miss Terence.

[@XnecromungerX]

I thought the exact same thing friend. I wish he was here with us today, but by his words, will live in "The felt presence of immediate experience".

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

But what about Philip?

[@dennismason3740]

@@bootstrapperwilson7687 - hee.. (farts in yer face)

[@dennismason3740]

@@bootstrapperwilson7687 - Terence the Mushroom Guy, not the Canadian star. I just remembered who Terence is. God I miss him Imma contact his spirit right now scuse me...

[@dennismason3740]

@@bootstrapperwilson7687 - McKenna. Actually in modern culture he's the DMT Guy. His brother is the Mycillian Guy and they mix quite well.

[@fastlifelou6124]

Heard him on coast to coast am and he explained how atheists are stronger believers than people who believe in god because atheist are always ready to believe their favorite scientist can make mistakes

[@fastlifelou6124]

Does anyone have a video of that show just a way to conversate with an atheist from a scientific point of view

[@fastlifelou6124]

Herad it on 9-15-21 around 1 am in the west coast

[@fastlifelou6124]

@Y T none unfortunately everyone worships something

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

Converse.

[@miglena2s]

Book of Coming Forth by Day, in chapter/spell 30.

[@aaronlopez717]

before ....adjust the sound micrófono ! if you want to posted ! ?

[@simontemplarGB]

Are these not imagined astronomical distances?

[@thescriptwriter824]

"What is now proven, was once only imagined." William Blake

[@simontemplarGB]

@@thescriptwriter824 The Eternal Body of Man is the Imagination, that is, God, Himself” - Blake

[@Deliquescentinsight]

We can view distant stars, and calculate the distance, so no, not imagined.

[@simontemplarGB]

@@Deliquescentinsight What if the calculation is in your dreams and to walk is by a thought to go?

[@edwardmusiccowie]

Why does a blind person not project with the mind and therefore ‘see’ as implied by this hypothesis.

[@Rian--22]

👁️

[@cozmicmike6800]

Consider that instead of consciousness being an emergent quality of material form, material form is an emergent quality of consciousness ? And also ; that the mind is an emergent quality of the form emerged from consciousness, an interpreter, that translates consciousness awareness into conceptual awareness, employing the form of the brain, as well as the body, for sensory input, as well as intellectual pondering an emergent quality of curiousity ? 🤔 This allows the brain to maintain it's roll, but not in the strict sense advocated by the materialists, rather as the platform through which the mind operates, the mind being awareness analysing and looking to explain the sense of being aware 😉

[@TheWayofFairness]

The mind beyond our brain is the mind of extraterrestrials. We are one mind.

[@billzepp69]

Hmmm the thing is people do see 3D worlds in their minds. In my dreams and just now I tried and can do that visualization in my brain/mind. Any how it’s ridiculous to say the waves we broadcast also process and develop images. That’s not what’s happening the processing happens within. When we sense some one staring at us it is the waves being processed within.

[@-o-light8863]

Oh! Yes it is.

[@blackbird5634]

A young man of average build and height held the door for me as I entered a convenience store in my neighborhood. We both got the day's paper, made a coffee, got a muffin from the glass case. I went to the ONLY register that was open and paid and HE held the door for me on OUR way out. HE DIDN'T PAY. He couldn't have. I was at the only register open, he was holding the door for me going in and coming out and we both left at the same time. 1.How did he learn this kind of camouflage? 2.Does he do this every day? 3.Has he ALWAYS lived in the ''cataract'' of other people's vision? *I doubt that ONE out of a hundred Security Specialists viewing the CCTV footage of that day would have spotted the thief.

[@nlgb]

Should we be able to remember previous lives with morphic memories?

[@Whateverwhatever-cc2ib]

Theoretically u could

[@michaelnirmalan]

"Project" a star ?....or "become aware of a star"...?...How...?....By detecting and interpreting or "Perceiving" what is detected...and what is detected...? ...Different wavelengths of radiation....so we "perceive" rather than project...?....maybe....but what about hallucinations....?....they could be disturbances of the perceptual process that lead to the construction of perceptions that are not supported by any detection of radiation..... are radiations material...?...if subatomic particles in their wave state are taken to be material...then yes....if not...?...then they could be the foundation of things we have not encountered often enough to study and understand....

[@pureenergy4578]

There is no such thing as matter or solidity or the physical. If you read physics 101 you would find out that atoms are electrical energy fields. What do we consist of? 7 billion billion billion atoms. Why do you stop with traditional science that does not take into account the movement of subatomic particles? The book HANDS OF LIGHT written by the physicist Barbara Brennan shows us all what we look like as ETERNAL NON SOLID/PHYSICAL electrical energy fields and holograms.

[@AnthonyRecoveryCoach]

"atheism should come with a health warning" RS

[@GreaterGood2024]

We are one and connected from a source = Bill Gates.... 😂

[@john-ic5pz]

the Borg* 😉

[@crazyeyedme4685]

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it. Your head will collapse.... but there's nothing in it and you'll ask yourself Where Is My Mind? Lol.

[@MagICskattER]

Booker T : Hold my beer

[@coachcasey7795]

@crazyeyed me Epic 😝🤘

[@sacisco1780]

He is describing street dancing, breakdance since pixies are from New York; I don’t understand why people can’t make the link.

[@cipher940]

Way out in the water see it swimming 😉

[@crazyeyedme4685]

On April 13, 2004, NASA used "Where Is My Mind?" to wake up the team working on the Mars rover, Spirit, in honor of its software transplant. ...coi coi

[@alikarimi-langroodi5402]

The mind beyond the brain. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hV6YmKGmatFlocU This statement should be the 'mind behind the brain'. But that would do. I mentioned genes behind the brain along with our own senses - not other people's senses. Indians used to think for the elephant to be realized by blind men, every blind should touch the elephant to think what it may be. Then collectively, they can call the creature 'elephant'. This is the definition of knowledge - what we all collectively find to be true. Otherwise, it may be a fallacy, whatever we think is true. The the mind behind the brain is God. He is in everyone of us individually, in our mind. You can ofcourse ignore Him; some do. But thats is their business with God. That's exactly where consciousness comes in.

[@alikarimi-langroodi5402]

The mind beyond the brain. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hV6YmKGmatFlocU This statement should be the 'mind behind the brain'. But that would do. I mentioned genes behind the brain along with our own senses - not other people's senses. Indians used to think for the elephant to be realized by blind men, every blind should touch the elephant to think what it may be. Then collectively, they can call the creature 'elephant'. This is the definition of knowledge - what we all collectively find to be true. Otherwise, it may be a fallacy, whatever we think is true. The mind behind the brain is God. He is in each of us individually, in our mind. You can ofcourse ignore Him; some do. But that is their business with God. That's exactly where consciousness comes in.

[@billzepp69]

Also wrong about where memories are stored. Your memories are stored in the body. The brain is a processor the body is a data store.

[@billzepp69]

@Y T it’s a good way to think. Trust no man. I will give you the best mechanism I know of maybe it will lead you to the same conclusion I reached. Forgive with all your heart. Forgive others. Forgive your self. Forgive existence. Truly love with all your heart every experience you have had. If you succeed in becoming pure of heart you will see god. But remember once you see it you can’t unsee it!

[@machinemaker2248]

There's some evidence to suggest that memories are stored linearly out from the heart area. On one side is emotional memories, on the other, observational. This is discovered and repeated experimentally by a woman who has figured out how to interact with them using tuning forks. Eileen Day Mckusick.

[@billzepp69]

@@machinemaker2248 it’s interesting. I mean there should be all kinds of measurable things going on when we access memory. I have recently seen some thing about where the brain activity is but I wonder about what happens in the whole body. I will do a search for this lady thank you for the info.

[@billzepp69]

@@machinemaker2248 this seems kind of like another thing I found but can’t remember the person but they use megabytes to clean out the body. It’s really because I cleaned energy out of memories and had it affect parts of my body that makes me think it is in the body.

[@billzepp69]

@Y T yeah there is a lot I don’t understand and fucking words articulated we’ll probably not. But really I pretty much try things and see what works and yeah I do have memories. Like I can some what remember making this original comment months ago lol. Any how the words from your jar of pickles are fancy I like them.

[@pauljlund]

Rupert's elegant and comforting speaking style and seeming erudition masks a load of new age drivel.

[@vladimir0700]

Sorry but this makes no sense

[@-o-light8863]

@Y T oh you poor simpletons

[@Sereneis]

Rupert, go back to atheism

[@cipher940]

Rolling Over , but theirs still so far to go.