Shifting Paradigms: How biology reveals the sacred quality of life

Ursula Goodenough and Andreas Weber in conversation with Jeremy Lent.
Our dominant worldview sees nature as nothing more than a resource to exploit for human benefit.
This view of life is, however, being overturned by new approaches to biology that recognize the self-organized, self-generative qualities that characterize living entities.
Among these pioneering thinkers, two groundbreaking biologists, Ursula Goodenough and Andreas Weber, have taken their research into previously forbidden territory, showing how a deep understanding of biology opens the door to a realization of the inherent sacredness of life itself.
In this Deep Transformation Network Live Interactive Conversation, Jeremy Lent discusses with Ursula and Andreas how their work expanded from mainstream biology to an exploration of the spiritual dimensions of life’s unfolding miracle of self-organized complexity.
Among other topics, they discuss: what is the ultimate source of values; the importance and limitations of reductionist thinking; and the subtle but crucial differences between spirituality and religion

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I'm so glad that you have posted this salient exchange concerning the limits of materialism. I have no idea why there is so little attention paid to this channel and to its critical thought. We would be far happier as a species if we recognized ways to develop eudaimonia and human flourishing through empathy for all sentient life.

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