Rupert Sheldrake - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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Rupert Sheldrake, PhD is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 12 books, including Science Set Free and Science and Spiritual Practices. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Know Fellow at Harvard, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005-2010 the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
00:03:14 - Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance
00:06:30 - Controversy and Memory in Nature
00:09:48 - Morphic Resonance and Memory
00:12:47 - The Ultimate Morphic Field
00:16:02 - The Trinity Principle in Hinduism
00:19:09 - Levels of Consciousness and the Pervading Field
00:22:01 - The Subtle Body and the Dream Body
00:25:06 - Morphic Fields and Boundaries
00:28:14 - Promissory Materialism and the Wager
00:31:28 - The Unfathomable Complexity of the Universe
00:34:41 - The Belief in Science as a Faith
00:37:46 - The Potential of Analog Computing and the Rejection of Materialism
00:40:48 - The Materialistic Perspective on Spirituality
00:44:12 - Dismissing Dzogchen and the Arrogance of Atheism
00:47:13 - Accepting Your Own Experience
00:50:09 - The Fallacy of Winner-Takes-All Thinking and Scientific Fundamentalism
00:53:03 - The Tendency for "One True Path" Ideology in Religion
00:56:13 - The Phenomenon of Homogeneous Hydrogen
00:59:34 - The Divine Ordering Principles in Science and Spirituality
01:02:45 - The Impressive Buildings of Europe
01:06:09 - Exploring the Effects of Drugs on Consciousness
01:09:06 - Yin and Yang polarity in Taoist philosophy
01:12:27 - Morphic Resonance and Vibratory Patterns
01:15:34 - Father Bede Griffiths and the Ashram Experience
01:19:00 - Comparing Christian and Indian Traditions
01:22:20 - Morphic Resonance in Rituals and Pilgrimages
01:25:23 - Circumambulation in Different Religions
01:28:05 - The Consciousness of Nature and the Sun
01:31:20 - The concept of panentheism
01:34:11 - Interview Release Update