Category: Lectures

  • Richard Tarnas on listening to the voice of nature

    The following is from a session in the Mothership Earth Summit 2023 with Richard Tarnas on March 20, 2023. Richard says we seem to be living at the end of an era. He sees a striking resemblance between fundamental collective transformation and what takes place in individual initiatory rites of passage. Richard Tarnas talks about…

  • Iain McGilchrist on Value & Purpose

    The following is from Iain McGilchrist’s lecture for The Weekend University on September 23, 2022. McGilchrist argues that value and purpose are constitutive of reality, and that reason and evidence strongly support such a conclusion. My emphasis is in italics. 2:15 >>Iain McGilchrist: I believe consciousness is first irreducible, and second, best thought of as…

  • David Bohm on our view of order and its implications

    The following is from a lecture of David Bohm. David Bohm looks at what relativity theory and quantum theory have in common, namely, wholeness. This raises the question of order, which has profound implications for the whole of our lives. Communication of metaphysics at this level is an art. It essentially escapes verbalization. My emphasis…