Rupert Spira: excerpts from the 2010 SAND Conference
The Ever-Present Seamlessness of ‘KnowingBeingLoving’
Rupert Spira speaking at the 2010 Science and Nonduality Conference:
God is neither alive nor dead, but rather manifesting as activity in consciousness – transcending and transforming one's ordinary awareness
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in Advaita Vedanta, Love (Unconditional), Non-duality, Spirituality Tags: Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira: excerpts from the 2010 SAND Conference
The Ever-Present Seamlessness of ‘KnowingBeingLoving’
Rupert Spira speaking at the 2010 Science and Nonduality Conference:
23 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in Awakening, Non-duality, Spirituality
This is an excerpt from the interview with Richard Lang at the Science and Nonduality Conference featured in the 3DVD set “Science and Nonduality Anthology Vol.4”. For the full interview please visit: http://www.scienceandnonduality.com
Richard Lang spends most of his time working to make more available the Headless Way — a modern, experimental way home to who we really are. Richard discovered headlessness in 1970 when he met Douglas Harding, author of On Having No Head. They became friends. Since then he has travelled widely giving hundreds of workshops, written two books and produced a CD and videos that share the headless way experiments. He is part of a world-wide community of friends who value headlessness. Richard set up headless.org and is encouraged by the growing numbers of people who visit, do the experiments, and see who they really are.http://www.headless.org/
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in Alchemy, Awakening, Cosmology, SOUL, Spirituality
Pub Date : 11/20/14
• Explores important scientific discoveries that reveal the self-organizing intelligence at the heart of nature
• Examines the idea of a living cosmos from its roots in the earliest cultures, to its eclipse during the Scientific Revolution, to its return today
• Reveals ways to reengage our creative partnership with nature and collaborate with nature’s intelligence
For millennia the world was seen as a creative, interconnected web of life, constantly growing, developing, and restoring itself. But with the arrival of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, the world was viewed as a lifeless, clocklike mechanism, bound by the laws of classical physics. Intelligence was a trait ascribed solely to human beings, and thus humanity was viewed as superior to and separate from nature. Today new scientific discoveries are reviving the ancient philosophy of a living, interconnected cosmos, and humanity is learning from and collaborating with nature’s intelligence in new, life-enhancing ways, from ecological design to biomimicry.
Drawing upon the most important scientific discoveries of recent times, David Fideler explores the self-organizing intelligence at the heart of nature and humanity’s place in the cosmic pattern. He examines the ancient vision of the living cosmos from its roots in the “world soul” of the Greeks and the alchemical tradition, to its eclipse during the Scientific Revolution, to its return today. He explains how the mechanistic worldview led to humanity’s profound sense of alienation, for if the universe only functioned as a machine, there was no longer any room for genuine creativity or spontaneity. He shows how this isn’t the case and how, even at the molecular level, natural systems engage in self-organization, self-preservation, and creative problem solving, mirroring the ancient idea of a creative intelligence that exists deep within the heart of nature.
Revealing new connections between science, religion, and culture, Fideler explores how to reengage our creative partnership with nature and new ways to collaborate with nature’s intelligence.
David Fideler holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and the history of science and cosmology. A recognized authority on the Pythagorean school, he is the editor of The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library; author of Jesus Christ, Sun of God; translator of Love’s Alchemy; and editor of the humanities journal Alexandria.
Table of Contents
Preface: In Search of the Living Universe
Part I
The Cosmological Impulse:
Awakening to the Beauty of Nature
1 Starlight and Cosmovision: Awakening to the Universe
2 Beauty, Desire, and the Soul of the World
3 Life in the Cosmopolis
4 The Light of Nature and the Alchemical Imagination
5 The Lushness of Earth and the Spirit of the Desert
6 The Last Flowering: The Rediscovery of Soul in Renaissance Florence
Part II
The Death of Nature and the Rise of Alienation
7 The Mechanization of the World
8 In the Name of Utility: The Exploitation of Nature and the Decline of Pleasure
Part III
Anima Mundi:
Rediscovering the Living Universe
9 Psyche Regained
10 The Mirror of Nature: Modern Cosmology and the Reanimation of the Universe
11 The Pattern Which Connects: Life and Mind in Nature
Part IV
A World with a Future:
Cultivating Life in a Global Community
12 The Turning Point: Returning Home in the Space Age
13 The Alchemy of Engagement: Working in Collaboration with Nature
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in Advaita Vedanta, Awareness, Non-duality, Spirituality Tags: Rupert Spira
In this very personal discussion of his training as a potter, Rupert describes his understanding of the artistic process.
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