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ShamanicFreedomRadio Episode 4: Interview with Rupert Sheldrake
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December 22, 2008 08:40 AM PST
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In this fourth episode of ShamanicFreedomRadio, Opaquelens interviews Rupert Sheldrake, biologist, physicist, pioneer of the morphic resonance theory and old friend of Terence McKenna. But he first decides to be awkward and leave everyone waiting while he chats away for the first few minutes! When the interview finally starts, they discuss a range of subjects starting with the morphogenetic field, when Opaquelens mentioned that a friend once said of a kitten, ‘How do they know how to act like cats?’ whilst observing how the kitten had all the character traits of a cat but was only weeks old. This is answered very eloquently by Rupert, as this concept is conducive to his theory. The conversation goes onto topics such as trialogues, spirituality, science, and the ‘theism vs atheism’ dogma problem of how atheists and religious zealots seem to mirror each other in their fundamentalist mentalities. Rupert mentions that he has a group of sceptics and dissenters, and that Richard Dawkins once interviewed him for his ‘Enemies of Reason’ project! Rupert states that he doesn’t want to hand his dissenters ‘a stick to beat him with’ by talking about his own psychedelic adventures, but is happy to talk about psychedelics generally, and in context with his friendship with Terence. Opaque mentions that on Jan 20 2009 Rupert will be conducting a lecture in Goldsmiths College, in New Cross, South East London, to which Rupert says that he will be in the lion’s Den, because students there are encouraged to think in the more Richard Dawkins friendly materialistic way about science. As the interview approaches the end, Rupert plugs his site (www.sheldrake.org) and asks for people to visit and use the online telepathy tests there to help further the research. As the show draws to a close, Opaquelens thanks KMO of the C-Realm podcast for his support, and thanks Ray from Spritplants Radio for including this podcast on his schedule. Music by the Incredible String Band and John Coltrane.