Microcast: Questions for Materialists part 2
The second in a series of questions. Please try them out with your materialist friends! Do you think you are a complex machine? Have you been programmed to believe in Materialism?
2 Des 20212min
Geshe Tenzin Namdak, Science and Contemplative Traditions
Recorded May 25, 2021 Rupert and Buddhist teacher Geshe Tenzin Namdak discuss how science and contemplative traditions can inform us about the nature of reality, the interconnectedness of all phenome...
30 Nov 20211h 53min
Microcast: Questions for Materialists part 1
The first in a series of questions. Please try them out with your materialist friends! Is the mechanistic worldview a testable scientific theory, or a metaphor? If it is a metaphor, why is the machin...
25 Nov 20213min
David Bentley Hart, Learning from Animals
Recorded June 9th, 2021 A dialogue with the philosopher David Bentley Hart, author of _Roland in Moonlight_ in which he has conversations with his dog Roland. David is one of my favourite philosophers...
23 Nov 202158min
Microcast: Terminal Lucidity in Animals
This is an appeal for information about experiences with dogs, cats and other animals that are about to die. I am trying to find out if ‘terminal lucidity’, whereby some people with dementia recover t...
18 Nov 20213min
The Rebirth of Nature
Recorded April 23rd, 2020. Rupert urges us to move beyond the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature, explaining in lucid terms why we can no longer regard the world as inanimate and purposeless. H...
16 Nov 202159min
