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Memory Across Time & Space - Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Biologist

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Atheists Aren't Refuting or Denying God

Most religious people think God's a form of consciousness that pervades the universe, not being external to it. And our own minds can communicate directly with that conscious being - and most atheists aren't addressing that at all. What how they've got to where they are historically speaking seems to me fairly simple. In the Middle Ages in Europe, the general theological view is that nature is alive,. the stars and planets are conscious beings. Animals have souls, the word animal comes from anima meaning soul. And it was a living universe. It was a kind of Christian animism that gave rise to the great Gothic, Gothic thedials.

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